Experience

International Federation of Journalists Asia-Pacific
• Australia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Writer

  • May 2014 - Present


September Williams Writer

• Writer

  • Mar 2014 - Present

  - Writing :Chasing Mercury is an upmarket fiction with ecology-romance threads and bioethics underpinnings--inspired by the signing of the Minamata Convention on Mercury 2013. - Bioethics Screen Reflections critiques film, television and screen technology with bioethical relevance. - Ninth Month Consults a bioethics consultation practice helping particularly writers and filmmakers speak truth to fiction. - Writing :Chasing Mercury is an upmarket fiction with ecology-romance threads and bioethics underpinnings--inspired by the signing of the Minamata Convention on Mercury 2013. - Bioethics Screen Reflections critiques film, television and screen technology with bioethical relevance. - Ninth Month Consults a bioethics consultation practice helping particularly writers and filmmakers speak truth to fiction.



NInthmonth Consults / Ninthmonth Productions

• Writer, physician bioethicist and filmmaker

  • Jul 2000 - Present

  I make documentary films through Ninth Month Productions. I help individuals, families, professionals, organizations and film people make decisions about bioethical concerns. I make documentary films through Ninth Month Productions. I help individuals, families, professionals, organizations and film people make decisions about bioethical concerns.


National Writers Union
• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Writer

  • 2014 - 2016


San Francisco Department of Public Health Laguna Honda hospital

• Senior Physician Specialist: Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Palliative Care and Bioethicist

  • Jul 2005 - May 2012

  4 committees ( peer review, medical executive, bioethics,clinical nutrition support;) bioethics consults x 2/wk x 6 years, Admitting Ward attending, in-patient wards SNF, acute care ward, Hospice cross coverage, established non-hospice Palliative Care Ward, conceptualized in hospital Pain Clinic, teaching med students, residents and fellows on rotation, transfers to and from tertiary care hospitals ( UCSF and San Francisco General) , In house code call, minor procedures, establishing program for implementing the verdict for lead plaintiff and others in Chambers v. City and County of San Francisco... and more.



san francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center/UCSF Geriatrics

• Attending Physician Palliative Care/HERSA Clinical Fellow in Geriatrics

  • Feb 2002 - Jul 2005

  Caring for aging and dying people Caring for aging and dying people


University of New Mexico Locum tenens/Practice Relieft Group
• Attending Physician

  • Dec 2000 - Jan 2003


Centers for Disease Control/Tuskegee University Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care

• Clinical Medical Ethicist and Communications Specialist

  • Aug 1999 - Aug 2002

  Part of the inaugural team Infrastructure and Planning of Tuskegee University Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care in Institution and directing communications projects, films, books,events, speaking engagements, press content, teaching undergraduate students, weekly Bioethics and Film screenings, Reporting to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, TB, HIV Division. Part of the inaugural team Infrastructure and Planning of Tuskegee University Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care in Institution and directing communications projects, films, books,events, speaking engagements, press content, teaching undergraduate students, weekly Bioethics and Film screenings, Reporting to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, TB, HIV Division.


Cambridge City Hospital
• Physician

  • 1995 - Jan 1998