Overbrook High School.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Temple University.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Training

Internship---Hospitals of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Philadelphia

Residency---General Surgery. Bay Village Hospital,
Bay Village, Ohio

Fellowship

Gastrointestinal Surgical Fellowship.
Nakayama Surgical Department,
Chiba University Medical School.
Chiba, Japan

Thoracic Surgical Fellowship.
Uchiyama Surgical Department,
Kagoshima University Medical School.
Kagoshima, Japan

Licensure

 

Honors

Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons

Fellow of the American Society of Abdominal Surgeons

Fellow of International College of Surgeons

Professional Status

Medical Director,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Director of Medical Education,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Chief, Department of Surgery,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Clinical Professor of Surgery,
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

Clinical Professor of Surgery,
University of Health Sciences, Des Moines,
IO

Clinical Professor of Surgery,
Ohio University - College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, OH

Active Professional Staff,
Forum Health Care, Youngstown, Ohio

Director of Surgical Residency Training Program,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Director of Emergency Room Service,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Chairman, Quality Assurance Committee,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Chairman, Utilization Review, Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Chairman, Disaster Planning Committee,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Chairman, Strategic Planning Committee for Board of Trustee, Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Member,
Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators

Member,
Ohio Osteopathic Directors of Medical Education

Deputy Coroner,
Mahoning County, Ohio

President,
10th District Academy of Ohio Osteopathic Associations

Attending Staff Surgeons and Director of Emergency Services, Bay View Hospital, Bay Village, Ohio

Chief of Staff,
Bay Village Hospital, Bay Village, Ohio

Chief of Staff,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital, Youngstown, Ohio

Member, Board of American Cancer Society,
Mahoning County, Ohio

Curriculum Advisor, Paramedic Training Program,
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio

Member, Board of Trustees,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Member, Bioethics Committee,
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital.

Lectures and Presentations

Lecture: "Health Care Cost Impact Of Medicare/Medicaid",
Lake-to-River Health Coalition Seminar.
Warren, Ohio

Lecture: "General Surgical Application of Laser",
Laser Surgery with Podiatric Applications Seminar.
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Lecture: "The Fourth Scope",
Perplexing Problems Seminar.
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Lecture: "why, How and who of Quality Assurance" and " TQM-CQI",
Quality Issues in Medicine Seminar.
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Lecture: "Critical Care Issues: Whether or Not to Treat",
To Treat or Not to Treat: That is the Question Seminar.
Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital

Weekly lectures to house staff and externs

Addressed Post-Graduate Clinical Assembly of
American College Osteopathic Surgeons
(Common Bile Duct Surgery, Thoracic Trauma, Small Bowel Obstruction)

Addressed American College of
Osteopathic Emergency Room Physicians ("The Acute Abdomen")

Addressed Ohio Academy of Osteopathic General Practitioners
(Hiatal Hernia, Polyp Disease of the Colon, Colonoscopy)

Speaker: Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital for Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Osteopathic Physicians over the past ten years at seminars (Nodular Disease of the Thyroid, Gastric Bypass, Gastric Stapling for Morbid Obesity, Management of Pulmonary Infection by Surgical Means, Abdominal Pain)

Program Chairman, Annual Post-Graduate Seminar of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons

Published Articles

Journal of the American Osteopathic Association-
" The Acute Abdomen" And
" Bronco-Esophageal Fistulas"

New England Osteopathic Assembly, Speaker,
" Non- Cardiac Chest Pain and Chest Trauma".
New Hampshire

Co-Author: "Anergy Testing and Assessment Value of Total Parenteral Nutrition."

Surgical Experience and Training

General and Thoracic (Non-Vascular) Surgery

Genitourinary Surgery

Gynecologic Surgery

Endoscopy Procedures:

Upper Intestinal Panendoscopy

Rigid/Flexible Sigmoidoscopy

Colonoscopy

Laparoscopy (Peritoneosopy)

Thoroscopy

Mediastinoscopy

Cystoscopy

Trained with Drs. Norman Sonn and Jeffrey Aronoff to perform Dppler-guided hemorrhoidal artery ligation

Hair Transplantation Experience and Training

Live Workshop with Dominic Brandy, M.D., Pittsburgh, PA

Preceptorship with Robert Paunovich, D. O., Florida

3rd Annual meeting of International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, Nashville, TN

Hair '99, Cornell University, New York, NY