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Department Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Closed	8:30 am 4:30 pm	8:30 am 4:30 pm	8:30 am 4:30 pm	8:30 am 4:30 pm	8:30 am 4:30 pm	Closed

Please note that my office hours may be different from my department’s hours of operation.

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My Biography

I came to work at Kaiser Permanente because I wanted to work in the Bay area, and I appreciated Kaiser’s health care model. I think the comprehensive, integrated system is a superior manner in which to deliver medical care, and the model fits in well with my personal philosophy of how medicine should be practiced. As Chief, my aim was to create a department where people truly want to come to work every day. Collegiality among providers in our module is the norm; we are not competitive within our department or across boundaries and there are no “turf wars.” The result of this environment is that patients receive the kind of care that is best suited to them.

I love interventional radiology—the challenge of it, and the patient contact I have. Patient contact is somewhat unusual in Radiology, but as an interventionalist I get to interact with members. I enjoy learning new procedures and bringing them to the medical center. One procedure in which I follow developments and innovations is endovenous ablations, a treatment implemented for varicose veins. I helped to begin San Francisco Medical Center’s CT program.

I serve as our department Chief, and I run the Nighthawk system, a program I started in 2003. The Nighthawk system allows for two radiologists to be on call throughout the night. I sit on the Radiology Standard Sourcing Team for Ultrasound, CT and Intervention. At the national level, I serve on the Imaging Core Group, and I chair the Regional Radiology Chiefs Group.

My hobbies include science fiction, golf, wine tasting, gardening, playing piano, and woodworking projects. I belong to both a movie and a book club. I do a four-to-five-mile run three days per week, and I bike occasionally. I eat mostly vegetables, cheeses, and fruits, with not much meat in the diet. I’ve completed our own online Healthwise program.

An interesting fact about me is that my grandmother is the last of the 13 original Jacuzzi children. Her older brothers are the ones who invented the whirlpool and pump. I am married to my lawyer wife, and we have one kid who is a senior in high school, one who is a junior at University of California at Davis, and two cats named Smokey and Pepper! I heartily welcome you to our Radiology department.

Undergraduate Education: AB in Biology, University of California at Berkeley
Professional Affiliations: Society of Interventional Radiology; Radiologic Society of North America; American Board of Radiology; California Medical Association; American Roentgen Ray Society
Professional Conferences: Society of Interventional Radiology
Awards: Sydney Garfield Exceptional Contribution Award (2006)
Began Practice: 1983
Joined Kaiser Permanente: 1983

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My Credentials

Medical school	UC Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Residency	Mount Zion Medical Center of The University of California, San Francisco, CA
Fellowship	San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Board certification	Diagnostic Radiology, American Board of Radiology

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