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Floyd E. Bloom
Chairman of the Department of Neuropharmacology
Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla
Area(s) of expertise: Pharmacology, neuroscience, health-care reform, more
Language(s) spoken: English
Contact Information:
202-326-6440
scipak@aaas.org
PIO Contact: Ginger Pinholster
202-326-6440
gpinhols@aaas.org
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Dr. Floyd E. Bloom is a past chairman of AAAS, former editor-in-chief of the journal Science and chairman of the Department of Neuropharmacology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1977, he is the recipient of numerous prizes for his contributions to science, including the Janssen Award in the Basic Sciences and the Pasarow Award in Neuropsychiatry. He has also been named a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Bloom's more than 600 publications include the seminal work, The Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology and The Dana Guide to Brain Health. In an important call-to-arms for healing the U.S. health care system, published 13 June in Science and based on his Presidential Lecture at the 2003 AAAS Annual Meeting, he describes how events of the 20th century have produced a system that cannot incorporate or implement new knowledge for the diagnosis or treatment of disease. Bloom earned his B.A. from Southern Methodist University and his M.D. from the Washington University School of Medicine.
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