Medical School

• Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE

Residencies

• Michigan State University at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids
• Department of Surgery, SUNY, Syracuse, NY

Fellowship

• Michigan State University at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids

Certification

• Surgical Critical Care
• Thoracic Surgery

Membership

• American College of Chest Physicians
• American College of Surgeons

• Biopsies and surgical treatment of lung cancer
• Carotid endarterectomy
• Endoscopic vein and radial artery removal
• Endovascular and surgical repair of aortic aneurysm
• Maze surgery for atrial fibrillation
• Minimally invasive valve surgery, including mitral valve repair/replacement and aortic valve replacement
• Off-pump (beating heart) coronary artery bypass
• Traditional coronary artery bypass
• Transmyocardial laser revascularization