Happy to share the culmination of 18mos of work that was originally presented last fall in Istanbul is now published in Xenotransplantation: "Religious Perspectives Regarding the Ethical Issues Associated With Clinical Xenotransplantation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Fascinating journalism on organ trafficking: “Kidneys for cash: Inside a global organ trafficking network” p.dw.com/p/4t6hi?maca=e…

It doesn’t happen often nowadays, but coffee shop writing is my favorite. The atmosphere, the people around, being out of the office…it spurs creativity. Working here on a talk on military medical ethics for a conference in Switzerland 🇨🇭 this summer.

Neat opportunity for our medical students Rowan-Virtua SOM

Going thru documents from my in-laws, found ER bill from children’s hospital when my wife was a newborn. The ER visit was $119. Things have changed just a bit since the ‘80s.

8 y/o son just came into my office as I’m WFH with this sign: “I do not miss my father 1 bitty bit!” #parenting

This is a good word. Equanimity and, if I might add, humility. It would seem to be a grace to realize our own limitations early.

Giving a lecture on public attitudes toward xenotransplantation in a couple weeks. Asked Gemini to create me a "dope" PPT background. It understood the assignment.

Vacation mode enabled. Cape May, New Jersey

I’ve been working on these built-ins, off and on, for >3 months. Still have some caulking and touch-up painting to do, but really pleased with the outcome.

A bit of medical history as I'm doing some writing: In 1943, the US gov't contracted to buy penicillin (still in its infancy at the time) at a cost that was, at the time, 250x the price of gold, weight-for-weight.

The chocolate babka bread wreath was a hit!

Happy to share our scoping review in the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation with Daniel Rodger Luz Padilla UAB Medicine: "Attitudes toward pig islet xenotransplantation for type 1 diabetes: a scoping review" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Grateful to be here in Vevey, Switzerland on the shores of the beautiful lake at a military medical ethics workshop sponsored. Giving a talk tomorrow AM on reverse triage in the context of large-scale combat operations. The view from the hotel terrace 👇

My morning reading had this as the backdrop. Majestic.

Old Town Geneva is beautiful.

A manuscript rejection from a British journal on July 4th feels a bit like payback for, you know, freedom. 🇺🇸

Starbucks date with the elder son. 🍪 ☕️