Specialty Hospital Medicine Facility Oakland Medical Center Department of Hospital Medicine Address 280 W. MacArthur Blvd. Oakland CA 94611 Map & Directions

About Me

My Credentials

Medical school	Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Internship	UC Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Residency	Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Fellowship	UC Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Board certification	Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Board certification	Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine

Joined Kaiser in: 1974
Faculty: Clinical Professor, Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Outside interests: hiking; gardening; bicycling

Since training, I have spent my career at Kaiser Permanente, first in Southern California and since 1978 here at Oakland. After several decades of outpatient practice of Internal Medicine and consultative practice of Infectious Diseases, I decided in 1998 to take on a new type of practice, caring exclusively for patients who need to be in the hospital. This final turn of my Kaiser Permanente career has been wonderfully challenging and gratifying. I enjoy working in teams, with consultants, with doctors in training, with nurses and the many other highly competent hospital professionals at the Oakland Medical Center.

I enjoy music both as a listener and as a choral singer, bicycle for transportation and recreation, and keep a garden full of flowers and vegetables and two disreputable cats. I have grown kids of whom I am very proud, one a city planner and the other an editorial assistant for a New York publishing house.

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