My first book, Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and its Consequences, is now available from the University of California Press.

I am a McKnight Land-Grant Professor and assistant professor in the Program in the History of Medicine and the Graduate Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I am also oral historian for the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center History Project.

I have been awarded the 2011 Stanley Jackson Prize by the editor of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences for my article, "'Who's Winning the Human Race?': Cold War as Pharmaceutical Political Strategy."

Specialties: oral history, history of pharmaceuticals, health care policy, academic medicine, medical technology, biomedical sciences, business and political history