Modern Paleopathology, the Study of Diagnostic Approach to Ancient Diseases, Their Pathology and Epidemiology: Let There Be Light, the Light of Scienc

Bruce M. Rothschild graduated from New Jersey College of Medicine. He is a member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Rheumatology and Society of Skeletal Radiology and elected to the International Skeletal Society. He has been recognized for his work in Clinical Rheumatology and Skeletal Pathology where his special interests focus on diagnosis, clinical-anatomic-radiologic correlation, data-based paleopathology, evolution of inflammatory arthritis and infectious disease and origins of disease. Dr. Rothschild is Professor of Medicine at IU Health and holds a Research Associateship at the Carnegie Museum.
He has been Professor of Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio, Adjuvant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas and of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Akron, Ohio and Research Associate at the Biodiversity Institute of the University of Kansas and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He was the first director of the Rheumatology Division at The Chicago Medical School and a prime force behind the resurgence of data-based paleorheumatology and comparative osseous pathology.
He has been a visiting Professor at universities in the US, Canada, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, Asia and Australia and has been an invited lecturer at universities, hospital and museums throughout the world. He has published over 1000 papers and abstracts, including authoritative papers on bone maturation, the origins of rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, syphilis, tuberculosis, character of bone changes in metastatic cancer, myeloma, leukemia, tuberculosis, fungal disease, renal disease, treponemal disease, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, gout, calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, primate bone disease and critical thinking not limited to paleopathology. He is the author of 7 books and has participated in 8 Discover Channel/BBC documentaries on origins of diseases and ancient reptiles.
Dawid Surmik graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, where he pursuedhis entire academic career from B.Sc. to a doctorate, and where he currently works as anassistant professor and researcher. He is a vertebrate paleontologist by education with specialinterests in evolutionary biology, paleoecology, and taphonomy. He became interested inpaleopathology in 2016 when he accidentally identified an intriguing bone alteration in the fossilmaterial he was studying. Then he started collaborating with Professor Bruce M. Rothschild, who was his mentor in the field, and with whom he began collaborating on subsequent projects. In 2019, he received financial support from National Science Centre, Poland for the researchproject ";Osteopathologies in the fossil record as a vector of paleoecological andpaleoepidemiological information," the frame in which he studied pathologies of Triassicmarine reptiles from Germanic Basin, terrestrial Triassic tetrapods from Krasiejów, Poland anddinosaur pathologies from Gobi Desert, Central Mongolia. Dawid believes that the prevalenceof diseases in animal populations sheds light on biosphere stress and is one of the most importantfactors influencing the survival of organisms in nature. Traces of diseases in the fossilmaterial provide a deep and multilevel understanding of the processes governing the evolutionof life on Earth. In particular, he thinks that examination of the occurrence of cancer in variousextinct animals will expand our knowledge of the evolutionary biology of neoplasms. He is the author of several dozen publications including abstracts and scientific papers. He is thereviewer and editorial board member of several respected scientific magazines. He collaboratesclosely with several European research institutions, in particular with the University of Bonn, Germany, where he is an associate researcher.
Filippo Bertozzo is a postdoc researcher at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science in Brussel (Belgium). He studied in Italy, obtaining an undergrad diploma at the University of Bologna with extensive work on the ornithopod Ouranosaurus nigeriensis, and later a Master in Science at the Universität Bonn, Germany, with an analysis on the histology of pneumatic bones in sauropod dinosaurs. He graduated at Queen's University Belfast -under the Horizon 2020 Program of the Marie-Curie Foundation- in 2021. His doctoral dissertation was aimed to identify and diagnose paleopathologies in ornithopod dinosaurs from the Northern Hemisphere, incorporating the data into an epidemiological approach to understand pathological trends and patterns, especially in iguanodontian dinosaurs. He combines traditional analysis (osteology, histology) to 3D imaging techniques (microCT analysis and digitization) to decipher behavioral aspects from paleopathological trends. He is a member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the Palaeontological Association, the Società Paleontologica Italiana and the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists. He is an associate researchwe of the Sociedade de Historia Natural in Torres Vedras, Portugal. He collaborated with the Natural History Museum in London (UK), the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto (Canada). He participated in fieldwork in Spain, Portugal, Germany, US (Nevada, Wyoming), Canada (Alberta), far eastern Russia and Niger.

布魯斯·M·羅斯柴爾德（Bruce M. Rothschild）畢業於新澤西醫學院。他是脊椎動物古生物學會的成員，並且是美國內科醫學會、美國風濕病學會和骨骼放射學會的研究員，還當選為國際骨骼學會的成員。他因在臨床風濕病學和骨骼病理學方面的工作而受到認可，特別關注於診斷、臨床-解剖-放射學的相關性、基於數據的古病理學、炎症性關節炎和傳染病的演變以及疾病的起源。羅斯柴爾德博士是印第安納大學健康系統的醫學教授，並在卡內基博物館擔任研究助理。

他曾擔任俄亥俄州東北醫科大學的醫學教授、堪薩斯大學的人類學副教授以及俄亥俄州阿克倫大學的生物醫學工程副教授，並在堪薩斯大學的生物多樣性研究所和卡內基自然歷史博物館擔任研究助理。他是芝加哥醫學院風濕病學部的首任主任，也是基於數據的古風濕病學和比較骨病理學復興的主要推動者。

他曾在美國、加拿大、加勒比海、南美洲、歐洲、中東、南非、亞洲和澳大利亞的多所大學擔任訪問教授，並在全球各地的大學、醫院和博物館擔任受邀講者。他已發表超過1000篇論文和摘要，包括關於骨成熟、類風濕性關節炎的起源、脊椎關節病、梅毒、結核病、轉移性癌症的骨變化特徵、骨髓瘤、白血病、結核病、真菌病、腎病、梅毒病、類風濕性關節炎、脊椎關節病、痛風、焦磷酸鈣沉積病、肥厚性骨關節病、靈長類動物骨病和批判性思維（不限於古病理學）的權威論文。他是七本書的作者，並參與了八部關於疾病起源和古代爬行動物的探索頻道/BBC紀錄片。

達維德·蘇米克（Dawid Surmik）畢業於波蘭卡托維茨的西里西亞大學，並在該校完成了從學士到博士的整個學術生涯，目前擔任助理教授和研究員。他是一名受過教育的脊椎動物古生物學家，特別關注於進化生物學、古生態學和屍體學。他在2016年對古病理學產生興趣，當時他意外地在研究的化石材料中識別出一種有趣的骨骼變化。隨後，他開始與布魯斯·M·羅斯柴爾德教授合作，羅斯柴爾德是他在該領域的導師，並與他一起參與後續的項目。2019年，他獲得波蘭國家科學中心的資助，進行研究項目「化石記錄中的骨病理學作為古生態學和古流行病學信息的載體」，在此框架下，他研究了德國盆地的三疊紀海洋爬行動物、波蘭克拉謝尤的陸生三疊紀四足動物以及來自蒙古戈壁沙漠的恐龍病理學。達維德認為，動物群體中疾病的流行揭示了生物圈的壓力，是影響生物在自然界中生存的最重要因素之一。化石材料中疾病的痕跡提供了對地球生命演化過程的深刻和多層次的理解。特別是，他認為檢查各種已滅絕動物中癌症的發生將擴展我們對腫瘤進化生物學的認識。他是數十篇出版物的作者，包括摘要和科學論文，並且是幾本受尊敬的科學期刊的審稿人和編輯委員會成員。他與幾個歐洲研究機構密切合作，特別是德國波恩大學。