Alfred Lee Anduze, M.D. is a native Virgin Islander, born in Christiansted, St Croix, with additional family roots in Iberian Europe, North Africa and the  Eastern United States. As a West Indian, he grew up among the great storytellers and fabricators of a small but widespread multi-ethnic community and acquired an unquenchable love of reading and original stories.

 

He comes from a solid line of writers, including his grandmother, Mildred V. Anduze, father, Aubrey A. Anduze, and Leonard Anduze, Eric Anduze, Rosa Pagés Anduze of France and Pablo Anduze of Venezuela. While as a practicing ophthalmologist producing scientific papers for journals and lectures for the international circuit was a vocation, writing original stories has been his passion. 

 

After serving his community as Assistant Commissioner of Health, President of the Ophthalmological Society of the West Indies, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at University of Florida, Editorial Board of the Annals of Ophthalmology, and lecturing in 32 countries, he holds an Andrew Weil Fellowship in Integrative Medicine and a Master's certificate in Herbal Medicine.  In 2012, he retired to farm medicinal plants and organic coffee in the mountains of Puerto Rico.  Away from the halls of conventional medicine, he strongly advocates that the best way to treat disease is not to get sick in the first place. The health books are designed for readers interested in strategies related to disease prevention, quality of life, and longevity.

 

With a basic interest in biology, botany, biochemistry and physics, he's currently in pursuit of the desire for enlightenment available through books and the natural lure of creative writing which rotates around original stories of life in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Tails series follows Cyril the Crab, an influential crustacean residing at and in the reef of Pelican Cove, on the island of St Croix. As the local "Don," Cyril provides  protection and advice to the area's plants and animals and often participates in many of their adventures.