Stanford doctors take aim at former colleague Scott Atlas, Trump’s new adviser on the COVID-19 pandemic - The Mercury News

But this week, in a scathing letter, dozens of Stanford University Medical School’s top faculty denounced former colleague Dr.

Scott Atlas for promoting what they called “falsehoods and misrepresentations of science.”.

“Our goal with this letter was to provide a science-evidence based commentary on some core issues that Scott Atlas has addressed and to provide context and clarity,’ said Pizzo, who now leads The Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute.

“We are motivated by our responsibility to do all we can to protect and promote public health and wellbeing,” he said.

He served as a professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 to 2012.

Atlas served as a health care adviser on Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign for president.

On Friday, Atlas said on Twitter: “I was asked by the President of the United States to help formulate healthcare policy during the biggest healthcare crisis in a century.

My extensive background in both medical science and healthcare policy provides a unique and urgently needed perspective on this matter.”.

“I am someone who’s worked in health care policy for about 15 plus years, and before that, I had a 25-year career … in very high-level medical science and in integrating a lot of complicated stuff — specialty information from high-level subspecialists in infectious disease, pediatrics, oncology, cardiovascular medicine.”.