PRACTICE
Active Staff: Doctor's Hospital of Coral Gables, Larkin Hospital, Surgical Park Center
General Surgeon for Miami Heat, NBA Professional Basketball Team

SURGICAL TRAINING
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL
4300 Alton Road, Miami Beach, FL 33140
Surgical Residency: July 1982 to June 1987
Chief Surgical Resident, July 1986 to June 1987
Awards: Outstanding Junior Surgical Resident, 1982 to 1983

EDUCATION
Board Certified, American Board of Surgery, December 1988
recertified December 1996 through July 2019

Medical License: Florida #43059, October 10, 1983
National Boards: passed parts I, II & III

Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
August 1978 to May 1982, MD award May 1982
Medical Education Committee, 1979 to 1982
Editor, Medical School Yearbook, 1982

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
September 1974 to March 1978
B.S. Microbiology, Awarded Cum Laude, March 1978
Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honor society, May 1975
President, Tau Epsilon Phi, social fraternity, 1976

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American College of Surgeons, Fellow initiated October 1991
Founding member, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, President 1991, 1992
Society of American Gastrointestinal Surgeons (SAGES)
Board of Governors 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
American Hernia Society
Dade County Medical Association (DCMA)