• Board Certified: Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology
• Fellowship: Gastroenterology, Wadsworth Veterans Hospital, Los Angeles
• Residency: Internal Medicine, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas
• M.D.: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas
• B.S.: Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin

• In practice more than 35 years
• Member, Board of Directors, Digestive Health Associates of Texas, P.A.
• Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical School

• American Medical Association
• American Gastroenterological Association
• American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
• American Association for the Study of Liver Disease
• American College of Gastroenterology
• Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy
• Dallas County Medical Society
• Texas Medical Association

• Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern, 1966
• Chief, Gastroenterology Service, VA Hospital, Dallas, 1966-1969
• Clinical Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern, 1970
• Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern, 1975
• Chairman, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Baylor University Medical Center, 1983-1990
• Chairman, Liver Transplantation Selection Committee, Baylor University Medical Center, 1985-1993
• President, Baylor University Medical Center Staff, 1990-1991
• Chairman, Medical Board, Baylor University Medical Center, 1991-1992
• Chief, Gastroenterology, Baylor University Medical Center, 1971-2003

• Alpha Omega Alpha, Honorary Medical Society
• Fellow, American College of Physicians, 1973
• Clinician of the Year, American Gastroenterology Association, 1997
• Best Doctors in Dallas 2001, D Magazine
• Best Doctors in Dallas 2002, D Magazine
• Best Doctors in Dallas 2003, D Magazine
• Best Doctors in Dallas 2004, D Magazine
• Best Doctors in Dallas 2005, D Magazine

• Esophageal Disease
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Liver Disease

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