Education
BA – Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1977
MD (Medicine) – U. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1981
General Surgical Residency – Los Angeles Co – U. of Southern CA Med Center, 1986
Vascular Surgery Fellowship – U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 1988
Board Certification
American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
American Board of Surgery, Vascular Surgery
Professional Activity (Current)
Professor of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Professional Activity (Past)
Medical Co-Director, Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
President, Southern California Vascular Surgery Society
Chief, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Treasurer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Staff
Board of Directors, Los Angeles Tennis Club
Chief, Department of Surgery, Midway Hospital
Honors and Awards
Merck Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement – U. of So. CA Med School- 1981
Alpha Omega Alpha
President’s Award for Best Manuscript – Southern Assoc. for Vascular Surgery, 1988
Who’s Who in the Western United States
Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
Top Doctors in the US (Center for the Study of Services)
Friends of Nursing Award – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 2002
Angelo May Guest Professor, 50th World Congress, Am. College of Angiology 2003
Professional Organizations
American College of Surgeons (Fellow)
Association for Academic Surgery
International Society of Endovascular Specialists
Los Angeles Surgical Society
Nathan A. Womack Surgical Society
Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society
Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery
Society for Vascular Surgery (former ISCVS, AAVS)
Society of Graduate Surgeons of the Los Angeles County – University of Southern California Medical Center
Society of Vascular Ultrasound
Southern California Vascular Surgical Society
Western Vascular Society
