Robert was born in Boulder, Colorado. Growing up he moved around, living in Holland, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Mexico City, Michigan and finally Hawaii. He left home at 14 to attend Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A medical emergency in high school landed him in an ICU. After 4 weeks in the hospital an interest in healing began to grow. After graduating from UH-Manoa he worked as a youth counselor at Hale Kipa, a residential treatment center for at risk teens. During that time he met his future wife and continued at UHM as an unclassified grad student taking his prerequisites for medical school. When the time came to choose between Boston and Colorado he decided not to uproot his newly growing family and instead attended UH Manoa and got his MSN and became a nurse practitioner specializing in Family Practice.

Robert has worked at Rehab Hospital of the Pacific specializing in the ortho and stroke unit, for the City and County of Honolulu as the City Medical Specialist, with Waikiki Health Center providing outreach medical care to the homeless, at Tripler Army Medical Center in the GI department and most recently at a very busy internal medicine practice.
Robert is married with three daughters and four grandchildren. He lives in East Oahu with his wife, youngest daughter, three cats and two dogs. His hobbies include playing music and surfing and he loves to travel with his family.

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