Place & DOB:

San Francisco, California - February 15, 1954

Education:

Undergraduate
University of California, Santa Cruz
Major: History, 1970 - 1975

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
B.S. Zoology, 1980 - 1984

Medical School
Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
M.D., 1989

Internship
St. Mary's Hospital - San Francisco, California
Preliminary Medical Internship
1989 - 1990

Residency / Fellowship
National Rehabilitation Hospital - Washington, DC
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency
1990 - 1993

Licensure:

State of Texas, 1993

Board Certification:

Fellow American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 1996

Board Certified Pain Medicine, 2006

Board Certified Electromyography, 2008

Honors:

• University of Wisconsin - Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Dean's Lists
• Medical College of Wisconsin - Summer Research Scholarship, 1987

Memberships on Hospital Staffs:

• Texas Spine & Joint Hospital, Tyler, Texas
• East Texas Medical Center, Tyler, Texas
• Mother Frances Hospital, Tyler, Texas
• HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital, Tyler, Texas
• East Texas Rehabilitation Hospital, Tyler, Texas

Membership in Medical Societies:

• Fellow American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians
• Fellow American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
• American Medical Association
• North American Spine Society
• Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports, and Occupational Rehabilitation
• International Spine Injection Society
• Smith County Medical Society
• Texas Medical Association
• Texas Pain Association

Professional Activities:

Lectures
Numerous community lectures regarding spine and musculoskeletal disorders:

• "Neck, Back, and Myofacial Pain"
• "Components and Management of Chronic Pain"
• "Muscular Distrophies"
• "Neurogenic Bladder"
• "Rehabilitation of Peripheral Vascular Disease"

Other Professional Activities:

• Neurosurgical First Assistant
• Fluoroscopically guided spine and joint injections
• Electromyography (EMG)/ Nerve Conduction Studies
• Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring, Somatosensory Evoked Potentials, Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials
• Designated Physician - Texas Workers' Compensation Commission
• Independent Medical Exams
• Sports and Arts Medicine
• Former Resident Physician for National Symphony Orchestra and National Ballet in Washington, D.C.
• Botulinum Toxin Type A Injections for myofascial pain

Research:

Prophylactic use of Antibiotics in the Prevention of Ilizarov Pin Site Infections