Raised: New Jersey, USA
Taught: Rutgers Univ, Semmelweis Univ. Innsbruck Univ. TCM Univ. Wien, Shanghai.
Family: Innsbruck and my three boys Daniel, Claus and Andreas
Present: Wellmed

1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
2006: my car...... actually Hungary showed great promise for development in the medical wellness profession.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
Yes, Innsbruck, Austria

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
The traffic cheating, especially in the bus lanes.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
After arrival, széchényi fürdő for an evening bath, then a fish soup for dinner. Saturday pest by day 1st district, small meal Four Seasons great hall. The dessert menu is out of this world, coffee oh yes, Vörösmarty. or perhaps Párizsi ház. Evening Nemzeti szinház afterwards open end.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Too many to choose from, however at the moment ,Tök főzelék with marha pörkölt

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
An open bottle of red wine.

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?
Hát, igen.

8. What do you miss most from home?
The Jersey shore.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
Owning a nursery, landscape architecture, owning a farm. OK, being a landscape architect while owning and living on a farm which has a nursery.

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
Being employed by and working for APEH.

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
The States

12. Where do you hope to spend your next holiday?
Rome

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
Had lots of those, everything from Boz Scaggs, Billy Joel, Frampton to Boston or Yes. Hobbie-wise was and still is photography.

14. What can't you resist?
My wife.

15. Red wine or white?
Red, although a good fröccs in summer......

16. Book or movie?
List is way to long. The largest impact however is from the Yellow Emperor: Inner Canon of Huangdi.

17. Morning person or night person?
Definitely morning

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Bullying; don't like it at all

19. Buda or Pest side?
Buda

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
Tomorrow always comes and with it a new day and a fresh start at getting things right.