Tag: USA

Eli Newberger

Eli Newberger

For more than 30 years, Dr. Newberger's consolation at the end of stressful workdays was his weekly gigs as tuba player for the New Black Eagle Jazz Band. As he left the clinic and entered Boston's jazz scene, he moved from a world filled with misery to one teeming with creative energy. "At five I leave the clinic and forty-five minutes later I pull into a parking lot outside Coffee, Tea, and Melody, the pub the Black Eagles have been playing since 1995," he wrote in Doctors Afield. "I take Read more [...]
Samuel Wong

Samuel Wong

Samuel Wong (Chinese: 黃大德) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian conductor and ophthalmologist [1]. Trained at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,[1] Dr. Wong is an eye surgeon practicing in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In another career, he has conducted many international orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Seattle and Houston Symphonies, Toronto and Montreal Symphonies, Read more [...]
Adam Dachmann

Adam Dachmann

Adam has been called a healer. His music considered to be from a realm of peace and possibility. Interestingly, he happens to be a well trained general surgeon. And while medicine has received much of his focus over the years, music has been on his mind since childhood. Trained classically, Adam quickly became his teacher’s prodigy and competed nationally. (As the years passed, he became interested in composing his own music. Formal training in theory, jazz, improvisation, orchestration Read more [...]
Dean Sophokles

Dean Sophokles

(EN:) Dean Sophokles was born and raised in the Philadelphia suburbs, the son of a professional violinist mother and a dentist father. He is dentist by day and musician by night. Dean began studying both piano and violin at the age of five, and by the age of twelve, he was traveling throughout the US with a young chamber group called the Young Concerto Soloists, led by a veteran Philadelphia Orchestra member, Jerome Wigler. He studied classical and jazz piano with various well known Philadelphia Read more [...]
Denny Zeitlin

Denny Zeitlin

Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938)[1] is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics' Poll in 1965 and 1974. He composed the soundtrack for the 1978 science-fiction horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scptacKFoRY his wine cellar wine Read more [...]
Charles Eldon Brady Jr.

Charles Eldon Brady Jr.

Doctorate of medicine from Duke University, 1975; Commander, USN; flight surgeon and member of Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron "Blue Angels"; hobbies: Tennis, canoeing, kayaking, biking, amateur radio operator, graduate work for a master of science in Biology at University of Texas-Galveston 1999/2000; then he retired from active duty; died by suicide. web wikipedia youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]
Ellen Louise Shulman Baker

Ellen Louise Shulman Baker

Bachelor of arts in geology from State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970; doctorate of medicine from Cornell University, 1978; masters in public health from University of Texas School of Public Health, 1994; prior to her selection she served as a physician in the Flight Medicine Clinic at the JSC; recreational interrests include swimming, skiing, running, softball, movies, music, and reading; was Lead Astronaut for Medical Issues, Johnson Space Center. web wikipedia youtube Read more [...]
Jay Clark Buckey Jr.

Jay Clark Buckey Jr.

Bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Cornell University, 1977; doctorate of medicine from Cornell University Medical College, 1981; Assistant Professor of bioengineering, University of Texas Southwestern; PSP candidate for STS-58; unsuccessful application for NASA astronaut groups 13 and 16; hobbies: Camping, fishing, hiking and avid reader of history; he served as a surgeon at Ambulatory Care Clinic in Dallas, Texas; currently professor of medicine Read more [...]
Yvonne Darlene Cagle

Yvonne Darlene Cagle

Colonel, USAF; bachelor of arts in biochemistry from San Francisco State University, 1981; doctorate of medicine from University of Washington, 1985; unsuccessful application for NASA astronaut group 15; hobbies: Music, jigsaw puzzling, juggling, skating, hiking, writing, public speaking, historical novels. web wikipedia youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]