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 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