Facility Walnut Creek Medical Center Department of Anesthesia Address Walnut Creek Site 1425 S. Main Street Hospital Central - 2nd Floor Walnut Creek CA 94596 Martinez Site 200 Muir Rd. Martinez CA 94553 Pleasanton Site 7601 Stoneridge Dr. Pleasanton CA 94588 Antioch Site - Deer Valley 4501 Sand Creek Rd. Antioch CA 94531 Telephone Appt/Advice: Walnut Creek - (925) 295-4739 Appt/Advice: Martinez - (925) 295-4739 Appt/Advice: Antioch - (925) 295-4739 Appt/Advice: Pleasanton - (925) 295-4739 E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

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About Me

I have been practicing anesthesia at Kaiser Permanente since shortly after I finished residency in 2001; I loved Kaiser then, and I still do, because of the skilled, friendly, and diverse colleagues I work with, and because at Kaiser it’s easy to practice good medicine without being bogged down by insurance and paperwork.

I chose anesthesiology as my medical specialty in my final year of medical school, after a protracted decision between it and psychiatry. (In retrospect, it’s clear I make a much better anesthesiologist than I would have made a psychiatrist.) Anesthesia is in large part applied pharmacology and physiology, and people drawn to it tend to be logical thinkers, as I am. We also enjoy and are good at the process of deducing from limited data (a patient’s medical history, what we see, and what the monitors tell us) what’s happening in the patient’s body and how we can intervene to keep the patient healthy while creating good working conditions for the surgeon. A day spent helping patients come out of their surgeries healthy and comfortable is a great day for me!

My big interest outside of medicine is computing. I spent several years at UC Berkeley doing graduate work applying artificial intelligence techniques to intensive-care medicine, and though I’m no longer doing research in that field I still try to follow it. On a related note, it’s not artificial intelligence, but given my joint interests in medicine and computing I feel lucky to work with KP HealthConnect: in scale and completeness there’s nothing like it, and it’s getting better all the time. It makes it easier to take excellent care of patients, and what better can you say about it than that?

If you and I ever meet as patient and physician, I look forward to giving you the best and safest anesthetic care.

My Credentials

Medical school	University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA
Internship	University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Residency	UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Fellowship	UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Board certification	Anesthesiology, American Board of Anesthesiology

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