Professional Information

ADP Security Officer - AUG 92 NARDAC San Francisco, CA

	OB/GYN Refresher Training - MAY 89 U.S. Naval Hospital NAS, Lemoore, CA
	Nuclear Hazards Training Course - MAR 89 In-service Nuclear Weapons School Kirtland AFB Albuquerque, NM

Landing Force Medical Staff Planning Course - OCT 85 MCAS Kaneohe, HI

Combat Casualty Care Course (C4 + ATLS) - OCT 82 Fort Sam Houston San Antonio, TX

Allergy Evaluation and Treatment - MAY 81 Chief of Allergy-Immunology Naval Regional Medical Center Oakland, CA

Pharmacy Technician Training - JUL 73 to MAY 74 Naval Regional Medical Center San Diego, CA

Basic Hospital Corps "A" School - MAR 73 to JUL 73 San Diego, CA

Email World / Web World Seminar - MAR 95 Introduction to Networking Introduction to Netware® Santa Clara, CA

Advanced PC Troubleshooting - OCT 93 Essential Seminars, Inc San Francisco, CA

Windows Solutions - SEP 93 Windows Solutions Seminars Santa Clara, CA

Excelsior College - MAR 81 7 Columbia Circle Albany, N. Y. 12230-5199 Major:  Liberal Studies Bachelor of Science Degree Website:  http://www.excelsior.edu

Utah Physician Assistant Program - SEP 77 to OCT 78 Department of Family and Preventive Medicine College of Medicine, University of Utah 375 Chipeta Way, Suite A Salt Lake City, UT 84108-1261 Tel: (801) 581-7766 Website: http://www.utah.edu/upap

Five Months didactic with voluntary clinical work. Clinical hospital rounds with 3rd-year Family Practice resident.

Seven months clinic rotations; preceptorship: Outpatient emergency and acute care, chronic care, set/casted simple fractures and dislocations, performed and interpreted routine electrocardiograms, laboratory, and radiographs. Hospital rotations in respiratory therapy, orthopedic techniques, obstetric/gynecology, and surgery.

All references from preceptorship on file at: Utah Physician Assistant Program.

Utah State "Certified Physician Assistant" upon completion of training. National Board eligible.

	Kansas State University - AUG 70 to MAY 72 Manhattan, KS 66502 Majors:  Pre-Med / Computer Science Website:  http://www.ksu.edu
	Garden City Community College - AUG 68 to MAY 70 Garden City, KS 67846 Major:  Pre-Med Associate of Science Degree Website:  http://www.gccc.cc.ks.us

Military:
 

	Transferred to "Retired Officer List" - MAY 96
	Naval Branch Medical Clinic - DEC 90 to APR 96 Mare Island Naval Shipyard Vallejo, CA 94592-5015 Website:  http://www.fas.org/man/company/shipyard/mare_island.htm

Staff Physician Assistant: Outpatient adult, pediatric and neonatal primary and acute care medicine for active duty, dependent, retired and civil service personnel.

ADP Security Officer / ADP Officer: hand-picked as ADPSO / ADPO for clinic’s stand-alone personal computers, U. S. Navy-Bay Area WAN appointment system and shipyard LAN, clinic connections. Building, installing, troubleshooting and performing routine hardware and security maintenance for local systems. Personnel instruction on Introduction to Computers and MS Windows^®. Received Navy Achievement Medal for saving the U. S. Navy over $25,000 due to innovative customizing and repairing clinic’s aging equipment and software as well as configuring basic needs, recommending and installing a stand-alone, clinic-wide, pc-based appointment system.

Collateral Duties: Watch Officer; Credentials Coordinator; Senior Member Controlled Substances Inventory Board; Head, Radiation Health Rapid Response Team; Emergency Medical Services Coordinator with liaison between clinic, local county Emergency Medical Services, and base Fire Department.

Officer-in-Charge: Hand-picked as Medical Administrator for last six months before base/clinic closure due to base realignment, BRAC-93. Supervised over 100 military and civilian medical personnel providing outpatient primary care and industrial medicine to over 15,000 beneficiaries with an annual operating budget of over $200,000. Supervised preparation and transfer of over 1,000 military and over 10,000 civilian workers and related records. Supervised preparation and handling in accordance with directives of over $1,000,000 of medical consumable and non-consumable inventory transferred.

