Born October 13, 1942 in Norfolk, Virginia. The oldest of four boys. An aviation family — father and one brother were famous test pilots, another a flight instructor.

In high school, won an award for science fair project in conjunction with a Nobel Prize winner at CalTech on photomicrography of chromosomes of cultured cancer cells.

Raised in West Los Angeles, went to UCLA for undergraduate degree, majoring in Bacteriology.

Medical degree completed at Stanford Medical School, instructed by four Nobel Prize laureates. During clinical clerkship, published two papers on the treatment of a burn patient.
While at Stanford, spent one-year sabbatical traveling in India and Israel evaluating international health as a career.

Graduated Stanford Medical School with M.D. in 1970.

Internship Highland General Hospital, Oakland. California licensure in 1971. Worked at Kaiser Permanente for one year thereafter.

First training in homeopathy at the National Center for Homeopathy one-month course for doctors in Pennsylvania, 1971.

1976-1978, personal training with George Vithoulkas (1996 recipient of Nobel Prize for Alternative Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden) of Athens, Greece. Assisted in writing Vithoulkas’ Homeopathy: Medicine of the New Man and Science of Homeopathy.