David Hovda is the director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center. Before participating in a panel on how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are changing medicine, he talked about New Mexican cooking (it is not Mexican and it’s definitely not Tex-Mex), why he’d be OK with losing his sense of sight, and the secret USC paraphernalia he’s got stored in his garage.
Whose talent would you like to have?
Tiger Woods’.
What keeps you up at night?
Funding my junior faculty.
Were you a bully or bullied as a kid?
Bullied.
Do you consider yourself right-brained or left-brained?
Left-brained.
What food are you most likely to binge eat?
Green chili.
What’s your least favorite household chore?
Picking up the dog poop.
Do you have a favorite household chore?
Cooking.
What’s your specialty?
New Mexican. Not Mexican. New Mexican. There’s a big difference. It’s not Tex-Mex.
If you had to lose one of your senses, which would you choose?
Sight. I could read braille, and I love music, and I like to hear people talk and communicate with people.
What are you keeping in your garage that you should have thrown out already?
USC paraphernalia I’ve collected that I was going to do jokes with.
