Kilbourn Gordon III, M.D., completed residencies in emergency medicine and ophthalmology. He helped to establish the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the California College of Medicine, Irvine, California, where he was assistant professor of emergency medicine. For several years, he was the director of the Examination of the Patient Course, the medical students’ first exposure to patients. He lives with his wife, Caroline Britton Gordon, in Darien, Connecticut, and is clinically active in urgent care medicine.