Thomas P. Stossel

Thomas P. Stossel, M.D., American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, was appointed to the American Council on Science and Health Board of Trustees in June of 2018. He previously served a term on the Council's Board in 2006.

Dr. Stossel is the author of almost 300 publications, including co-authoring two textbooks, Haematology: A Pathophysiological Approach (1984) and Blood: Principles and Practice of Hematology (1997) and the consumer book Pharmaphobia: How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines American Medical Innovation (2015).

He is co-founder of Options for Children in Zambia, which provides dental and medical preventive care and other services to the country's major teaching hospital, an orphanage and remote rural villages.