Scott P. Layne, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Physician and Professor Emeritus of Public Health, UCLA
Dr. Scott Layne is a physician-scientist known for cross-disciplinary work in epidemiologic modeling, applied virology, large-scale laboratory technology and biological security policy. He is professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Public Health and a prior staff member at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. With UCLA and LANL, Dr. Layne designed an automated high-throughput laboratory for analyzing numerous infectious disease samples to enable worldwide situational awareness of outbreaks and pandemics. In addition, he was principal investigator of the NIAID/NIH Center of Excellence for Rapid Influenza Surveillance and Response, which conducted studies on threatening influenza viruses. From 2008 to 2010, he served as a member of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee, authorized by presidential directive 21. Dr. Layne has over 50 publications that have appeared in such journals as PNAS, Nature and Science, as well as two books and six patents. He is an editor of Firepower in the Lab (National Academy Press, 2001) and Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook (2nd and 3rd editions). He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and practices in Los Angeles, California. After earning his MD at Case Western Reserve University, he studied applied physics at Stanford.
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, virology and infectious diseases, diagnostics