Daniel R. Lucey

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Daniel R. Lucey
Born
Castle Air Force Base, California, US
CitizenshipAmerican
Education
OccupationInfectious diseases professor
Known forResearch in infectious diseases
Medical career
Profession
Infectious diseases
ResearchEmerging infectious diseases
Awards

Daniel R. Lucey is an American physician, researcher, clinical professor of medicine of

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
, where he has co-organised an exhibition on eight viral outbreaks.

Lucey comes from a military family in California. He graduated in

Harvard School of Public Health
.

He spent much of the 1990s studying HIV and vaccines. As chief of infectious diseases at the

chest drains
for its treatment should toxic fluid accumulate around the lungs.

In 2003, Lucey was involved in

high lead levels in Washington DC's public water system
. The 'Lead Free Drinking Water Act of 2004' was introduced the following month.

He has analysed, monitored and responded to several

SARS-CoV-2
, which began in 2019.

His awards include the 2001 Walter Reed Medal, and the United States Department of the Army's Commander's Award for Public Service, for the care he gave to those injured at The Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Early life and education

Daniel R. Lucey was born at Castle Air Force Base, into a military family in Merced County, California and spent his childhood in various parts of the United States including Florida, Ohio, Virginia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania and North Dakota.[1][2]

In 1973, he joined

Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, South Africa,[3] recalling later that this was his "first exposure to infectious disease".[1][5]

Early medical career

UCSF Medical Center

He gained an

M.D. in 1982,[3][6] following which he began his early training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF),[3] where he worked with people who were suffering from a previously unknown disease, later known as HIV/AIDS.[1][7]

In 1988 he gained a

Harvard School of Public Health,[3][8][9] where he had gained a fellowship of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.[3][10]

From 1988 to 1990 he was attending physician at

National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda.[3] In 1993, while he was studying HIV at the National Institutes of Health campus, he became a fellow of the American College of Physicians,[1][6][8] Three years later, he was appointed to work on biodefense vaccines, vaccines for hepatitis A and B, and vaccines for Lyme disease and HIV, at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).[1][8] Subsequently, in 1998, he was appointed to HIV research as viral immunologist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.[3]

Washington Hospital Center

In 2001, as chief of infectious diseases at the

Washington Hospital Center during the September 11 attacks,[9] he had worked on preparations on what to do should there be an intentional release of an infectious agent.[1][8]

Anthrax

Inhalational anthrax, widening of mediastinum

Lucey contributed to the preparedness of the hospital for the subsequent 2001 anthrax attacks by arranging stock piles of antibiotics. Several media companies and two U.S. senators had received letters containing anthrax spores, infecting 22 people in total, five of whom died.[1][8][11][12] Of these cases, 11 involved the skin and 11 were in the lungs (inhalation anthrax).[13] Antibiotics needed to be given quickly.[14] Noting that the first case of anthrax presented with meningitis, Lucey emphasised that should a diagnosis of anthrax meningitis ever be made, a public health response should be triggered.[13]

He has published works on

perform lung fluid drainage.[17]

Smallpox vaccination program

Smallpox vaccine[18]

In 2003, Lucey was involved in a campaign to administer smallpox vaccinations to hundreds of thousands of workers.[19] Despite the mounting cost of the campaign and doubts about it being necessary, Lucey in 2003, as director of the Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases at the Washington Hospital Center, endorsed the vaccination of healthcare workers and stated that "the threat is definitely real. This is a dangerous time," and advised "for ourselves to be protected, and to then be able to take care of patients and contribute to a large-scale vaccination program."[20]

Lead contamination

In February 2004, a few days after starting work with biodefense at the Washington DC department of health, Lucey was present at a taskforce meeting on the

high lead levels in Washington DC's public water system. He became involved in the subsequent investigations and gave testimony on April 7, 2004, to the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water Subcommittee. The 'Lead Free Drinking Water Act of 2004' was introduced the following month.[9][21][22]

Georgetown University Medical Center

Georgetown University Medical Center

Since 2004, as adjunct professor of

medicine and infectious diseases at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), he has taught students on bioterrorism and emerging infectious disease.[12]

In 2014, he became a senior scholar with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Along with the institute's team, he worked with 30 colleagues from around the world to produce an exhibit of eight viral outbreaks, beginning with the quote "our world is interconnected more than ever before – by global travel and trade, technology, and even our viruses", and ending with "what's next is already here; we just haven't recognized it yet".[5][23]

Emerging infectious diseases

Science writer, Laura Stephenson Carter, wrote in the 2012 alumni album of Dartmouth College, that for over 30 years Lucey has been "chasing things you wouldn't want to catch".[1] He coined the term "pan-epidemic",[24] and between 2003 and 2016, he spent time researching infectious disease outbreaks in several countries.[8]

