Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.

It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the potential to change the life trajectory of millions of kids.