Wellesley took the long route to Swedish. He grew up in the Midwest-- St. Louis, Missouri, to be precise--and trotted off to Burlington, Vermont for undergraduate studies in Economics. He had intended to  learn about finance and work on Wall Street, but something happened and he ended up running away to France, where lived for four years working as a bartender. While there he developed an interest in theatre, and eventually moved to Chicago to live the impoverished life of an actor. There he acted in a variety of plays, good and no so good, and was doing pretty well at it when he quite suddenly became smitten with wilderness medicine. One thing led to another and he went from actor to wilderness first responder to medical student, and now Family Medicine resident. His interests revolve around social justice, which comprises the foundation of his work, and behavioral psychology, which informs, more than anything, how he works.  Presently, he is pondering simple-but-offbeat public health gestures designed to guide patients toward greater control of their own health. When not devising schemes for the fusion of art, technology, and healthcare, Wellesley is a helpless father and occasionally helpful husband.