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Leo Nissola, MD
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San Francisco, Washington, D.C., United States
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Leonardo Nissola (born 9 September 1982, Southern Brazil) also known as Leo Nissola is a Brazilian born American Medical Doctor, Cancer Immunotherapy Scientist, Published Immunology author, Drug developer, and Medical Contributor Journalist based in San Francisco, California. Nissola is a featured Medical Expert seen on CBS News, ABC News, Fox News, BBC News and others. He is a former Medical Oncology Research Fellow at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. His main areas of research are in cancer, lupus research, COVID-19 and other immunodeficiencies. Nissola is an immunotherapy scientist at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Since February 2020, he has been one of the advisors to the COVIDActnow project and the National Convalescence Plasma Project, addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Nissola has been widely covered in the high-tier media and frequently his opinion pieces appear in multiple print and online media sources. He is also a contributor writer to KevinMD.com and is the founder and editor of drleonissola.com, a website where he shares his opinions on Cancer and Public Health. Nissola writes on current public health issues, clinical science, cancer immunotherapy and cancer advocacy. He is the author of Systemic Lupus: A Medical Textbook for Physicians - published in 2013 by Kiron Publishing House. Medical Schools across the globe have used Nissola's book on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. This autoimmune disorder affects over 5 million people worldwide and occurs when the immune system attacks the body's tissues and causes inflammation in many organs.
covid19, Health Care Policy , Cancer, Immunotherapy , Public Health, Immunology
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De Pere, Wisconsin, United States