Robert L. Pollock is a board certified internal medicine physician in New York. He is Assistant Professor of Medicine at SUNY Buffalo's Jacobs School of Medicine. He is a former

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and ''Wall Street Journal'' editorial board member. He was born in

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. He studied at

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. Pollock joined the ''Wall Street Journal Europe'' in

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as an editorial page writer in 1995. He moved to ''

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s headquarters in

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in 2000 as an assistant features

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. In 2002 Pollock became an editorial writer and in 2005 he joined the Editorial Board. From 2007 to 2012 he was the Journal's editorial features (op-ed) editor. Pollock was a finalist for the

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in 2003 for his editorials on the American

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(FDA) and its delaying of cancer drug approval. He won the 2006

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for Commentary for "Review and Outlook: Kianna's Law". Pollock makes frequent appearances on television shows such as that on

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as well as radio appearances on WABC and NPR.

References

External links

''WSJ'' bio

UCLA Anderson School of Management - Gerald Loeb Awards - Robert Pollock bio
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