Promoting Talent
Representing Distinguished Leaders in Arts and Sciences
Robert Lustig, MD MSL
https://robertlustig.com
Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), and The Hacking of the American Mind (2017). He is the Chief Science Officer of the non-profit Eat REAL, and Chief Medical Officer of BioLumen Technologies.
Lyn Coffin
https://www.lyncoffin.com
Lyn Coffin is an American poet, fiction writer, playwright, translator, and non-fiction writer who has authored thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, and translation. She has published fiction, poetry and non-fiction in over fifty quarterlies and small magazines, including Catholic Digest and Time magazine. One of her fictions, originally published in the Michigan Quarterly Review appeared in Best American Short Stories 1979, edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Her plays have been performed at theaters in Malaysia, Singapore, Boston, New York (Off Off Broadway), Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Seattle. She has given poetry readings with Nobel Prize winners Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz, and Philip Levine, among others. She is a member of Washington Poets’ Association and Poets West and Greenwood Poets. Poezia Press [1] published Coffin’s translation in shairi of The Knight in the Panther Skin Shota Rustaveli’s The Knight in the Panther Skin, a 12th-century epic poem from the country of Georgia. Coffin was awarded SABA, the Georgian National Literature Prize in 2016 [2] “Coffin may be the most accomplished writer most Americans have never heard of.” -Iron Twine Press: Seattle Poet Offers Epic 800 Years in the Making.
