Claude FrazierA well-trained and successful scientist, Dr. Frazier began his career in science as a graduate student at the Oregon Graduate Center and the California Institute of Technology. After receiving his Ph.D. from Caltech, he participated in research progrms at the Institute for Strahlenchemie in the Institute for Kohlenforschung in Germany and at the University of Georgia. As an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, he taught undergraduate and graduate students and developed a productive research program. Later, at the corporate laboratories of Martin Marietta, Dr. Frazier developed an innovative program in nonlinear optical materials. While his years as a research scientist were satisfying, Dr. Frazier's interests were evolving and he decided to attend medical school to transition to the next phase in his career. After medical school and a year as a resident in internal medicine in Baltimore, he trained as a dermatologist at the Gulf South Medical and Surgical Institute in Louisiana, subsequently practicing dermatology in Mississippi and Louisiana. Drawing upon his considerable expertise, he currently excels as the medical director of Frazier DermaSurgery and Aesthetic Dermatology in Knoxville. In addition to his continued enthusiasm for research and medicine, he entertains his life-long passion for literature and has published two novels "Sanguinary Longings" and "Caribbean War: A Sanguinary Longings Novel" within the last two years. The characters in his novels are faced with a rapidly changing, confusing, dangerous world. Read More Read Less