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My Office Hours

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

Welcome to my home page. By clicking on the links in the left-hand margin you can access many important relevant websites to obtain the latest recommendations about specific infectious disease Department of Infectious Disease or internal medicine issues. For example, the Project Inform website will link you with recent studies or research in which you might participate. For more information about me please read my biography below.

About Me

Before coming to Kaiser Permanente I worked in several environments with different practices. I worked "locum tenens" from Hawaii to South Dakota, including the Sioux and Navajo Reservations and visited several other countries from Ivory Coast to China, to become convinced that Kaiser Permanente is the best health care system - addressing the whole patient in an integrated way. Kaiser Permanenete applies new information technologies and human expertise to ensure the best, evidence-based care is offered not only to the individual patient, but also to the population. As a specialist, I feel privileged to work with a team of physicians that care about patients and collaborate well together.

I grew up in Colorado where I annually visit family and friends and ski as much as possible. I attended Bowdoin College in Maine where I studied Biochemistry. After graduation I moved to Boston. In the New England Medical Center I worked as a Spanish interpreter, and became interested in medicine, and learned to fly small airplanes. I eventually attended Harvard School of Public Health where I studied tropical medicine. The most important outcome of attending Harvard was meeting a girl from the Republic of Berkeley who unbeknownst to me at the time would much later become my best friend and wife. Returning to family, I attended medical school in Colorado.

Synthesizing interests in things tropical, Spanish and medical, I spent a year in Colombia on a Fulbright Scholarship working on diagnostic challenges related to such tropical diseases as leishmaniasis and onchocerciasis (river blindness). After completing medical school and internship in Colorado, my wife transplanted me to California where I completed residency in medicine at Stanford University and then did a fellowship in Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine. After further worldwide travel, seeking truths, I later saw the light and joined the Permanente Medical Group.

I continue at Stanford University both teaching at the Medical School and in the Human Biology Department where I organize a course entitled "Parasites & Pestilence" , and have taught the "International Public Health" class on occasion. I work as a student advisor and collaborate on many projects about infectiuos disease, public and international health. At Kaiser I have served as regional lead for the Travel Medicine Services and have chaired the Kaiser National Travel Medicine Conference since 2001.

My mother grew up in California where few surviving Bauernschmidts (German for Farmer Smith) still reside. Despite all of the international travel and ever since taking up residence in Hillsborough, I have adopted the ways of my family predecessors and started farming in our backyard where we keep chickens (Sam & Ella) and bees and make honey, tend the garden and compost and nurture a variety of fruit trees. My happiness centers around my nuclear family (though we make electriciy from solar panels and I drive an electric car), which includes my lovely wife Phyllis who professes at UCSF and 2 children.

Some of my personal interests and hobbies include developing sustainable green systems (rain water collection is the latest), malaria eradication, photography, mountaineering, and bee keeping. I believe in Thrive, which to me means working hard to eat local and what you grow, sweating at least 1 hour a day, if not from exercise then from trying something new and fun, and building a sense of community by maintaining long friendships in many places.

My Schedule

Patient appointments are generally scheduled in the mornings. I also work in the hospital and some evening clinics.

My Credentials

Medical school	University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO
Internship	University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
Residency	Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, CA
Fellowship	Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, CA
Board certification	Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Board certification	Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine

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