Dr. allen steere biography

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          Biography.

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        3. Allen Caruthers Steere is an American rheumatologist.
        4. Allen Caruthers Steere is a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University and previously at Tufts University and Yale University.

          5. Allen Steere

          American rheumatologist

          Allen Caruthers Steere is an American rheumatologist. He is a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University and previously at Tufts University and Yale University.

          Steere and his mentor, Stephen Malawista of Yale University, are credited with discovering and naming Lyme disease, and he has published almost 300 scholarly articles on Lyme disease during his more than 40 years of studies of this infection.[1][2] At a ceremony in Hartford, Connecticut in 1998, Governor John G.

          Rowland declared September 24 to be "Allen C. Steere Day".[3]

          Biography

          Steere attended medical school at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and graduated in 1969. After internship and residency, he spent two years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and was sent around the country to evaluate outbreaks of disease.

          In 1975, four months after starting his rheumatology fellowshi