Board Certifications:

	Internal Medicine 1993
	Hematology 1996
	Oncology 1997

Honors:

	Medical School- Graduation with Distinction
	Hewlett-Packard Award - Top five students in graduating class
	Dean’s Award, top rank in first years class
	Alpha Omega Alpha, third year, Vice President 4th year
	Eli G. Rochelson Memorial Award, outstanding performance in pulmonary medicine
	MacGregor Scholarship 1986-1990

Fellowship:

	Hematology-Oncology University of Miami 1994- 1996
	Hematology Oncology New England Medical Center Boston, Mass.1993 -1994

Residency:

Internal Medicine Brigham and Woman’s Hospital Boston, Mass. 1990-1993

Medical School:

University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, Michigan 1990

Research:

	Investigation of putrescine metabolites in tissue homogenates, with David Lundgren, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, 1984. Publication: “Alternate Putrescine Metabolites,” Analytical biochemistry, 148 (1985).
	Intern, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1990.
	Clinical Study of patients with Hodgkin’s Disease treated at the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy, Boston Massachusetts, with Peter Mauch, M.D., 1992-1993. Publication: “Long-Term Survival in Hodgkin’s Disease,” Cancer Journal Scientific American, (1995), and “Second Malignancies After Treatment of Laparotomy Staged IA-IIIB Hodgkin’s Disease,” Blood, 87 (1996).