Photo Gallery
Immersive snapshots unveil the resilience, triumphs and defeats I encountered in this nonfiction narrarive.
APEX is born, June 1984…
After Oh, those Shiley Days, a new career began in Kailua, Hawaii - A Cardiac Newsletter for Asia was launched directly linking me back to Asia. In late 1986 I settled in Singapore with a new challenge to tackle…
Two decades in the Region…
Pacific Biomedical was planned in Hawaii in 1985. Thanks to my relationship with Dr. Roger White, Straub Clinic, his annual Cardiology Update, and APEX, my links to Asia-Pacific expanded. Subsequent challenges motivated me to persist in launching the Asian Annals…
Power: Possession of control, authority, or influence over others; political or physical might; legal or official authority, capacity, or right; mental or moral efficacy (which may not be apparent).— Merriam-Webster Search
I began learning what Power was all about…
Shiley
1976-1984
The best of times, the worst of times…
From wondrous Waikiki, where the Odyssey began, to New Delhi as West meets East, continuing to the glamour & traditions of Tokyo’s Ginza …
St. Vincent’s
1986-1990
A bright beginning with encouraging success, with an unexpected ending…
Partnering in China to manufacturer tissue heart valves, opening a facility in Singapore’s new Science Park, and on to Sydney, Australia and the St. Vincent’s VAD development program…
CarboMedics, ASIAN ANNALS
& TMR
1991-2002
The power of good timing is covered with the launch of an improved bi-leaflet heart valve, and the introduction of TMR, an innovative cardiac surgical procedure, to the region. Both companies supported the long held dream of Asia having a credible heart journal of its own…
It was the “roaring 1990s” in the Far East as the 21st Century approached…