EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

SURGICAL INTERNSHIP: Johns Hopkins Hospital 1982-1983

 

SURGICAL RESIDENCY:  Johns Hopkins Hospital, General Surgery 1983-1988

           

RESEARCH: Research Fellow, Division of Cardiac Surgery,  Johns Hopkins Hospital 1984-1986

 

FELLOWSHIP:

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Cardiothoracic Surgery 1988-1991

Memorial Hospital - Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute Thoracic Oncology  7/1989 - 1/1990

                       

ATTENDING STAFF:

University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 03/92-8/96

Assistant Professor Cardiothoracic Surgery

 

University of California at San Francisco, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 08/96-11/02

Director Cardiothoracic Transplantation

Director Mechanical Support/Adult ECMO

West Virginia University, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 12/31/02-10/31/04

Professor and Chief

HSCN 9238

Stamford Hospital, Stamford Health Systems 11/1/04- 7/7/2012

Surgeon-in- Chief

Chairman, Department of Surgery

Director Thoracic Surgery

Program Director, General Surgical Residency

Director of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care 3/2006 to 9/2008

ACS Cancer Liaison Physician Stamford Hospital 11/2004-7/2008                     

 

Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons 11/2004- 7/2012

Professor Clinical Surgery

 

Quinnipiac University School of Health Sciences 6/01/10-7/2012

Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor

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Central Michigan University College of Medicine 10/1/2012- 04/05/2014

Chief Medical Officer

Professor and Chief of Thoracic surgery        

Director Surgical Critical Care

Director CME Performance Improvement

Executive Director LEAN- CMED Systems Excellence

Chair- LCME Accreditation Self Study

Co-Chair Admissions Committee

Executive Sponsor LEAN Improvement

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Coney Island Hospital 02/17/2015- 01/03/2017

Chairman of Surgery

Clinical Director LEAN

Professor St. George University