I created this website to share some thoughts and knowledge about different things and sort of “see where it goes”. Hopefully, some of my current & former acquaintances will also be able to use it to find me and engage/reunite. My short-version bio below may help.
I am a retired OB/GYN MD, husband, father, grandfather and lifelong learner.
I grew up all over the southern US. Graduating from Hillsborough High School in Tampa, FL in 1964, I attended U of Fla until 1967, when I dropped out in my senior year to return home and help my family financially. I had been elected to the only undergrad campus wide office of Clerk of the Honor Court and was planning to attend law school after graduation.
I landed at Delta Air Lines in July 1967, where I worked in Reservations, Ticketing, Operations and Passenger Service, dabbling a bit in marketing as well. Along the way, I returned to college, attending the U of So Fla, and decided to pursue a career in medicine. I married Jane Wilkes in 1969, and we have been married since.
We moved to Miami, Fla and I graduated from U of Miami School of Medicine in 1978. On to Dallas, TX, where I trained in OB/GYN at Baylor University Medical Center, completing my Chief Residency in 1982. I entered private practice at Baylor and enjoyed practicing there until 1987, when I made the decision to relocate to Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, at the Margot Perot Women’s and Children’s Center.
My lifelong desire to lead others resulted in an opportunity to build a new medical staff at a satellite hospital of Presby’, Presbyterian Hospital of Plano. I established a satellite office there in 1991 and founded a “PHO” (Physician Hospital Organization) called Legacy Healthcare Group. Beginning with six doctors, we grew to over 350 by 1995 and a thriving healthcare system was formed.
The workload of running a busy practice and managing the PHO ultimately led to burnout. I made the decision to begin yet another adventure and our family journeyed to Jackson Hole, WY in 1995. There I practiced until 2006. In 2000, I began medical consulting in the field of medical staff building and spent 4 years off & on in Douglas, WY at their hospital helping recruit physicians and build a rural healthcare system of excellence.
In 2006, I became disabled and closed my private practice of medicine. For over a decade, I pursued various hobbies and enjoyed friends and family. In 2018, we sold our home on the National Elk Refuge and relocated to Smith Lake in Alabama (no relation!), near where two of our daughters and three grandchildren reside. In the time since, I have found new hobbies building a “dream” workshop, planting and developing a fruit orchard, landscaping our acreage, and a myriad of other hobbies that I never had the time to devote before.
At the end of 2024, I’ve decided to begin writing – maybe an autobiography, with a little practice building a website as preparation. I’ve also started construction of an apartment on the second floor of my workshop, am learning how to fish for stripers in our lake, and am tending to our 750+ roses, 24 fruit trees, a raised bed vegetable garden, and an acre of zoysia grass. And, Oh Yeah – play with those grandbabies!
Hopefully I will not get bored…