Last day of surgery at Huggins Hospital, Wolfeboro, NH

• Graduate of Dartmouth College, 1979, Cum Laude
• Graduate of Dartmouth Medical School, 1982
• Board Certified Ophthalmologist, solo practitioner,  and small business owner, 1986 - 2016
  • I know what its like to meet payroll, pay the Business Enterprise Tax, and deal with ever increasing regulation
• NH State Representative, Carroll County 8, Nov 2016 - present
  • Vice Chair Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee
  • Vice Chair, Carroll County Delegation
  • Member, Governor's Economic Reopening Taskforce
  • Vice Chair, Commission to Study Telehealth Services
    
  • Chair, Committee to Study Direct Primary Care
  • Chair, NH Rare Disease Advisory Council
  • Vice Chair, HB 264 Commission  resulting in HB1822 (signed into law 6/8/18)
  • Chair, Commission to Study Testing for Lyme and Other Tick Borne Diseases
  • Member  State Assessment and State Health Improvement Plan Advisory Council
    
  • Member, Subcommittee on Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
  • Member, Commission to Study Legislative Oversight Activities Related to the Department of Health
• Moderator, Town of Brookfield, 2010 - present
  • I have developed working relationships with members of both parties.
  • I have worked to safeguard the right to be heard and to vote free from intimidation.
• Trustee, Huggins Hospital, 2004 - present. Twice served as Treasurer, also as Corporate Secretary, Medical Staff President and Chief, Department of Surgery
  • I understand how COVID-19 has impacted our local hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare providers.
  • I am intimately familiar with the issues Obamacare and Health Care Reform has created.
  • I know the obstacles to delivering health care in rural NH
• Health Officer, Town of Brookfield, 2002 - present
  • I am familiar with the public health issues facing New Hampshire, including the opioid crisis.
  • I am working with the New Hampshire Health Officers Association to update our public health laws to address COVID-19
• Together with my wife Stefanie, we have homeschooled our five children for over 27 years
  • Three children have gone on to Connecticut College, one to Cornell University, and one to the New Hampshire Institute of Art
  • My wife Stefanie served on the board of the New Hampshire Homeschooling Coalition for many years. She also serves on the Home Education Advisory Council at the New Hampshire Department of Education.
• I am a history buff and enjoy marching in Wolfeboro's Independence Day parade and shooting my musket
  • Author of End of Empire, a simulation of the French and Indian Wars and American Revolution

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