Achievements
EDUCATION AND FELLOWSHIPS
- Fellowship: Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- Cardiac Surgery Research- Harvard Medical School in Boston
Residency: General Surgery- Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota - Medical School: Johns Hopkins University
- Undergraduate: University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
ACCREDITATION
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) - (American Board of Thoracic Surgery)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Board member of the Society of Robotic Surgery
- Diplomat of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
- Served as Surgeon-in-chief and director of the Washington Institute of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery
- George Washington University Medical Center as its chief of clinical cardiothoracic surgery and clinical professor of surgery
- Served as Chief of thoracic surgery, robotic thoracic surgery and esophageal surgery at the University of Arizona’s Banner – University Medical Center
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- American College of Surgeons
- Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
- Priestly Society of Surgery
Awards
- Textbook of the year
- Research grants from the American Heart Association
- Research grants from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation