An inside interview with LocateADoc.com
What is your charity organization of choice and why?
The Tanzanian Project, which is a subsidiary program of the Children's Cross Connection International, has close ties to my heart. It began as the simple idea of one of my mentors, Clinton McCord, MD and grew into a mission for medical care and teaching in Tanzania, East Africa. I was lucky enough to be a part of the set up of this wonderful organization and complete the first mission trip to Moshi in 2006. It was a life changing experience....for us and our patients.
What does living in the Austin community mean to you?
For me, Austin is the perfect place to live because of its heart, its soul and its people. It's an original like my other two favorite cities in the US, New York and New Orleans. Austin is a contradiction in many ways. Cosmopolitan, yet unpretentious. High-tech, low-key. Big city, small town feel. It's eclectic, progressive, has a great live music scene, and it resists excessive commercialism. I love the personalities that choose to live in Austin, and that is why I call it home.
What is your favorite quote or saying?
I have two:
"Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
John F. Kennedy
"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.
Albert Einstein
Finish this sentence: If I weren't a doctor I would be___.
an architect or commercial interior designer. I truly believe that the environment we are in dictates our experience and the way we feel. I love the process of conceptualizing the way a space moves and breathes and then creating it.
