Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

You don't turn your back on your destiny.

Change comes with sacrifice... When you want to make a change you must be prepared to make a sacrifice of escaping the comfort zone!

Sometimes you get caught up living something that's not true. The people around you, the people you're involved with, are not the right people.

If you could have won, you should have.

I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.

School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.