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Meet...Rob

Name: Rob Gourdie, Ph.D.

Department: Regenerative Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology, MUSC-Clemson Bioengineering

How long at MUSC: 15 years

Favorite TV show: “Myth Busters”

Best play list on your iPod: NPR – Fresh Air, On Point, This American Life

A unique talent you have: Mean cricket fast bowl (pitch)

First job: Golf caddy

Bad habit: Asking one too many questions

First thing you notice about a person: What makes them grin

Favorite restaurant: Chez Antonia—wife Toni’s kitchen

One thing you can’t live without: My mountain bike

How would you spend a million dollars: Buy Toni that new car she has been hassling me for and the New Zealand vacation below

Dream vacation: Take Toni and our three children to visit their extended family in New Zealand

Favorite quote: Ezekiel’s cosmic tree…“All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.”


Friday, June 4, 2010

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