Autobiography...

In order to pursue my long held interest to become a naturalist, .I looked for a college with a good zoology department. Of course, the school also had to have a gymnastics team. I went to Syracuse. For graduate school, I went to The University of California at Santa Barbara. This was great, the Riviera campus. However, there where few jobs. After completing my masters in biology, I returned to New Jersey. Then I completed a PhD In biomedical sciences at UMDNJ-Newark and got a job as Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Dartmouth Medical School. Hanover, N.H. was great, but it felt like I was living life in the slow lane. Pathology seemed more interesting than dry anatomy, so I decided to become a pathologist. Taking the MCAT at this time (1979) was not an option, so I looked overseas for medical school. St. Georges's University in Grenada agreed to exempt me from the MCAT-great. This gave me the opportunity to live out a childhood dream of living on a tropical island. This was an experience! After medical school I did a residency Pathology at UMDNJ. Went to U. Conn. School of Medicine for one year of pathology program in order to get away from my x-wife- a short-lived marriage which didn't work out. At U-Conn, I met another resident physician who is a beautiful lady from Panama. We got married and we are still married today. I worked as a pediatric pathologist at United Hospital in Newark for 10 years. My wife, Pat, became a pediatrician, she has a private practice in South Plainfield, N.J, and is also the school physician for South Plainfield. In 1997, I became a forensic pathologist and I am working as a medical examiner at The Middlesex County Medical Examiner Office. Obtained an associate professorship in the Department of Pathology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Have an appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at Hackensack University Medical Center and so am also still practicing pediatric pathology.

My son, Jimmy graduated from Seton Hall and is working in N.Y.C. in marketing. My daughter, Laura, is a sophomore in high school, is doing quiet well an also excels in track.