I am a physician, a family medicine specialist with a focus on total health, diversity, and Washington, DC.
In 2007, I decided to relocate to our nation’s capital, from Seattle, Washington, to further my interests while continuing to live in the future. I believe in open leadership, sharing, and freedom from conflict of interest.
More detail, including my official bio, is on the Portfolio page.
Before LGBTQ Pride events happen in Washington, DC, the @FunkParade happens. The cover photo is of @BatalaDC: Batalá Washington‘s mission is to empower women through drumming and expose people to Brazil’s dynamic Afro Bahian culture and Samba Reggae music. Joining Batalá is free of charge to all women regardless of race, religion, income, sexual orientation …
Thanks again for using my photograph, @DCPolicyCenter, in this piece written by @DavidBrunori about proposed property tax policy changes. As usual, I learned more about my photograph after it was taken. As the analysis mentions, public goods such as transportation can be funded many different ways, and they ways they happen have different impacts. It’s …
Thanks for publishing my photograph, @ggwash. It was taken from the top of the American Psychological Association building in Washington, DC, overlooking the NoMA neighborhood. You can see what this part of NoMA is scheduled to look like in the next decade here: See details for Union Station’s future expansion – Greater Greater Washington Here …
All physicians are at some level health activists – by definition they have to be – and I have spent time with leaders across many different health movements, from civil rights, environmental stewardship, metabolic health to name a few. In each of these places a conclusion I hear very often is that the LGBTQ rights …
This data comes from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (@UCLAchpr) and used a combination of interviews and statistical modeling from the US based NHANES survey (which does retrieve blood samples). The paper cites a figure of 90% of people who do not know they are insulin resistant.
Here’s the summary along with required terms of use statement (data used under the terms of use on the site).
Thanks (again) for publishing one of my photos, @Popville. It is of the still being reborn H Street NE, with the @DCStreetcar in the foreground. Of course my answer to the question posed in the post is #CarFreeDC is the way to be. Photo by PoPville flickr user Ted Eytan”Dear PoPville,The relevant details: I’ll be …
Thanks for using my photograph to adorn this essay, written by Rick Snedeker (@snedekrj). The piece and the photograph caused me to go back in time, a different time for the BSA organization, in 2013, when the photos were taken, several cameras ago. Then, this inscription on the memorial caught my eye: I thought, “that’s …
The thing about the camera is that it comes out when it wants to, and interestingly, it came out a lot during meals and in front of restrooms this year at Innovation Learning Network #ILN18 in Charlotte, North Carolina. I’ve lost count of how many ILN In Person meetings I have been to. They are …
I read this paper and prepared a few slides relevant to a presentation I am putting together for a meetup I am organizing. As the title states, a working group convened by the American Diabetes Association convened a workgroup to examine the (significant) problem of insulin affordability.
I’ve placed stories next to the data to show the impact of the near tripling of insulin prices since 2003. For more information about the impact, you can follow the #insulin4all hashtag on twitter.
This week’s photograph is of historic Vermont, Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC (of course), following its annual renewal. In this, the 50th year anniversary of the most important years in Washington’s history, new history is available for the first time, including this piece, thanks to the amazing @dc1968project: #otd wed 7 feb #1968 @vernardrgray took …
As the slides below state, I didn’t realize until after I made plans to attend The Innovation Learning Network In Person meeting (#ILN18) (which continues to be a fantastic meeting for people in innovation 🙂 ), that Washington, DC and several other states still have travel bans in place to North Carolina. Because of this …
The first few sentences of this paper tell the story to those who aren’t aware of the history here.
I learned about the paper while visiting one of its authors, Will Yancy, MD (@DrWillYancy) who’s the Director of the Duke Diet and Fitness Center (@DukeDFC), in Durham, North Carolina. This is one of the places in the United States that has been on the forefront of innovating in science-based lifestyle change. Since 1969.
Photo from the future. With eye surgeon, colleague, and mentor, @DanaBeyerMD – 2018.04.08 Victory Fund National Brunch, Washington, DC USA 01237 (View on Flickr.com)
Did you ever spend time in a room full of citizens taking control of their health and life destinies? Did you ever do it at a Continuing Medical Education event? – 2018.03.04 Low Carb Breckenridge, Breckenridge, CO USA 2-3 (View on Flickr.com)
2018.04.02 Washingtonian April 2018 Issue, Washington, DC USA 2032 (View on Flickr.com)
Removing the right to use my photography (no thank you!), because it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate, and I don’t have to tolerate transphobia
2018.03.27 PutPatientsFirst, Washington, DC USA 4736 (View on Flickr.com)
Still captivated by #DiabetesReversal and #MetabolicHealth
..can’t help it
2018.03.25 Low Carbohydrate Living, Washington, DC USA 4694 (View on Flickr.com)
I am now getting ready for @Ketofest 2018, aka what happens when an entire town is converted to a #DiabtesReversal #MetabolicHealth lifestyle. Plus I need to increase my library of #LCHF dishes
I have one more paper I’d like to read to complete a series I wrote about regarding non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
There’s a paper I’ve read about NAFLD whose conclusions and scientific approach I seriously question, just checking my suspicions out with other physicians before I a review.
It’s this one – Zelber-Sagi S, Ivancovsky-Wajcman D, Fliss Isakov N, Webb M, Orenstein D, Shibolet O, et al. High red and processed meat consumption is associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance. J Hepatol [Internet]. 2018 Mar [cited 2018 Mar 21]; Available from: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0168827818300588.
#AsDCGoesSoGoesTheNation #ElementsOfUs #ElementsOfTheFuture @capitaltranspride@capitalpridedc #TransVisibility #EqualityEqualsHealth #DC #LGBTQ 😀️🌈 All we need is an actual #unicode emoji for the #transgender pride flag. #CTP18 Is May 1 (View on Flickr.com)
Capital TransPride planning (@TransPrideDC) is well underway, with a venue and sponsorship secured. Grab every opportunity to live in the future :).
Speaking of the future, I’m always ready to capture it unfolding:
