Principles · record · commitments
Trust is a chart you keep honestly.
Surgeons document everything: what they found, what they did, what went wrong. A public life should be held to the same standard. This page is where that record will be kept, in the open, from the first day.
The operating room is a small republic.
Everyone in it has a job, and a patient's life depends on all of them doing it well and telling the truth when they don't. That is also the best description of government we know.
Access to care
No family should have to choose between a clinic visit and a day's wages. That conviction started in Umubo and was confirmed in Baltimore.
Small institutions, big standards
Independent practices, churches and small businesses deserve the tools and reliability the largest institutions take for granted.
The immigrant bargain
Work hard, contribute and be counted. The country kept its side of that bargain with us, and we intend to keep ours.
Faith in public, not faith as a weapon
Conviction that shows up as service to everyone, not as a test of who belongs.
Commitments we expect to be measured against.
A public history stays healthy when nothing in it has to be discovered. These are the standing commitments.
- Disclosure
- Business interests, board seats and sources of income published here and kept current, including every venture on our work page.
- Separation
- Clear lines between clinical practice, church, companies and any public role. Patients are never constituents, and congregants are never a donor list.
- Corrections
- Mistakes in this record will be corrected openly, with the date and the original wording kept.
- Record
- 2018: first author, Massachusetts statewide Inpatient Opioid Misuse Prevention Guidelines, published through the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association Tufts Medical Center announcement ↗
- Recognized by President Bill Clinton through the Clinton Global Initiative University for community impact in work with incarcerated people in Boston
- Founding chairman, Healing Vessels International (501(c)(3), EIN 45-2454543) and Global Surgery University
- Appointments, civic boards, endorsements and positions to be added as they happen, each with a date and a source.