After moving to San Francisco in 1976, I was a founder of one of the 1st organizations of LGBT physicians, BAPHR. In 1980, I authored one of the 1st reviews of gay health issues published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. I started my practice in 1979 and soon began attending young gay men with inexplicable clinical findings. This quickly exploded into the horrific early years of AIDS.I'm keeping active in my retirement: walking the hills of SF, going to the gym with my workout buddies, growing my family tree, studying Portuguese, and doing some traveling, most recently on some amazing trips to Brazil!
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I was born and raised in Philadelphia, where I received my B.A. in chemistry and M.D., both at Temple University. After my residency in internal medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Massachusetts, I completed a fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. As the famous Tony Bennett song goes, "I left my heart in San Francisco" and decided that the City By The Bay would be the place where I'd stay. I have been fortunate in having an amazing career in medicine, but one I would never have predicted.
The two longest vacations of my life were in Brazil in 2018 and 2019. Here are a few images from 2018. Several students at the Rio & Learn Portuguese language school in Copacabana and their friends marched with the Paraiso do Tuiuti samba school at Carnaval 2018. It was an experience my marching buddies Alan and Koji (and I) will never forget!
This snapshot image displays a pedigree view of the direct ancestors of my sister and me, back to our 2nd great grandparents. My ethnicity estimate derived from my AncestryDNA is surprisingly close to what I have determined from the William Owen Family Tree. After our biological maternal grandfather's Eastern European ethnicity was revealed by DNA testing, and we began building out our family tree, we hypothesized that we were approximately Slovak-Polish, Irish, Welsh-English, and German-French-Swiss.
During the mid-1990s, when popular use of the World Wide Web was just beginning to take off, I decided that I wanted to build my own medical practice website. My goals for the site were not only to let prospective patients know about our practice and the services we offered. I also wanted to provide site visitors with a bit of history about my own personal contributions to LGBT healthcare in the early years of the movement for gay rights post-Stonewall.
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