About Me
Why I do this
In a novel by Mary Dodge, a small Dutch boy saves the Netherlands from flooding by putting his finger in a leaking dike. The boy stays all through the night until the repairs can be made in the morning. Many people think good health is from excessive exercise, zealous diets, supplements or found in the latest internet craze. These things are like the small Dutch boy–a solution, but not the best solution.
Lifestyle is the BEST solution. Lifestyle works every time it’s tried. It will create both quality and quantity of life. The cost of health care will not go down unless we prevent disease through lifestyle.
My purpose is to provide an informative and truthfully accurate website with a personality.
I am an invasive (I use needles) cardiologist with an expertise in ultrasound imaging of the heart. During my training (especially grades 25-28) I gained a passion for the prevention of disease.
I attended the University of Iowa for medical school, and Wake Forest University for my internal medicine residency. My cardiology training was at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. After cardiology, I further studied ultrasound imaging of the heart with Dr. Steve Lester also at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
My enthusiasm for preventing heart disease was given focus by two master teachers. My cardiology mentor, Dr. R. Todd Hurst, who was at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. The second, Dr. Gerald Gau, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
In the end, I love being a cardiologist. I currently work at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. I am the co-director of the Preventive Lifestyle Clinic.
Outside of work I have a great wife and 6 kids. All the kids are girls except for five of them! I enjoy being a scoutmaster of a local boy scout troop. I love to ride my Sports Car, otherwise known as an Elliptigo. I’ve also never built a website before, but that was probably obvious to you.
I hope that in coming here, you make one or two changes in your life that create not just a “culture” change for you, but for those who come after you. Think of the impact your choices for a healthier life will have on them.