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Introduction	My interest in science began as a teenager working in my father's laboratory in Chicago (he studied heart muscle). In college (BS, Univ. of Michigan 1963) I worked as lab assistant in physiology and then went west to Univ. of Washington (PhD in neurophysiology, 1968). In 1970 I took up a faculty position in the Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine teaching and conducting research on brain and behaviour. A year later I had the incredible good fortune to meet Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche and began a life long involvement in study and practice of Buddhism. In the early 80's I went back to school at Yale and became a psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist. From 1986-88, as a head nurse at Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville, MD, I had the opportunity to work with people experiencing severe and persistent psychosis and continued to do so after moving to Nova Scotia in 1988. In 1996 it was my privilege to join Dr. Lili Kopala in starting the Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program, one of the first such programs in North America. Retired from the mental health system (1995), I consult to the Dalhousie University Department of Psychiatry on research and education issues in Early Psychosis.

Gender

Male

Introduction

My interest in science began as a teenager working in my father's laboratory in Chicago (he studied heart muscle). In college (BS, Univ. of Michigan 1963) I worked as lab assistant in physiology and then went west to Univ. of Washington (PhD in neurophysiology, 1968). In 1970 I took up a faculty position in the Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine teaching and conducting research on brain and behaviour. A year later I had the incredible good fortune to meet Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche and began a life long involvement in study and practice of Buddhism. In the early 80's I went back to school at Yale and became a psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist. From 1986-88, as a head nurse at Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville, MD, I had the opportunity to work with people experiencing severe and persistent psychosis and continued to do so after moving to Nova Scotia in 1988. In 1996 it was my privilege to join Dr. Lili Kopala in starting the Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program, one of the first such programs in North America. Retired from the mental health system (1995), I consult to the Dalhousie University Department of Psychiatry on research and education issues in Early Psychosis.