User since: Mar 07, 2001 at 14:04 UTC (25 years ago) Last here: Feb 09, 2010 at 08:20 UTC (16 years ago) Experience: 578 Level: Monk (7) Writeups: 37 Location: VA or IL or OH User's localtime: Oct 05, 2025 at 07:23 -05 Scratchpad: None. For this user: Search nodes

(Photo taken in either Molokini or Borocay. I was trying to have my picture taken with a pair of Manta birostris - only one is seen fading in the murky background. They were flying slowly, but still too fast for me to keep up.)

As a physician, Perl is not my trade, but my tool. Perl is not my career, but my advantage. Although I have been a programmer since childhood (the usual Basic, Assembly, Fortran, C), I no longer have the time or the need to reach the level of Perl of a sysadmin programmer. I'll leave that to my fellow Perl Monks. However, I will use my Perl in clinical research, patient care, and other medical and scientific research applications. That is why I am glad to be here and I am grateful to the PerlMonks that can help. I encourage all medical and life-science people starting out with Perl to stick with it, and to use Perl as a powerful tool in scientific discovery and new advancements. Having said all that, I am happy to have reached Monk status within my first 2 weeks of joining!

My Education and Research Background Internal Medicine residency, Western Reserve Care,Ohio M.D. from the University of the East, 1999 B.S. in Nuclear Engineering and Bioengineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1993. Yes, that included reactors and rockets, but I wanted to focus on isotopes and the biological effects of radiation. Some of my most rewarding medical training was done in the private and public hospitals in Manila, which included government neurosurgical trauma centers, major infectious disease centers, and medical-surgical charity missions to underdeveloped areas. And when I say underdeveloped, I mean kids with no pants and no shoes living in the city's mountains of trash heaps. Pharmacological research investigating Mahogany seed extract as an alternative anxiolytic, University of the East. Did it work? It did, at least for the Mus musculus. Graduate work and Endocrinology/Diabetes research involving C-peptide analysis at the Chicago Medical School and North Chicago VA MC. A lot of relational databases for this one. Surface chemistry data retrieval and analysis, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois. But I used C for this one.

My Main Perl work Medical Informatics Project at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health, near Washington, DC (No longer involved with the project). Sabel Systems-sponsored three-tiered linux/solaris server-monitoring application involving database work, data analysis, and data graphical output, which will eventually be ported for medical, patient care, and/or scientific research purposes. LinuxLobe Groundswell Hawaii Surf Company (Link temporarily disabled) - my friends in Hawaii own the real actual Hawaiian surf shop and trademarked brand, I did their online catalog (pure Perl). I didn't get a cent for this job, but they send me a shirt every now and then.Check them out - the only other place to get a Groundswell product is to go to Hawaii.