Inflammation Nation The Breakthrough Eating Plan That Will End Our Nation's Secret Epidemic

Floyd H. "Ski" Chilton, Ph.D., is widely recognized in academia and industry for his work on the role of fatty acids in human disease. Dr. Chilton also has extensive experience in leading organizations in both academia and industry. Dr. Chilton is currently a full professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Prior to joining Wake Forest, Dr. Chilton founded a biotechnology company, Pilot Therapeutics, and served as its President, CEO, and Chief Technology Officer from late 2000 to 2003. At Pilot Therapeutics, Dr. Chilton is currently overseeing development of a medical food called Airozin, which blocks inflammatory messengers that cause asthma and arthritis. In 2003, Dr. Chilton was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist for the Carolinas (one of three finalists selected from more than four hundred CEOs in North and South Carolina in the Biotechnology/Life Sciences category). Prior to founding Pilot Therapeutics, Dr. Chilton founded the Program in Molecular Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and helped build it into one of the most successful programs of its kind in the United States. During his time at Wake Forest, Dr. Chilton has served as Director of Molecular Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Professor of Biochemistry; and he has also served as Associate Director of the Asthma and Airways Diseases Center and Associate Director of Programs in Clinical Research. Prior to Wake Forest, Dr. Chilton served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Chilton holds thirty-two issued and seventeen pending patents. He has authored or coauthored more than 110 scientific articles and book chapters. Dr. Chilton has served as chairman of, and organizer of, several international meetings on dietary regulation of human disease and lipid metabolism. Dr. Chilton obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Wake Forest University in 1984. He served as a postdoctoral fellow in pharmacology at the University of Colorado until 1986. He has received numerous awards during his career, including the Cowgill Scholar Award and the Sigma Xi Research Ward at Wake Forest, the 1999 Distinguished Academic and Achievement Award from Western Carolina University, and the Distinguished Service and Teaching Award from the Italian Congress on Allergy and Immunology. Charles E. "Cash" McCall, M.D, is Professor of Internal Medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology; Director of the General Clinical Research Center; and Deputy Associated Dean for Research at Wake Forest University Health Sciences. Dr. McCall received his M.D. degree as the top academic graduate of 1961 from what is now known as the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM). After five years of postgraduate training at Harvard Medical School and two years at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), he returned as a faculty member at WFUSM in 1968. In 1972, during the early stages of Dr. McCall's career at WFUBMC, he held an NIH Research Career Development Award and a Postgraduate Medical Fellowship assigned to research at the Royal Postgraduate School of Medicine in London. He was Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, 1973-1998, Acting Chairman of Microbiology and Immunology, 1981-1983, and he served as Vice Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine for Research and Academic Affairs for eleven years. He has been Director of the NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) since its inception in 1993. Dr. McCall was the first member of the faculty of WFUSM to be elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. McCall has dedicated most of his career to translational clinical research in inflammation, and he is an author of over 160 original research publications. He has been consistently funded for inflammation research since 1970. His successful career in translational patient-oriented research in inflammation led to his being awarded the first Established Investigator Award in Clinical Research at Wake Forest University Medical School in 1997. Dr.McCall is also the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Alumnus Award and the Distinguished Service Award of Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Laura Tucker has written several popular health and medical books. She lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, New York.Chilton, Floyd H. is the author of 'Inflammation Nation The Breakthrough Eating Plan That Will End Our Nation's Secret Epidemic', published 2005 under ISBN 9780743269643 and ISBN 0743269640.