General Internal Medicine Physician - Harvard

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After undergraduate studies in biochemistry at UCLA, I received my M.D. degree at UCSF, where I graduated in the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. I then completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. I have since been a general internist in an academic primary care practice at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Over several decades of scholarly work, I have been promoted to Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. I have published approximately 200 peer reviewed articles and chapters on topics relevant to primary care internal medicine. My peer reviewed works have since been cited by authors of more than 7000 subsequent publications. My textbook on Evidence Based History Taking in the McGraw Hill Lange series is widely read by medical students in training. I am the recipient of the SGIM national award for scholarship in medical education I practiced in an outpatient setting and cared for a panel of patients that was weighted towards older patients with multiple chronic illnesses and high disease complexity. In addition to all aspects of office-based outpatient general internal medicine, my areas of interest include preoperative medical evaluation, hypertension, consideration of the role of new medications in primary care practice, and headache. I have taught internal medicine to medical house staff and also teach extensively to practicing clinicians in large venue continuing medical education settings and national society meetings. I have been repeatedly selected as a Best Doctor in a national survey and have received a national award for scholarship in medical education. I publish in the peer reviewed medical literature, UpToDate, and in medical texts. I have edited textbooks for medical students and practicing physicians and have helped to develop national guidelines on topics in internal medicine. For 10 years, I was an assistant editor for Beyond the Guidelines, a recurring series in the Annals of Internal Medicine. I have been promoted to a Master of the American College of Physicians. I have directed national and international CME courses for Harvard Medical School. I have reviewed numerous cases for both plaintiffs and defendants and have testified frequently both at trial and deposition in multiple states, primarily in the Eastern half of the U.S. In April 2025, I retired from my clinical practice of 38 years. I remain active in scholarly work, lecturing, and consulting. I maintain a role on the honorary staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and as a Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School.