Seven years have past since America was attacked by terrorist using one of our country’s most proud inventions, the airplane, as a weapon killing 3,000 people of 92 nationalities, religions, ethic groups and genders in the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Washington, DC (Arlington, VA) and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 

Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya, MD are up to it again. They recently launched a wiki “Health Accelerator 2.0“ which was inspired by Dr.

Two decades ago, I served as director of a healthcare "think tank" based in Washington, DC.  Its primary mission was to bring together some of the brightest minds inside and outside of the healthcare sector to "think outside the box" as massive health reform was taking place and the need for changes in healthcare was a public cry. 

The "TLC" or Trend Leaders Club recruited only healthcare chief executive officers (I know there are those that would question this approach and challenge this group's intellectual exclusivity) across the nation.  Each quarter this club would gather to hear from leading business, government and healthcare innovators, researchers and academics. Such notable speaker participants included Universal's founder Alan Miller www.ushinc.com, The Johns Hopkins University's Dr. Susan Horn www.isisicor.com/Shorn_biosketch.html and "Mr. Health" Paul Rogers among many others.

President Gerald Ford http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gf38.html turned 93 years old last month becoming the longest living former President in US history.  Despite his recent hospitalization for a new pacemaker at the Mayo Clinic www.mayoclinic.com Ford has been very active and in the public scene for the past three decades with good health.

I count my blessing every day about my legacy gene pool. My maternal grandparents both lived until the age of 98 years old in good health in their own home in Naples, Florida and I had a great grandmother live until 104. My parental grandfather lived until he was 89--and both of my parents are alive at nearly 76 years "young" and my mother plays tennis EVERY day and will challenge anyone with her mean back hand return---watch out Andre www.agassiopen.com !