Pediatric Endocrinology Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.485

Florida

Education

1984-1988
Doctor of Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL

1981-1984
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, cum laude, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

1980-1981
Yeshiva University, New York, NY

Training

1991-1994
Fellowship, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Schneider Children’s Hospital
The Long Island Campus of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY

1988-1991
Internship/Residency - Department of Pediatrics, Schneider Children’s Hospital
The Long Island Campus of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY

Licensure

Florida
October
New York

Certification

November 1998
American Board of Pediatrics
Recertified, 1999-2005
Recertified, 2006-2012

August 1997
American Board of Pediatrics, Subspecialty Board of Pediatric Endocrinology
Recertified 2005-2011

November 1991
American Board of Pediatrics

June 1989
National Board of Medical Examiners

Honors

1998
National Cooperative Growth Study.  12th Annual Investigators Meeting. 
Poster Abstract on “The Effectiveness of Bone Age Studies in Differentiating Short Stature
Due to Growth Hormone Deficiency Versus Constitutional Delay of Growth”.  One of two winners.

1997
Florida Medical Association, Certificate of Recognition, Broward County Medical Society, Appreciation
for Educational and Professional Services Rendered to Children, Teenagers, the Homeless, the
Indigent Elderly and the Medically Indigent.

1993
Summer School for Young Pediatric Endocrinologists in Training. 
Co-sponsored by: Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and The European Society for
Pediatric Endocrinology.

1983
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society

1982
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society
Golden Key National Honor Society

1979
Chapel of Four Chaplains Community Service Award

Employment

2000
Private Practice in Pediatric Endocrinology, Florida.  May to present

1994-2000
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, FL
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Pediatric Specialty Center

1984
Key Pharmaceuticals, Medical Research and Development Dept., N. Miami, FL  January-June

1982Miami Heart Institute, Miami Beach, FL, Laboratory Research Assistant
July-September

Academic And Research Activities

2000-present
An International Growth Study, Clinical Investigator

1998
Research Grants from Pharmacia, Serono and Eli Lilly: Determination of Referral Practices of
General Pediatricians for the Diagnosis of Short Stature

1997-present
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Nova Southeastern University of Osteopathic Medicine
Fort Lauderdale, FL
March-Present

1994-present
A Cooperative Growth Study – Clinical Investigator

Memberships

Lawson Wilkins Endocrine Society
American Academy of Clinical Endocrinologists
The Florida Endocrine Society
The Endocrine Society
Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
American Medical Association
Governor’s Children’s Initiatives Committee

Publications

Available upon request.

Abstracts

Available upon request.