PERSONAL

After majoring in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, I completed medical school at the University of California (SF).  Following  a plastic surgery residency at Stanford I split my research between surgery and the study of time.  The views of Einstein were the most motivating.  Research projects unavoidably involved both the physics and experimental psychology of time.  I am grateful for mentoring received  from Richard Price, former editor of the Am J of Physics and currently at  M.I.T.  My mentor in experimental psychology was Richard A. Block, a world authority on the subject of time.

Being a physician and surgeon allows for a different approach to analyzing problems.  In particular  plastic and reconstructive  surgery provides a  keen insight into aesthetics and subsequently aesthetic science for the physics of time. But treating patients and teaching surgery  has always been the highlight of my interdisciplinary career.  In the final analysis, however, I remind myself that “family is everything.”

Visiting Professor, Anatomy Lab, Brown University, 2006

Nasal reconstruction with rib grafts for a collapsed nose.