My Mom Has Dementia. So I Built a Screener For It With AI

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This is my mom. She has dementia. And we want none of your pity. No Pity. I Mean It. She has lived – will live – a wonderful life, with fierce pride. I am honored to be the strength for her now. The strength she is for me. Pity does not help her and it […]

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A Strategic Focus on Telemedicine

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Wow! Today I am starting as the first Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at Intelehealth. I am humbled by Neha Verma‘s trust in me to help Intelehealth improve access to primary health care and lower costs for national health insurance programs via telemedicine methodologies and technologies. I’ll be focused on four core activities for the organization […]

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Hire Me! ISO a New Job Now

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I am sad to say that USAID is dying.  I am watching in horror as 25 years of my life is crushed by this new Administration. Yet, I am not one to wallow in the past. What’s done is done. I must move on. I did so in a way that came naturally to me. […]

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What Does It Mean To Be Hispanic-American in 2024?

Few people think of me as Hispanic. I don’t have a “typical” Hispanic look in the United States, I don’t speak English with a Spanish accent, and I don’t even speak Spanish. Yet my father was born in Mexico, was a naturalized American citizen, and certainly raised me to feel Hispanic – but only privately. […]

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Taylor Swiftkirchen World Tour: Vota Edition

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Germany doesn’t matter. My third direct circumnavigation of the earth doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters to my daughters is Taylor Swift. I’ve come to that conclusion as I walk the streets of Swiftkirchen – the town of Gelsenkirchen temporarily renamed in honor of Ms. Swift – while my family waits in line at […]

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