USS PYRO (AE-24) - JUN 89 to NOV 90 Homeport: Concord NWS, CA SMDO / Physician Assistant Website: http://www.ticon.net/~stitch/Uss_Nitro/ships_of_nitroclass.html

Department Head, Senior Medical Department Officer (SMDO) on "independent duty" supervising four corpsmen. Responsible for $15,000-$20,000 annual budget.

Outpatient general and emergency shipboard medicine for 350 active duty men and women under supervision of shore-based physician preceptor. Supervised shipboard programs such as Preventive Medicine, Sanitation, Radiation Health and Industrial/Environmental Health programs. Stood Helm’s Safety bridge watches underway. Performed routine laboratory procedures, physical examinations, and casting and splinting of limbs. Performed and interpreted emergency and routine ECG's. Performed Drug and Alcohol evaluations for dependency with recommendations to command and Counseling And Assistance Center representative.

Command Weight Control Officer: initial evaluation, counsel and monitor for approximately 40 overweight personnel on ship.

Collateral Duties: Radiation Health Officer, Safety Council, Executive Planning Board, Command Assessment Team, Personal Reliability Program Board, Helm's Safety.

USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) - MAY 87 to MAY 89 Homeport: NAS, Alameda, CA Staff Physician Assistant Website: http://www02.clf.navy.mil/enterprise

Inpatient/outpatient general and emergency medicine for 5,500 active duty personnel. First Assist in general surgery.

Officer in Charge of: Allergy Clinic, Pharmacy, Physical Exams/Aviation Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Radioactive Accident-Incident Team, After Battle Dressing Station (one of two primary casualty receiving stations). Screen, assessment and recommendation for Drug/Alcohol Abuse patients. Officer in Charge of Command Monitored Antabuse Program.

Command Weight Control Officer: initial evaluation, counsel, and monitor for approximately 350 overweight personnel. Medical Liaison to ship's Physical Readiness Training screening.

Independent onboard watch as Staff Medical Watch Officer.

Naval Medical Clinic - JUN 83 to MAY 87 Pearl Harbor, HI 96860-5080 Staff Physician Assistant Website: Pending

Outpatient Primary Care Medicine for adult dependents and retired personnel. Physical examinations for active duty. Military Sick Call for staff, base and ships. Acute Care Services for all ages. Allergy Follow-up Clinic coordinated with Allergy-Immunology specialists, Tripler Army Medical Center, HI. Medical screens for all staff personnel for fitness program.

Officer in Charge of Physical Exam Section for two years.

Collateral Committees: Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee - Physician Assistant Representative.

U. S. Naval Hospital - APR 79 to MAY 83 NAS, Lemoore, CA 93245 Family Practice Team-Physician Assistant Website: https://lemoore.med.navy.mil/

Inpatient/outpatient pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, psychology, and family counseling for approximately 1,000 families of active duty, dependents and retired beneficiaries. Emergency room clinician, Code Blue Team member. Military Sick Call for staff and base. Allergy consultations. Assisted with Valley Fever Vaccine Project. Provided liaison between medical care facility and Attack Squadrons VA-122 and VA-127.

Collateral Committees: Credentials - Physician Assistant Representative; Infection Control - Family Practice Representative; Physical Fitness

	Honorable Discharge - DEC 78
	USS PROTEUS (AS-19) - JAN 75 to JAN 77 Homeport: Guam Pharmacy Technician Senior Hospital Corpsman Website: http://navysite.de/ships/as19.html
	U.S. Naval Hospital - JULY 73 to DEC 74 San Diego, CA Pharmacy Technician Website: http://www-nmcsd.med.navy.mil/

 

Civilian:

Samuel Merritt College - FEB 05 to Present PA Program 450 30th St Oakland, CA 94609-3302 Clinical Coordinator / Faculty. Obtain, coordinate and manage clinical education training sites for second-year PA student clinical education rotations. Core faculty member for Physician Assistant Program. Assist in teaching where necessary,  clinical-related courses throughout the academic phase of the program. Advise, tutor and remediate students as necessary. Core faculty member of internal committees as assigned.

Touro University-California (at Mare Island) - JUL 02 to JAN 05 College of Health Sciences PA/MPH Program 1310 Johnson Ln Vallejo, CA 94592

Director of Clinical Affairs / Faculty; Assistant Clinical Professor; Faculty member for Physician Assistant / MPH Program. Instrumental in coordinating ARC-PA provisional accreditation. Developed, established and maintain Program Web site (http://www.tumipap.us) responsible for marketing, education, and current-class information for over one year. Web site averaged over 100 “hits” per day. Obtain, coordinate and manage clinical preceptorship sites for PA/MPH student clinical education rotations. Developed and teach a 30+hour Medical Informatics course. Assist in teaching numerous other clinical-related courses throughout the academic phase of the program. Advise, tutor and remediate students as necessary.

