"I have been practicing internal medicine for 25 years and I love it. My initial decade I provided outpatient primary care. The last 16 years I’ve worked as a hospitalist, a doctor who admits and manages hospitalized severely ill patients, working with all the surgical and medical subspecialties, as needed by the patient. Over the last quarter century, as I’ve seen medical care of patients become more and more complex, I see the very broken, business modeled health care system of our nation, force physicians into seeing more and more of these complex patients in less and less time. It is no wonder that literature on leading causes of death in our country list in the top 10, adverse outcomes from health care.
EDUCATION
My educational history includes a BS in Zoology from Iowa State University, a Masters of Science from SUNY Stony Brook, where I was enrolled as a doctoral student studying molecular biology but left, to pursue a Medical Doctor degree at the University of Iowa. I obtained my residency training in Internal Medicine, which is adult specialty care, from Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, MO. My medical hypnotherapy training was completed July 2018 here in Albuquerque at the Hypnotherapy Academy of America.
PERSONAL
I have lived in Albuquerque for 24 years. I was raised by great parents and brothers in Iowa. I came to New Mexico to provide temporary work, called locum tenens, in order to spend time with a close college friend, for 3 months. But I fell in love with New Mexico, and here I have been since. I so enjoy exploring the beautiful places and cultures of the Southwest. For the last decade I’ve been able to share this passion with my beautiful son along with other family and friends. New Mexico has served as a place of great personal and spiritual growth for me. Living here, I’ve been introduced to the work of Dr. Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Anita Moorjani, as well as the texts A Course In Miracles and The Way of Mastery, all of which has had a profound impact on me."
