Growing up exceptionally poor, Dr. Patrick M Schlievert was expected to start working full time when he was fourteen years old. He graduated from Humboldt, Iowa high school in 1967 and began that fall as an undergraduate at the University of Iowa. He received a bachelor’s degree in general science, emphasizing geology, and then later a PhD in innate immunity in the Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa. Dr. Schlievert then spent his career in major public universities doing the three things expected of faculty: teaching, research, and service. He greatly enjoys teaching medical students, dental students, and undergraduates; his make-up is to be a large classroom educator. Dr. Schlievert was married in 1970 to Shirley and they have one daughter, Sara who lives and works in New York City. He has many hobbies, but his main hobby is running. He has run twenty-eight marathons, completing his last marathon this past October, and plans to run his twenty-ninth in 2020. Dr. Schlievert also plays the guitar, likes to oil paint, likes to read, reading one new book every week, and also enjoys writing. He is currently writing a fiction book and has written and published nearly 450 manuscripts. Finally, Dr. Patrick M Schlievert is a jack of all science trades—a real science nerd. He likes to examine astrophysics in the evening, he likes to look for pretty rocks that are worth lots of money when he travels someplace new, he loves microbiology and immunology and how they oppose each other, and lastly, he truly enjoys studying momentum, whether in playing racquetball, figure skating, or pole vaulting.