Education and Career
He attended boarding school at Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut. He then went on to receive his undergraduate degree from Duke University, completed premedical postbaccalaureate studies at Bryn Mawr College, and his M.D. degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He moved to Chicago and worked as a doctor, activist, and teaching physician at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He founded the Center for International Rehabilitation,(CIR) "a worldwide humanitarian network of individuals and organizations that promotes the full potential of people with disabilities . . ." and the CIR program Physicians Against Land Mines (PALM). He has published several articles concerning landmines, as well as co-writing and narrating a video on the subject.
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