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Los Angeles County, CA November 7, 2000 Election
Smart Voter Full Biography for Charles T. Black, M.D.

Candidate for
State Senator; District 23

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Brief Professional Biography:

Dr. Black is a self employed physician, presently in the
full time practice of medicine as a pathologist. He does locum tenens work and this requires some amount of traveling. He is licensed to practice in several states and is board certified in his specialty. He began his career at the Wadsworth Veterans Hospital in West Los Angeles after completing his training in Pathology and a Fellowship in the study of Clinical Chemistry. He became a professor in Pathology while there at the school of medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He taught students, pathology residents and technical students while at the Veterans Hospital.
Dr. Black has extensive business experience in
directing medical laboratories both commercial, private and government. He was a Vice President for medical affairs and medical director for Psychemedics Corporation in the late 1980's. He has been in business and is familiar with the problems that businessmen face not only due to markets but also the influences and problems with government regulations and bureaucracies. In the last few years he has been working contracts in various parts of southern and central California. He has also worked extensively in Texas.
He is a graduate of Harding University with a bachelor
of science degree and a medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He was raised in Texas and moved to Southern California after graduating from medical school in order to begin his residency training. He has traveled in a number of parts of the world and has lived overseas for a period for the purpose of studies and also work assignments. He is unmarried, 52 years of age and has lived in Malibu for 21 years. He enjoys Scuba diving, classic cars and collecting artwork.
He is a lifelong libertarian and believes in the
sovereignty of the individual. That the only real function of government is as Mr. Jefferson said to preserve the rights of the individual. He as a physician is used to making tough decisions and his experience in dealing with government agencies, his varied business interests and his philosophy of what government is, what it can and not do and what it should and should not do is qualification enough.

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