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Alan Zelicoff is a physician (board certified in Internal Medicine 1992), who served a clinical fellowship in Rheumatology in 1983 and is a physicist (AB Princeton, 1975). Mr. Zelicoff has had a varied career including clinical practice, teaching, and operations research. He served as Senior Scientist in the Center for National Security and Arms Control at Sandia National Laboratories from 1989-2003.

His interests include risk and hazard analysis in hospital systems and off-based practice, and in technologies for improving the responsiveness of public health practice, and in technologies for improving the responsiveness of public health offices and countering biological weapons terrorism. Two major current projects are 1) Syndrome Reporting Information System - a platform-independent, networked disease monitoring tool for public health officials and medical professionals and 2) Microbe: Are We Ready for the Next Plague - his latest book (June, 2005) covering public health infrastructure, bioterrorism, and solutions to address emerging diseases in a timely manner.

Dr. Zelicoff has traveled extensively in countries of the former Soviet Union and has led joint research projects in epidemiological analysis of infectious disease, while establishing Internet access at Russian and Kazak biological laboratories. He is the author of 3 books, numerous text book chapters, articles related to joint research projects, and is a frequent contributor to Op-Ed pages in the Washington Post and other newspapers.

Dr. Zelicoff is married, plays jazz piano, speaks Russian and German and has skills in Computer programming in most major computer languages. His jazz entertainment venue includes most of Tom Lehrer's tunes, and the entire libretto of "The Elements Song" but patrons at restaurants in which he has entertained have advised him "not to give up his day job."