Penn Medical Communication Research Institute Seminar: Public Health in Crisis
- Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium, Smilow Center For Translational Research
- 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104
As part of the Penn Medical Communication Research Institute Seminar Series on Research Strategies to Increase Vaccine Uptake, Dr. Peter Marks, Former Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA will talk about the crisis in confidence in public health.
Dr. Marks will talk about the crisis in confidence in public health, which has, among other things, led to challenges with vaccine acceptance, and what we can do to address the issue.
Lunch will be served. Attend in-person or virtually.
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About the Speaker
Peter Marks, MD, Ph.D., received his graduate degree in cell and molecular biology and his medical degree at New York University. Following this, he completed an Internal Medicine residency and Hematology/Medical Oncology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he subsequently joined the attending staff as a clinician-scientist and eventually served as Clinical Director of Hematology. He then moved on to work for several years in the pharmaceutical industry on the clinical development of hematology and oncology products prior to returning to academic medicine at Yale University where he led the Adult Leukemia Service and served as Chief Clinical Officer of Smilow Cancer Hospital. He joined the FDA in 2012 as Deputy Center Director for CBER and became Center Director in January 2016, a position her held until March 2025. Dr. Marks is board certified in internal medicine, hematology and medical oncology, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
This is part of the Seminar Series on Research Strategies to Increase Vaccine Uptake sponsored by The Penn Institute for RNA Innovation in collaboration with the Penn Medical Communication Research Institute, the CHOP Vaccine Education Center, and the Annenberg School for Communication. This seminar is co-hosted with the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics.
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