rendezvous

Arthur Pitchenik

Rendez-vous 136
Monday, April 29 2002

Thank you Arthur for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

Arthur Pitchenik: I'm currently chief of the Pulmonary section at the VA Medical Center in Miami and Professor of Medicine at The University of Miami School of Medicine. I graduated University of Virginia Medical School in 1962; Internship at Kings County hospital in Brooklyn; Residency at Los Angeles VA Hospital; and Pulmonary training at The Brompton Hospital in London, England.

Kori Titus

Rendez-vous 117
Monday, November 26 2001

Thank you Kori for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

I'm Kori Titus, director of STARS and Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down!, two projects designed to work with the entertainment industry to reduce the unintentional glamorization of tobacco depictions in movies and television. I have been the director of these projects since 1999 when I became intimately involved with tobacco control. Prior to that, I had been a volunteer at the American Lung Association of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails (ALASET) for a number of years working on numerous agency priorities.

Patricia Diaz-Romo

Rendez-vous 110
Tuesday August 28 2001

Patricia is the producer of the documentary "Huicholes and Pesticides"
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Thank you Patricia for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself? 

Patricia Diaz-Romo: I was born in Guadalajara, in the state of Jalisco, in Mexico. The Huichol Indians live in the Mexican part of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in the states of Nayarit, Durango, Zacatecas and in the north of Jalisco. They have kept their own forms of social organization and their own religious beliefs. During part of the year many Huichol families migrate to work as daily laborers in the tobacco fields of the state of Nayarit, along the Pacific Coast. That is the main tobacco production area in Mexico.