I am a board certified physician holding certifications from the American Board of Pathology and American College of Sports Medicine, recently retired from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is my belief that Sports Medicine needs to serve the needs of the average person, not focus on bettering the performance of athletes.
A graduate of the prestigious RPI-Albany Medical College’s Combined Six Year Accelerated Program, my career has encompassed serving as a United States Air Force flight surgeon, primary care physician, hospital pathologist and coroner’s physician for three New York counties before overseeing a university laboratory. Early in my career, I trained in internal medicine at the USAF Wilford Hall Medical Center and was a base doctor. After years of primary care experience, I completed additional specialty training in anatomic and clinical pathology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. After personally experiencing prediabetes, I decided to learn more about the disease and eventually sought a certification from the American College of Sports Medicine.
As someone who overcame non-obese prediabetes, I wished to share this knowledge, authoring two books on prediabetes. The FIRST Program details the rationale and exercises used to successfully treat insulin resistance, the underlying driving force of diabetes. The Thin Prediabetic explains why some prediabetics are not overweight and the use of many nutraceuticals which have been scientifically been found to lower blood sugar.