Day 17: M.D Dzau - Tuesday 27/4

Today I only had one thing on my mind and that was meeting the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Duke Health System. His name is Victor Dzau.

In the morning we had a look at a cigaret plant which was rather interesting, but at 2 o'clock I would meet Dr. Dzou. Don’t ask me why, but I was a bit nervous. Mister Newman told me that it was very hard to get an appointment with the man and it was only because his wife is a Rotarian that this meet and greet was made possible. Apparently a lot of people were jealous that I was gonna meet the almost holy man.
I thought that this meeting was going to be short, but he was very interested in the UZ Gent and my findings at Duke. So we had a nice chat and I could share some of my ideas with him. He might even come to Ghent to see how we operate our hospital. Of course he is more than welcome.

Newman and I had some time to kill after the meeting before Bart Cleary would pick me up to drive to Ashville. We had a light snack and got to learn each other on a more friendly basis, talking about gun legislation, family and girlfriends (mine not his :-), work and my critical opinion upon the GSE and Rotary, the time passed rather quick.

Than it was a 5hour drive to Ashville and was lucky to be in the car with Karine Ito, a Brazilian peace Scholar from Rotary....

Nick