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Robert M. Gould, MD
Pathology Department Kaiser Hospital, San Jose 250 Hospital Parkway San Jose, CA 95119 (w) 408-972-7299 (f) 408-972-6429 (e) rmgould1@yahoo.com Born March 9, 1952 in Bronx, New York. Attended Bronx High School of Science, then State University of New York at Buffalo, where graduated with BA in Chemistry in 1973. Graduated Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1977. Pathology residency at Kaiser Hospital in SF 1977-1981. Since then has been Associate Pathologist (Board Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology) at Kaiser Hospital in San Jose. From 1986 through present has been active in the Peace Caucus in Affiliation with the American Public Health Association (APHA), which organizes educational sessions covering range of war and peace/public health issues for APHA's annual meetings; has been Chair of the Peace Caucus since 1999. Has authored, or co-authored numerous resolutions passed by the Governing Council of the APHA: against nuclear testing, excessive military budget, Strategic Defense Initiative, landmines, chemical weapons, etc. Since 1989 has been president of the San Francisco-Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and has served on the national board of directors of PSR since 1993, and on the Executive Committee from 1994 through 2006. Served as President of National PSR in 2003, Chairperson of National PSR Board’s Security Committee from 2005-2006. Since 1992 has been an active member of the Environmental Committee of the Santa Clara County chapter of the California Medical Association (CMA), and through this work has authored and submitted various resolutions adopted by CMA as policy--including resolutions calling for preventing dioxin waste from medical facilities, preventing human exposure to mercury, reducing the use of pesticides, protecting farmworkers from toxic pesticide exposures, replacing medical devices containing phthalates (DEHP) from Neonatal Intensive Care Units, reducing air pollution, for binding reductions in global climate change-causing gases, for the abolition of all weapons of mass destruction, and for avoiding accidental nuclear war, etc. For his work within CMA, received the Santa Clara County Medical Association’s (SCCMA) "Outstanding Contribution in Community Service" award in 2001. Dr. Gould has also been listed as one of Santa Clara County's "Top 400 Physicians" in peer-review surveys published in San Jose Magazine in 2001 through 2007. Co-author (with Dr. Thomas Bodenheimer) of Rollback! Rightwing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy, published by South End Press at the beginning of 1989. Has also co-authored with Dr. Bodenheimer a number of other chapters in various books about U.S. military and foreign policy, the latest being the chapter "Beyond Rollback: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990's," found in The New World Order and the Third World (Montreal: Black Rose Books), 1992. Also a contributing author ("Public Health Effects of Biological Weapons") in War and Public Health, published by Oxford University Press in cooperation with APHA in 1996, revised edition published by APHA in 2000. In 1996 was co-editor of an issue of the journal Social Justice "Public Health in the 1990s: In the Shadow of Global Transformation and Militarism," and in 2002 was co-editor of Social Justice issue "Global Threats to Security," both issues including the contributions of prominent authors on varied matters relating to health, environment, and the persistent legacy of global militarism and violence. Also co-author of chapter "Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism," in Terrorism and Public Health, published by Oxford University Press in 2002, and co-author of chapter “Nuclear Weapons” in new edition of War and Public Health published by Oxford University Press in late 2007. Co-author (with Drs. Hillel Cohen and Victor Sidel) of editorial "Bioterrorism Initiatives: Public Health in Reverse?" published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) in November 1999, “Good Intentions and the Road to Bioterrorism Preparedness” (AJPH, May 2001), “Bioterrorism Preparedness. Cooptation of Public Health?” (Medicine and Global Survival, February 2002), and "The Pitfalls of Bioterrorism Preparedness: the Anthrax and Smallpox Experiences” (AJPH, October 2004). He was also author of “Public Health Challenges of Bioterrorism” (San Francisco Medicine, January 2002). Has also contributed to a number of published letters and other communications on the issue of bioterrorism/biopreparedness. In 2000 served as a member of the Scientific Panel providing scientific and technical advice to the "Advisory Group on Low Level Radioactive Waste Management," established by California Governor Davis to examine options for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste. Over the last decade, has worked on a variety of environmental issues, including collaborating on California version of "Generations at Risk," that explored issues of reproductive and developmental toxins. Active in local "Zero Dioxin" coalition work that is part of the national "Health Care Without Harm" coalition. Also has attended press conferences and editorial board meetings in conjunction with Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR), as part of ongoing activities against pesticide use in California. Also served as a member of the Steering Committee planning and providing oversight to the CDC-sponsored "International Summit on Breast Cancer and Environment: Research Needs" held in May 2002 in Santa Cruz, CA. Has given numerous presentations on a wide range of health and environmental issues locally and nationally. This has included the showing of PSR slideshow "Environmental and Public Health Effects of Global Warming" to a number of medical audiences, including various hospital Grand Rounds in the SF-Bay Area. Has also stayed active with PSR's gun violence work, including testifying at community events, and showing PSR slideshow on Gun Violence at a number of hospital Grand Rounds since 1997. Presently also presenting other talks at hospital Grand Rounds and various community fora, including "Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons and Militarism," “Health Impacts of War,” “Collateral Damage: Health and Environmental Consequences of U.S. Foreign and Military Policy,” and "Public Health Issues Related to Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism."
Favorite Movies:
Brazil,
Dr.Strangelove,
O Lucky Man
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