Steven Rubin

Areas of expertise: Vaccine Injury data (VAERS)

Steven M. Rubin, Ph.D. is a computer scientist who maintains MedAlerts.org, the online searchable VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) database.  He has been doing this in cooporation with the National Vaccine Information Center (www.nvic.org) since 2005.  This website allows anyone to search the U.S. Government's reports of vaccine injuries.

Dr. Rubin has worked in the computing field for over 40 years, both as a teacher and a researcher. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (1978).  He has taught computer graphics at Carnegie Mellon University and at Stanford University and has worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Schlumberger/Fairchild, Apple Computer, Interval Research, and Sun Microsystems. He is currently a researcher at Oracle.

Dr. Rubin's youngest son, Max, was autistic and was cured with Homeopathy. This sparked his interest in vaccine safety, and it led his wife, Amy Lansky, to write her popular book: "Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy" (www.impossiblecure.com). Interestingly, Dr. Rubin was also the lead singer of "Severe Tire Damage," the first band to perform live on the Internet.