I was born and raised in Manhattan to a Jewish family of physicians. Initially educated at the Ramaz School, Brandeis University, and NYU Medical School I got off the East Coast pipeline and decided to do Residency at UCLA -Harbor to live by the beach whilst I worked 100 hour weeks. I rounded out my Internal Medicine training by becoming President of the Joint Council of Interns and Residents, a formative experience. In my free time then I met my wife, who also happened to be a New York transplant.

To continue my interest in the organizational elements of Medicine I then pursued an MPH at UCLA. I then returned to New York and was the Chief Privacy Officer for a Healthcare startup, MMF systems, while I practiced Internal Mecicine at NYP Cornell. Missing California I decided to come back to work at Kaiser Permanente. At Kaiser I’ve been able to combine my passion for Internal Medicine by practicing a very personal form of medicine in a large system while being able to work in multiple Innovation projects, including starting a complex care management program that has been widely replicated in Kaiser. Rounding out my clinical life I’ve been privileged to be teaching medical students from Kaiser’s Medical School, a very rewarding experience, taking me full circle in my medical experience.

Throughout my life I have had an abiding interest in geopolitics regarding America’s position in the world, initiating with the challenge of Japan and then followed by that with China. Another abiding interest has been Middle East politics, only made more acute by my time in New York during 9/11. My daily life is consumed by Medicine, geopolitics and a daily sprinkle of intense soccer fandom.