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Dr. Leland Rickman                                                           June 24, 2003

47,

June 24, 2003: Dr. Leland Rickman, a UC San Diego expert on infectious diseases and, since Sept. 11, 2001

 a consultant on bioterrorism. He was 47. Rickman died while on a teaching assignment in Lesotho, a small 

country bordered on all sides by South Africa. He had complained of a headache, but the cause of death was 

not immediately known. The physician had been working in Lesotho with Dr. Chris Mathews, directorof the 

UC San Diego Medical Center's Owen Clinic, teaching African medical personnel about the prevention and 

treatment of AIDS.Rickman, the incoming president of the Infectious Disease Assn. of California, was a 

multidisciplinary professor and practitioner with expertise ininfectious diseases, internal medicine, 

epidemiology, microbiology and antibiotic utilization.

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