Academic Background

Present Position:

Director, Microbiology Services
Department of Hospital Laboratories

Address:

89 Puritan Road
Waban, MA 02468

Medical School:

Yale University School of Medicine, MD (1978)

Graduate Medical Education:

1978-1981 Resident in Pediatrics, Yale-New Haven Hospital
1981-1984 Fellow, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Hospital
1984-1987 Fellow, Microbiology Service, National Institutes of Health
1990-1992 Fellow, Combined Program in Human Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Certification:

National Board of Medical Examiners (#201579), 1980.
American Academy of Pediatrics, (#29383), 1983.
American Board of Pathology, Medical Microbiology, 1986.
American Board of Medical Genetics, Clinical Cytogenetics, 1993

Licensure:

The Board of Medical Examiners of the State of Maryland, D33781 (expired 1987).
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, (Reg.#: 58562, Expires 6/18/03).

Current Academic Appointment(s):

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine

Current Medical Staff Appointment(s):

Staff Physician, UMass Memorial Group Practice

Interests

I oversee laboratory and clinical aspects of the microbiology laboratories, including aerobic  and anaerobic bacteriology, mycobacteriology, mycology, parasitology, and virology. I am involved with teaching and training of Medical Students, Pathology Residents, and Infectious Diseases Fellows (Department of Medicine). I am a member of the Steering Committee in the Department of Hospital Labs. I sit on the UMMMC Clinical Process Improvement Committee, and chair its Laboratory Advisory subcommittee. I also sit on the UMMMC Pharmacy and Therapeutics Antimicrobial Subcommittee, the UMMMC Infection Control Committee, and the UMMMC Disaster Committee.