Profile – Andrew M. Wiesenthal

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First Name (required)	Andrew
Last Name (required)	M. Wiesenthal
Nickname	Andrew M. Wiesenthal
Current Hometown	San Francisco, CA
Your Residential College	Silliman
Other Colleges Attended	SUNY Downstate School of Medicine; Harvard University School of Public Health
Your Major at Yale	Latin American Studies
Yale Activities and Clubs	Freshman and varsity crew WYBC (Chair, 1970 calendar year)

Tell us about your professional life/ career	Many of us say the same thing–what a long, strange trip it’s been. Pediatrician, CDC epidemiologist, pediatric infectious diseases doctor, practicing clinician, managing quality and service for a large, multipsecialty medical group, physician leader and leader of electronic health records projects, wandering consultant. Never would have predicted this back end at the front end, and I’ve enjoyed just about every minute of it.
Publications	Multiple professional articles and book chapters. My only book was about diarrhea.
Tell us about your personal life these days...	Married to Billie for since 1978, traveling all over the place whenever we get the chance, persevering through renovating (reconstructing) a 120-year-old house on the Bay side of Telegraph Hill in SF.
How often do you visit New Haven?	For reunions only, really.
Most influential book?	One Hundred Years of Solitude
Best Yale Course?	The ones I invented for myself.
What's been your most memorable life experience since Yale?	Patient care
What the most memorable trip you've taken since Yale?	Not possible to pick–we’ve been all over the world and loved it all. We are very lucky
If you could relive your Yale experience, is there anything you'd do differently?	I wasn’t perfect by any means, and neither was Yale, but I was happy as hell all of the time (even while shooting myself in the foot occasionally). I wouldn’t change a thing.