When I was young, browsing my father’s extensive library, I decided that I wanted to spend my life thinking about interesting things. The traditional path would have been academia, but as Robert Frost wrote, “I took the path less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”. I didn’t just want reading and writing, but doing, and therefore I chose a hands-on approach. My career, which has spanned research, medical practice, industry, a startup, and Wall Street’s sell and buy sides was my way of doing that. Looking at my peers on Linked-In, my first-hand experience has been unusually broad, and I have been lucky to do many of the things that I wanted to do when I was young. Because of these experiences, I can simultaneously look at your healthcare technology project from a developmental, operational, financial, and strategic perspective.

The other key thing about me is that I am an avid reader of numerous topics, assisted by an insomniac bent. I have gone through four or five books a month for decades, covering science, medicine, business, philosophy, history and literature. Currently my to-read pile has 112 books in it, and my own library has thousands of books. The surprising connections throughout many unrelated fields pays dividends in my work on a regular basis.