Here is what you do.  Purchase an inexpensive pedometer and wear it daily for a week.  At the end of each day note how many steps you took. By day seven find your daily  average.  During week two and all subsequent weeks, increase the daily number of steps you take by 1,000.  If you start with a daily average of 2,000 steps, increase to 3,000 steps daily on week 2, 4,000 steps daily on week 3, and continue on until you reach 10,000 steps daily. 

We are very pleased to announce that Robert Nesheim, MD has accepted  the position of Hamm Clinic Executive Medical Director.  Dr. Nesheim  arrived at Hamm Clinic when he was awarded a Bush Fellowship - a year-long grant which evolved into a permanent staff position.  This was in keeping with the grant's intentions of improving access in community psychiatry.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Saint Olaf College, University of Minnesota Medical School (MD 1975), and completed full residencies in Internal Medicine (U of MN) and Psychiatry (Mayo Clinic) in addition to Fellowship training in consultation psychiatry.  

Dr. Nesheim's wife, Marlys Johnson, MA LP is a child psychologist who specializes in early childhood issues in underserved populations. They have two sons - Andrew is now completing graduate school in Boston, and Matthew is somewhere in the rain forest of Paraguay with the Peace Corps.  Dr. Nesheim enjoys church music, environmental causes and advocacy, and "silent sports" - bicycle commuting, hiking, canoeing/kayaking and winter-woods skiing.

P.S.  Dr. Nesheim thinks that the Twin Cities provide ideal  bicycle commuting opportunities through all four seasons!