Schmalfeldt, Bill

It's been an interesting career. I've been a radio disc jockey, news director, program director, talk show host, and I was one of the original broadcasters at XM Satellite Radio. I've been a newspaper editor, writer, reporter and columnist. In between radio and news gigs, I drove 18-wheeler for a living. I eventually found myself working for the federal government, as a writer-editor with the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, a job from which I was forced by Parkinson's disease in March 2011. Parkinson's disease... It was just about three weeks after my 45th birthday in 200...