Dr. Steven Hatfill

Dr. Steven Hatfill is the primary author and team lead for this book. He is a specialist physician and a virologist with a military background. He holds Master’s degrees in microbial genetics, radiation biochemistry, and a Master’s degree in Medicine where he was the first to demonstrate Thalidomide as a drug for possible use in hematological malignancies.

His medical fellowships include Oxford University, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Research Council where he studied the Ebola, Marburg, and Monkeypox viruses at the US Army Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. His background includes training and certification as a UN Weapons Inspector and over a decade of teaching the emergency medical and mass casualty response to blast and ballistic injuries.

His medical experience includes serving as the Overwinter Team Physician for the 27th South African National Antarctic Expedition, and Casualty Officer at the Conradie General Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. While at Science Applications International Corporation, he served as a course developer and senior lecturer for the Hospital Provider Section of the Nunn-Luger Domestic Preparedness Program and he developed and conducted specialized training for the US military and State Department. He has served as a guest lecturer for numerous Federal agencies. In 2015, he trained and helped to establish the first Rapid Hemorrhagic Fever Response Teams for the National Disaster Medical Unit in Kenya, Africa.

He has numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications. In 2018, he was awarded Honorary U.S. Army Parachute Wings with Bronze Star, in an exchange ceremony between the U.S. Army 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) and a former African Army Regiment. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at a leading Medical School in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine and the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership. He is a National Fellow of the Explorers Club and is a board member of several non-profit medical organizations.