Born, raised and educated in New York State, I received my MD degree from the New York University School of Medicine and completed my internal medicine residency at the Albany Medical Center. I later joined the full-time faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Albany Medical College where my duties included provision of primary care to adult patients and the teaching of residents and medical students. In 1997 I became the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program and three years later, Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine at Albany Medical College. In 2010 I moved to Denver, CO to accept the position of Chief of Academic Medicine at Saint Joseph Hospital, where I oversee all the graduate medical education programs and ambulatory clinics. As Chief of Academic Medicine, I also serve as the Designated Institutional Official for our ACGME accredited residency programs, and am a member of the hospital’s senior leadership team.

A long-standing member of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) and its parent organization the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM), I have served on the national APDIM Public Policy Committee and the AAIM Advocacy Committee, including terms as Chair of both. As Chair of the AAIM Advocacy Committee, I also served as AAIM’s liaison to the national ACP Health and Public Policy Committee. I was elected to APDIM Council in2011 and served as APDIM President during the 2014-15 academic year. During the three years of serving as an APDIM officer I was also a member of the AAIM Board of Directors and was later elected to the office of Vice-Chair of the Board, a position I held from July 2015 until June 2017. Through APDIM and AAIM, I have had the opportunity to be involved in numerous presentations at national meetings and publications, all dealing with various aspects of health policy and medical education. I have also been an active member of the American College of Physicians (ACP), having served on the NY Chapter Council and chaired the NY chapter’s Health and Public Policy Committee. In 2005 I received the NY Chapter’s Laureate Award. When I moved to Denver in 2010, I became a member of the Colorado ACP chapter and joined their Health and Public Policy Committee, serving as Chair for one year (2013-14). I was fortunate to receive the Colorado chapter’s Laureate Award in 2019.Through the ACP, I have been involved in numerous advocacy activities over the years, including attending the ACP Leadership Day in Washington, DC nearly every year since 1998. In 2010, I was honored by receiving an ACP Top-10 Key Contact Award.In February of 2020, I began a four-year term as the Governor for the Colorado Chapter of the ACP.

Clinically, I am a primary care internist and have worked with diverse, underserved populations for most of my career. For the past 12 years, I have supervised residents working in our Caritas internal medicine clinic, servicing a largely un- and underinsured population that is primarily Hispanic. Since approximately 2013, and until the launch of Uptown Community Health Center, I was the care site Vice President overseeing our ambulatory clinics at Saint Joseph Hospital.

Languages spoken: English