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Employment Experience

NEOMA. SF, Richmond, Sacramento and NorthBay, CA
January 1999 to present
NEUROLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE ASSOCIATES.  
Clinical evaluations and treatment, including disability and independent medical evaluations of individuals and populations with suspected neurological illness or injury from workplace injuries or chemical exposure.  Industrial and legal consulting, academic writing and research.

CONCENTRA OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH. SAN FRANCISCO, CA.
CONSULTANT NEUROLOGIST AND ELECTROMYOGRAPHER.
Northern California clinics
October 2001 to present

KAISER PERMANANTE OF CALIFORNIA
August 2000 to present
CONSULTANT, NEUROLOGIST AND OCCUPATIONAL/ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE PHYSICIAN

INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, WHITE PLAINS, NY
January 2000 to present 
PHYSICIAN, NEUROLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY, PARSIPPANY, NJ 
September 1997 to present
MEDICAL DISABILITY CONSULTANT

EMEDICINE, INTERNET NEUROLOGY TEXT, WWW.EMEDICINE.COM
July 1999 to present
MEDICAL EDITOR, SECTION ON NEUROTOXICOLOGY

PROPEER RESOURCES
April 2000 to present
MEDICAL CONSULTANT

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, OSHA, WASHINGTON, DC.
July 1996 to present
Internship in the Office of Occupational Medicine. 
Participated in three projects under the direction of  Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH, Director: the impact of the OSHA's Blood Borne Pathogens Standard on the incidence of Hepatitis B virus in health care workers; mercury toxicity in a Nevada gold mine; and the use of neurophysiological endpoints as a means to lower the permissible exposure limit for carbon disulfide, mercury, manganese, toluene and other neurotoxins. 

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
July 1996 to present
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL, CINCINNATI, OH. 
Consultant to government agency on human health hazard evaluations: (1) the association of asthma and headaches in a Connecticut submarine manufacturing company that uses an epoxy resin paint; (2) problems associated with carbon disulfide exposure in a Texas viscose rayon manufacturing company; (3) neurological effects from lead and arsenic in teachers who worked in a Utah school that had been built over a defunct mine and (4) neurological sequellae to mercury vapor in a Wisconsin mercury waste recycling plant. 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND REHABILITATION, INC., BOSTON, MA. 
October 1997-December 1998
MEDICAL DIRECTOR,  DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEUROLOGY

GENERAL ELECTRIC,  AIRCRAFT ENGINE DIVISION, LYNN, MA. 
October 1997-Dec. 1998
CONSULTANT NEUROLOGIST AND ASSOCIATE MEDICAL CENTER DIRECTOR

THE AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCE AND DISEASE REGISTRY (ATSDR) 
July 1995 to June 1997
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION.
Clinical Fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 
Funded two year fellowship entitled "Assessment of Integrity of Peripheral and Autonomic Nervous System Physiology in Persian Gulf Veterans."  Co-sponsored by Boston Medical Center's Department of Neurology, (RG Feldman, MD); and The Environmental Hazards Center, (D Ozonoff, MD, MPH and RF White, PhD) of the  VA Medical Center,  Boston, MA. 

VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER.  BRONX, NY
Dec. 1993-July 1995
Emergency Room Physician.  Evening and weekend duties. 

WORLD JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE. 
March - June 1992
CASABLANCA, MOROCCO. 
Medical consultant.  Studied and proposed a program to improve a health care system for a dwindling population of Jews in six cities; urban and rural areas of this third world country.  Served on the staff and studied the organization of a 110 bed convalescent-type home in Casablanca.  All of work conducted in French. 

NEURENTOX, INTERNATIONAL, INC.  WASHINGTON, DC. 
Nov 1991 to March 1992
Physician- Researcher. Worked with Peter G. Bernad, MD, MPH; clinical neurologist with interest in occupational medicine and toxicology.  Responsible for clinical and research projects involving environmental and toxicological issues, medical- legal matters and electroencephalography with brain mapping. 

US PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, ANCHORAGE AREA INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
BETHEL, ALASKA. 
Sept. and October, 1991
General Medical Officer.   One of approximately 20 physicians working in a facility with large outpatient and inpatient departments caring for Alaskan natives from villages in the Yukon- Kuskokwim Delta Region with a population exceeding 25,000.  Work also included brief stays at primitive village clinics on the Bering Sea caring for pregnant patients, immunizing school children and the elderly, and examining walk-in patients.

US PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, ALBUQUERQUE AREA INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
ZUNI, NEW MEXICO. 
July and August 1991
General Medical Officer.  One of eight physicians working in a small primary care facility caring for a native population of approximately 8,000.  Common pediatric, obstetric and gynecological, internal medicine, and minor surgical cases in this outpatient and inpatient setting. 

COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS 
Fall 1984 through Spring 1986
DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY AND CELL BIOLOGY, NEW YORK, NY. 
Laboratory researcher.  Studied the cooperativity of calcium in rabbit skeletal and human dystrophic muscle.

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