Employment:

Salem Surgical Associates, PC
October 2006 – present

1898 Braeburn Drive, Salem, VA 24153
(540) 772-3008

Lewis Gale Clinic
December 2000 – October 2006

1802 Braeburn Drive, Salem, VA 24153
(540) 772-3620

Education:

Princess Margaret Hospital
Senior House Officer (practicing physician)
June 1991 – June 1994

Princess Margaret Hospital
(2 year required internship for graduates of foreign medical schools)
June 1989 – May 1991

British Commonwealth University School of Medicine
University of London
September 1, 1986 – May 1989

British Commonwealth University, BS Engineering
September 1, 1983 – June 30, 1986

Internship/Residency

Pinnacle Health System
Harrisburg/Polyclinic Hospitals
August 1, 1997 – June 2000

PGY 3 to PGY 5

Active participation in numerous endoscopic and advance laparoscopic procedures including lap Nissen; lap colon resection; lap hernias; lap cholecystectomies; lap nephrectomy.  Responsible for administrative allocation for lower level residents’ office hours, clinics, and conferences.

Lehigh Valley Hospital, Burns Center
July 1, 1997 – July 31, 1997

Burns Fellow

Full responsibility for the management and care of complicated, critically ill burn patients.  Produced research paper- “Preoperative angioplasty in the burn patient” (presented at the Southeastern Burns Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 1997).

Lehigh Valley Hospital
July 1, 1996 – June 30, 1997

PGY 3

General surgery resident with rotation through colorectal, gastrointestinal, transplant, trauma, advance laparoscopy

Harlem Hospital
July 1, 1994 – June 30, 1996

PGY 1 and PGY 2

General surgery resident with primary responsibility of perioperative management of patients.