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About
Us
Below you will find additional
information about our Board of Directors. We currently have
an email discussion list for peers to use to address current
events and formulate plans for countering the false and misleading
propaganda being spread by misguided doctors in America and
abroad.
Click on a doctor's name to be
taken to a brief bio. If you are a doctor and have
interest in membership, please use rkba2001@comcast.net to
introduce yourself.
Co-Founder/Director
Dr.
William B. Rogers
Board of Directors
Michael S. Brown, O.D. (media contact: 360-901-9930)
Dr. John A. Bennett
Andrew Johnstone, RPh/MD
Jeremy D. Blanks, Ph.D.
Dr.
William B. Rogers, Co-Founder, Director
Dr. William B. Rogers is a psychiatrist with an MD from
Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
1977.
He did a medical internship at Oakland Navy Hospital, Oakland,
CA -- with studies in pediatrics, ER medicine, occupational
medicine, Navy operational medicine, orthopedics, neurology,
neurosurgery, internal medicine, primary care clinics, OB/GYN and
psychiatry.
His psychiatry residency was at Oakland Navy Hospital, Oakland,
CA. 1978-1981--affiliated with University of California at San
Francisco and Berkely and Stanford University.
Dr. Rogers is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology -- 1985
He has further training in community mental health, treatment
of serious and persistant mental illnesses, Jungian psychology,
theology, comparative religions, and comparative mythology.
Dr. Rogers is passionate about the American Revolution, the War
Between the States (American Revolution, Round 2), the Battle of
the Bulge (where his father was a decorated veteran at age 17),
and the right of all American citizens to keep and bear arms as a
fundamental tenet to maintaining freedom and liberty.
Professional Website:
https://webmd-practice.healtheon.com/dr/pages/psychiatricconsultation
Partial Self-Defense Writing Archive:
http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com/Rogers
"Expertise in one field does not carry over into other
fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of
knowledge the more
likely they are to think so." ~~Lazarus Long
Dr. John
A. Bennett
Dr. John A. Bennett is a Family Physician practicing in Sequim,
Washington, on the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula.
He received his DO degree from the College of Osteopathic
Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa in 1979 and completed a
rotating internship in Flint Michigan in 1980. A former member of
the Governor-appointed Washington State Board of Osteopathic
Medicine and Surgery, he is Certified By the American Osteopathic
Board of Family Physicians. A strong supporter of the
Patient-Physician relationship, he is the current President of the
Washington Chapter of the Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons.
While not a hunter, shooting hobbyist or marksman, Dr. Bennett
is a Viet Nam veteran and a strong supporter of the Constitution
in general and the Second Amendment specifically. He is the
Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Clallam County and is the
Libertarian Candidate for US Congress in the 6th District of
Washington.
Candidacy Website:
http://www.bennett4congress.com
Letter to
Editor of JAMA about Brady Bill
"Ask not what your country can force other people to do
for you." ~~Anonymous
Andrew
Johnstone, RPh/MD
After obtaining a degree in Pharmacy from the University of
Cincinnati in 1981, I moved back to my home state of Indiana to
finish my education, graduating cum laude in 1985 from Indiana
University School of Medicine. Although more prestigious and
lucrative specialties were thus options for me, I preferred the
‘big picture’ and interpersonal aspects of Family Practice,
and completed internship and residency at St. Francis Hospital.
I try to practice medicine the way I think it should be
(patient focused), rather than the way ‘managed care’ wants it
to be (profit focused). I am convinced that a physician can make a
decent living doing things the right way, and providing the kind
of health care services patients want, if he or she works hard and
learns to innovate and be efficient. The result has been
personally rewarding, and I actually feel I sometimes make a
difference in patients' lives, not always in a mere medical
sense.
One of my interests is in the Public Health aspect of firearms
ownership, and I am continually shocked at the dangerous public
policy positions of the organized medical lobby. The distortion
and outright fabrication of ‘facts’ is well documented and
refuted in the criminologic literature, and the thought that
physicians would actually lobby for such counterproductive and
dangerous legislation is worrisome indeed. I can only hope that
more physicians will take the issue seriously enough to become
more informed, and allow scientific objectivity to prevail over
irrational fears and political deception.
Andrew Johnstone, RPh/MD
Indianapolis, IN
Email Contact:
AJMD@KeepAndBearArms.com
Recent Article:
The Brady Bill - A Case Study in Failed Public Policy
Michael S.
Brown, O.D.
Dr. Brown received his doctoral degree in 1978 from Pacific
University in Forest Grove, Oregon. He currently practices general
optometry in a large multi-disciplinary clinic in Vancouver,
Washington. His sub-specialty is Low Vision, which involves
helping partially sighted persons to read with various types of
magnification aids.
He is the moderator of a large email list for discussion of gun
issues in Washington state. His op-ed articles discussing many aspects of the gun debate
have appeared in several major newspapers and on numerous internet
news sites.
Partial Writing Archive:
http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com/Brown
Personal email:
rkba2001@comcast.net
Telephone for media contacts only: (360) 901-9930
Jeremy D.
Blanks, Ph.D.
Dr. Blanks holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Fluorine and Analytical
Chemistry from the University of Alabama (1995). Currently, Dr.
Blanks is a Senior Research Scientist with the DuPont Company,
which is the leading R&D company in the world. His research
interests include fluorinated electronic gases, sub-ppm level
analyses, the destruction of perfluorinated compounds, and general
fluorine / halogen related chemistry.
Up until only a few short years ago, Dr. Blanks would have been
characterized as a supporter of many of the gun control schemes
currently being offered. However, through extensive research into
the issue of gun control and the effects of such measures, he
reached the conclusion that firearm ownership by law-abiding
citizens saves lives and lowers the crime rate. He is now a strong
supporter of self-defense rights and the 2nd Amendment. In
addition to self- defense and science related topics, he is
interested in politics, education, history, travel, and the
Alabama Crimson Tide. Dr. Blanks is married to Dr. Jian
Sun-Blanks, who is also a research scientist with DuPont. They
have a three-year-old daughter, Jessica Lonnue Crimson. On a side
note, Lonnue is Chinese for "daughter of the dragon" and
Crimson represents Dr. Blanks' life long passion for the Alabama
Crimson Tide.
Dr. Blanks has published over a dozen scientific and technical
papers through various journals and he has presented his work on
numerous occasions at international scientific meetings.
Additionally, he has
published several articles on self-defense rights in a number of
news outlets. He began publishing articles in the area of self-defense
rights with the goal of using his background to focus a scientific
light on this complicated and often misrepresented topic.
Dr. Blanks has been a professional member of the American
Chemistry Society for over a decade and is a life member of the
National Rifle Association.
Personal web site:
http://www.wserv.com/~crimson/nra.htm
Personal e-mail:
crimson@wserv.com
Recent scientific publication:
http://www.micromagazine.com/archive/98/04/allgood.html
Recent self-defense publications:
Photo of Dr. Blanks and his family on the Great Wall of China:
http://www.wserv.com/~crimson/china.jpg
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