He played a leadership role in conceiving, implementing and directing Northwest Cancer Center (now Puget Sound Cancer Centers) in addition to Northwest Hospice and Seattle Breast Center. He has done clinical cancer research, lectured, and published – and has been a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Medical School. He sat at the bedside, hugged and held more dying patients than most – and counts innumerable survivors as friends today – many of both groups were/are victorious.