I'M AN INTERNATIONALIST: I was born in London and educated in England, Germany, and Ireland where I earned a doctorate in healthcare policy from the University of Ulster's Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. Before emigrating from the UK to Canada, I taught English in a private school. I also ran with conspicuous lack of success as a political candidate in UK municipal elections. I maintain and build on my international background as a member of such organizations as the British-American Business Council , the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals, and the Alliance Française.

OH, CANADA! Publisher, Editor, Writer: During my time in Canada, I rose from ink-stained wretchedness as a junior editor on Canadian Doctor to become the first -- and so far only -- nonphysician editor-in-chief of the 130-year-old Canadian Medical Association Journal. Along the way, I wrote the Today's Health column that appeared in some 100 weekly newspapers … and was a regular guest on the popular radio program, Hour Toronto.

NEW AMERICAN: Corporate Publishing Executive, Entrepreneur, Policy Wonk: I came to Philadelphia in 1987 under the misapprehension that the climate was tropical compared to Ottawa. Since Ottawa is the second coldest capital city in the world after Ulan Bator in Mongolia, relatively speaking this is true! I became a US citizen in 1995. In this land of opportunity I have had the good fortune to build on my experience in healthcare publishing, communications and policy. I'm the founder and CEO of Healthcare Media International. View a partial list of clients.

I'm a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and a Senior Scholar in Jefferson Medical College's Department of Health Policy. I also served for six years on the board of directors of the American Medical Publishers Association ... and am in my seventh year as a member of the editorial review board of Philadelphia Medicine.

AND WHEN I'M NOT THINKING ABOUT HEALTHCARE ... As a young boarding-school lad in the UK, I learned early-on always to have a book 'on the go'. I'm a voracious reader, mainly of literary and political biography. I'm a word guy and cryptic crossword solver (mostly correctly).

I am much taken with the allure of thoroughbred horse racing which stems from "… its complex appeal to our varied interests and emotions, catering as it does to our scientific bent, irrational enthusiasm, pleasure in method, delight in chance, knowledge of the past, and search for the future." In fact, I recently fulfilled a long-held ambition and became a partner in a racehorse, a two-year-old Lion Heart filly named Reine des Lions.