User:Songinpark/Robert Siegel (Stanford Professor)

Robert Siegel is a professor at Stanford University with appointments in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Program in Human Biology, the Center for African Studies, and the Woods Institute for the Environment. For more than 20 years, he served as the Course Director of the Infectious Disease component of the required preclinical curriculum. His courses focus on virology and infectious disease, on genetics and molecular biology, on global health and development, on photography, on ecology, and on Darwin. He has taught the following Sophomore College courses: The Stanford Safari (2009 and 2013), Smallpox: Lethal Legacy, Forbidding Future (2010), The Coming Influenza Pandemic (2011), and Measles Sneezes, Things That go Mumps in the Night (2012), and Viruses in the News (2014, 2016). He has led Bing Overseas Study Program (BOSP) overseas seminars to Tanzania, Tasmania, England, Madagascar, The Pantanal, and Tasmania. He has led Stanford Travel Study trips to Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, and the Galapagos.

Dr. Siegel has won numerous teaching awards including the Walter Gores Award, the Henry Kaiser Award, and the ASSU teaching award. He has served in an advisory capacity for numerous international NGOs, organizations, and projects including Wonderfest, FACE AIDS, Support for International Change, Ocean Medicine Foundation, Free the Children, Sage Bionet, Teach AIDS, and the Discovery Channel.

He is also a docent at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and at the Año Nuevo State Park. He is also an avid photographer, dish walker, traveler (to seven continents), and jumper. He currently lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and three sons.