WHO WE ARE
John M. Corboy, M.D., former Associate Clinical Professor of the University of Hawaii Burns School of Medicine, is an ophthalmologist living in Hawaii. His more than 40 years of clinical practice, along with regular charity overseas medical teaching missions, keep him updated on general medicine. Dr. Corboy hosted a weekly medical call-in radio show for 20 years, while regularly presenting “A Medical Minute” on local TV news programs. His informative and chatty style makes his book readable and educational.Corboy majored in biology at Loyola University in Chicago, received his medical degree from the University of Illinois and served a rotating internship at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago. After two years as Medical Officer in Charge of U.S. Public Health Service Border Quarantine Station at San Ysidro (San Diego), he took his residency at Washington University/Barnes-McMillan Hospital in St. Louis, and the USPHS Hospital in San Francisco.
Corboy founded the Hawaiian Eye Center, once Hawaii’s largest eye care provider with a surgery center and nine offices servicing all the Hawaiian Islands. He has received multiple awards for teaching and humanitarian medical services. He founded and directs the Royal Hawaiian Eye Meeting, now celebrating its 30th year as the third largest meeting of eye-care professionals in the US. He is the author of The Retinoscopy Book (Slack, Inc.), now in its 5th edition.
Corboy is president of the Hawaiian Eye Foundation, a non-profit charitable corporation sponsoring volunteer educational programs and philanthropic missions for the Pacific Basin since1985. His Foundation is currently building an eye clinic in Fiji, teaching in Tonga, and running an ophthalmic surgical training program in Viet Nam. He volunteers as a docent at BODIES…The Exhibition, teaching anatomy to students. He raises chickens on the island of Molokai with his wife Regan, and flies helicopters when not traveling and writing.
Sally Kurtzman is a retired college English educator (30+ years at Arapahoe Community College and two years at the Women’s College at the University of Denver) who lives in Denver and still teaches writing part time. She has worked in talk radio, performs with a local improv comedy troupe in the area, had a weekly TV feature for three years on “making it do, wearing it out, using it up, doing without,” and is finishing a book with her brother called 60@60 on what can happen to your aging body.
An avid recycler, she has a booklet on Second Life for Stuff in Metro Denver and calls herself. The Recycling Queen. She is a key-note speaker on frequent occasions and enjoys her life in Denver with her husband Jim.
Patrice Federspiel is a freelance artist Painting the Essence of Living Aloha in Honolulu, Hawaii. A prolific and well-known watercolorist, Patrice is a board member of Hawaii’s Watercolor Society, has won numerous awards, and has been published in several journals and books, including the Junior League of Honolulu Cookbook, Aloha Days Hula Nights, and Chicken Soup for the Hawaiian Soul.
In addition, she teaches private watercolor lessons called The Creative Traveler. To learn more about Patrice, or to see her work, visit www.artofaloha.com (http://www.artofaloha.com).