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 Born
and raised in Irvington, after graduating high school in
1973, I began spending my summers living in Belmar and have
stayed here since. I graduated from Union College,
Schenectady, NY and spent 2 years doing postgraduate work at
Rutgers until being accepted at St. George’s University
School of Medicine in Grenada. Not having ever been away
from the east coast before, it was quite an eye opening
experience. From living in a 3rd world country and being in
the middle of a revolution, to spending a year in England
doing clinical rotations before returning to the US to do my
fourth year was not the “typical” medical school education.
My involvement in the ER began early, starting with working
the summers in the ER as a tech/aide in Irvington, Point
Pleasant, and Neptune. I did a 10 week elective in St.
Michael’s (Newark) during my fourth year of med school,
before beginning a surgical residency in UMDNJ-Newark for
two years, spending some time in the ER’s there and Beth
Israel (Newark), Hackensack, and St. Barnabas. In the fall
of 1985, I spent 2 months in Lincoln Hosp. (Bronx) doing an
observership, before becoming a full time attending in the
ER in Misericordia Hosp. (Philadelphia). Since then, I have
worked in several hospitals in NJ including Monmouth MC,
Atlantic City MC, Brick Hospital, Helene Fuld (Trenton),
CentraState MC (Freehold), Bayonne Hospital, Bayshore
(Holmdel) and currently am at Meadowlands Hospital
(Secaucus). I have done locums in Iowa, NY, and PA in the
past as well as a Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota
and served as a cruise ship doctor.
I have been involved with the media since 1996, having
hosted a TV show for 10 years and was the Chairman of ACEP’s
PR Committee in the past. I also am currently the President
of the National Association of Medical Communicators (NAMC),
a group dedicated to help all who communicate health
information to the public.
All these experiences allow me to be your voice for the
issues we in EM face and that is what ACEP is about. Be it
the single hospital group or multiple, urban or rural, big
or small hospital, I will stand up for you, our patients,
and our specialty. But you need to be involved as well, I
need all the help I can get. Together, our voices are
stronger. Please e-mail us, come to a meeting, and contact
us with your ideas. We meet every other month and the
meetings are open to all.
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