Dr. Bob McCunney is a specialist in internal medicine and occupational and environmental medicine. He is a practicing physician in the Pulmonary Division of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty, and a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a former director of Environmental Medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over his career, he has lectured in countries around the world in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, including Canada, and Mexico.

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Dr. McCunney received a BS in chemical engineering from Drexel University, an MS in environmental health from the University of Minnesota, an MD from the Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed training in internal medicine at Northwestern University Medical Center in Chicago.

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He has served as editor in chief of five textbooks and authored or coauthored more than one hundred twenty-five peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He has also coauthored a book on getting recruited to play college baseball, based on his experience with his son who was recruited to play college baseball at Fordham University. This is his first novel.