1. Mark Alden Crislip was born on April 25,1957 and is an infectious disease doctor in Portland, Oregon and former chief of infectious diseases at Legacy Health hospital system.
16 Facts About Mark Crislip
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Mark Crislip co-founded the Society for Science-Based Medicine and served as president from 2013 to 2019.
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Mark Crislip attended the University of Oregon from 1979 to 1983, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics.
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Mark Crislip is currently a board-certified infectious disease specialist at several medical centers in the Portland area.
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Mark Crislip was the producer and host of the podcasts QuackCast and PusCast.
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For each episode of QuackCast, Mark Crislip delivered a monologue about a topic related to medicine, usually a critique of an alternative medicine practice or set of beliefs.
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Mark Crislip was inspired to create his own science-based medicine show after listening to the Slacker Astronomy podcast.
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Since 2009, Mark Crislip has been producing the Gobbet o' Pus podcast which features short discussions of interesting cases he has encountered in his medical practice and other topics of interest to infectious disease specialists.
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Mark Crislip is listed as editor for the Science-Based Medicine blog where he regularly wrote posts on investigating the claims of alternative medicine until 2017.
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Mark Crislip is the co-editor, along with Steven Novella and David Gorski, of a 12-volume series of Science-Based Medicine Guides, based on posts from the Science-Based Medicine blog.
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Mark Crislip writes posts for a Medscape blog called Rubor, Dolor, Calor, Tumor.
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Mark Crislip compiled selections from his blogs into two e-books titled Puswhisperer: A Year in the Life of an Infectious Disease Doc, and Puswhisperer Part Deux: Another Year of Pus,.
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Mark Crislip is the author of a medical app for Android and iPhone called Infectious Disease Compendium: A Guide to Infectious Diseases.
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Mark Crislip was the president and co-founder of the Society for Science-Based Medicine, a nonprofit education and advocacy group.
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Mark Crislip is a founding fellow of the Institute for Science in Medicine, a non-profit educational and policy institute that promotes science-based medical practices.
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Mark Crislip has been on the Top Docs list published by Portland Monthly magazine several times, most recently in 2014.