Dr. Joe

I try to keep wordy posts to a minimum on this blog. So i’ll try to be as short and sweet as possible.

While at an event at Princeton University a few years ago, I met a man by the name of Pedro José Greer. I got to know him fairly well and he told me to look him up if I was ever in Miami, where he lives.  I was reading the news today and discovered that he just got the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here’s the full story.

I thought i’d share an excerpt from the blog post that I wrote the day I met him.

One nice man I met during lunch today at the conference was a man by the name of Pedro Greer. His daughter goes to Boston College and is also at the conference. She’s extremely nice. Pedro’s wife is nice too. The entire family is extremely nice. I spoke with Pedro quite a bit during lunch. It was fun getting to know him. He’s probably one of the nicest guys i’ve ever met. He was so friendly and so down to earth. He was sitting at the same table of Gloria Estefan…they’ve been friends since childhood. He told me he was a doctor in the Miami area, but a simple google search led me to learn that he wasn’t just any doctor in Miami. He was big time…and quite well known. Here is just one article I ran into online:

Little Havana’s “Dr. Joe”

We spoke awhile and in the end he gave me a goodbye hand-shake, told me his name and told me to be sure to look him up if I was ever in the Miami area. Like I said, I love to meet new people and make new friends. You can be sure that if I’m ever in Miami, i’ll be looking up “Dr. Joe” to pay a visit and see how their family is doing.

Here is a picture of his family (the three on the right…and he might have more kids….I don’t know). The dude on the left is just one of the conference dudes. The young lady is the crush of the day.