Conference Faculty

Michael J. Manyak, MD, FACS

Dr. Michael J. Manyak is Vice President for Medical Affairs for Cytogen Corporation. He is a Professor of Urology, Engineering, Microbiology, and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University (GWU) and is a consultant to the Center for Prostate Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The medical corporate experience of Dr. Manyak includes service on the scientific advisory board or as a consultant to more than 25 biomedical technology and pharmaceutical companies. He has published nearly 200 professional abstracts, book chapters, and refereed journal articles and has been granted 11 patents with several pending. His column on Expedition Medicine appears in The Explorers Journal.

The Boy Scouts of America recently named a camp for Dr. Manyak, an Eagle Scout, for the 2005 National Scout Jamboree in Fredericksburg, VA. In addition, Dr. Manyak has been inducted into the Greater Flint Michigan Sports Hall of Fame (1996) and the State of Michigan High School Athletic Association Legends of the Game (2004).

Dr. Manyak maintains an avid interest in field exploration and expedition medicine and is editing a textbook on expedition medicine. He was selected as a Fellow National of The Explorers Club in 1992 and has served in several capacities for over a decade including as chair of the Science Advisory Board and as a Director. Dr. Manyak received the Sweeney Medal in 2004 from The Explorers Club. Dr. Manyak has served on the NASA Aerospace Medicine and Occupational Health Advisory Committee. Dr. Manyak has led a scientific expedition to the Ndoki rain forest in the Congo Basin in a collaborative effort with the World Wildlife Fund, has dived the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in search of artifacts, was the ship physician on the icebreaker MV Polar Star for an Antarctic expedition with Students On Ice, and was the medical director for the RMS Titanic salvage expedition and dove to the Titanic wrecksite in the Russian MIR submersible. Most recently, Dr. Manyak was the medical officer on an expedition to the deepest canyon in the world in Peru and on the first scientific dive in Mongolia in Lake Khosgvol on the Siberian border.