“Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.”
-Max Ehrmann,
Desiderata, 1952
Kjeld Aamodt
Some of My Pages
Some of my Favorite Things
Corn BBQed in the Husk
Dressing Dapper
Trusty Shoes
Airports
Goal-Setting
Vanilla Candles
Steaming Herbal Drinks
The Smell of Jasmine Flowers
Finishing Earlier than Expected
Exploring, All Avenues of Life
Bringing Lunch from Home
Well-Planned Architecture Downhill Mountain Biking
Downhill Skateboarding
Home-Made Sushi
Bohemians
Rice Pilaf
Big Sur
Joviality
Altruism
Humility
Candor
Nutrition
Backpacking
Being Prepared
Emotional Insight
Intellectual Pursuits
Warm, Bright Mornings
Hand-Written Letters
Common Interests
The Driving Range
Communication
The Sea
SCUBA
Rich Soil
Gymnastics
Watermelon
Website Design
Documenting Life
Jazz Jam Sessions
Writing Songs
And...
The lofty goal of getting enough sleep while immersed in a far-too-stimulating world
When introducing myself, I like to use the description of me given by a trusted friend who is also my neighbor, SCUBA diving buddy, surfing partner, and an innovative orthopaedic surgeon. “If I had to describe your merits,” he began, “I would say that you are diligent, courageous, and a natural leader. You are organized, efficient, and clearly motivated. You make people around you feel comfortable and you will make an enterprising dentist, or whatever else you choose to do. Humility and charm, combined with the ability to consciously understate the things that you are good at: athletics, music, art, interpersonal relationships, are likely to get you where you want to go.” Only a few months before that conversation, he was trying to dissuade me from pursuing dentistry and instead follow his path into the medical profession. Even then, I was intractable; my decision had crystallized. I had already begun volunteering and working in the dental field, finding that the more I became involved with dentistry, the more I understood how it meshed with my personality, individual talents, and career aspirations.
I am an orthodontist in residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Press
![“Through my experience with the Thousand Smiles Foundation in Ensenada Mexico, I had the opportunity to discover how the burden of disease can be lessened by research and clinical outreach.[...] A weekend with the Thousand Smiles Foundation surely shows that there is never a dull moment in dentistry.”
-ScienceAide Newsletter
May 2007](About_Me_files/shapeimage_25.png)
!["The ADA had chosen our group as one of the three to be highlighted in a video about volunteerism, which was shown at the annual session in San Francisco before a large audience," ... During the summer, eight students from the [UCSD] Pre-Dental Society and Student-Run Free Dental Clinics took part in a U.S. Navy mission on the USS Peleliu, a warship diverted to humanitarian care in the South Pacific.
-American Dental Association (ADA) News
November 2007](About_Me_files/shapeimage_31.png)
![“Electricity-producing bacteria (“electricigens”) have the remarkable ability to establish direct connections with insoluble extracellular electron acceptors (minerals) via bacterial nanowires ... Pili [that] can also facilitate long-range electron transfer across thick biofilm layers”
-Electrifying Bacteria!
American Society of Microbiology Blog
Feb 2008](About_Me_files/shapeimage_39.png)
About Me
