I strive to treat my patients like they are family, and how I would want my family to be treated.

I'm an avid outdoorsman and like to go mountain biking, skiing and scuba diving.

Medical School

• Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Internship

• Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City

Residency

• Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Fellowship

• Cardiology, Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, Rochester, Minnesota

Certification

• Cardiovascular diseases, American Board of Internal Medicine

Memberships

• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
• American College of Cardiology
• American Medical Association
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Academic Appointment

• Instructor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota

• Cardiac pacing
• Echocardiography
• Heart failure

• Immediate ambulation following diagnostic coronary angiography procedures utilizing a vascular closure device (The Closer), December 2002
• Low-risk percutaneous coronary interventions without on-site cardiac surgery: two years' observational experience and follow-up, February 2003