>> So I did my undergraduate work here at Penn State University.
I majored in Health Policy and Administration, and to be very honest
with you, it was a bit of an accident.
My father was a pharmacist, so I had an interest
in the health care field, but not so much in the science.
I didn't want to go to medical school, I didn't want to go to pharmacy school,
and I started out as an engineering major here,
simply because my dad said Penn State has a great engineering program, go be an engineer.
Well, after three months I realized I didn't want to be an engineer, so I literally paged
through what was then called the Blue Book, of majors, and I saw something called Health Policy
and Administration, which was a little bit of business, and a lot of health care.
And it piqued my interest, and I changed my major, and really the rest was history.
I went on to do my graduate work at Rush University in Chicago,
which is part of Rush University Medical Center, a large academic medical center.
And I had the opportunity to be hired by the medical center out of graduate school.
I had a number of entry-level and middle-level management positions there.
Learned a lot.
Was recruited to a job in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Eventually was recruited from Pittsburgh up to Rochester, New York, and I had the opportunity
to work in some fantastic organizations in different,
but great markets, within the health care industry.
And I've been blessed to be recruited into great opportunities.