David Burns, MD
- MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1972
- Resident, Internal Medicine, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1973-1974
- Pulmonary Fellow, University of California Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA, 1976-1979
- Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, California, USA, 1991- Present
- Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, California, USA, 2001-present
- Editor, US Surgeon General’s reports, 1979-86
- Editor, US National Cancer Institute Tobacco Monographs, 1990-2003
- Policy Advisory Committee for the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation, National Cancer Institute
- Consultant, Environmental Protection Agency Indoor Air Quality Advisory Committee
- Consultant, US Consumer Product Safety Commission on Fire Safe Cigarettes
- Board Member, Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee, California Department of Health Services
- Written extensively on issues of the disease consequences of smoking including modelling of disease risks and projection of those risks with changes in smoking behaviour