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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dennis Ross Laffer was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended Michigan State
University and was awarded a Bachelor’s in Science degree with high honors in 1972.
He was a member of the Honor’s College and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta
Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi. He attended the University Of Michigan School Of Medicine
and received a Doctor of Medicine Degree in 1976. His internship in General Surgery
and residency in Internal Medicine was spent at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal
Oak, Michigan. He accepted a gastroenterology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic
Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio and completed his specialty training in 1982 and then
relocated to Tampa, Florida where he entered private practice, married and had two
daughters. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, a member of the
American College of Physicians and former Chief of Gastroenterology at Tampa General
Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Dr. Laffer has had a long interest in history, especially in the area of the
Holocaust and genocide. He is a founding member of the Florida Holocaust Museum in
St. Petersburg, Florida. His interest in the topic of the Evian Conference was stimulated
by his involvement in the museum and resulted in the publication of an article on the
topic in 2003 in History in Dispute, The Holocaust 1933-1945. An unexpected case of
cancer led to his decision to enter the Master’s of History Program at the University of
South Florida which furthered his concentration on the Holocaust and genocide. He has