Hand-picked as Acting Administrative Director for TUCOM Mobile Health Clinic for three months. Obtained state clinic licensure, coordinated numerous off-campus sites for scheduled clinic visits, managed financial reorganization, and was instrumental in re-building local alliances as well as an alliance with large, local medical facility.
 

Computer Systems Specialists - JAN 99 to Present 309 Kingsly Lane American Canyon, CA 94503-4111

Part-time, Self-employed Owner / Operator: Consulting, building, installing and troubleshooting personal and network hardware and software solutions in Microsoft DOS^®, Windows^® (3.x, 9x), NT^® , Windows 2000^® and Windows XP^®. Good working knowledge and experience using IBM OS/2 Warp^®. Desktop publishing. Website development and maintenance.

NorthBay / Fairfield Medical Group - FEB 98 to DEC 01 1234 Empire St Fairfield, CA 94533-5711

Staff Family Practice / Urgent Care Physician Assistant: Outpatient pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, psychology, family counseling, and physical exams, by appointment and walk-in, urgent care. Position terminated as result of reorganization / down-sizing of the Medical Group.

Website: http://www.northbay.org/html/newsroom/latest_fmg1.asp

Family Practice Clinic - JAN 97to NOV 97 935 Trancas St, Suite 1-A Napa, CA 94588

Part-time Staff Family Practice Physician Assistant: Outpatient pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, psychology, family counseling, and periodic / pre-employment physical exams, by appointment and walk-in, urgent care.

F&M Compserve - JAN 97to JAN 98 1422 Springs Rd, Suite E Vallejo, CA 94591 Website: http://www.fmcompserve.com

Computer Systems Specialist: Comprehensive work with multiple operating systems, software, hardware, and systems integration working with IBM ^® compatible systems. Hands-on professional experience with Microsoft ^® DOS, Windows ^® and Windows NT ^® operating systems, IBM ^® OS/2 ^®, and wide-area and local-area networking including peer-to-peer, TCP/IP and general communications.

American Canyon Medical Offices - JAN 93 to NOV 93 3423 Napa-Vallejo Highway American Canyon, CA 94503

Part-time Staff Family Practice Physician Assistant: Worked unaccompanied with Preceptor Physician available by telephone during evenings and Saturdays providing outpatient pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, psychology, and family counseling by appointment and walk-in, urgent care.

	St. Luke's Hospital - SEP 78 to JAN 79 Denver, CO Physician Assistant for Idaho Springs Medical Clinic, Idaho, Springs, CO Website: http://www.pslmc.com
	NorthBay Medical Center - MAY 77 to AUG 77 Fairfield, CA, 94533 Pharmacy Technician Instructor AHA Basic CPR Website: http://www.northbay.org

Military:

Medical Department Surface Warfare Officer Designator, Navy Commendation Medal w/second award, Navy Achievement Medal w/second award, Joint Service Meritorious Unit Award, Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Award w/second and third awards, Battle "Efficiency" Award w/second and third awards, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Medal w/second award, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal w/second award, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon w/second award, Sharpshooter Pistol Award.

Professional:

	"Blue-M" (most outstanding medical department in Pacific Air Fleet), USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) - 1989
	Letter of Commendation, Commander Battle Group Foxtrot - 1988
	Letter of Commendation, Naval Medical Center Oakland - 1980
	Sailor-of-the-Quarter, USS PROTEUS (AS-19) - 1976
	Letter of Commendation, Commander Submarine Group-15 - 1976
	Eagle Scout/Order of the Arrow - 1966

 

	American Academy of Physician Assistants - Fellow Member
	California Academy of Physician Assistants - Fellow Member
	Family Practice Physician Assistants Assoc - Member
	Fleet Reserve Association - Member
	Veterans of Foreign Wars - Life Member
	American Legion - Life Member

	NCCPA Boards, Certificate - Current
	DEA Certificate - Current
	State of Utah, "Certified Physician Assistant" - October 78
	State of California, Physician Assistant License - Current
	Basic Life Support (BLS) - Provider "C" - Current
	Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - Completed
	Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) - Completed (with C4) October 1982