Robert Gross is a practicing physician, consultant, inventor, and author.

Along his path, he obtained bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering, worked on a National Science Foundation grant on storage media for alternative forms of energy, obtained a masters degree in Public Health and Tropical medicine, and garnered one patent. He has worked and spoken aggressively in support of instituting systems analysis techniques in the practice of medicine. He reads voraciously on every subject. He teaches not to believe everything "we" think we know. Always question the unquestioned. Use your own mind, draw your own conclusions. Think.

He has been published in regional magazines. The Extinction Gene is his first novel