Born in a hollow in So. Illinois. Raised in Stockton, CA. Cheerleader, Water Polo player, Swimmer at Franklin High on the East Side. Graduated [Doctor of Pharmacy] Univ. of the Pacific (UOP) 1975. Grad school (UOP and NIH Grad School in Bethesda, Md) 1976-77. Worked for the FDA (thesis: There's a better way to collect Adverse Drug Reactions than to wait for doctors and pharmacists to report them - Read the journals!). Clinical Residency with Wayne Adachi, Pharm.D. and Ralph Boehm, RPh. at VA Medical Center in La Jolla, CA. Grossmont Hospital. HPI. Mission Bay Hospital. Clairmont Hospital. Nuclear Pharmacy (Radiopharmacy) Training at Emory Univ. in Georgia. NPI (Nuclear Pharmacy, Inc.) in San Diego. Then Syncor. Home Infusion with LifeSource, Inc. (Larkspur, CA) Bob Masuda, Pharm.D.; Neal Andersen, Pharm.D.; Gary Sasaki, Pharm.D. et al. VNA Home Health & Hospice [Emeryville & Santa Rosa] Pharmacy Infusion Therapy with Mark Gross, Pharm.D. Director of Pharmacy Dept. Palm Drive Hospital in Sebastopol, CA.
Started my own company: LifeGuard Integrative Pharmacies, Inc. d/b/a Health First! Pharmacy & Compounding Center - An integrative compounding pharmacy in Windsor, CA.

We live across the street from our pharmacy and we love Windsor (Nights On The Green)and all its peeps.