A Joseph Layon

A. Joseph Layon, MD is an intensive care physician. Trained at Grossmont, University of California, San Diego and UC Davis, and specializing in internal medicine anesthesiology and critical care, he has functioned as a clinician, ducator, investigator, division and department chair, Faculty Senate Chairman, Medical School Financial internationalist and--in what was the most difficult and painful task of all of these--as an (inadvertent) whistleblower in a compromised health system. Present at the beginning of the three major pandemics of our era--HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and SARS-CoV-2, he presently cares for ill fellow humans with these and other critical illnesses, writes, reads, rows, and remains an activist in the struggle to make our country and world livable, and just, for all.