Doug Ramsey, 60, joined UC San Diego in La Jolla in 2001 as the university was launching the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), where he is Director of Communications. He spent 30 years as a journalist covering technology and business for publications including The Economist (based in London and Tokyo), the Washington Post (in Brussels), and Newsweek (as Business and Technology Editor in New York), and later moved on-air to television at NBC News, Financial News Network, CNBC, and KUSI-TV in San Diego.
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“Mal” Rafferty was born and raised in the west of Ireland. As an undergraduate, he studied at the University College Dublin and Trinity College. The recipient of an Irish/U.S. government fellowship, he completed graduate studies at UCLA School of Business in 1966 and joined the administration as a special assistant to the Dean of Extension. In 1974, he arrived in San Diego to begin a 35-year “stint” as the founding director of what was to become the University of San Diego’s Division of Continuing Education. Mal has been recognized as an innovative developer of professional and teacher-training programs, which have been presented worldwide.
May 3, 2012 | Posted in
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Mark Quint grew up in La Jolla and graduated from La Jolla High School. He went to college at the San Francisco Art Institute and then taught art in Hawaii for five years. Quint moved back to La Jolla and opened a contemporary art gallery in 1981. Quint Gallery has held more than 250 exhibitions during the past 31 years. Located on Girard Avenue next to Harry’s Coffee Shop, the gallery is currently showing work by San Diego artist Jean Lowe.
May 1, 2012 | Posted in
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Reid Meloy, Ph.D., is a board-certified forensic psychologist, author and researcher who consults on criminal and civil cases throughout the United States and Europe. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, School of Medicine, and a faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. He has received a number of awards [...]
Apr 18, 2012 | Posted in
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Candace Carroll has lived in La Jolla for more than 20 years and is an appellate practitioner with Sullivan, Hill, Lewin, Rez & Engel. She has more than 30 years experience handling appeals in the federal and state courts, and has handled cases on a wide range of subjects, including contract disputes, insurance and indemnity issues, wrongful termination, intellectual property, personal injury and family law matters.
Apr 13, 2012 | Posted in
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Eric J. Topol, M.D., is chief academic officer of Scripps Health and director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, a National Institutes of Health funded program of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium focused on advancing individualized medicine. He is also a senior consultant cardiologist practitioner at Scripps Clinic and professor of translational genomics at The Scripps Research Institute. He is the author of “The Creative Destruction of Medicine,” a 2012 book that introduces the digital future of medicine and explores how digitization – through DNA sequencing, wireless health devices and online social networks – will fundamentally change the medical field for both professionals and patients.
Apr 10, 2012 | Posted in
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Audrey Keane was born in Columbus, Ohio and studied biology and chemical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. After working for Diamond Shamrock and Genzyme during its start-up phase, she attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and earned an M.B.A. Keane has lived in La Jolla for 25 years, working for a variety of biotechnology companies, including Quidel, Telios, Sequana Therapeutics, Genset, and Genteon. Highlights include negotiating corporate partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, participating in IPOs, and the international experience of working with Paris-based Genset. During recent years, she has been involved in volunteer activities with the local schools, was a Girl Scout Leader, and is currently chair of the La Jolla Shores Association.
Apr 3, 2012 | Posted in
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Carol Olten was born in the Midwest and decided early on to be a journalist. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism with extensive studies also in art and architecture. A reporting and writing job with The San Diego Union newspaper brought her to California in the 1960s. She served as the newspaper’s film critic for 10 years and also wrote extensively about art and architecture. Olten currently is the historian for the La Jolla Historical Society and has written two books on La Jolla history. She resides in an historic home on Park Row originally built in 1908 by playwright H. Austin Adams, which is known as The Dreamery.
Mar 21, 2012 | Posted in
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Sam Wurtzbacher was born in Wheeling, West Virginia and has lived in San Diego since 1982. He received his bachelor’s degree in physical education from University of California at Long Beach and has been the executive director of the La Jolla YMCA since 1990.
Wurtzbacher said he is passionate about the mission of the YMCA, and has spent a total of 36 years with the organization. He believes in giving back to the community and is an active member of La Jolla Rotary Club.
Mar 8, 2012 | Posted in
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Harold J. Simon, M.D., Ph.D., a founding member of the UCSD School of Medicine faculty and a leader in the field of international health and health policy, recently retired after more than four decades of service. He was one of the first academics to understand the importance of global health training in medicine, and today more than 50 medical schools across North America offer education in global health.
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