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Joe Alcock
Summary
Joe Alcock MD is a professor of emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and was Chief of the Emergency Medicine Service at the New Mexico VA Medical Center. He has an MD from UCLA and a Master of Science in Clinical Research from the UNM Center for Translational and Clinical Science.
The recipient of UNM’s Excellence in Teaching award, Dr. Alcock is one of the leaders in the emerging field of Evolutionary Medicine. Since 2008, Dr. Alcock has taught a series of courses on Evolutionary Medicine popular with biology, anthropology, and medical students.
Dr. Alcock’s current research uses evolutionary principles to understand cooperation and conflict in the human gut microbiome related to acute and chronic diseases.