Honors and Awards:

Honored by several patients for outstanding clinical care

Circle of Friends Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 2021

Grant for patient treatment and research, awarded for excellence in patient care.

Charles Brewer Fiscus Foundation, California Community Foundation, 2020

Special Licenses/Certifications:

Advanced training in clinical trials, inflammatory bowel diseases, sponorsed by the Crohn's Colitis Foundation

2010

Professional Activity:

Medical Board of California, consultant, Expert Reviewer Program

2021

Editorial reviewed, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).  2005-present

2021

Serve on the FDA advisory panel for gastrointestinal drugs, 2012-2014

Consultant, FDA advisory panel for gastrointestinal drugs, 2014 to present

2012

Community Service:

Volunteer physician, COVID-19 vaccination outreach

2021

Volunteer physician, Los Angeles County Emergency Services

2021

Volunteer physician, Venice Family Clinic 1996-2010

Publications, Lectures and Presentations:

Case presentation for the Psycho-Social Conference of the Division of Gastroenterology at Cedars-Sinai

Case presentation, Psycho-social GI Conference, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 2020

co-author , Now you see it now you do not: a case of infliximab-induced vanishing bile duct syndrome, American College of Gastroenterology Case Reports Journal, 2019

Co-author, Hypoalbuminemia and bandemia predict failure of infliximab rescue therapy in acute severe colitis independent of the infliximab dose, Gastroenterology abstract, 2018

Author, Sexually transmitted esophagitis: primary herpes simplex virus type 2 infection in a healthy man, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 1999

Author, Early dysphagia after placement of a self-expanding esophageal stent: severe esophagitis mimicking luminal occlusion, American Journal of Gastroenterology, 1995

Author, Fatty liver due to heterozygous hypobetalipoproteinemia, American Journal of Gastroenterology, 1994

Other Outstanding Achievements:

Chair, Peer Review Committee, Department of Medicine, Providence Saint John's Medical Center, Santa Monica

2021

Chair, Dept of Medicine. Providence Saint-John's Medical Center, Santa Monica

2019

Educational Background:

Fellowship in gastroenterology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1992-95

1995

Internal Medicine Residency, UCLA 1990-92

1990

UCLA School of Medicine, graduated 1989