" I am a respiratory and critical care physician here at the University of Washington where I have been on the faculty for 18 years. I taught at Brown University before that and did all of my post-graduate medical training at Boston University. I was a medical student at the University of Washington and grew up in Seattle. My role at the Medical School is as a clinician educator and spend most of my time teaching medical students, interns, residents and pulmonary and critical care fellows.

When not at the UW I spend time in my pottery studio. I have done work in clay since I was in high school. I feel it is very important for those involved in healthcare to have something very different that they do outside of medicine. Healthcare, though tremendously rewarding, is obviously stressful. Working with art, music, regular sport or another activity is I find key and always advise students who work with me to develop that interest now. "