Ronald Hattis

Ronald Philip Hattis is a family and preventive medicine physician with diverse and eclectic intellectual and academic interests. Among these are  the philosophy of science including cosmology, space, and time.

He often "draws outside the lines" to challenge conventional wisdom and orthodoxy. His research has veered from psychology (which he pursued at the University of Chicago); to epidemiology (which he studied at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, and at the University of Hawaii, where he obtained his M.P.H and Preventive Medicine residency); to prevention of HIV and other diseases (his M.D. is from the University of California, San Francisco, and he was certified as an HIV/AIDS Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine); to cosmology (studied with a physicist tutor), and other fields.

A common theme in many of his pursuits has been to try to fill gaps, or to correct logical inconsistencies, in currently accepted theories. Hence he was one of the first to apply the scientific rigor and statistical analysis common to experimental psychology in animals, to address love feelings in humans. He has substituted a new classification system for prevention of disease for a current system that has disadvantages. He has demonstrated that a communicable diseases thought to be generally contagious may only be transmitted by a few highly infectious "spreaders" and rarely by others. He has worked for over two decades, both educationally and politically, to end prohibitions on applying to HIV/AIDS the successful public health strategies used for controlling infections like tuberculosis and syphilis. And he has developed a novel theory of cosmology and gravitation that may have promise in a "grand unified theory" of gravitation and the other forces and laws of physics. He also develops innovative solutions to political and social issues. In his spare time, he has been known to write original songs, and he owns a small music publishing and independent recording label.

Dr. Hattis is national Secretary and Past-President of the Beyond AIDS Foundation (www.beyondaids.org), Secretary-Treasurer and past-President of the California Academy of Preventive Medicine (capreventivemed.org), and a Clinical Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. He has held past positions as a federal, state, and local public health officer. He has served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Air Force Reserve; and has been involved in medical disaster work with NDMS, maritime medicine with NOAA, and rural and indigent primary care. He lives in Southern California, and can be reached at [email protected].
Address: Redlands, California, United States