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I am originally from the Republic of South Africa, over the past 30 years I have been working as a researcher (in the laborotory and field on nutritional toxic diseases of the brain and neurovous system, ALSPDC, Lathyrism and Konzo among others), developed interprofessional, cross-insititutions collaboration and educational programs a developed and directed the neurotoxicogenomics laborotary at OHSU's Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET) as part of a national consortiums to establish and set standards for toxicogenomics reseach in the USA.  With the development of the Global Health Center at Oregon Health & Science University 7 years ago after the development of the interprofessional global heath educational course I was given the title of Instructor in Global Health and more recently because of my continued field work and workshops on neurological diseases, Instructor in Neurology.  I am still developing skills and learning, I am not an expert of anything at all. My goal is work in collaboration with others (students, faculty, communities, institutions and others) to develop an understanding of the bigger picture to benefit all the stakeholders in health and help education all interested in general wellbeing of populations locally and globally. iCHEE paper in Academic Medicine at  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24918760