Did you know that flu shot could save your child’s life? A new study reported in the journal  Pediatrics  showed that American kids who died from flu were less likely to have received the protective flu shot. This was a four year study between...

As kids we loved to run. As kids we spent time outdoors, walking, jumping, running, and cycling. Some scientists and authors claim that humans were  born to run  and that gave us an evolutionary advantage over other species. But then in our...

Work, Sleep, Family, Fitness, or Friends: Pick 3 That’s the question that  Randy Zuckerberg  posed as an entrepreneur’s dilemma. As a busy person with a job, pressures, and family, how do you integrate work and life to be productive and...

Rowing together in the same boat When the mission is almost impossible, the destination is far upstream, and the current of time is against you, what do you do? You cast aside the fear of failure and row, row, row together. With a...

Rising and falling is part of the natural rhythm of life. Stories of rise after a fall are what truly inspire people. It was wonderful to see a community come together for the grand opening of the Thrill Tower at Foxwoods. Incredible...

Change is hard. Change is inevitable. It is difficult to change ourselves, let alone trying to change others. It is well known that seven of the top 10 killer diseases in the US are potentially preventable chronic lifestyle diseases. With the...

On September 4, 2017, I started my new mission. As the inaugural Chief Medical Officer of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation ( MPTN), my mission is to help the community achieve better care, and better health, at a lower cost. At the...