Review - Potluck & Free Lecture “Fine Tuning Your Vegan Diet” by William Harris,

May 14, 2009

There was a potluck & free lecture " Fine Tuning Your Vegan Diet " by William

Harris, MD last Saturday on May 9 which was hosted and sponsored by SFVS.

His talk was educational and spirited.

It was almost a who's who of vegetarians in the Bay Area at the IOA.

We had restaurateurs based in San Francisco, a world renown inspirational

speaker and half the SFVS Board. I am sure there were others that I missed among

the 85 attendees.

A bio of Dr Harris follows.

Dr. Harris is the author of The Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism. He earned

his BA in physics at UC Berkeley as Phi Beta Kappa '58 & MD from UCSF `63;

served his medical internship at San Diego County Hospital; worked as First

Chief at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla CA Emergency Dept.; worked for Southern CA

Permanente Medical Group Walk-In Clinic in L.A.; served as volunteer physician

in charge of civilian pediatric ward in Bac Lieu General Hospital, South

Vietnam; worked for L.A. County Medical Group Emergency Dept.; worked in

Emergency Dept., for Hawaii Permanente Medical Group; voted by peers as one of

10 best HPMG physicians in 1975 & 76; served as Director Kaiser Permanente Vegan

Lifestyle Clinic in Honolulu; retired September 1998 after 34 years of medical

practice and took up skydiving next day. Other interests include Champion Big

Ten Trampoline 1950; sponsor/coach of Hawaii Highflyers Trampoline Club; Hang

gliding and aerobatic sailplane pilot with commercial single and multi-engine

rating; and U.S. Parachute Assoc. License with 1,032 jumps with last jump

4/11/09; and belongs to Sky Divers Over 60. His other interests include physics,

math, classical music (composer with CD), computer technology, and freelance

writer for Mensa Journal and vegetarian publications. He has been a vegetarian

since 1950 and a vegan since 1963 and has served as Vegetarian Society of Hawaii

Newsletter Editor and currently serves as Board Secretary.

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