Treatment of Ebola with Statins

Dr. David Fedson is an expert in pandemic preparedness and vaccine issues.  He will be speaking about the treatment of Ebola with statins. Dr. Fedson’s work has centered around such pandemic diseases as influenza, pneumonia, and, most recently, Ebola. The presentation will include the details of treatment and prevention of communicable disease and the manner in which governments and big medicine can facilitate or thwart immunization programs.  Dr. Fedson lives in a small French village with his wife, who works for the World Health Organization.

Dr. Fedson received his undergraduate (1959) and medical (1965) degrees from Yale University. Later he obtained a fellowship studying smallpox in India, and interned at the Osler Medical Service at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a Clinical Associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation at the National Institutes of Health and was a Chief Medical Resident at the University of Chicago. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Chicago and also the University of Virginia, where he was the Harry T. Peters, Jr. Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of General Medicine.  Since retiring in November 2002, he has continued to work on influenza and pneumococcal vaccination and on pandemic preparedness, with a special focus on the potential for using inexpensive generic statins to reduce pandemic mortality worldwide.