Undergraduate studies in wildlife biology and a love for the Rocky Mountains led me from South Carolina to Colorado in the 1990s. While I hadn't planned to leave the western mountains, I returned to South Carolina for graduate studies in forestry and inadvertently ended up in medical school. In Charleston, South Carolina, I met my wife (she is also a family practice physician) and together we completed residency and fellowship (international medicine) training in Kansas. With one child in tow, we moved to France for language training and then to the African countries of Chad and Niger. Three more kids later, we returned to South Carolina in late 2019 (and we've added one more child since then). While we were grateful to be near extended family in the South, an irresistible yearning for the western mountains finally won us over.
As family medicine is a broad discipline, my practice has included over the years, outpatient care, hospital care, and obstetrical care. From life's beginning to its end, we each long for so much more than healthy bodies. I find joy in accompanying others on their journey towards a more whole experience of health, one that also involves the spiritual, emotional, and relational realities of our human experience.
I take my work seriously, but with humor (laughter truly is good medicine). And I take my play whenever I can get it. The opportunity to move about in the mountains and the forests and the water with my wife and my kids is one reason that I'm excited to have come here. But I also long to be still, to take in my surroundings with awe and gratitude, and to receive community and rest and inspiration as the gifts that they truly are.
