Emergency Medicine RSD Doctor Expert Witness

Current Titles:

Director, Institute for Exploration and Travel Health
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

Medical Director
King-American Ambulance Company, San Francisco, CA

Attending Physician
Novato Community Hospital, Novato, CA

Attending Physician
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine (volunteer)
Veteran Administration Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

EDUCATION

2001-2003 Residency: Emergency Medicine
UCSF-Fresno, Medical Education Program
University Medical Center, Fresno, CA

1999-2000 Internal Medicine-Internship
California-Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco, CA

1992-1999 Univ. of Texas-Houston M.D. (1999)

1992-1999 Univ. of Texas-Houston Ph.D. (1999) Neuroscience
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

1986-1991 Univ. of California, Berkeley B.S. (1991) Entomology

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

2010 Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences

2009 Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians
(FACEP).

2009 Cal-ACEP Research Forum “Most Innovative Research
Project” Students: Amy Balanoff, Joseph Tonna.

2005-2009 Annals of Emergency Medicine “Top Peer Reviewer”

2004 American Pain Society Emergency Medicine Scholar Award

2003 Borba Research Award
Outstanding Research Paper by a Resident or Fellow at UCSFFresno.
Rickettsia sibirica infection in members of scientific expeditions to northern Asia.

2002-03 Emergency Medicine Foundation
Resident Research Grant. Fundamental mechanisms of pain.

2002-03 Annals of Emergency Medicine
Resident Fellow, Editorial Board
Section Editor, Residents’ Perspective

2001 United States Army Special Forces
Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding teaching of Special Forces combat medics
Jacobi Hospital
Bronx, New York

SELECTED ACADEMIC & RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

2010 Director, Institute for Exploration and Travel Health
California Academy of Sciences

2010 Expedition Doctor, Field Museum (Chicago) excavation of early Cretaceous basal hadrosaurs and large theropods.
Capitol Reef National Park.

2008-present Research Associate of the California Academy of Sciences
Expedition medicine, developing venomous animal treatment protocols, invited speaker for 200th Anniversary of Darwin’s birth lecture series and continuing my research (by supervision)
on the host-parasite interactions of larval Manduca sexta and its parasitoid Cotesia congregata.

2008-2009 Course Director, Wilderness Medicine Elective
School of Medicine UCSF (2 units). Invited Speaker,
Emergency Medicine Interest Group

2008-present Director, California Chapter of American College of Emergency
Physicians (ACEP) Research Forum.

2008-present Expedition Doctor, Pisco Basin Paleontology Project
(Peru). Funded by National Geographic, The Kellogg Foundation and U.C. Berkeley Division of Mammalian
Paleontology.

2007-2009 Member, UCSF Emergency Department QI committee (review
cases with bad outcomes or questionable management)

2007-present Associate Editor Tintinalli Updates 6th Ed. (McGraw-Hill)

2006-2008 Visiting Associate Professor Keio University School of Medicine

2005-2009 Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine (Full-time
faculty). Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

2005-2010 Senior Peer Reviewer, Annals of Emergency Medicine

2005-2007 Member, San Francisco EMS Advisory Committee

2004-2009 Principal Investigator Effect of CO2 on apnea during Procedural sedation. Risk factors for apnea during procedural sedation.

2003-2009 Residency Research Director, Division (2003-2007) and Department of Emergency Medicine (2007-2009), University of California, San Francisco.

2003-present Basic Research Electrophysiological changes occurring with nociceptive sensitization. NO-cGMP-PKG pathway in nociceptive sensitization. Parasite induced hyperalgesia.

2003-2005 Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine. Stanford University School of Medicine

09/16/2003 Race Doctor Möet Challenger Series Americas Cup Boat rematch Alinghi (Switzerland) vs. BMW-Oracle (USA).

2003-present Expedition Doctor Mongolian-American Expedition to the Gobi Desert, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009. Sponsored by the
American Museum of Natural History.

2003-present House Doctor San Francisco Opera

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