Mickey Lebowitz, originally from Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of SUNY Oswego (magna cum laude and student athlete of the year) and Upstate Medical University and a board-certified endocrinologist/diabetologist (Fellow, American College of Endocrinology). He has worked in a physician-owned practice, as an employed physician, in the VA system, and currently as an endocrine hospitalist. He spent seven years as a hospital-based senior medical quality director and is currently a chief medical officer at a health-care transportation company. He's an educator, serving as the medical director of a physician assistant program in upstate New York, and an author, whose first book, Losing My Patience, was published in 2009. Through Six Seconds, he is a certified assessor, practitioner, facilitator, and coach in emotional intelligence (EQ), coaching clinicians, nurses, and health-care students on leadership, professionalism, and interpersonal relationships. He has given countless presentations and workshops on EQ locally and nationally and is in the process of publishing his research on the impact of EQ on his PA programs' students. He has been on the list of Best Doctors in America, is an honoree of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (Breakthrough T1D), and has received awards for preceptor and resident teaching, community service for educating health-care professionals on wellness and burnout, dedication and loyalty to the medical profession, and excellence in health-care education, as well as the NYSSPA Physician Advocate of the Year award.Dr. Mickey is most proud of being married to his wonderful wife since 1982, having two fabulous children with awesome spouses and three precious granddaughters, whom he is in love with, head over heels. For fun he likes to exercise by walking, biking, hiking, swimming, and kayaking. He loves traveling, writing songs, rapping (yes, rapping!), and volunteers heavily in his faith and secular community, and he is a FANatic rooting for his favorite teams.