- Born: Fort Dodge, Iowa
- Board Certified: Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology
- Fellowship: Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University
Hospital & Clinics, Columbia, Missouri
- Residency: Internal Medicine, St. John's Mercy Medical
Center, St. Louis, Missouri
- M.D.: University of Missouri, Columbia
- B.S.: School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri

- In private practice more than 20 years
- Member, Board of Directors, Digestive Health Associates of
Texas
- Member, Endoscopy Center Committee, Digestive Health
Associates of Texas
- Medical Director, North Hills Hospital Patient Safety,
2001-present
- Member, North Hills Hospital Pharmacy, Infection Control,
Nutrition, 2001-present

- Fellow, American College of Physicians
- Fellow, American College of Gastroenterology
- American Gastroenterological Association
- American Medical Association
- Texas State Medical Association
- Tarrant County Medical Society
- Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy

- Total Quality Management Committee, CIGNA Healthplan of
Texas, 1992-2001
- Executive Committee, Texas G.I. Association, 1996-2001
- Peer Review and Credentialing Committee, Nylcare (Sanus)
Texas Health Plan, 1995-1999
- President, North Hills Physicians Association, 1996-1997
- Chairman, Department of Medicine Performance Improvement
Committee, North Hills Hospital, 1996-1997
- Physician Advisory Board, Columbia/HCA Healthcare
Corporation, 1996-1997
- Medical Director, Outpatient Endoscopy Services, North Hills
Hospital, 1993-1997
- Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, Harris Methodist HEB
Hospital, 1996-1997
- Board of Directors, Columbia Provider Services, Inc.,
1996-1997
- Executive Committee, Columbia Provider Services, Inc.,
1996-1997

- Best Doctors in Tarrant County 2005, Fort Worth Magazine
- Physician of the Year, North Hills Hospital, 2000
- Fellow, American College of Physicians, 1992
- Young Internist of the Year, Missouri Society of Internal
Medicine, 1991
- Fellow, American College of Gastroenterology, 1986
- Magna Cum Laude, School of the Ozarks, Missouri

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- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Crohn's Disease
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