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A world renowned, Harvard-trained pathologist and scientist and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, the home of the highest level bio-safety laboratory in the United States. Although Dr. Boor will explain in some detail his important research that affects the health and safety of millions on planet earth, the focus of the event will be his hobby as a poet and novelist.

His poetry has appeared since 1976 in literary journals such as The Journal of Medical Humanities, Whole Notes, Rhino, and Sulphur River. Andrei Codrescu, poet and NPR commentator, published Dr. Boor’s poetry from 1993 to 1998 in Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse, an especially appropriate venue for the work of a pathologist. Dr. Boor has been chosen as a juried poet at The Houston Poetry Fest five times since 1991. His recent poetry was anthologized in Primary Care: More Poems by Physicians (Angela Belli and Jack Coulehan, editors; 2006; ISBN 10 1587295032.

Turning his hand to fiction, Dr. Boor began publishing short stories in 1990. His stories, which address the vagaries of biology and the quirky people who inhabit research labs have been widely published in literary journals of the medical professions and the long-lived detective/thriller magazine, Hardboiled (formerly Hardboiled Detective).

"The Blood Notes of Peter Mallow" is Dr. Boor’s first novel. It is the story of Peter Mallow, an established scientist at the peak of his academic career, who is hot on the trail of an emerging bird-flu virus. A brilliant, but deeply disturbed student has just joined his lab, leading Mallow to record his thoughts in an ordinary lab notebook. Mallow’s notes take us with him into the downward spiral of his scientific career, a devastating hurricane and, eventually, the deadliest epidemic in history. In this novel, the most dangerous organisms in the bio-lab are the scientists themselves.

Contact: Paul Boor, M.D.
Email: paul@paulboor.com
Web: http://www.paulboor.com