David W. Mantik

After attending a one-room school in the Northwoods, and then the local high school, I had seen enough of my father’s Wisconsin dairy farm. I declined my mother’s advice to attend medical school and instead opted for an MS in physics at the University of Illinois and a BS and PhD in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An NIH postdoctoral fellowship in biophysics came next at Stanford University, and then a tenure-track physics post at the University of Michigan. While there I often pointed my best students to medical school, so I finally took my own advice—and thus married my classmate while in medical school in Ann Arbor.

After residency at USC, I joined the faculty at Loma Linda University Medical School and supervised the residency training program. I used the proton beam to treat cancers of the prostate and of the head and neck area. I have also spent many years in private practice in Rancho Mirage/Palm Desert, CA, and then more recently I became a peripatetic radiation oncologist. I am usually licensed in 8-10 states and have also worked in Hawaii and New Zealand. My interest in the labyrinth of the JFK assassination was triggered in 1991 by Oliver Stone’s movie, JFK.