Education: MD Cum Laude; State University Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn, New York; MBA; Anderson School of Management, UNM; Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Residencies: Resident and Chief Resident in General Surgery; Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Resident and Chief Resident Internal Medicine; Bellevue Hospital, New York City, New York.

Fellow: Surgical Critical Care Fellow at UNM School of Medicine.

Surgical Expertise: Staff Surgeon at UNM Health Science Center Specialty Extension Services; Surgeon for Sandia Physician Group - Lovelace Sandia Health System; Director of Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Staff Surgeon; VA Health Care System; all in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Special Honors: — “Outstanding Caregiver Award" in 2001; “A Friend of Social Work” from NM/VA Health System; Albuquerque, New Mexico.