The New Hampshire House of Representatives

House Committee Information

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Personal Biography

I am a family man, physician, painter and writer. I'm a graduate of Wesleyan University, Albany Medical College, and the University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry. I've been a licensed physician since 1974, first as a family doc in the coal fields of southeastern Kentucky, in the National Health Service Corps, then as an adult and child psychiatrist in Philadelphia and Conord NH, and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, working at New Hampshire Hospital and the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the NH State Prison.

Miscellaneous Information:

I presently serve as the Governor's appointee to the NH Board of Medicine, Medical Review Sub-committee, and provide psychiatric consulatation to the probate courts.

I have served on a number of public policy committees including the Leadership Advisory Board of the NH Citizen's Health Initiative, the Governor's Taskforce on Health Information Exchange, and the Endowment for Health Integrated Care Advisory Committee.

I have been a member of the Advisory Board to UNH Museum of Art.