Profile
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine
Vice Chair, College of Applied Anatomy, UCLA School of Medicine
Medical Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Harbor-UCLA
Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Education
Doctorate of Medicine: McMaster University
General Surgery: University of Ottawa
Fellowships:
Critical Care Medicine, University of Ottawa
Surgical Critical Care UC San Diego
Board Certifications
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeon of Canada – General Surgery
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeon of Canada – Critical Care Medicine
- American Board of Surgery – Surgery
- American Board of Surgery – Surgical Critical Care
Awards and Honors
- Kaiser Permanente Award for Excellence in Education
- Collins Day Outstanding Residents Teaching Award
- Young Surgeons Travel Award, Southern California Chpater of the American College of Surgeons
- Surgical Education Research Fellowship, Association for Surgical Education
Research Focus
Trauma & acute care surgery outcomes (TBI, intra-abdominal sepsis, organ failure); surgical education
Professional Service
- Member-At-Large, In-Training Section, Society for Critical Care Medicine
- Task Force Member, Guidelines Section, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- Member, Education Committee, Surgery Section, Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Member, Curriculum Content Development Subcommittee, Division of Education, American College of Surgeons
- Institutional Representative, Association for Academic Surgery
- Co-Chair, Surgery Clerkship, UCLA School of Medicine
- Member, Critical Care Committee, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Personal Interests
Reading, coaching youth soccer, camping, family time