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Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

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After being born in Oakland, I moved to Pittsburg while very young and did all of my K-12 schooling there. After finishing high school, I attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where I finished my undergraduate studies and then moved back up to northern California to attend Touro University - Mare Island for my graduate degrees. My clinical rotations while at Touro took me down to Bakersfield and Kern Medical Center where I learned trauma orthopedics first hand.

I came onboard in Orthopedics at Kaiser Permanente in August of 2007, and I work primarily out of our new Antioch Medical Center. I have a particular interest in total joint replacement and trauma orthopedics, which we see a lot of in the very active east Contra Costa County. Kaiser Permanente Orthopedics subscribes to many of the same philosophies that I do such as in patient education, preventive medicine, and involving the patient and clinician to make decisions together regarding treatment regimes.

On a personal note, I am very active outside of Kaiser Permanente in softball, golf and winter sports. I am also currently serving in the United Stated Army as a Captain and in 2011 was in Iraq as a medical officer in Support of Operation New Dawn. I was deployed to several areas of the country including Al Asad where I was attached to a Combat Support Hospital, Basrah where I was the orthopedic specialist for a Troop Medical Clinic and Besmaya where I was the sole provider at a Battalion Aid Station. During the deployment my skills were sharpened by the opportunity to practice combat medicine. I come from a large family which is deeply rooted in public service both in medicine and law enforcement in the East County.

My Education and Credentials

Undergraduate Education	BS, Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate Education	MS, Public Health, Touro University - Mare Island
	Masters Physician Assistant Studies, Touro University - Mare Island
Professional Experience	Sutter Delta Dept. Emergency Medicine 2007-08
	Kaiser Permanente Dept. Orthopedic Surgery 2007-present
	US Army 2008-present
	Operation New Dawn, Iraq 2011
Professional Memberships	California Academy Physician Assistants
	American Academy Physician Assistants
	Society of Army Physician Assistants
	Physician Assistants in Orthopedic Surgery

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