Physician UIHC Department of Emergency Medicine AGE: 39 What was your first job? Bag boy, Cedar Rapids Country Club. Best advice you ever received? It’s chaos. Be kind. What do you consider your biggest break so far? Being offered the spot as co-medical director of the University of Iowa Mobile Clinic along with Dr. Denise […]
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Physician
UIHC Department of Emergency Medicine
AGE: 39
What was your first job? Bag boy, Cedar Rapids Country Club.
Best advice you ever received? It’s chaos. Be kind.
What do you consider your biggest break so far? Being offered the spot as co-medical director of the University of Iowa Mobile Clinic along with Dr. Denise Martinez.
What would most people be surprised to learn about you? I’m terrified of needles, which in my job means that I’ve gotten very good at pretending to be fine on the outside while my internal monologue is going, “Nope. Nope. Nope.”
What’s the biggest issue facing the Corridor, and why? Navigating through what (I hope) is the end of the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you had $1 million to give, what causes would you support? I would fund harm reduction organizations in Iowa and in places across the country where they similarly lack governmental and institutional support.
What are your passions outside of the workplace? Anything I get to do with my daughters, Alice and Jane. In the summer, that meant swimming every day there wasn’t active lightning. I love to read sci-fi and fantasy by nature, but my wife has helped keep me engaged with the wider world of non-robot-related fiction.
What’s something people should know about your generation in the workplace? I hope we are the first generation to acknowledge that so many of us face mental health struggles and the importance of seeking care without stigma or negative professional consequences.
What do you want to accomplish by the time you are 50? It would save and transform so many lives here in the Corridor, and in the state at large, if we adopted a more humane and evidence-based approach to drug policy.
