Budd
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | retired physician |
| Location | Berkeley, CA, United States |
| Introduction | A Berkeley resident for 46 years, I went to Lower Merion High in the Philadelphia suburbs,then Harvard College (history, Leverett House), Harvard Medical School, and did my pediatrics training at the University of California San Francisco. I also earned a Masters' Degree at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, where I am now on the Advisory Board. I was a Fed in Washington with the U.S. Public Health Service in 1968-70, and 1973-4. As a member of the USPHS I studied at the Stockholm School of Economics for a year, and at Yale. Later on I was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCSF doing health policy analysis, published a book on Migrant Health Policy and many articles in publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the AMA Journal, and taught some. I practiced pediatrics from 1979 to 2012. I was President and owner of Bayside Medical Group, the largest privately held primary care medical groups in the Bay Area, until I sold it to Stanford in 2012. I am married and have three children and two step-children, 3 granddaughters and a grandson. While our permanent residence is Berkeley, we live in Maui part-time. |
| Interests | health care, politics, society, sports |
| Favorite Movies | I have a list of my 50 top movies, available on request. Top is Casablanca, Godfather I and II, The Big Sleep, but list also includes The Man Who Knew Too Little, Fletch, Bull Durham, and The Front. |
| Favorite Music | 50's, 60's, 70's rock and roll. |
| Favorite Books | As we say in medicine, TNTC (too numerous to count). To date myself terribly, I've read Catch 22 three times, Catcher in the Rye even more, and Kurt Vonnegut. I read everything written by Alan Furst and John Le Carre. I read about 25-40 books a year, I guess. |