I was born rather precipitously on the Autobahn in May of 1963 traveling in a US Army Ambulance
en route to Heidelberg, Germany. (Patience is
still not one of my greatest virtues.)
My parents are Austrian, born in Vienna; my father served two tours in Vietnam. I lived in 16 places in 3 countries during the first 22 years of my life, attending 3 different high schools. (Call me Ishmael... )
Although I spent considerable time in research labs, my career is now focused on clinical Gyn Oncology. I am the Medical Director of the Virginia Piper Genetic Risk Assessment Center, and I am currently one of the busiest and most experienced
daVinci robotic surgeons in Arizona. Having graduated from the
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program, however, I remain a scientist at heart, and collaborate closely with those who offer Phase I/II clinical trials and are seeking innovative targeted therapies for recurrent disease
(see TargetNow).
I am literally married to my work. Kristin M. Janicek is my lovely wife, boss, surgical scrub, and first assistant. She is an expert at what she does, and a perfectionist like I am.
For more about Kristin click here.
I have been in practice here since 1998, and we have been working the long hours as a team since 2002.
