Nicholas Kartsonis

The son of 2 Greek immigrants, Nicholas Kartsonis is an internal medicine physician with a specialty in infectious diseases. For that last 2 decades, Nick has been employed as a physician scientist at Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), a division of Merck & Co., Inc. (known outside the United States & Canada as Merck Sharp & Dohme). Currently, he is the Senior Vice President of Clinical Research in Infectious Diseases & Vaccines within MRL. He is married and has 3 sons. He lives in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania.

His first book is Thankful Thursdays: 25 Essays Expressing Gratitude for Science and Covering Other Fun Topics. It is available on Amazon and Kindle.