Dr. Michael Greger, Director, The Humane Society, USA

Michael Greger, M.D. is the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture of the Humane Society of the United States. He is an internationally recognized lecturer, he has presented at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous U.S. "meat defamation" trial. Recent publications in Critical Reviews in Microbiology and Biosecurity and Bioterrorism explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture. His latest book is Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, now available full-text at no cost at www.BirdFluBook.org. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.