Background & Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Plastic Surgery - November 15, 1985
CERTIFICATION:
Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine - December 1996
American Society of Addiction Medicine - December 17, 1988
Advanced Cardiac Life Support - Renewed 1998

Professional Background

Post Doctoral Medical Education:

Residency: Plastic Surgery Residency (1st & 2nd years) 1978 -1980
Oklahoma Health Science Center Chief Resident, Plastic Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center 1975 - 1977
Department of General Surgery (2nd and 3rd years of General Surgery)

Internship: General Surgical (1st year General Surgery Residency),
1971 - 1972 Tripler General Hospital
Honolulu, Hawaii

Medical MD: Medical College of Virginia 1967 - 1971
Research - Medical Student participation in medical Education 1970 -1971
Voting Member of Admissions Committee, Medical College of Virginia 1969 -1971
Position at graduation: Highest Honor Graduate

Premedical: B.A. University of Michigan 1959 -1963 (Psychology)
Research Assistant, Metabolic Research Laboratory (J. Conn, M.D.) University of Michigan
Medical Center: (Biochemical extraction of Aldosterone) 1962 -1963
Research Assistant at Mental Health Research 1961-1962
Institute: (Study of psychomotor drugs)

HONORS:

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Fraternity 1970 -1971
President, Brown-Sequard Chapter
Sigma Zeta Scientific Honorary Society 1971
Alpha Sigma Chi Medical Leadership 1971
Honorary A.D. Williams Scholarship 1970
International Studies (Six Months at St. Bartholomews 1970 -1971 Hospital, London, England)
H.H. Ware Award (Highest Honor Graduate, Medical 1971 College of Virginia)

Publications and Presentations

Using the Contour Profile for Breast Augmentation, Issues & Answers, Mentor, Fall 1996, pp: 4-5

Report of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons Committee on Physicians Health, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, February 1993, pp: 373-374

Liposuction of the Lumbar Roll Area, Aesthetic Surgery, Comparing Notes, Fall 1994, pp: 22

Use of Reston Foam in Liposuction, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 1993, 17:49-51

Liposuction of the Upper Back, Lipoplasty Society Newsletter, Lipoplasty Society of North America, Summer 1992, 9:18-19

Suction-Assisted Lipectomy of the Upper Arm: A Four Cannula Technique. In: Miller SH, et al, Yearbook of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, Mosby Year Book, Inc. Chicago, 1992, pp:171-3

Two Arcane Areas in Liposuction: the Banana and the Sensuous Triangle. > In: Swanson NA, et al, The Yearbook of Dermatologic Surgery, Mosby Year Book, Inc. Chicago, pp:185-6

Two Arcane Areas in Liposuction: The Banana and the Sensuous Triangle, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 15:175-180, 1991

Suction Assisted Lipectomy of the Upper Arm: A Four Cannula Technique, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 14:271-274, 1990

Remember the Twist, Lipoplasty Society Newsletter, Lipoplasty Society of North America, Fall 1990, p.17

A Modest Proposal, Journal of St. Bartholomews Hospital, London, England, October 1970

Hobbies and Interests

Running, Weightlifting