CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

• Scripps Coastal Medical Center (formerly Sharp Mission Park Medical Group), 7/90 to present, full-time since 11/92.  Duties: Associate Medical Director; Founder & Director, Skilled Nursing Facility & Subacute Care Team (since 1996); Family Practice, Urgent Care, Minor Procedures. Chair, Utilization Management Committee. ~40 hours weekly. Location: 2201 Mission Avenue, Oceanside, CA 92054. Also regularly attend residents in ~15 local nursing homes and multiple Assisted Living Facilities. Contact: Louis Hogrefe, M.D., Medical Director. (760) 901-5258.
• Hospice By The Sea, 8/95 to present. Duties: Medical Director. 4-10 hours monthly. Location: 312 S. Cedros Ave., Ste. 205, Solana Beach, CA 92075. Contact: Kathie Jackson, Administrator. (858) 794-0195.
• Las Villas de Carlsbad (Skilled Nursing Facility & Residential Care Facility for the Elderly/CCRC), 9/07 to present. Duties: Medical Director. ~5 hours monthly. Location: 1094 Laguna Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92008.  Contact: Carol Carroll, Administrator. (760) 434-4322.
• Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital, Oceanside, CA, Clinical Faculty, Geriatrics and Long-Term Care Clinical Preceptor, 2002 to date. Contact: Capt. William Holman, (760) 725-1398.

• EDUCATION AND POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
  * Residency in Family Medicine (including internship ‘87-88), UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA, 6/87-6/90. Contact: Tyson Ikeda, M.D., Residency Director, (619) 543-5776.
  * Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, Graduated (M.D.) 6/12/87. Member, American Medical Student Association, Director (Ohio) of Medical Education/Community Orientation Project, Commendation in Psychiatry, Recipient of Landacre Society Award for Student Research.
  * Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, Graduated (A.B. Biochemistry) 6/80. Cum Laude General Studies, Member Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770, Sophomore Standing Candidate, National Merit Scholarship Recipient.
  * Kaplan College, Life Care Planning Certification, completed 2005.
  
• PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Family Physicians, California AFP, San Diego AFP, American Medical Directors Association (AMDA--including Public Policy Committee), President: California Association for Long-Term Care Medicine (formerly known as CAMD, the state chapter of AMDA), AMA, California Medical Association, San Diego County Medical Society, American Geriatrics Society, National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization, Gerontological Society of America, International Society of Addiction Medicine, American Academy of Home Care Physicians, American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, International Psychogeriatric Association.
  
• OTHER EXPERIENCE
  * Medical Director, La Paloma Healthcare Center (Skilled Nursing Facility), Oceanside, CA, 1995-2007.
  * High school science teacher (and swimming/cross-country coach), Fieldston School, Bronx, NY, 1981-83.
  * Research Projects: Determinants of compliance in iron-deficient adolescents, Reduction of exercise-induced muscle damage by pre-treatment with diclofenac, Community-based trials of antiretroviral drugs, appetite suppressants, new Alzheimer drugs. Investigator in multiple postmarketing studies on for dementia, agitation, smoking cessation, weight loss (Protocare and other agencies).
  * HBO McKesson: InterQual Products Group, Marlborough, MA, Consultant for Rehab Utilization Levels, 1998 to date.
  * Speaker, AMDA Primer on Nursing Home Care, CALTCM Educational Seminars, CAHF Quality Health Care Foundation, AbComm, Forest, Roche, Glaxo SmithKline.
  * Consultant Expert on Geriatrics & Long Term Care, www.videojug.com.