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Dr. Ashley White is an American archaeologist, surgeon and author.  He is a  graduate of the prestigious University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his surgical training.

Founded in the 1700's the University of North Carolina is the oldest state university in the United States and is one of the original eight flagship public colleges known as Ivy.

Dr. White also served on the University of North Carolina’s Honor Court. He studied doctorate level forensic anthropology and has held membership in a top national pathology academy as well as Fellowship status in a maxillofacial surgery association.

Dr. White also earned a Baccalaureate of Science Degree in Biochemistry from East Carolina University and was an investigative researcher at the East Carolina University School of Medicine.

Dr. White held a post graduate research position at preeminent Duke University, consistently placed among the world’s top universities. He worked with the School of Engineering on a NASA funded project. Dr. White also was a member of the Mensa special interest group founded Research Triangle National Security and Intelligence Think Tank.

Dr. White has been on the medical staff with surgical privileges at three regional medical centers. His practice focus has been oral medicine and surgical pathology.

Dr. White is a member of the College of Central Florida's Advisory Board for the Appleton Museum of Art and the Collections and Acquisitions Committee and works with the Florida Archaeological Survey.

Dr. White is on the Governing Board and is a Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America. The AIA was founded in 1879 and chartered by the United States Congress. The Archaeological Institute of America has 200,000 members is honored to be one of the oldest and largest organizations devoted to the world of archaeology. The AIA is the foremost organization dedicated the protection and preservation of the world's archaeological resources and the information they contain.

Dr. White serves on the Cultural Property Legislation and Policy Committee that is responsible for tracking and reporting on national and international legislation that affects archaeology; keeping up with progress on UNIDROIT, the Hague Convention, the Underwater Resources Convention, and various EEC directives; investigating and responding to issues concerning the illicit trade in antiquities; and developing timely AIA responses as necessary. Dr. White is also as a member of the Professional Responsibilities Committee that advises the Governing Board on appropriate policies and action concerning the preservation of archaeological resources, placement and employment, standards of archaeological excavations, professional ethics, and other matters involving professional responsibilities.

INTERPOL UNIDROIT

U.S.State Department: International Cultural Property Protection

United Nations World Heritage Protection Committee 

Dr. White is a Norton Society Member of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Over the last two decades, Dr. White has been researching ancient diseases and their initial presentations for prevention of future pandemic plagues. This evidence based bioarchaeology and paleopathology research has granted Dr. White access to some of the world’s most sensitive archaeological sites.

These locations have been in Asia - including Russia, China, India and Turkey, the Middle East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa, England, Scotland, Ireland, Twelve additional countries in Europe, North and Central America, and South America including the Amazon Basin.

Dr. White is the author of Physical Signs in Medicine and Surgery - An Atlas of Rare, Lost and Forgotten Physical Signs. This comprehensive Atlas was originally conceived for doctors providing needed care in dangerous, rugged and remote situations often created by catastrophe, disasters, epidemics, and military conflicts. It is within these serious environments that this Atlas can assist practitioners find the most obscure and difficult diagnosis where access to x-rays and modern laboratory equipment are often impossible.

Designed with a unique reference style of key words tagged to known medical systems the Atlas functions as an easy to use clinical field manual whether in use in an advanced medical care unit or in the harsh realm of the jungle.

This extensive compendium of rare medical findings, together with an incredible group of landmark essays make this the most complete Atlas of physical signs ever published.

Dr. White lives with his wife and son on their ranch located in North Central Florida and their home in the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains.

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