Eugene Sorkin:  

Life I was born on October 21, 1950 in Culver City, California and lived in Inglewood until December, 1957. At that time we then moved to 2120 West 111th Street, where I attended Century Park Elementary School (until 6/62), Henry Clay Junior High School (until 6/65), and finally, George Washington High School (graduated 6/68). I then attended UCLA (Biology) for one year, and being in way over my head there, went up to UC Santa Barbara (graduated 6/72 with a B.A. in Cellular and Organismal Biology). Attempting (and failing) to get into any medical or dental schools (due to my less-than-stellar 2.86 GPA at UCLA and UCSB), I worked for a year in L.A. (construction), and then as a hospital file-clerk up north in Daly City, CA. For some reason, I got accepted to the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, and started there in 9/73, with a B.S. Pharmacy in 6/76 and a Pharm.D. in 6/77. I then did a one-year hospital pharmacy residency at the University of Illinois in Chicago Medical Center, where I met my future wife, Anita DeSouza. After completion of the residency I worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) in Los Angeles for 5 years as a clinical pharmacist on the 5th floor, home of both the medical- (MICU) and respiratory-intensive care units, adult medicine, and cardiology units. Fun. I also taught MICU clerkships for the USC School of Pharmacy while at CSMC. Alas, the blush of joy at this first 'real' job faded as I discovered I liked medical writing. I applied for, and got, a medical writing position being offered by Adis International Ltd. in Auckland, New Zealand, and my wife Anita and I moved there in November, 1983. In 1986 I became head of the group of writers creating the Adis 'Drug Evaluations' for their international journal Drugs. The next year I became Editor of the journal Drugs, and eventually became head of the entire group of Adis international journals (Drugs, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Sports Medicine, Drug Safety, PharmacoEconomics, ...Expand for more