Fellowship, Hematology/Oncology, University
of California, Irvine, CA,
1998- 2001
Board Certified, American Board of Internal
Medicine, 1998-2008
Categorical Residency in Internal Medicine, PGY-2 and
PGY-3, University of California, Irvine, CA, 1996-1998
Internship in Internal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 1995-1996
University of California Irvine College of Medicine,
1991-1995
University of California at Riverside, 1985-87, 19881990
St. Andrews University, Scotland, Academic Year 19871988; U.C. Education Abroad Program
M.D., University of California Irvine College of Medicine,
June 1995
B.S. in Biology, University of California, Riverside, June
1990
Activities/Committees
Medical Director of Solari Hospice, 2003
Melanoma Group, U.C. Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2000-2001
Psycho-oncology Task Force, U.C. Irvine Chao Family
Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2000-2001
Awards/Honors/Grants
UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Seed Grant, 1999-2000
Senior Humanitarian Award, U.C. Irvine College
of Medicine, 1995
Service Award, UCI College of Medicine, 1995
Outstanding Service Award, Associated Medical
Students U.C. Irvine College of Medicine, 1994
Student Fellowship Award, American Cancer
Society, 1992
Bachelor of Science with Upper Division Research
Honors, U.C. Riverside
Senior Honors Thesis: .Characterization and
Biological Effects of T-Cell Binding to the Extracellular Matrix,. 1990; Professor Carl F. Ware,
Ph.D., Research Advisor
Undergraduate Mini-Grant for Honors Research
Project in Immunology, 1989
Society Membership
Active Member, American Society of Clinical
Oncology, 2002-Present
Personal
Happily married to Kelly, with children Caitlyn,
Kirya and Alysha
Hobbies include family, camping, alpine skiing,
reading cosmology and English and American
literature
