After finishing the Internal Medicine residency I needed to get “research experience” to get into cardiology fellowship program. For this to happen I needed to convince the people in the Cardiology department of Emory University that I was seriously interested in full-time research. I contacted Dr. William Weintraub who at that time the was the director/incharge of Emory Cardiovascular Databank and Research. Probably the only cardiologist who knew more about the computer programming than anyone else in the country.

Dr. Weintraub was using Informix 4 gl on the Unix workstation and BMDP statistical software for its statistical calculations and and generation of data. He became my mentor and directed me into computer programming and database management.