Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.