Dr. Pastula is a board-certified neurologist, CDC-trained medical epidemiologist (EIS), veteran of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), policy maker, scientist, and teacher. He has cross-disciplinary experience and interests in neurohospitalist medicine, neuro-infectious and emerging infectious diseases, public health and epidemiology, outbreak investigation and control, emergency preparedness and response, environmental health and toxicology, meteorology and climatology, public policy, communication, and education.