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Speaker Profile: Gordon Livingston
An accomplished psychiatrist and writer is a source of wisdom about life, love, and family.
Travels From: Baltimore, MD
Areas of expertise: Relationships, Love, Family Author of:
About the speaker:
Gordon Livingston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in upstate New York. He attended the U.S. Military Academy and upon graduation as an infantry officer was trained as a parachutist and an Army Ranger. He served for two years in the 82nd Airborne Division before attending medical school at Johns Hopkins from which he graduated in 1967. He interned at Walter Reed General Hospital before volunteering for Vietnam where he served as the Regimental Surgeon for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. He was awarded the Bronze Start for Valor. He trained in adult and child psychiatry at Johns Hopkins where he is now a part-time Assistant Professor. He is a parent twice bereaved and his first book, Only Spring, described the death from leukemia of his six year old son. He is the author of the recent bestseller, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, which is now in it's sixth printing. He has published in a variety of magazines and newspapers, including the Readers Digest, the San Francisco Examiner, the Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun. He is the father of four grown children and lives with his wife Clare in Columbia, MD where he continues to practice psychiatry. Livingston Speech Topics:
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Relationships in the 21st Century
The Essential Virtues
Love and Listening
The Most Dangerous Food to Eat is a Wedding Cake
Happiness and the Art of Navigation
Fear is the Prison of the Heart
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Video Samples:
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How to Love
And Never Stop Dancing
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Only Spring