”Joseph E. McDade, PhD, founding editor of Emerging Infectious Diseases, has also served the journal in an advisory capacity. Author of approximately 100 scientific articles, Dr. McDade is best known for isolating and identifying Legionella pneumophila, the bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease; for identifying the cause of ehrlichiosis, an emerging tickborne illness; and for directing research on Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Q fever, and typhus. Dr. McDade has also served as an adjunct professor at Emory University’s School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia, and, following his retirement from CDC in 2001, as an adjunct professor at Shorter and Floyd Colleges in Rome, Georgia.”