A fourth-generation Californian, Richard Sessions grew up and attended college in the San Joaquin Valley. After a stint as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy, he moved to Los Angeles and received a Master's degree from USC before taking a position at UCLA in pediatric research administration involving "high risk" infants. He held other senior administrative positions working closely with medical scientists and engineers while obtaining a second Master's degree from UCLA. After 19 years he was recruited by a neuroscience institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon....