Stowe, Vermont, United States
Best selling Author and award winning war correspondent. Now focusing in Machine Learning with a broad back ground in systems architecture and user interface. Experience with Google, Apple, NBC News, MSNBC. Second focus is food technology with deep background in analytical chemistry and human trials. Strong media and communication skills with a Doctor of Medicine (MD).
Awards • Alfred I Dupont Award (48 Hours on Crack Street), CBS News • Overseas Press Club Award (Mozambique Floods), NBC News • Emmy Nomination (Rwandan Genocide), CBS News • Emmy (Nice Triathalon), CBS Sports • Emmy Nomination 2013 Feed My Starving Children "Nourish Hope" • Honorary Unites States Marine Corps Blue Knight, Embedded Correspondent, Iraq, NBC News • Vanity Fair: Featured war correspondent, Iraq 2003, NBC News Broadcasting • Chief Foreign Correspondent MSNBC 2001-2004 • Chief Medical Correspondent NBC DATELINE, TODAY SHOW, NIGHTLY NEWS 1996-2001 • Chief Medical Correspondent CBS NEW: CBS Evening News, 48 Hours, CBS This Morning 1984-1996 Host, Guest expert commentator 2005-2014 • Discovery: Operation Sea Dragon, Host • Discovery, Task Force Devil, Host • Time Warner: Host: Dr Danger Season 1: Africa: Somalia, Sudan, Botswana, South Africa, Darfur • Time Warner: Host: Dr Danger Season 2: The Middle East: Syria, Oman, Afghanistan, Yemen, Jordan • Discovery: Host: AIDS orphans, Botswana • Fox News: Ebola expert commentator • AL Jazeera: Ebola expert commentator • CNN: Malaysia MH370 • Men's Journal: Monthly Columnist • CNN: eg. Somali Pirates, Flu epidemic • Fox News eg. Aviation disasters, Tsunami in Indonesia • Good Morning America, eg. the Aztec Diet • Al Jazeera: Eg. Attempted assassination of Yemen's president, Medical commentary • CNBC Power Lunch: Energy drinks • NPR: Energy Drinks Innovations: • Back pack Journalism: Pioneered a system to shoot, write, edit, final cut and upload broadcast quality television pieces from around the world. Single user system. Partnered with NBC news and Apple Computer • First live coverage from African. Pioneered use of portable satellite dish in Somalia 1992 • First live videophone coverage. Pioneered use of the videophone for an airplane rescue from Antarctica. Pioneered use through the Middle East, with first live shots from U.S. Warships at sea.
Incredibly honored to collaborate with this fantastic and inspirational team at Massachusetts General Hospital, creating films of great clinical importance to the COVID Pandemic so that lessons learned at MGH may be shared quickly with medical centers in the US and around the world. https://learn.partners.org/source/covid-19/video-dispatches/
2020 release: FLIP THE YOUTH SWITCH. Authored 15 best selling books on health, nutrition and exercise, including the New York Times best sellter, The Aztec Diet • The Aztec Diet, Harper Collins New York Times Best Seller • The Best Medicine, Addison Wesley • The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, Little Brown #1 New York Times Best Seller • Turning Back the Clock, Little Brown • Revolutionary Weight Control, Little Brown • The Prostate Cancer Prevention Plan, Little Brown • The Biology of Success, Little Brown • The Breast Health Cookbook, Little Brown • Beating Wear and tear, Simon and Schuster • How to Prevent a Heart Attack, Simon and Schuster • Sport Selection, Viking with Charles Gaines • Your Survival: Hatherleigh
Google: Focused on newly diagnosed with a major illness. Embedded these into 37 videos embedded in the Google Health Launch looking at how to establish the correct diagnosis, how to access centers of excellence and optimal outcomes for illness. Partnered with UCLA, Mayo Clinic, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cleveland Clinic. Apple: Engineered first of its kind “backpack journalism.” IN my career at CBS and NBC, we required expensive satellite dishes and large crews to cover humanitarian disasters and wars in Africa and the Middle East. Workmen with engineers at Apple Computer and NBC News, I designed and implement an integrated platform that allowed a single journalist to shoot, write, edit, compress and upload broadcast quality news pieces from the most remote parts of the world. I pioneered this with NBC news in Yemen, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This required having three laptop computers to compress footage and three satlitte phones to transmit the compressed files. Olympic Games: Built the first state of the art sports science center specific to Winter Sports in Lake Placid New York. Technologies included on line, real time three dimensional computerized motion analysis and breath by breath gas exchange analysis. I wrote the analog to digital conversions for the instrumentation. US Ski Team: Established the first testing protocols for Nordic Ski racers and tested a wide range of athletes for MVO2 and anaerobic threshold. Built ski specific testing with the ability to load both arm and leg power. HIMSS: Selected by microsoft to present on telemedicine at HIMSS conference in Orlando. Skills: Computer language familiarity: C, Fortran, Python Platform user interface: Sketch, Invision, Adobe. Platform architecture: Advanced data analytics: Data and technology integration
Founder and Chairman, Lifeline Iraq. Transported 3000 Iraqi children with cancer to Jordan and assisted in their treatment at the King Hussein Cancer Center. Partnered with the National Cancer Institute, Paul Newman and Queen Rania. Chief Medical Officer: Humanitarian Niveneh Relief Organization: HNRO Orchestrated the evacuation of Christians when ISIS overran their homeland. HNRO is now reestablishing a safe and secure homeland for Christians including reconstruction, medical care, education and ob creation. Board member: Global Outreach Doctors President, Heal for Peace. This is the American arm of the Humanitarian Nineveh Relief Organization which is helping to resettle Christians and other minorities after they were driven out of the Nineveh plains by ISIS. Heal for peace is undertaking these key activities for these minorities: 1. Healthcare 2. Protection 3. Reconstruction of homes businesses and churches destroyed by ISIS 4. Education 5. Prosperity: Brining Livelihoods to returning Christians 6. Assimilation with Sunni and other local populations. CO Founder: American Working Group on Greater Syria Boards of Directors: past and present • Save the Children • UN High Commission for Refugees (USA) • Artists for Peace and Justice • Board of Advisors, US Committee for Refugees. • Board of Directors, Save the Children • Board of Directors, Lindberg Foundation • Board President, President, Heal for Peace, HNRO Sponsor, Nderi Orphanage, Kukuyu, Kenya