Barry Maron (Figure 1) was born in Los Angeles, California, on 22 August 1941, and he grew up there. After public high school, he went to Occidental College in Los Angeles, graduating in 1963, and then he went to New Orleans, Louisiana, to Tulane University School of Medicine, where he graduated in 1968. His internship was in pediatrics at University Hospitals, University of Wisconsin, in Madison, and his 1-year residency in pediatrics was at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California.