SARS 2003

In 2003 he worked on the SARS outbreaks in Guangzhou China, Hong Kong and Toronto, Canada, where the affected hospitals came to be known as SARS hospitals.[25] At the time, regarding personal protective equipment, Lucey stated that "getting all hospital workers to comply with standard infection control procedures—all the time—was a key to stopping an outbreak of SARS in 2003 ... someone stood there and monitored you to make sure you followed, step by step by step, putting it on properly and taking it off."[26]

Bird flu

Subsequently, he worked on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Egypt, and the H1N1 flu in Egypt.[1][8][27]

MERS

MERS Coronavirus Particle

He worked on

Republic of Korea.[8] Having studied MERS, he considers it “in terms of a super-spreading event rather than a super spreader”.[28]

Ebola in Western Africa

He treated people with ebola during the ebola outbreak in Liberia, Guinea and Sierre Leone, where he helped in the isolation unit at Connaught Hospital in Freetown.[8][29][30]

Zika

In 2016, in the

Journal of the American Medical Association, Lucey and his colleague Larry Gostin called for the zika epidemic in the Americas to be announced a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), criticizing the WHO for not escalating their response sooner, and stating that "it is far better to be overprepared than to wait until a zika epidemic spins out of control".[1][8][31]

Nipah virus

Lucey visited Bangladesh during its

fruit bats.[1][32]

More than a decade later, when in 2018,

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, called the incident in Kerala "a bellwether of that potential risk of a Nipah pandemic".[32] He warned of a potential epidemic of nipah virus,[1][35] and stated at the time that "immediate enhanced preparation measures should include training on personal protective equipment (PPE), infection prevention and control, diagnostic testing, and clinical management protocols".[32] The report advocated the need for countries that had no past experience of nipah outbreaks, to make preparations.[36]

Yellow fever

On the question of whether Asia will ever encounter an outbreak of yellow fever, Lucey showed concern when, in 2016, an outbreak in Angola led to several infected travellers reaching China.[37] He worked on yellow fever during that outbreak, highlighting difficulties should mass quantities of vaccine be required.[38][39][40]

Other emerging infectious diseases

Other involvements have included the chikungunya outbreak in Pakistan, H7N9 influenza in China and the plague in Madagascar.[38]

He was one expert who called for the

2018-20 ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be declared a PHEIC in July 2019.[41]

COVID-19 pandemic

SARS-CoV-2 (yellow) (image via NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML).[42]

Reporting on his views of the

SARS-CoV-2, which began in 2019, Lucey recalled that "the SARS outbreak in Toronto in 2003 started with one missed case".[43] The new coronavirus outbreak, reported by the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, has been associated with the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, a wet market in Wuhan, China. When Chinese researchers published their report in January 2020 in The Lancet, on the first 41 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, Lucey hypothesised that if the data was accurate, with 12 of the 41 with no direct link to the market and the earliest reported onset of symptoms being December 1, 2019, and with a calculated incubation period of up to two weeks, the virus may have already been quietly circulating among humans from at least November 2019 and "the virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace".[44][45][46] His analysis of the Chinese report was published in a paper titled "Coronavirus — Unknown Source, Unrecognized Spread, and Pandemic Potential" in Think Global in January 2020.[47][48]

Awards

In 1982, while at Dartmouth Medical School, he gained membership to the AOA Medical Honor Society.[3][12] In 1988, he received the young investigator award from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.[49]

For his work in preparing the city of Washington for the anthrax attacks, Lucey received the Walter Reed Medal in 2001. The following year the United States Department of the Army awarded him the Commander's Award for Public Service, for the care he gave to those injured at The Pentagon on September 11, 2001. In 2003, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the District of Columbia Hospital Association for Bioterrorism Preparedness.[12] In the same year, the Medical Society of the District of Columbia awarded him their Meritorious Service Award.[6]

Selected publications

References

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  2. ^ Szabo, Liz. "Doctor treating Ebola: 'I've been given a gift'". USA TODAY. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Lucey, Daniel R. (2015). Daniel R. Lucey: Curriculum Vitae Archived February 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ Seidman, Lauren (2019). "Dartmouth Medicine Magazine :: Fighting the Viruses of the Future" (PDF). dartmed.dartmouth.edu. pp. 26–27. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "A Tour with Dr. Daniel Lucey – Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World Exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History". The Pandora Report. December 13, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  6. ^ a b c "DOH appoints Daniel Lucey Interim CMO, Robert Johnson Director of Substance Abuse, February 17, 2004". www.dcwatch.com. February 17, 2004. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  7. ^ "PMAC | Prince Mahidol Award Conference". pmac2018.com. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
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  40. ^ "Yellow fever - Africa (92): WHO, Angola, Congo DR, letter to WHO". www.promedmail.org. International Society for Infectious Diseases. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  41. ^ Klain, Ronald A.; Lucey, Daniel (July 10, 2019). "Opinion | It's time to declare a public health emergency on Ebola". Washington Post. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
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  43. ^ Otto, M. Alexander (January 27, 2020). "Wuhan Virus: What Clinicians Need to Know". Medscape. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
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