Current Practice: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

1976 – 1994 950: Glades Road, Boca Raton

1994 - Present: 3659 South Miami Avenue, Suite 4006
Coconut Grove, Florida 33133 

Education:

•1963    University of Florida, Gainesville; B.S.

•1967    University of Miami Medical School: (Miami, FL); M.D. 

Internship:

•1967-1968   Rotating-2; Philadelphia Naval Hosp.       

U.S. Navy:

•1968-1969   Orthopedic; Navy Hosp Pensacola, FL

•7/68 -9/68   U.S.S. Speigel Grove (Sea Duty) 

•1/69 -5/69   Flight Surgeons School, Pensacola, FL

•6/69 -5/71   USNAS Cubi Pt., Philippines 

Residency:

•1971-1973   General Surgery; Univ of So. Fla. School of Medicine (Tampa)

•1973-1974   General Surgery; St. Joseph Hosp Houston, Texas

•1974-1976   Plastic Surgery; St. Joseph Hosp

•Cronin-Brauer Clinic Assoc; Houston, Texas 

Board Certification:

•1977    American Board of Plastic Surgery  

•6 May 1977 Cert #1853

State license:

•Florida: 17 Mar 1969 #ME14097 

Fellowship:

•1981    American College of Surgeons

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Academic Affiliation:

•1977 - 2001   Clinical Assistant, Univ. of Miami School of Medicine

Hospital Affiliation:

•1976 -1993   Boca Raton Comm. Hosp, Boca Raton, Fl

•Active Staff;

•(1976-83) Director of CME

•(1983-84) Executive Committee

•(1983-84) Credentials Committee  

•(1985,87) Emergency Room Committee

•1976 - 1990   North Broward Hosp,

•Pompano Beach Fl. Consulting Staff

•1985 - 1994   West Boca Medical Center,

•Boca Raton, Fla. Active Staff

•1993 - 1995   Northridge Medical Center

•Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, Active Staff,

•1998 - 2001   Coral Gables Hospital, Coral Gables, Fl.

•1994 - present   Mercy Hospital, Coconut Grove, Fl, Active Staff

Other Affiliation:

•1980 -1993   Consultant, Cleft Palate Clinic;

•Children's Medical Services

•Division, HRS State of Fla.

•1986 - 1988   Chairman Executive Committee,

•Physicians Reliance Assoc 1988 - 1991   Board of Directors

•Physicians Reliance Association; Chairman Risk Management 

Professional Society Membership:

•» American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (Professional Liability Comm.)

•» American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

•» Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.

•» Florida Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.

•» Palm Beach County Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Past President.

•» American Medical Association

•» Florida Medical Association; Medical Education Committee.

•» Palm Beach County Medical Society; Membership Committee & Executive Committee.

•» Dade County Medical Association

•» Miami Society of Plastic Surgeons

•» Lipolysis Society of North America

•» Broward County Society of Plastic Surgeons 

Publications:

•"Subclavian Steal Syndrome", Florida Medical Journal; Vol 54, Pg 438; 1967 . 

•"Eosinophilic Granuloma Causing Intusseception in a three year old child" American Journal of Surgery; Vol 124, Pg 676; 1972 . 

•"Pre-operative Pneumoperitoneum for Repair of a Wheelbarrow Hernia" American Surgeon; Vol 39, Pg. 522; 1973 .

•"Augmentation Mammoplasty Complications and Etiology: Clinical Microscopic Review"; Mosby Symposium. 1977 

•"Groin Flap Phallus Reconstruction with new Method Urethroplasty"; Annals of Plastic Surgery; Vol 6, No 2, Pg 132; 1981 . 

•"Home Study Course in Medical Risk Management," Book; Self-Published; 1989 . 

•"Achieving Symmetry in the Tissue Expanded Breast Reconstruction"; Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; Vol 15,No 2, Pg 13; 1991  

•“Expansion Augmentation of the Breast"; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 393-403; 1993

•Teaching Course “Expansion/Augmentation” at American Society of Plastic Surgery Meeting, New Orleans, October ‘99 

•Breast Augmentation by Expansion; E-Medicine Online Medical Journal; http://www.emedicine.com/PLASTIC/TOPIC507.HTM

•“Expansion/Augmentation of the Breast”, Plastic Surgery Products; Jan 2000, Pp. 70-71

•“Adjustable Implants”, Anti-Aging & Cosmetic Surgery magazine, Issue 2, March 2000,Pp. 66-67

•“Expansion-Augmentation of the Breast”; Aesthetic surgery Journal; May/June 2000, pp208-212

•Lecture: “Expansion/Augmentation of the breast”; NYU Course, “Emerging Technologies in plastic surgery”, New York, June ‘2000

•Teaching Course “Expansion/Augmentation of the Breast”, ASPS Meeting, Los Angeles, October ‘2000

•Teaching Course “Use of Adjustable implants in Breast Surgery”, ASAPS Meeting, New York, May ‘2001

•Lecture: “Expansion/Augmentation of the breast”, NYU Course, “Emerging Technologies in Plastic Surgery”, New York, June ‘2001

•Teaching Course “Expansion/Augmentation of the Breast”, ASPS Meeting, Orlando, FL, October ‘2001

•“Avoiding Breast Implant Blunders”, Plastic Surgery Products, October, 2001, pp30-4

•“Current Concepts of Cosmetic Surgery”, Lecture, American Academy of Micropigmentation Meeting, Orlando, FL, April ‘2002  

•Presentation: “Vertical Mastopexy with Expansion-Augmentation”; ISAPS Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2002 

•Teaching Course “Use of Adjustable implants in Breast Surgery”, ASAPS Meeting, San Antonio, TX; November ‘2002 

•Mastopexy with Expansion-Augmentation; Aesthetic Surgery Journal; 23, #1; 34-7; 2003

•Vertical Mastopexy with Expansion augmentation; Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. 27:13-19, 2003

•Grand Rounds Presentation U of Miami Division of Plastic Surgery; 8/6/2003; “The use of a Postoperatively Adjustable Implant in Breast Surgery”

•Teaching Course “Use of Adjustable implants in Breast Surgery”, ASAPS Meeting, San Diego, CA; October 27, ‘2003

•Monograph:  “Innovations in Plastic Surgery – The Adjustable Breast Implant” Vol 1 Number 1, 2005, pp. 64-81 

•Teaching Course “Use of Adjustable implants in Breast Surgery”, ASPS Meeting, Philadelphia, PA; October 13, ‘2004

•Teaching Course “Use of Adjustable implants in Breast Surgery”, ASAPS Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Apr 29-May 3 “2005

1. •“How to Successfully Combine Mastopexy and Breast Augmentation”; Plastic Surgery Products, Apr 2005