Professional Acitivities

Professional Background:

Academic Appointments:

• Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1999–Present
• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1992–Present
• Research Fellow in Transplant Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Division of Transplantation & Immunology, Beth Israel Hospita,l Harvard Medical School 1990-1992

Society Memberships:

Professional

• American College of Physicians, 1992
• American Medical Association, 1992
• American Society of Nephrology, 1992
• American Society of Transplant Physicians, 1992
• National Kidney Foundation, 1992
• Renal Physician Association, 1992

Research Activities:

1. Concomitant use of cis-platinum infusion and radiation for treatment of advanced head and neck cancer, SUNY, Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Downstate Medical Center, Principal Investigator, 1984
2. Action of Bushman toxin, Diamphotoxin, on skeletal and cardiac muscle in cats, SUNY, Department of Pharmacology, Downstate Medical Center, Principal Investigator, 1985
3. Use of calcium channel blockers to overcome pleiotropic drug resistance in cancer therapy, SUNY, Department of Medicine, Division Of Oncology, Downstate Medical Center, Principal Investigator, 1985
4. Investigation of molecular basis of renal transplant rejection using quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology, Co-Investigator, 1990–1992