Physician Profile

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is an Infectious Disease Specialist.

Residency, Internal Medicine, Harvard Medical Services. Boston City Hospital and Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, MO.

Washington University School of Medicine, M.D.
Two Years, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology Unit.
Alumni Awardee, Washington University School of Medicine.

Three years research fellow in infectious diseases at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School under the direction of *Dr. Maxwell Finland, (founder of subspecialty infectious diseases).

Also awarded a 1-year fellowship in molecular biology under the direction of **Dr. James Darnell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts.

Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Professor of Internal Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, 1963-1982.

Chief of the Department of Medicine at Hutzel Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 1970-1982.

Established a clinical virology laboratory and trained 33 physicians in the subspecialty of infectious diseases, Wayne State University, 1963-1982.

Elected member American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Association of Physicians.

Member of the committee preparing the National Boards in Medical Examiners, US.

Member of the training grant committee, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH.

Master of the American College of Physicians.

Governor for Michigan American College of Physicians, 1991-1994.

Member of the attending staff at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, 1963.

Holds Five Patents for Diagnosis and Treatment of CFS.

Honorary Master of the American College of Physicians.

*Dr. Maxwell Finland was a driving force in shaping infectious diseases training programs in the United States and in defining the discipline of infectious diseases, as we know it today.

** Dr. James Darnell has mentored over 100 Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows of whom 15 have won the Nobel Prize.