Training Medical

Dear Sirs:

I am a retired neurosurgeon with very diverse skills and experience in health/fitness,

basic science, medicine, neurosciences, business, finance, teaching and management with

training that includes MIT and the Cleveland Clinic. Do not let my background scare or

mislead you. This extensive background is the template for what I do but my unique skill

is what I always do next. I have had continuous involvement in health and fitness all my

life from personal competition and life long training - to health and fitness through a

career in neurophysiology and neurosurgery – to developing, owning and managing an

international health/fitness facility in the Cayman Islands - to owning a Gold’s Gym – to

training others at all levels from beginners to amateur, professional and Olympic athletes.

My business, finance and management skills are evident in the attached CV.

The satisfaction for what I did for others as a neurosurgeon is beyond description and was

worth all the training but I have the drive and ability to do more than that in a lifetime as

my CV shows. Location, travel and employment details are rarely important. It is the

challenge and my satisfaction to always create the result that motivates me. I am

comfortable in any environment, culture or country. Training and teaching is rewarding

at any level whether it is – an athlete or individual at any level or staff at any level.

Solving any acute business/staffing/management/client issue or creating the outcome for

corporate and individual goals - is just as rewarding as working with a third world

culture, teaching or helping business interface with science and medicine. They all

require diverse experience, management/people skills, hard work, and immense

flexibility but above all – proven problem solving blended with a supportive/ motivating/

staff nurturing management style. Fine tuning business profit - speaking in a large

corporate meeting - testifying to government - making sense of a basic scientist - teaching

in medical school - operating on a brain tumor - comforting a stressed client or employee

- satisfying a corporate need – it is all the same: a task in search of a solution.

I left Cayman with the plan to develop a similar facility in New England. It took over ten

years to develop the facility I was so proud of. It will be a lot easier, faster and more

enjoyable to become part of an organization that already has the same proven business

model in place. My skills can be better put to use advancing the success that already

exists with the proper procedures in place. Please review my CV paying particular

attention to the facility developed in the Cayman Islands coupled with my flexibility and

problem solving. Then contact me regarding how I can best become a contributing part

of your organization.

Sincerely,

Lawrence G. Stern, M.D.

P. O. Box 438

Quechee, VT 05059

********@***.***

Home phone 802-***-****

Cell: 603-***-****

EDUCATION:

(1974.1979) CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION, Cleveland, Ohio:

Neurological surgery residency with subspecialty training including below:

-Neurology at the Institute of Neurology at the National Hospital, Queens

Square, London, England

-Microvascular neurosurgery at The University of Vermont, Burlington,

VT

-Neuroanatomy and instructor in neuroanatomy at Case Western Reserve

University Medical School

-Neuropathology at AFIP (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)

-Research and clinical application of intracranial pressure monitoring

-Research and clinical application of superficial temperal artery to middle

cerebral artery microvascular anastamosis

-Involvement in the many ongoing medical developments in progress at

the clinic: dorsal column stimulators, stereotactic instrumentation, MRI development,

cochlear implants, surgical instrumentation, drug protocols, and many more.

(1973-1974) UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Rochester,

NY

General Surgery Residency

(1969-1973) UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Rochester,

NY

MD through National Institute of Health Grant in The Clinical Investigator

Training Program (MD-PHD) for neurophysiology (membrane physiology)

1971 modified the program to prepare for clinical neurosurgery residency

(1965-1969) MIT

BS – course 7 (biology – molecular biology/neurophysiology)

Chronology of Research Experience:

-Cleveland Clinic (as above)

-NIH fellowship in clinical neurology (U. of Rochester Medical School) 1972

-NIH Clinical Investigator Training Program (MD-PHD) as above

-MIT Neurophysiology 1968

(Ca++ current in the post synaptic membrane of the neuromuscular

junction with intracellular recording and lithium substitution)

-MIT Enzymology (Dean Irwin Sizer, Dean of MIT Graduate School) 1966-1968

(Coenzyme equilibrium – pyridoxal phosphate and glutamic aspartic

transaminase)

-Boston University Medical School - Protein Chemistry 1967

(Isolation of trace blood proteins)

Pre College:

-Brookdale Hospital Center – Protein Chemistry 1965

(Isolation of blood proteins)

-NSF Grant in Physiology/Biochemistry – Roswell Park Memorial Institute

(Resulted in the national high school award from the NASA Science

Talent Search for discovery of the antimetabolite properties of cytosine arabinoside) 1964

-NSF Grant in Physiology/Biochemistry – Waldemar Medical Research

Foundation 1963

Narrative of My Career:

My experience has been a succession of new projects requiring acquisition of major new

skills and on average - a decade for each completion. I enjoy hard work, a difficult task

that others avoid, problem solving and above all – never stopping before a good outcome.

1965 to 1969 was the foundation of my life. Dean Irwin Sizer at MIT was my adviser,

close friend and the mentor that made my life. The special scholarship program and

customized training is beyond description. I had constant access to the best minds in the

world and even two Nobel Laureates on the same floor as my lab. I was also able to learn

John Nash’s process of game theory. This did not just make a good movie (A Beautiful

Mind) but Nash created a process of logic that can be applied to anything. It worked with

patient care, life, research, development of a health and fitness facility, neurosurgery,

business – anything. Modified game theory is the root of my problem solving skill. This

is where I learned to think, create and adapt for the rest of my life.

1969 to 1974 was unique medical training. Because I was in the National Institute of

Health MD-PHD program in neurophysiology (as above) I was able to customize my

training both clinically and in membrane physiology. My specialty was subcellular

muscle physiology which has been very useful in my own training as well as the training

of others.

