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Joel Selanikio | |
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 Joel Selanikio at TEDxAustin in 2013 | |
| Citizenship | American |
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| Awards | Lemelson–MIT Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physician |
| Institutions | Magpi |
Joel Selanikio is an American physician, attending pediatrician, and assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital. [1]
Selanikio graduated from Haverford College, Philadelphia, in 1986. He then started to work for Chase Manhattan as a systems analyst. He also completed a degree in medicine at Brown University and settled in Atlanta, Georgia. [2]
After his residency in Atlanta, Selanikio started to work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He then left his job to start DataDyne.org, a company that made open-source software for collecting data on public health. [3] [4]
After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Selanikio worked with the International Rescue Committee in Aceh, Indonesia. [2] During the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, he worked with the International Medical Corps in Lunsar. [5]
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