Facility San Rafael Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine Address 99 Montecillo Rd. San Rafael CA 94903 Map & Directions Telephone Appt/Advice: (415) 444-2940 1-800-735-2922 TTY Line E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

Welcome to my Home Page!

I am pleased to offer this web site as a means for patients to learn more about me and to provide links to useful handouts and medical information to assist in your on going health care needs.

If you click on any of the topics in the Navigator bar to the left, you will be brought to a page with a list of After care instruction sheets or to a list of many General Healthcare Topics that may answer some of the questions you may have about the disease or injury you were seen for in the emergency department

Should you have any suggestions or concerns with the Emergency Department web site, please contact me, as I have been given the duties of maintaining and updating the site.

Personal information

I grew up in Massapequa, New York, on Long Island. If you wonder why you think you’ve heard this name, it has been mentioned on Seinfeld, as Jerry Seinfeld graduated from my high school a few years before me (and has worked the name into shows). My family has since moved to Northern California. Some living in San Francisco, and the rest in Chico, where my cousin and brother manage the family pistachio, walnut, and prune orchard.

I did my undergraduate work, obtaining my B.S. in Chemistry from The University of Virginia. I then received my Masters in Biochemistry from The University of California at Berkeley. I found research to be too impersonal for my liking, which then lead me to change my career path to medicine at The Chicago Medical School

I obtained my Emergency Medicine residency at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was involved both in the emergency department, as well as flew as a flight physician for Butterworth Hospital’s Helicopter program. After residency, I returned to San Francisco in September of 1989, just in time for the Giants-A’s world series and of course the Earthquake. I started working in Kaiser San Rafael’s emergency department in 1990 as well as continued working as a helicopter flight physician for the next 4 years at Stanford University.

Interests: cooking, playing tennis and golf. Pro Sports with full or partial season tickets to the Giants, Niners, and Warriors.

Your comments and suggestions are always welcome, and I look forward to assisting you in our emergency department should the need arise

My Credentials

Medical school	Finch University of Health Sciences/the Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL
Internship	Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI
Residency	Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI
Board certification	Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine

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