My Life in a Day – as Production Director, Philadelphia

Reflections on My Two Years as PATH Director

When I was appointed Director of California PATH in summer 2003, it was with the specific mandate to help re-structure the research center, to align more closely with the objectives of our main sponsor, Caltrans. The re-organized PATH includes four research programs: Traffic Operations, Transit Operations, Traffic Safety and Policy. The reason for this restructuring was to provide a more direct...

My life as a community activist.

The author recounts his life and how it led to a career as an activist community psychology practitioner with a focus on issues of social justice. He tells of his upbringing, family and education as the background to a series of positions in various systems. The story shows an evolution from working with individuals to working with whole communities; and from working on issues of remediation an...

My second life as a teacher.

18 years after I got my Ph.D., when my luck securing grants dried up. It can happen to any of us, and that was my year. Over the next 2 years, I applied for several more grants, hoping that I could sustain my career in academia, but none got funded. In the meantime, I began considering options beyond the hallowed halls. During those years, I spent a summer teaching a high school astronomy cours...

A day in my practice in 2020.

As the new year approaches, I find myself thinking about the future of family medicine, particularly how medical practice might look in the next decade. It’s anyone’s guess, but this is what I imagine: I wake up at 6 a.m. and drive my electric car to work. Quite the early bird, I am first to arrive. We are a group of a dozen family doctors whose ancillary staff includes dietitians and physician...

Walk a day in my shoes.