I am originally from Memphis, TN but have lived all around the country and Seattle for the past decade (this makes me feel local).  I went to undergraduate at Colorado College then transferred to UW and majored in Southeast Asian Studies.  My study focus was Vietnam and I lived in Hanoi for over two years after graduating.  Then I came back to the US and did 1.5 years of rather dull premed work I had missed in college before starting medical school here at the UW.

I’m married to an Australian woman I met in Vietnam and we now have two small children.  They are wonderful and keep us very busy – it’s hard to now imagine life without them!

Anyway, in medicine I’m especially interested in international health, psychiatry, addiction and the more underserved populations.  I would like to go back and work in Vietnam some day and my wife would like to live in Australia again.  Otherwise, we love living in Seattle!

 Much of what we do for fun now revolves around our kids.  I like to run, photograph, take long walks, watch movies, and read fiction.