Mailing Address
MEDLink
1613 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
Scheduling Phone: (415) 399-9769
Scheduling Fax: (415) 399-9439

Education
University of California, Davis, CA, Bachelor of Science, Genetics 1977
University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, Doctor of Medicine 1985

Internship
Internal Medicine, Los Angeles County - USC Medical Center, 1985 - 1986

Residencies
Internal Medicine, Los Angeles County - USC Medical Center 1986-1988
Anesthesiology, Los Angeles County- USC Medical Center 1988-1990

Fellowship
Pain Management, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 1999-2000

Board Certifications
American Board of Pain Medicine 1999 - 12/31/2019
American Board of Anesthesiology since 1993
American Board of Internal Medicine since 1990

Appointed Qualified Medical Evaluator
Division of Workers’ Compensation Medical Unit, 2013

Private Practice
Private practice in Sacramento, CA, 2008 - Feb. 2018
Founding Member, Sacramento Pain Clinic, Sacramento, CA, 2002 - 2008
Pain Specialists, Sacramento, CA, 2001 - 2002
Private practice in MMC Anesthesia Group, PC, Oak Ridge, TN 1991 - 1999

Hospital Appointments
Sutter Davis Hospital, Davis, CA

Professional Appointments
Consultant, Habeus Corpus Resource Center of the State of California, Indigent Death Row Inmates, 2014-2015
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center 2000 - 2001
Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, Methodist Medical Center 1991 - 1997
Founder, MMC Anesthesia Group, PC, 1991
Visiting Professor, Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine, Universidad Autonoma De Guadalajara, Mexico 2007

Presentations
Sympathetically Maintained Pain/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, UC Davis 9th Annual Review and Update of Pain Management June 3, 2000
Sympathetically Maintained Pain/ Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, UC Davis 10th Annual Review and Update of Pain Management, June 9, 2001
Therapeutic options for the treatment of Post Herpetic Neuralgia, Sacramento, CA December 5, 2002,
January 8, 2002
Multidisciplinary Pain Management, UC Davis Family Practice Ground Rounds, November 18, 2003
IEA Course on Medical Management for Workers’ Compensation, Sacramento CA
March 11, 2004, April 21, 2005
Review of Pain and Treatment Options, Sutter General Hospital, October, 2004
Suffering is Optional: Understanding Chronic Pain, Sutter Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA,
May 2005 – October 2006
Implantable Pain Therapy for End of Life Care, Kaiser/Sutter Health System, Sacramento, CA, October 29, 2005
Practical Pain Management, Grand Rounds Sutter General Hospital, March 10, 2006
Practical Pain Management, Grand Rounds Sutter Davis Hospital June 21, 2006
Tapering Chronic Narcotics in Appropriate Pain Management Patients, Sutter Health Training Center, Sacramento, CA May 2, 2007
Opioid Pain Management, Sutter Health Physicians Ground Rounds, Yuba City August 30, 2007


Publications
“A Review of Sympathetically Maintained Pain Syndromes in the Cancer Pain Population”, Pain Practice. Volume 1 Issue 4 December 2001
“Challenges and choices in drug therapy for chronic pain”, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. Volume 70 Issue 2 February 2003

Licensure
State of California


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