- Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Medicine
- Board Certified Cardiologist
- Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine
- Research fellow of the Massachusetts Heart Association and the National Institute of Health
- Gifted Teacher of the Year by the American College of Cardiology
- Former Chairman of Medicine at the University of Arizona
- Voted in “Best Doctors in America”
- Former staff cardiologist and director of the Coronary Care Unit at the Naval Regional Medical center in San Diego
- Former professor and chief of the section of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Massachusetts
- Received many teaching awards including the Edward Rhodes Stitt Award for Outstanding Teaching at the Naval Regional Medical Center and the George W. Thorn Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
- Sits on the board of trustees of the Association of Professors of Medicine
- Member of the editorial board of 10 internal medicine and cardiovascular journals
- Fellow and past chairman of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association
- Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians, the European Society of Cardiology and a master of the American College of Physicians.
Education
- MD: Harvard Medical School
- BA: Yale University
Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Subspecialty of Cardiovascular Disease