Historian Gene Kopelson is a Reagan Virtual Scholar of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation's Ronald Reagan Institute, president of the Gulf Coast chapter of the International Churchill Society, past national trustee (and past chair of the Children's Book Prize committee) of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, board member of the Military Historical Society of MA, and holocaust educator. He has spoken on Reagan '68/Ike/RFK across the country, and his book-talk was filmed by Cspan and incorporated into their American Presidency series.

In his "spare time" he is a practicing radiation oncologist. He graduated Princeton University with an AB Cum Laude in biochemistry and received his MD from Columbia University. He did his internship and residency at Harvard Medical School's Dept. of Radiation Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. For two decades he was director of a cancer center affiliated with the Yale University School of Medicine.

Kopelson is an avid bicycle rider, hiker and environmental steward, lover of classical music, synagogue enthusiast, and lecturer on history. He and his wife live in Florida but visit many parts of the USA frequently. He is blessed to be an American, with three wonderful children and six amazing grandchildren.