In the past 40 years I have pursued 3 passions: 

China, global public health and getting above tree line.

I continued studying Chinese in college at Georgetown, studied in Hong Kong (note that the serious students went to Taiwan), and lived in Beijing from 1985 - 1987 and 2005 - 2007.  Not sure that any of the studying helped since I could barely order food at a restaurant and remain mostly illiterate in written Chinese.

I got a MPH from the University of Pittsburgh and have been working in global public health since 1980, mostly with PATH (www.path.org) in Seattle, Washington.

Most recently I have been working in Tanzania and Vietnam, and will miss the reunion due to a meeting in Paris. Since that’s an unusual meeting site for me, I’m taking Paris over Pittsburgh!

I particularly like Tanzania since they speak English there. 

And what about the tree-line thing? I just finished climbing all five of Washington’s volcanos and now am thinking of moving on to Oregon’s. 

And finally, happily married to Stan the Man for 30 years; no pets, no plants, no kids.