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I enjoy caring for a wide variety of orthopedic problems; having a special interest in sports and reconstructive surgery. Shoulder, hip and knee problems are of particular interest to me.

You, the patient, deserve unique consideration for your ailment and its effect on your life. No “one-size-fits-all” treatment and rehabilitation plan works for everyone. My goal is to tailor the best treatment option for each individual. I strive to rehabilitate your orthopedic problem without surgery.

The best results come from a team-approach involving the patient, myself, and physical therapist (plus other ancillary services) to achieve a goal. The active and positive role of the patient is key to enjoying a successful outcome. Your strong commitment (with my help) to your own care is the best method to maximize results and reach long-term goals. My staff and I eagerly look forward to helping you regain your active lifestyle.

CV

• Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
• Subspecialty Board Certification Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
• Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Fellow of Arthroscopy Association of North America
• Member American Association Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Member, California Orthopaedic Association
• Hospital: Twin Cities Community Hospital, Templeton, CA
• French Hospital in San Luis Obispo and Templeton Surgery Center in Templeton, CA

Board Certification

• American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2009
• Subspecialty Certificate Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, 2010

Education

• Undergraduate: Loyola College of Maryland, Baltimore BS,
  Biology, Cum Laude 1993-1997
• Medical School: Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine,
  Maywood, IL MD 1997-2001
• Residency: Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL,
  Orthopaedic Surgery 2001-2006

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On A Personal Note

My wife and I decided to raise our three children on the Central Coast of California, where we can be close to nature and family. After my surgical training in Chicago (where our first child was born), I was in private practice for five years in the San Joaquin Valley. I had the privilege to assist as a Team Physician for the Stockton Thunder ECHL Hockey and Cougars Indoor Professional Soccer teams. I also had the opportunity to help families regain the active lifestyles they had lost for one reason or another.

We were blessed with our two younger children in northern California, and decided to move to San Luis Obispo County to live closer to family. My wife is a Family Medicine physician who spent much of her childhood in Atascadero.

In practicing Orthopedic Surgery, I’ve discovered joy connecting with my patients and their families. It is most gratifying to offer solutions to mobility problems whenever possible, and value my privilege and responsibility to positively affect a life.

I perform surgery at French Hospital in San Luis Obispo, Twin Cities Hospital in Templeton, and Templeton Surgery Center in Templeton.

Approach to Healing

I see healing medicine as a restoration of the environment in which we humans enjoyed optimal health in our native ecosystems of the past. We had ancestors that lived over 150 years without degenerative diseases, but this required the intact environments in which our species co-evolved with other animal and botanical species. My interest has been in researching these environs in terms of food, medicine, and the physical, social and spiritual activities that supported these long, healthy and connective lifestyles. I focus on the removal environmental toxins, natural building and living from passive solar design to textiles to body products, regenerative, micronutrient dense food and botanical medicine, forest bathing and permaculture design. I enjoy teaching people about how cellular and metabolic function are supported and translated into health in the landscape of interdependent organ systems. I consider it important that people understand the receptor signaling differences between healing foods, medicine, and our ecosystem biomes, as opposed to toxins which are man-made chemicals and currents that are less specific and less efficiently modified by our biome, creating loss of homeostatic and regulatory mechanisms.

CV

• Doctor of Medicine, Stritch School of Medicine
• Family Medicine Residency, Northwestern/St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago
• Board Certification by American Board of family Medicine
• Recertified by exam for American Board of Family Medicine
• National Board of Physicians and Surgeons, Family Medicine Board Certified
• Maintained CA Licence and CME Requirements
• Maintained DEA

Board Certification

• Board Certified by American Board of Family Medicine in 2004
• Recertification by exam for American Board of Family Medicine in 2014
• National Board of Physicians and Surgeons, Family Medicine Board Certification 2026

Education

• Bachelors of Science: Honors Programm: Physical Anthropology, Pre-Medical Sciences: UCLA 1991-1995
• Doctor of Medicine: Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 1997-2001
• Northwestern Family Medicine Residency: St. Joseph's Hospital, Chicago, IL 2001-2004
• Herbal Fellowship: Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine 2023-2024

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