Michael Phillips is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and a fellowship at the University of California San Francisco, a physician, and a clinical professor of medicine. He spent nearly thirty years in academic internal medicine and clinical research (University of Connecticut, Georgetown University, Chicago Medical School, New York Medical College) until a great stroke of luck changed everything: his hospital went bankrupt and he was unemployed. That freed him up to spend all his time on his favorite hobby, which is developing breath tests for early detection of diseases such as lung cancer, breast cancer, and tuberculosis.