Dr. Bob McCunney is a specialist in internal medicine
and occupational and environmental medicine. He is a
practicing physician in the Pulmonary Division of the
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a member of the Harvard
Medical School faculty, and a visiting research professor at the Harvard
School of Public Health. He is a former director of environmental
medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over his
career, he has lectured in countries around the world in Europe, Asia,
Africa, Australia, North America, including Canada, and Mexico.
Dr. McCunney received a BS in chemical engineering from Drexel
University, an MS in environmental health from the University of
Minnesota, an MD from the Thomas Jefferson University Medical
School, and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He
completed training in internal medicine at Northwestern University
Medical Center in Chicago.
He has served as editor in chief of five textbooks and authored
or coauthored more than one hundred twenty-five peer-reviewed
articles and book chapters. He has also coauthored a book on getting
recruited to play college baseball, based on his experience with his
son who was recruited to play college baseball at Fordham University.
This is his first novel.