David Bradford Welsh was raised in Dartmouth, MA, graduated from Iowa State University where he majored in physics, received his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine, did internship and residency in Albany, NY and Buffalo, NY. He and his wife, Ahlene, a metalsmith, spent three years in Japan while he served in the Air Force following which they settled in Claremont, CA. Dave joined the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and practiced vascular surgery at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, CA They have two sons, Joe and Terry, and a daughter-in-law, Clara.