Dr. Chris Derk
was born in the United States by an American father and a Greek-Cypriot mother.
At an early age his family moved back to Cyprus where he was raised and
brought-up as a Greek-Cypriot. He attended a Greek-Cypriot elementary school and
then continued his studies at the well-known Kykkos gymnasium in the capital
city of Nicosia. He lived on the island from 1971 until 1986, during which time
he had the dubious distinction of bearing witness to the invasion of the island
in 1974, and the subsequent political events that followed. After graduating
from high-school in 1986 he moved to the United States where he furthered his
studies at the Pennsylvania State University receiving a Bachelors of Science in
1990. He continued on to receive a Medical Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1994. From 1994 until 1997 he
completed a three year residency in Internal Medicine at Abington Memorial
Hospital in Abington, Pennsylvania. In 1996 he married his wife Bessie who is
also of Greek descent. In 1997 after joining the United States Air Force he was
assigned to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida where he served as an
Internist, and by the time he left military service in 2000 he achieved the rank
of Major, and also held the position of Chief of the Internal Medicine Clinic at
the military hospital on the base. In 2000 he was awarded the Air Force
Commendation Medal for his work in the United States Military. He has published
articles in multiple medical journals, but this is his first attempt at
literature, chronicling life on the island of Cyprus from 1930 to the present.
He is currently a Fellow in Rheumatology at Thomas Jefferson University
Hospital, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
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Dr. Chris Derk
was born in the United States by an American father and a Greek-Cypriot mother.
At an early age his family moved back to Cyprus where he was raised and
brought-up as a Greek-Cypriot. He attended a Greek-Cypriot elementary school and
then continued his studies at the well-known Kykkos gymnasium in the capital
city of Nicosia. He lived on the island from 1971 until 1986, during which time
he had the dubious distinction of bearing witness to the invasion of the island
in 1974, and the subsequent political events that followed. After graduating
from high-school in 1986 he moved to the United States where he furthered his
studies at the Pennsylvania State University receiving a Bachelors of Science in
1990. He continued on to receive a Medical Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1994. From 1994 until 1997 he
completed a three year residency in Internal Medicine at Abington Memorial
Hospital in Abington, Pennsylvania. In 1996 he married his wife Bessie who is
also of Greek descent. In 1997 after joining the United States Air Force he was
assigned to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida where he served as an
Internist, and by the time he left military service in 2000 he achieved the rank
of Major, and also held the position of Chief of the Internal Medicine Clinic at
the military hospital on the base. In 2000 he was awarded the Air Force
Commendation Medal for his work in the United States Military. He has published
articles in multiple medical journals, but this is his first attempt at
literature, chronicling life on the island of Cyprus from 1930 to the present.
He is currently a Fellow in Rheumatology at Thomas Jefferson University
Hospital, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.