Robert Ware Haley

Robert Ware Haley, M.D. completed his MD and internal medicine residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas Parkland Hospital, served 10 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) receiving the U.S. Public Health Service Commendation Medal, and then founded the Division of Epidemiology at UT Southwestern.  He is currently Professor of Internal Medicine, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and holder of the U.S. Armed Forces Veterans Distinguished Chair in Medical Research Honoring America’s Gulf War Veterans at UT Southwestern Medical School and the O’Donnell School of Public Health and an adjunct professor in the Department of Statistical Science at SMU.  He has published over 200 scientific papers from research on West Nile encephalitis, hepatitis C, hospital-acquired infection, self-administered outpatient antibiotic therapy, Gulf War illness, and cardiovascular epidemiology through the Dallas Heart Study. He has studied the health effects of air pollution in Dallas from nearby coal-fired power plants, and lectures widely on the scientific evidence for climate change.  During the pandemic he has served on Dallas County’s Public Health Advisory Committee, developing Covid-19 response policy for the County government and is advising performing arts organizations, the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, and SMU on Covid-19 precautions.  He attends on the Parkland Hospital Internal Medicine teaching service and teaches epidemiologic research methods and biostatistics to medical students and young research faculty and to SMU statistics graduate students in the UT Southwestern-SMU joint statistics graduate program. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Epidemiology and a member of the Association of American Physicians.