BA, UC Berkeley
MD, University of Manchester School of Medicine
Peds Residency, Rush Medical Center St. Lukes Hospital, Chicago
Board Certified, Pediatrics

Unlike my fellow pediatricians and friends, I actually come from this place. I was born in San Francisco and raised in the East Bay, and did my undergraduate work at U.C. Berkeley, majoring in biological sciences. In my junior year I attended the World Campus Afloat, studying on a ship and sailing around the world. I acquired a taste for seeing the world, so I did graduate work in zoology and marine biology at St. Andrews in Scotland. Since I liked it over there, I continued on to medical school at the University of Manchester in England.

After that, I started my clinical training at Bolton, England, with six months of medicine and six months of surgery general training, and then started on the surgical specialty road for a year, but, to tell the truth, I got sick of patients behaving like children. I figured if that is what patients are like, I might as well get the real thing, and I switched to pediatrics, and that felt right.

I took three years of basic pediatrics residency at Rush Medical College and Presbyterian-St. Luke''s Hospital in Chicago. I was very happy making my way through the ranks and becoming Chief Resident, and I especially loved the smallest of the small, so I thought I would become a neonatologist. After finishing a two year neonatology fellowship where I was also an instructor at Rush Medical College, however, I found that I was missing a continuing relationship with the families that I met and became friends with in the nursery.

After all that training and travel, my wife moved back to the Bay Area and I followed her lead. I came home in two senses: home to the Bay Area, and home to primary care pediatrics. I worked briefly for Maxicare, and then joined Bayside Pediatrics, where I feel right at home.

I am Board Certified in pediatrics. Following families and their normal evolution through the years is exactly what I want to do. I am still very interested in premies and newborns, and I seem to be the one in the group who gravitates to the complex and bizarre illnesses that sometimes appear. Solving these puzzles is one of my real pleasures.