John Parascandola
John Parascandola has held the positions of Professor of History of Pharmacy and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, and Public Health Service Historian. He currently teaches courses in the history of modern biology and the history of public health at the University of Maryland, College Park, and has published an award-winning book on Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America (Praeger, 2008) and, more recently, Studies in the History of Modern Pharmacology and Drug Therapy (Ashgate Variorum, 2012). He has been the first President of the Board of Trustees of the Institute (2009-2011).
