I am a preventive medicine and public health doctor, a graduate of Columbia, NYU and Yale. Readers of my previously published novel, Chain of Custody, encouraged me to do a sequel, but I didn't expect that it would take 14 years to write Madame Justice. Earlier, I produced and directed a feature documentary, Interned, about my year of training in a V.A. Hospital, shot with a crew of patients and medical staff. Currently, I am the executive editor of Cyberounds.com, an educational website for medical professionals, and TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com, a website for consumers. I also participate in a neuroscience lab at Rockefeller University that researches the brain's stress pathways. As a hobby, I help care for a tiny, 203-year-old former dairy farm in Vermont, where, despite the cold climate and against all common sense, I am trying to grow grapes for wine. Most of the year I live in New York with my family and grow tomato plants on the windowsill.