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Mark White

Profile Updated: April 2, 2023
Class Year
1965
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Atlanta, GA USA
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Shelly Joan Ahmann
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Occupation during your working years
Epidemiologist, memoirist.
Any Children or grand children?
Alexander, 42; Daniel, 40; Leila, 23; ZuZu, 21.
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I just published a memoir called ADVENTURES OF A DISEASE DETECTIVE. You can order eBooks or paper copies on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, or any other bookstore.

Here are a few reviews:

Look out, Dr. Fauci, here comes a disease detective who equals your expertise with medicine and people! This book is heartfelt, sexy, and adventuresome! Be sure to grab a snack before starting because you won’t be able to put it down!—Dr. Marti Loring, author of Intimate Behavior.
 
            Intense true tales—and engaging personal tidbits—from the front lines of international medicine. White exhibits both a clever sense of humor and a graphic, descriptive flair for language.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
            This narrative of epidemics and disasters faced and dealt with will engage you – particularly if you like mystery diseases and their solutions….Mark’s prose brings them to life with dialogue and humor…half the characters were persons that I knew… It was better than reading a novel.—Manuel M. Dayrit, former Secretary of the Philippine Department of Health and Director of Human Resources of the World Health Organization, was dean of the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health. Now he is an emeritus professor.
 
            Mark White is a real-life medical detective whose career has been spent investigating and controlling disease outbreaks in the US and internationally. This engaging book gives a personal and professional account of the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures of his varied undertakings in different countries.
An important and salutary read for any aspiring medical detective!—Peter Smith, Professor of Tropical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
 

School Stories

when Mr. Shirer was principal there was some kerfuffle in the cafeteria and he had them lock us in at lunch for awhile. My friends and I made an effigy of him with a Nazi armband and sneaked into school in the dead of night and hung it right in front of school.

We were saddened not to see it when we arrived and all morning I listened for the announcement summoning me to Mr. Shirer's office. Finally I was unable to hold my curiosity and went to the office. the secretary led me in where the effigy was sitting in his chair with its feet up on the desk. the Nazi armband was gone, but they had put his reading glasses on it.

The janitors had taken the effigy down and put it behind his desk. He thought it was so funny that he kept it.

So much for my rebellion.

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1993 Our family meeting Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. Next to me is Maggie and Cassie.
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Margot, I just finished reading this amazing book about Virginia Hall, an American spy in France who spent the war running an increasingly large part of the French resistance. I'd love to hear what you and your mother think. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/books/review/sonia-purnell-woman-no-importance-virginia-hall.html

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Jay, good to hear about your grandson visiting Philippines. You or he can reach me at 404-735-7547 or mark@markewhite.com.

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NYT published a rave review of a bio of an unsung prominent resistance leader several minutes ago. Check it out! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/books/review/lynne-olson-madame-fourcades-secret-war.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage . I downloaded my copy already.

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