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My Office Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	9:00 am 5:30 pm		1:30 pm 5:30 pm		1:30 pm 5:30 pm
Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

I am pleased to offer this website as a way of making helpful medical information available to my patients. Parts of it will change from time to time. Please e-mail me if any of the links on my page do not work, and let me know if you have any suggestions. Because of my administrative responsibilities, the hours listed above are only an approximation of when I am seeing patients in my office. When I am not available, one of my colleagues will always be here to help you.

My Credentials

Medical school	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Residency	Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Board certification	Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics

Why I Am a Kaiser Permanente Physician

Our goal at Kaiser Permanente is to be your health plan of choice and deliver the high quality medical care that you deserve. I am proud to be a member of an excellent pediatric department within an excellent health care organization. Rest assured that the advice and treatment that I provide is based on what I judge to be best for your child based on my scientific training and my years of experience. Practicing at Kaiser Permanente allows me to make decisions based on what I think is best for the patient without worry about financial matters. I also have access to great colleagues and specialists should your child need further care. Our information technology allows me instant access to most all of the information that I ever need and it is constantly improving.

Why I Am a Pediatrician

One of the reasons I chose pediatrics as a specialty is because I enjoy the combination of taking care of the sick and the well. One patient may have an infectious disease and the next is a parent wanting some advice on child rearing, the next a teenager with a sports injury, followed by a a nervous/exhausted mother and her newborn here for their first check-up. Pediatrics has a great history of preventing disease through immunizations and promoting healthy lifestyles. I hope that by teaching young families early, it will make a difference in a child's long term mental and physical health. Although it is a consant reminder of my own ageing, I have the pleasure of now seeing my former patients bringing their own children in to see me.

Appointments

If I am your child's regular pediatrician, when you call for an appointment, every effort will be made to have your child see me. However, if I am unavailable, one of my associates will be able to take care of your child's health care needs. Click on the left to see our routine appointment and shot schedule.

E-mail

If You Would Like to Communicate by E-Mail, clicking on my e-mail address above will first take you to a set of guidelines. Please read and follow these. You will probably find that, for short questions, using E-mail is easier than trying to use the telephone.

My Story

My wife and I have lived in Roseville since 1980. We have 2 children. Our son graduated from Jesuit High School and the University of Notre Dame and is now married and living in Chicago and working as the Director of Technology at an elementary school. Our daughter graduated from Granite Bay High School and the University of California at Santa Barbara. After working as an ecologist for a few years, she returned to school at New York University to obtain a nursing degree. She is now working as a Labor and Delivery nurse at Mad River Hospital in Arcata, CA. My wife is also from Pittsburgh (we met in high school!) and is a C.P.A. When I'm not taking care of my young patients, I like to travel, scuba dive, ski, golf, bike, fool around with photography and computers, watch movies, and listen to music (the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and other ancient groups).

How did I get here?

I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and like many boys, dreamed of playing first base for the Pirates. As a teenager, I figured out that my athletic skills wouldn't get me very far. After a brief career playing guitar in a rock band, I decided that school wasn't so bad. I started college at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, thinking I would be an engineer. After my first engineering course, I switched to chemistry and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. I then attended medical school and received my M.D in 1977. Having spent 26 years in Pittsburgh, I decided to try something new and so moved to California to do my three year pediatric residency. While in LA, I got to know some of the pediatricians at Kaiser and liked the way they practiced. I felt that it was easier to practice high-quality medicine when the physician did not have to be involved with the business aspects of running a practice and could work closely with other excelent physicians in many specialties. I found out about an opening in a place called Sacramento, I checked it out, and I've been here ever since.

Professional Affiliations

I am a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness and the Council on Clinical Information Technology. I belong to the Sacramento Pediatric Society, the Placer County Medical Society, and the California Medical Association. I am also the Chief of the Department of Pediatrics for the North Sacramento Valley (Roseville, Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Lincoln, Folsom, and Davis) so I am now only able to spend about half of my professional time seeing patients.

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