Born in Brooklyn New York Collage: New York University Medical school: New York University School of Medicine Resident: SUNY Downstate Medical Center Fellowship: Surgical oncology NCI Surgery Branch Bethesda Maryland Bariatric surgery since 1994, first laparoscopic operation 1999 Director: Bariatric surgery- Group Health Cooperative Puget Sound, Redmond and Bellevue Washington 1994-2012 Medical director bariatric surgery-Sanford Medical Center, Bismarck North Dakota 2013-2015 Medical director bariatric surgery-Department of surgery, University of New Mexico 2016-Present