Education:
Barry University, School of Graduate Medical Sciences,
Podiatric Medicine and Surgery
University of New York, at Stony Brook
Post-Graduate Education:
St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA - Podiatric Surgical
Resident 1/01 - 12/01
St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA - Rotating Podiatric
Resident 1/00 -12/00
Certifications:
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) 3/00
Basic Life Support (BLS) 3/00
Professional Affiliations:
Board Member: Massachusetts Podiatric Medical Society
(MPMS) - 6/02 - current
Committee Chairman: Massachusetts Podiatric Medical
Society Education Committee
Podiatry Political Action Committee; State Representative
- 1/03 - current
Hospital Affiliations:
Attending on staff, Podiatric Medicine & Surgery
Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, MA - 8/02 -
current
Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield, MA - 8/02 - current
Mary Lane Hospital, Ware, MA - 1/02 - current
Attending on staff, Orthopedics/Division of Podiatric
Medicine & Surgery
St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA - 1/02 - current
University of Massachusetts Hospitals, Worcester, MA
- 3/02 - current
Emergency Room On-Call Foot Trauma:
St. Vincent Hospital Emergency Room, Worcester, MA 1/02
- current
Education:
S.U.N.Y at Stony Brook, 1993-1997
New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1997-2001
Doctor of Podiatric Medicine
Residency Training:
2001-2003:
Jamaica Hospital medical Center
Rotating Podiatric Residency
Podiatric Surgical Residency
General hospital inpatient medical management;
extensive foot and ankle surgical training including
elective, trauma and diabetic limb salvage; extensive
clinical training including both conservative and
surgical management of patients and their foot ailments.
2003-2004:
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of Brooklyn and Queens Fellowship in Wound Care, Geriatrics and Hyperbaric Medicine
Thorough knowledge of modern wound care modalities
and their use in proper wound care menagement;
extensive training through Curative Wound Care
Centers; training and certification in hyperbaric
Oxygen.
Lectures:
St. Joseph’s Hospital Podiatry Grand Rounds, Bone Grafts, September 2003 St. Joseph’s Hospital Podiatry Grand Rounds, Surgical Management of Flexible Flatfoot Deformity, August,
2003
Research Experience:
March 2004, St Joseph’s Hospital
Title: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Blinded, Multicenter, Pivotal trial of Autogel Versus Control When Added to Standard of Care in the Treatment of Non-healing Diabetic Ulcers.
August 2003, St Joseph’s Hospital
Title: A Comparative, Prospective, Randomized, Double-masked Parallel Group, Controlled Trial Celleration Mist Therapy System (MTS) Versus Sham Control When Added to Standard of Care in the Treatment of Diabetic Neuropathic Ulcers.
Professional Memberships:
American Podiatric Medical Association
Education:
New York College of Podiatric Medicine, Doctor of Podiatric
Medicine, May 2001
State University of New York at Binghamton
State University of New York at New Paltz
Post-Graduate Education:
St. Vincent Hospital at Worcester Medical Center, Worcester,
Massachusetts in conjunction with University of Massachusetts
- Received Extensive Foot and Ankle Surgical training
in orthopedic surgery, trauma surgery, and Surgical
Diabetic limb salvage
Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn & Queens Jamaica,
New York
July 2001 to July 2002
Primary Podiatric Medical Residency, Encompassed all
disciplines of Podiatric Medicine in Foot and Ankle
Pathology with a concentration on biomechanical gait
analysis and diabetic wound management with conservative
non-surgical modiatlies.
Trained in knowledge of modern wound care modiatlies
and their use in proper wound care management.
Podiatric Surgical Resident
January 2005 – January
2004
St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts –
Podiatric Medical Residency
July 2002-December 2003