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About Me

I grew up in San Francisco and attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate. I strayed back across the bay to attend medical school at UCSF where I graduated with degrees in medicine and public health in 1994. I completed my residency training in internal medicine at UC San Diego. I came back to the Bay Area to do a health services research fellowship at Stanford and the Palo Alto VA Health Care System. I then took a full time position at Kaiser Redwood City in 2000.

I joined Kaiser Permanente because I felt it was a model for the delivery of health care and whose practice philosophy matched my own. It is an environment where I can concentrate on taking care of my patients without worrying about the day to day details of running a practice. At the same time, I saw that there were many opportunities to become involved in improving processes of care, opportunities that would not available in smaller, less integrated systems. I have always remembered an analogy I learned in public health school. Imagine people being swept down a river toward a set of waterfalls. All of the attention and resources were used in trying to save people from going over the edge of the falls but nobody was looking upstream to try to understand why people were falling into the water in the first place. As a hospital physician, my work is to care for patients that are acutely ill, much akin to the rescuers at the edge of the falls. I feel comforted in working in a system like Kaiser Permanente where I know that someone is looking upstream to try to keep people from falling into the river.

My professional interests are in decision analysis and decision support in clinical medicine. I also currently serve as the chief of the hospital based specialist group. When not caring for patients, I enjoy cooking, traveling and outdoor activities. My wife and I were recently blessed with our first child but I still enjoy running, hiking, snowboarding when I have the opportunity.

I understand that the hospital can be a confusing place. Please go to the links at the left-hand side of this page for helpful information regarding your time in the hospital and issues that may come up after discharge.

My Credentials

Medical school	UC San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Internship	UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Residency	UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Fellowship	Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
Board certification	Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

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