Doctor to Present "The Use of Chemicals and Disease in Warfare" Nov. 28
Posted November 12, 2001FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
York, Pennsylvania—Robert Matylewicz, M.D., of York, a certified specialist by the U.S. government in the management of chemical and biological casualties, will present "The Use of Chemicals and Disease in Warfare" on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in York College of Pennsylvania's Alumni Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
(Alumni Hall is located in the Iosue Student Union.)
The event is sponsored by York College's departments of Nursing and Biological Sciences. Dr. Matylewicz's lecture will be followed by a question and answer period.
After receiving his M.D. from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1996, Matylewicz was commissioned a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He was assigned to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., as a general medical officer. He became certified in the management of biological and chemical casualties by both the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He also participated in the evaluation of military and local governments' response to a chemical weapon accident at stockpiles in the United States.
Matylewicz received a B.S. in biology from the University of Scranton in 1989 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. After he completed the U.S. Army Chemical School's nuclear biologic and chemical officer basic course, he was assigned as a special weapons officer in the First Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kan. After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Matylewicz was selected for a U.S. Army Health Professions Scholarship.
Matylewicz left active duty last year to finish residency training in family medicine at Memorial Hospital in York. He continues to serve as an independent contractor to the U.S. Army as a physician at Fort Meade, Md.
For more information about the lecture, call (717) 815-1243.
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