Joseph B. McCormick

Joseph B. McCormick, MD is a physician, scientist, and educator from the United States.

Joseph B. McCormick was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on October 16, 1942. His early years were spent on a farm in Indiana.

Florida Southern College. 1964 Graduated cum laude. Majored in chemistry and mathematics.

Duke University School of Medicine. 1967 - 1971

Harvard School of Public Health. 1970 Masters of Science

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 1971 - 1973 Internship and residency in Pediatrics (under Dr. C. Everett Koop)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 1975 - 1976 Fellow, Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Following graduation from college, he located in Brussels, Belgium and attended the Alliance Francaise and the Free University for a year. He learned the French language to enable him to teach sciences and mathematics in a secondary school in Kinshasa, Congo. While living in the Congo, he worked in a local hospital and developed an interest in medicine and specifically tropical diseases.

In 1974, following his residency training, he was appointed an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the CDC. In 1993, he was appointed Chairman of Community Health and Sciences at the Aga Khan University Medical School (AKU). He established an epidemiology program, similar to the CDC. In 1997 he returned to France where he started epidemiology programs for the Institute Pasteur and for Aventis Pasteur, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. He became Assistant Dean, University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, at Brownsville campus on January 1, 2001.

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