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William "Bill" Meggs is a physician, scientist, and writer. He received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Syracuse University, where he became close friends with Tom Martin, an MFA student in the Art School. He received a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship to do research at C.E.R.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a research physicist at Rochester and McGill. In a major career change, he received an MD degree from the University of Miami's Ph.D. to M.D. program and returned to Rochester for an internal medicine residency. He did subsequent training in clinical immunology at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and medical toxicology at New York University. He is currently a professor of medical toxicology and emergency medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. His non-fiction book for the general public, The Inflammation Cure, published by McGraw-Hill, was favorably reviewed in the New York Times and the Library Journal. He co-authored The Inflammation Cure Cookbook, Health, and Safety in Farming, Fisheries, and Forestry, and Biomarkers of Immunotoxicology, published by the National Academies Press. He has published over 60 research articles in the physics and medical literature.