Phillip Arthur Fields received his BS degree from the
University of Florida (1969) and his PhD in biochemistry from Texas A&M
University (1976). He has been teaching human anatomy and human
embryology to medical students at the University of South Alabama, College of
Medicine in Mobile, Alabama since 1980. His desire is for his students to
become successful doctors, and to have fun and enjoy the journey getting there.
Since 2009, he has completed over 125 marathons with leukemia, including one in
every state and every Canadian Province. He has written this book with the hope
that those diagnosed with cancer will never give up on living, and will find
and hang on to their passion to the very end. He will donate all profits
from this book to charitable organizations including pediatric oncology.
