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This book explores complex factors that determine Olympic success, exploring why certain nations consistently dominate the medal tables while others struggle to secure even a single medal.
About the author
Charles Theuer M.D., Ph.D. is a biotechnology executive, former cancer surgeon and epidemiologist. He has been interested in public health since medical school at the University of California, San Francisco in the 1980, where he focused on the AIDS epidemic, including primary research into the association of tuberculosis with the immunodeficiency caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (see publications in American Review of Respiratory Disease, Western Journal of Medicine, and Journal of Infectious Disease).While a cancer surgeon at the University of California, Irvine he focused his research on the effect of race and ethnicity on cancer incidence and cancer prognosis and how racial and ethnic colorectal cancer patterns affect the cost-effectiveness of cancer screening in the United States. His recommendation for early screening for colorectal cancer in black men and women was adopted by the American Gastroenterological Association in its guidelines for colorectal cancer screening (see publications in Gastroenterology, Cancer, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Archives of Surgery, New England Journal of Medicine).While a pharmaceutical executive, his efforts were instrumental in bringing novel blockbuster oncology drugs to market, including Sutent® to treat advanced kidney cancer, while working as Director of Clinical Oncology at Pfizer. His book Unnecessary Expense and numerous blog posts detailing topics in the pharmaceutical industry have been published by ForbesBooks.
