Specialty Nuclear Medicine Facility Sacramento Medical Center Department of Nuclear Medicine Address 2025 Morse Avenue Sacramento CA 95825 Map & Directions Telephone Appt/Advice: (916) 973-7007 E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

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Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Closed	8:30 am 5:00 pm	8:30 am 5:00 pm	8:30 am 5:00 pm	8:30 am 5:00 pm	8:30 am 5:00 pm	Closed
Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

About Me

After graduating from UCLA in 1987, I attended medical school in Chicago. Living in the Midwest was a change for me, especially the winters. I knew that I needed to come back home to California. I completed my 3-year residency in Pasadena, California in 1992. About midway through my residency, I took a liking to the physiology and imaging tools of Nuclear Medicine. I landed a two-year fellowship at UC Davis Medical Center and graduated from that program in 1997. My plans were to head back to Southern California, but my wife and I fell in love with the wine country and the Sierra Nevada.

After staying on staff at UC Davis Medical Center for nearly three years, I was extremely lucky enough to take on a full-time position in Nuclear Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento in July of 2000.

My colleagues, Drs. Marie Carlisle and Andrew Klonecke, and I help sponsor a yearly symposium for nuclear medicine technologists and trainees. I also participate in monthly tumor boards and medicine resident teaching sessions.

My Healthcare Practice

Technology is ever-changing, especially in my field on Nuclear Medicine. I try to encourage all of my patients to understand as much as possible about their health problems. I feel that knowing about one’s health condition reduces a lot of the anxiety and fears of common diseases. I encourage patients to ask any and all questions when they arise. I welcome my patients to contact me by clicking on the "E-mail your doctor" link above.

When interviewing patients, I try to explain disease processes as simply and thoroughly as I can. I want patients and their families to leave office visits with a sense of fully understanding how to help them thrive. “Oh, I wish someone would’ve made it that simple to understand in the first place” is like music to my ears.

Receiving Your Healthcare from Kaiser Permanente

Joining Kaiser Permanente was the best professional move that I’ve made. We are a big organization, but we're all so easily connected to one another through top-notch technology. I am able to instantaneously review imaging scans from any of my patients even if they were done in Fresno or in Walnut Creek, all at the click of a computer button.

My Outside Interests

Raising two kids is the ultimate ride. I know that before I realize it, they'll be grown up while discovering their own independence. Because of that, I try to spend as much time with family as possible. Kayaking, bike riding, and travel are some of the things that fill our weekends. I still occasionally play jazz trumpet (not very well anymore I might add), dabble in digital photography, and garden if the mood strikes.

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My Credentials

Medical school	Finch University of Health Sciences/the Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL
Internship	Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, CA
Residency	Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, CA
Board certification	Nuclear Medicine, American Board of Nuclear Medicine

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