1974-1979 was my microneurosurgery subspecialization. Dr. Donald F. Dohn, chairman

of neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic was a fantastic teacher but more importantly

understood my goals and sent me anywhere in the world necessary to maximize my

training as noted above. It would be difficult to match the total experience of The

Cleveland Clinic. It was the first time that I was responsible for a large staff. It was the

perfect place to learn successful staff management.

1979 to 1989 was neurosurgical private practice. I was sub specialized - doing micro

neurosurgery before it was common. The NIH program chose me because they figured

that if I could do surgery on subcellular structures in single cells at MIT– people would

be easy. The best part of neurosurgery was the patient care and outcomes. I worked

ridiculous hours but loved it. What I did not like was the changes in medicine. Anyone

in medicine knows them. I had difficulty respecting a system of declining patient care,

loss of focus on patient outcome and failure to be proactive. It made much more sense to

me to make people healthy and prevent disease than create a multi billion dollar industry

feeding off the failures of lifestyles. I chose to further my own personal training and do

the next challenge instead.

1989 to 2002 - I had an opportunity to develop a health and fitness facility in a small

country (The Cayman Islands). Cayman was an unbelievable opportunity to put my skills

and experience into action. I personally was able to continue training two hours per day

to maintain my level of athletic fitness. We were able to develop a coalition of both

government and private resources in Cayman to create an international program for both

local residents and career athletes. Cayman had poor health and low life expectancy

despite many resources. Those resources were available to shape an international facility.

It would be impossible to recount all that was done in over a decade but here are some of

the highlights:

- A strong alliance was made with government, schools, local business and the

community to reach our goals. Local hotels housed guest trainers and athletes from

around the world. The country’s airline flew in consultants, guest trainers and

international athletes for us. Even the governor supported our efforts to change the

country’s health.

- Alliances were built with GNC, EAS, coaches from the Olympic training camp in

Colorado Springs, aerobics instructors from the Cooper Institute, high profile, Gold’s

Gym, facility designers from multiple sources and a continuous stream of guest

teachers/instructors to motivate. We aimed at all levels. We brought in some of the

movie Ninja Turtles to motivate the school kids, famous athletes to motivate both men

and women and professional coaches and trainers for our serious athletes.

-Staffing was key. We could not afford turnover and retraining with limited resources in

a small country. We could not afford anything less than enthusiasm. Fortunately we

could interface international staff with local staff and focus on details and examples.

This is where they learned the satisfaction of personal success. We lived by your

standards (always welcoming, always helpful, always accountable). We just did not have

them stated so eloquently.

-Innovation and flexibility was essential for this unique country. We chose several high

profile citizens as examples (a government legislator, a government minister, several

prominent business people, a disabled ex athlete, a few socially prominent men and

women and some average citizens). They were all overweight and unhealthy in just

about every aspect of lifestyle. They became the staff project. Within one year they were

turned around and examples of what could be done. Imagine the enthusiasm and pride of

the staff not to mention the motivation of our members. The most exciting day was when

the disabled ex athlete who was walking with a cane – ran a 3K eighteen months later.

She did not come close to winning the race but was clearly the winner in everyone’s eyes.

-The facility soared from staff and member enthusiasm but could only succeed with

sound business practices:

*attention to every detail every minute of every day – a broken treadmill or dirty

bathroom could undo all the fabulous innovation in a nanosecond!

*support and monitor the staff

*cultivation and success of multiple profit centers that became the engine that

financed other projects and created real profit

*constant innovation to both prevent problems and create motivation

*hands on management all day and all night – a successful facility was not a 9 to 5

activity

*meticulous maintenance of the equipment and the facility

*real focus on individual success with several levels of tracking for both beginners

and advanced

*constantly changing market strategies

I will stop now. I am very proud of what we created and could go on incessantly.

Towards the end we acquired Gold’s Gym International rights which facilitated a major

upgrade of the facility. Fortunately we were able to maintain much of our original

business plan since a Gold’s Gym would not be the ideal model. My wife and I had no

plan to ever leave Cayman. The government gave us permanent residency and we

thought we were in heaven. We had a major impact on an entire country. We had a

major impact on the health of an entire country but overdevelopment and a level 5

hurricane changed that - bringing a change in government, major crime, corruption and

all the ills of modern society. We returned to the US with plans to create the same back

home.

2002 to the present brought the next opportunity. My friends showed me the financial

needs of the rural area we moved to in New England. We developed a multifaceted

financial company with nationwide links to overcome the problems of local individuals

and businesses. I never thought my economics training with Paul Samuelson at MIT

(Nobel Laureate) coupled with problem solving learned at MIT would be this useful but it

was as instrumental here as it was in Cayman. The two year project turned into a much

longer project because of the current economic crisis.

NOW: THE NEXT CHALLENGE:

Reinventing the wheel and creating a first class facility in the US like the one in Cayman

is a much greater task. My diverse training, experience and success are well documented

but they are only evidence of what I do. I am only as good as my current skills and what

they can produce next. My background in science, medicine, neurosurgery, business,

finance, management, health/fitness, etc. is just a template for the next task. My strength

is the ability to problem solve – creating a successful outcome regardless of the

circumstances - regardless of the endeavor, location or specifics. Continually acquiring

new skills at every step is vital. I look forward to the next challenge that you will provide

me. Please contact me with your ideas and opportunities for this position or where your

company will place me to be the most useful. Changing one individual’s health and

lifestyle is just a rewarding as doing a craniotomy to remove a brain tumor. Developing

and motivating a professional health/fitness staff is just as productive as teaching in a

medical school –and a lot more fun!

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