In memoriam: Stephen J Seligman, MD

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Steve J Seligman (2/4/1931–11/11/2021) has passed away at the age of 90 years. In 2011, he joined our laboratory at the Rockefeller University, New York, as an Adjunct Professor, his primary affiliation remaining New York Medical College, Valhalla, where he had been a Research Professor since 2001. Most of his career was spent at SUNY, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, where he had been an Associate (1968–1981), Full Professor of Medicine (1981–2000), and then finally Professor Emeritus (2000–2021). Before that, he was a Fellow (1961–1963) and Assistant Professor in Medicine (1963–1968) at UCLA (1961–1963). He trained as a Resident at Cornell Bellevue Hospital (1956–1957), Tufts Boston City Hospital (1959–1960), and Boston Veterans Administration (1960–1961), after attending medical school at NYU (1952–1956) and college at Harvard University (1948–1952). Importantly, he also served with the Public Health Service as a USPHS Epidemic Intelligence Officer at UCLA and USC from 1957 to 1959. These two years triggered his life-long interest in the global epidemiology of infectious diseases. …