Hello hello hello! My name is Jeff, and welcome to my corner of the net. This section of the home page is set up as a group of friendly notes I whipped together, which you can browse at your leisure, that hopefully tell you a little about myself. Unfortunately, that probably means that you're going to be bored to tears, so I apologize in advance for any rambling, bad grammar, or other whatnot you might encounter. Thanks again, and I hope you enjoy your stay!

Oh, and if you could drop me a line about how you got here, I'll be sure to respond in a hurry. Thanks!

Sincerely yours,

P.S. These pages have lots of little graphics to spruce it up, so it might take a little while to load. Sorry for the inconvenience!

The letters

What I'm up to right now

• Winter 2001:
  Greetings from Wolverine Country

• Summer 2000:
  Rockin' and Rollin' and Rearing to go

• Spring 1999:
  The road less taken

• Summer 1998:
  A year in the life down in Wolverine Country

• Fall 1997:
  Springtime in Evanston, Summertime in Chicago, Autumn in Ann Arbor

• Where I'm from:
  The first seventeen years

• Life at Northwestern:
  Three years of blissful insanity

• Lindgren Residential College:
  Home away from home

• Friends from all over:
  A ear to listen, and a shoulder to lean upon

• Why I do what I do:
  No, my parent's didn't make me...

• Interests:
  A little about some really cool and froody stuff

• Vices:
  Well, everyone's gotta have a couple...

• A little more about me:
  Personality tests, pet peeves and other random bits

Fall 1997: Springtime in Evanston, Summertime in Chicago, Autumn in Ann Arbor

I have just completed my degree in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University and have begun medical school at the University of Michigan.. I spent this past summer doing and am now continuing at Michigan my research with Prof. David Mogul in helping develop a computer simulation of the human hippocampus.

When I first came to NU, I was helped a great deal by the older hands around the dorm. I recieved a lot of help and advice on choosing courses, where to buy food, how to handle problems and organize events, and the like. I have tried ever since to repay their kindness by returning the favor. So, if you ever have any questions about biomedical engineering or tech, about Lindgren or Northwestern, feel free to drop by my door _ anytime_ and knock!

Summer 1998: A year in the life here in Wolverine Country (Summer 1998)

The first year here at UM med has been extremely exciting and very busy. It has truly been a joy to work with so many other talented and friendly people all year. Along with classes, I had the chance to help with many really neat projects. We helped expand the Bone Marrow registration efforts of the UAAMSA medical organization into a campus wide effort running five drives a year, in the process founding the Minority Marrow Donor Colalition.

I also was lucky enough to have the chance to become involved with the efforts of the American Medical Assocication here at U. Mich to help change the future of medicine. While I hate politics with a passion, I discovered the national work of the AMA is quite different than my previous experiences with government. I learned that, through the AMA, students could literally change the rules by which our careers were controlled, could directly steer which way the AMA, and medicine, stood on issues of grave importance to our patients and to us.

...East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgement Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth.
-"The Ballad of East and West, Rudyard Kipling

Along with those, I had great fun with friends at at my church and CMDS . Finally, for most of these projects, I had the chance to work on a number of web pages, and spend a great deal more time with my family. I am spending the summer here in Ann Arbor doing research on novel forms of Gene Therapy and working on a few other projects. It's been a great year, and I look foward to the next!

Spring 1999: The road less taken (Spring 1999)

After boards, while the wonderful people of the UMMS Class of 2001 tackle the wards, I'll be setting off on a detour that will last a year, and perhaps more. I'm spending the 1999-2000 year continuing research in the Kurachi laboratory on a full time basis, this time examining molecular mechanisms governing age-associated control of blood coagulation. The research has major implications for geriatrics and developmental diseases, and it's really facinating. Thanks to the hard work and generous support of my advisors here at UM and back at NU, I was lucky enough to win a HHMI Fellowship to help make the year possible, and we'll see where it goes.

Thanks to the generous help of many other people, I am also lucky enough to have the chance to serve next year as one of two medical students on the National Resident Matching Program's Board of Directors, and to serve on the Michigan Delegation to the AMA's House of Delegates. This year organized medicine will tackle some of the most important questions in it's history, like national unionization, and I am honored to have the chance to represent and serve my classmates. This upcoming year is shaping up to be as exciting as the last. I'm still excited to get onto the wards and help patients full-time, even if that's not until the summer of 2000 --or beyond...

Summer 2000: Rockin' and Rollin' and Rearing to go

If you got your motor runnin' /
Then I got my engines on /
Say the word and darlin' we'll be gone /
Outside the world is waitin' /
But we won't lose control /
So come on now - let the good times roll...

-Bryan Adams, There Will Never Be Another Tonight

On to the next bit!