I found my first life’s passion in June of 1965 as a senior medical student; I was attending a patient who needed his aortic valve replaced. He died on the table ten hours later. But I knew then that I had found my life’s challenge.  High level sports had taught me how to maximally produce, but my study of the fascinating human body was never satisfied and made me a life-time learner…even to this day.  Ten years later, I finally was able to have my first independent job in Missoula MT, a beautiful college town with a too low cardiac surgery patient load.  In 1982, I made my home in Evansville, a fine Midwestern city that I have come to love deeply and know I will never leave.
In 1999, a little event tipped me into a totally different path.  I tripped over a wire in my OR.  Slowly, a life-threatening clot propagated in my leg, and it almost killed me twice.  Recovering, I made a pact with God to find another way to continue to help people.  After some years of searching and obtaining an MBA, city politics attracted me, finding my second life’s passion.  I was elected to our City Council, fulfilling my promise in 2007.
Since then, being retired allows me to meet the job’s variable demands.  I have used my decades of complicated problem solving to hone my skills. Always independently looking for the correct answers from fresh outside data … not the expedient ones, my voting record reflects consistent results of closely listening to all my constituents’ needs… both big and small.  I have assiduously endeavored to produce common sense solutions that create taxpayer value.  I wish to bring the Allied Health Consortium project to completion.
