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About Me

I was born in 1952 in Sidney, Nebraska and subsequently moved with my family 17 times in 22 years, as my father's profession in the oil industry led us from the midwest to Canada, Alaska, Ireland, and England with sundry stops in between. At 16 years of age I chose, with my parents' blessing, to stay in Alaska and finish high school along with my first two years of college at Fairbanks and Anchorage. Transferring to UC Berkeley in my junior year, I graduated in 1975 with a BS degree in biology.

Volunteer work in an emergency room at a hospital in Oakland gave me the clear feeling that I wanted to be involved in the medical field and in September of 1975 I began medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, graduating with honors in 1979. Internship and residency in general internal medicine followed at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California where I met and trained with several of the physicians that now work with me here in Santa Rosa.

I joined Kaiser Permanente at the end of my residency, working at the Santa Clara and Milpitas facilities from 1983 through 1988 during which time, in addition to a full time general internal medicine practice, I functioned as Chief of Quality Assurance, Chief of Physician Education, and Chief of Utilization Management. In 1988 my family and I moved to Santa Rosa to be part of the new hospital being built and to escape the South Bay and its prohibitive cost of living and congestion.

Since coming to Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa I have received training as a licensed medical acupuncturist, managed a large clinic practice until 1996, and then helped design and implement one of the first hospital-based specialist programs in the North Bay region. I've been working as one of the "hospitalists" at our facility for the past several years and, although I miss my clinic patients, I have clearly found what I enjoy doing in medicine in caring for the acutely ill patient in the hospital setting. I have been board certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine since 1983 and am also licensed to practice medical acupuncture.

I currently live with my wife, Linda, and our blended family in Windsor where we enjoy running in Foothill Park, riding our bikes throughout Sonoma County, skiing in the winter, and diving with the Diving Docs whenever we can.

My Credentials

Medical school	Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Residency	Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA
Board certification	Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

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