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     1   Q.   If we go into a little bit of background; what is your
     2        medical background?
     3        A.  I attended medical school at the George Washington
     4        University in Washington DC.  I got my MD degree in 1980.
     5        Following that, I did a general internship which then
     6        transitioned into a residency in psychiatry, which
     7        I completed in 1984 and began medical practice in 1984; I
     8        have been in continuous practice since that time.
     9
    10   Q.   That practice or that work that you did, was that mostly
    11        psychiatric work?
    12        A.  My medical practice was and is.  However, I have done
    13        a considerable body of work both in terms -- well,
    14        particularly in terms of research and writing in the area
    15        of nutrition, nutrition and its role in chronic disease,
    16        and investigating factors that assist dietary changes to
    17        prevent chronic disease and reviewing research relating to
    18        those topics.
    19
    20   Q.   Just before we go into that, is there any family
    21        background which has sharpened your interest in that
    22        field?
    23        A.  Well, my father was a specialist in diabetes, and
    24        I might say, however, the rest of my family is cattle
    25        ranchers -- it has been the family business -- however, my
    26        father's specialty in diabetes I think, perhaps, peaked my
    27        interest in looking at medicine and in ways to prevent
    28        illnesses that take quite a toll, both in the United
    29        States and elsewhere.
    30
    31   Q.   Is he still alive, your father?
    32        A.  He, regrettably, has cancer at the moment, but he is
    33        doing reasonably well.
    34
    35   Q.   Your first job, did that have any -- your first medical
    36        position, what was that?
    37        A.  Well, that would have been before I went to medical
    38        school.  I had a position in a hospital in Minneapolis,
    39        Minnesota, where I worked as an assistant at autopsies in
    40        which the cause of death was to be determined; and over
    41        the course of a year I was quite impressed with diseases
    42        that might be theoretical to other people.  When you
    43        actually take a colon cancer out, or take out a prostate
    44        tumour, or breast cancer, or you look into a person's
    45        skull and see what a stroke looks like -- these things
    46        become quite graphic.  I became quite concerned about what
    47        factors might avert these conditions.
    48
    49   Q.   So it is true to say that you have had a continuing
    50        interest from that time in 1975 on such matters? 
    51        A.  Yes, with a particular interest in how can these 
    52        problems be prevented. 
    53
    54   Q.   What positions in terms of psychiatry did you reach?
    55        A.  As I was finishing my training, I was promoted to the
    56        faculty of the George Washington University before I
    57        had completed my training, which is a bit unusual; but
    58        I was in charge of emergency psychiatry, after which
    59        I moved to New York City and ran a psychiatric unit, my
    60        first year in practice.  But it was there that I became

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