Pulmonary Critical Care Internal Medicine Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.553

California

Education:

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York;
Biochemistry, B.S.             1962-1966

S.U.N.Y. - Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse,
New York; M.D. (cum laude) 1966-1970

Post Graduate Training, Military Services:

Intern, Department of Medicine, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, N.Y. - 7/70-6/71

Military, U.S. Public Health Service-Center for Disease Control,
Tuberculosis and Foreign Quarantine Programs - 7/71-6/73

Resident, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
in San Diego, CA - 7/73-6/75

Fellow, Pulmonary Disease, Pulmonary Division, University of
California at San Diego, San Diego, CA.  Trained in fiberoptic
bronchoscopy, intensive care medicine, respiratory therapy
management, and pulmonary physiology laboratory. - 7/75-6/77

Honor Society:

Alpha Omega Alpha - Honor Medical Society, May 1969.

Certification:

Board Certified - American Board of Internal Medicine, June 1975

Board Certified - Pulmonary Subspecialty, June, 1978

Board Certified - Critical Care Subspeciality, 1987, Recertified-1997

Licensure  

State of California

Memberships:

American College of Chest Physicians – Fellow

American Thoracic Society – Member

California Thoracic Society – Member

San Diego Pulmonary Society – Member

San Diego County Medical Association – Member

California Medical Association – Member

Society for Critical Care Medicine - Member

Appointments:

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California,
San Diego School of Medicine.

Medical Director, Transitional Hospitals Corporation-San Diego
Hospital (long-term acute care) 4/92-4/96

Medical Director, Vencor Hospital-Point Loma and San Diego  5/96-4/97

Associate Director Pulmonary Center/Critical Care Medicine  2/82-present

Experience:

2/78 - 1/82             Private practice of Pulmonary Medicine, San Diego, CA

2/82 - present       Associate Director of Pulmonary Center/Critical Care Medicine at two hospitals.

Special Courses:

Scientific Basis for Evaluation of Asbestos and Associated Diseases; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, Dec. 1982.

Bibliography:

Available upon request.