Climate Change: The Real Story
By: Dr. Robert E. Marx
Dr. Robert E. Marx is a Chicago native who did his undergraduate education and professional education at Northwestern University in Evanston/Chicago, IL and followed with residency and fellowship training at the University of Miami/Jackson Health Systems in Miami, FL.
As a specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery, he spent 13 years as an active duty officer in the United States Airforce and later served in Operation Desert Storm. He received the Meritorious Service Ribbon and the Legion of Merit Medal among other military awards. He is known as the discoverer of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and in-situ tissue engineering and is known as one of the world's most prominent stem cell researchers and bone growth factor specialists. He has also pioneered other new concepts and treatments ofr pathologies of the oral and maxillofacial area as well as new techniques in reconstructive surgery.
His many prestigious awards, includes the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon's Harry S Archer Award, the William J. Gies Award for Lifelong Contribution to Dentistry and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, the Paul Bert Pioneering Award in Hyperbaric Medicine, the Donald B. Osbon Educator Award and has twice receive the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Research Recognition award which attest to his many achievements in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery and medicine.
He has written or co-edited twelve medical textbooks one of which won the Medical Writers Book of the Year Award.