The "ARIEN" (Alien) III - The Arecibo Incident

Dr. Jerry J. Marty received his medical degree (M.D.) in 1976 from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. After that, he completed six postgraduate years of training at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Postgraduate Year one), Strong Memorial Hospital/University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (Postgraduate Years two to three, and five to six) and completed an additional year in straight Internal Medicine at Saint Joseph's University Hospital -VA Medical Center/Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska (Postgraduate Year four). A Visiting Fellowship in Clinical Cytology and Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) was undertaken in the fall of 1989 under the World-renowned Dr. Torsten Lowhagen at the Karolinska Hospital and Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. An eight (8) week Fellowship in Forensic Pathology was taken under the direction and tutelage of Dr. Werner Spitz, Co-Author of the "Bible" of Forensic Pathology - Medicolegal Investigation of Death (now in its 5th Edition, 2020) at The Detroit Medical Examiner's Office in Detroit, Michigan, lamentably designated murder capital of the United States, at that time. The author is Board-certified in Anatomic, Clinical, and Cyto-Pathology with a sub-specialization in Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Cytology. He has authored several publications in peer-reviewed medical journals and two separate Book Chapters in his field of expertise, specifically in Cytopathology and Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Cytology. Among his earlier responsibilities, Dr. Marty held teaching positions at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and later at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy (now Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine, NEOMED), Rootstown, Ohio. A Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at George Washington University, School of Business (GWSB), Washington, D.C., was conferred on May 17, 2009. Dr. Marty's most recent professional position until 2016 was as Chairman of Pathology and Medical Director of Laboratories at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center (MFSMC), a three-hundred-seventy-eight (378) bed Joint Commission (JC) accredited hospital facility in Baltimore, Maryland. Apropos of the location chosen for this creative, nonfiction work, Dr. Marty spent many of his early years in Puerto Rico. Later, he had a home in northwest Puerto Rico, near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a facility for the Radio Telescope Observatory. The Author is based in the United States and enjoys travel, photography, and Chess when not working.