Board Certified Cardiologist
Medical School University of Iowa,
Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship at The University of Washington (Seattle, WA).
Board Certified (and recertified) with ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine), Internal Medicine & Cardiology.
20+ years of clinical experience including: symptom evaluation, stress testing, cardiac imaging (echo and nuclear), emergent treatment of heart attacks, invasive testing including cardiac catheterization and stent implantation. Risk factor modification, medical management of atrial fibrillation, hypertension, cholesterol, heart failure, and coronary artery disease. Long term device management of pacemakers and defibrillators (AICD).
Scientist with Emphasis on Function
B.S.E. (bachelor of science engineering) in Biomedical Engineering.
Ph.D. in physiology and biophysics. Published researcher with experience in ionic channels, protein biochemistry, immunology and DNA sequencing; specifically involving voltage gated calcium channels.
Knowledge of statistics including study design, p-values, bias and misuse of statistics such as in p-hacking.
Oversimplification, anatomy is the study of structure, physiology is the study of function, pathology (or patho-physiology) is the study of disease (or broken function), and medicine is the study of disease treatment.
The term “doctor” is incorrectly assumed to mean “healer”, but instead should be understood as “teacher”. When an individual has achieved a sufficient status to qualify as an expert to teach a subject, they are awarded a “doctorate”.
The government saw the need for “double doctors”, with abilities as both healers and scientists, the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), for which I am a graduate. This very select group of doctors, could be called double docs, but insiders often call us “mud-phuds”, (sort of a phonetic md-phd).