Specialties & Experience

General Specialties: Internal Medicine and Hospitalist

Specialty Focus: Outpatient Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Nursing Home Medicine, Nursing Home Medical Director, Hospice Medical Director, Utilization Review, Geriatrics, Family Medicine Residency, Medical Education

Education: MD, University of Chicago; BS, Northwestern University

Years in Practice: 22

Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs: 8

Additional Information

I have 24 years of experience as a practicing internist and hospitalist. I have 10 years of experience in academic medicine when I was clinical faculty teaching family practice residency physicians in both outpatient internal medicine and inpatient hospital medicine. I won the Gold Apple Teaching award almost every year I was clinical faculty even though I'm an internist teaching in a family practice residency program. I'm an expert in the clinical scope of expertise of outpatient internal medicine, family medicine, and hospital medicine. I also have extensive experience in nursing home and hospice care as I'm a medical director for both a skilled nursing facility and hospice agency. I also have experience with hospital utilization review as a medical advisor for Centegra Health Systems. I left my teaching position over 10 years ago to establish a hospitalist programs in 2 different hospital settings. I am now in private practice with both an outpatient practice and a thriving inpatient hospitalist practice. For the past 5 years, I have maintained an active expert witness practice with over 40 case reviews for both defense and plaintiff cases.