Dr. Pelis joined the office in 2022, after 16 years as lead speechwriter to the NIH Director and an editor the NIH Director’s Blog. Pelis received her PhD at the Johns Hopkins Institute for the History of Medicine. Her Fulbright-supported dissertation led to the book, Charles Nicolle, Pasteur’s Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia (Rochester, 2006). Her postdoc, jointly sponsored by the Wellcome Institute and the Science Museum, London, yielded several sole-authored articles on the history of blood transfusion. In addition to her work at NIH, she has held academic appointments at the University of Notre Dame, the Uniformed Services University, and the University of Iowa.
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