Education

9/02-6/2006

University of Medicine and Dentistry. New Jersey Medical School. Newark, NJ Doctor of Medicine Recipient of Class of 1972 Scholarship, Charles Mancuso Scholarship, and member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

9/97-5/99

Columbia University School of Social Work. New York, NY Master of Social Work in Clinical Social Work Recipient of the Bilingual Social Worker Scholarship.

9/90-1/95

Cornell University College of Human Ecology. Ithaca, NY Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies

9/93-12/93

Lorenzo De'Medici / The Art Institute of Florence. Florence, Italy Art and Italian Language Student.

Postdoctoral Training

7/06-present

New York Presbyterian Hospital. Columbia University Campus. New York, NY Internal Medicine Intern and Resident Evaluate, generate diagnoses, and manage patients with diverse pathology (bread and butter medicine as well as care for post-cardiac/liver transplant and patients with multi-organ system failure) in inpatient and outpatient settings on general medicine, intensive care unit, cardiology and cardiac critical care, oncology, infectious diseases, and geriatrics services. Supervise and teach interns and medical students.

Licenses

8/07	New York State Medical License: 245710

Employment Experience

8/01-Present

Departments of Pediatric and Adult Psychiatry, NYP Hospital. New York, NY Software/Database Developer/System Administrator Design, create, deploy and maintain web-based medical records database systems used by the department clinics and adult psychiatric emergency room at the New York Presbyterian Hospital using Unix (FreeBSD), Apache, Perl, mod_perl, mysql, OpenSSL and HTML Mason. Train staff in maintenance and use of the system. Additionally, design and develop an online research tool that interacts with the medical records system.

9/98-11/01

Evolution Online Systems/Freelance Independent Contractor. New York, NY Software/Database Developer/System Administrator Worked on diverse projects (ebusiness applications, intranets for businesses and non-profit organizations, customized databases) independently and as part of a team, developing server-side web-applications integrated with SQL databases in a Perl, Apache, mod_perl environment using primarily Unix (Solaris and FreeBSD) and Windows NT/2000. Automated system administration tasks as needed on different projects. Using existing Perl modules and writing new object-oriented modules, developed generic database applications that can be customized to store business related information. Created shopping cart applications integrated credit card authorization software. Used photoshop to create and modify images to display on the web. Gained experience using html, dhtml, xml, cgi, javascript, vbscript, and asp. Collaborated in customizing an in-house project management intranet using perl, MS Internet Information Server, and fastcgi. Wrote software documentation.

9/97-9/98 6/99-9/00

Special Needs Clinic at New York Presbyterian Hospital. New York, NY Social Work Intern/Social Worker Counseled HIV infected and affected adult, adolescent and child patients. Developed and implemented treatment plans, and identified DSM-IV diagnosis as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team. Led therapeutic groups for adolescents and pre-adolescents that focused on improving social skills and planning for the future. Conducted structured psychosocial research interviews for multi-site research project. Collaborated with a team in analyzing research interviews and clinic service data using SPSS, MS Excel and MS Access.

9/98-5/99

Good Shepherd Services at John Jay High School Brooklyn, NY Social Work Intern Provided college and career guidance to adolescents individually and in groups. Assessed students for depressive symptoms and suicidality. Referred students to other social service agencies when appropriate and advocated on students' and their parents' behalf with other social service agencies. Tutored students in science and math classes.

10/95-9/97

Special Needs Clinic at New York Presbyterian Hospital. New York, NY Clinic Coordinator Developed, maintained and upgraded a medical records database in MS Access and MS SQL Server that has been used for the past 7 years as the clinic's charting and service reporting system. Designed database user interface forms and service-statistics reports that complied with changing reporting requirements. Set up and maintained a local area network using Windows networking and then transitioned to TCP/IP. Trained staff in the use and maintenance of the system and developed administrative procedures to improve clinic management. Supervised an administrative assistant and undergraduate interns. Interviewed candidates for administrative positions within the clinic. Maintained payroll information for staff and tracked budget expenditures on federal and private grants. Assisted in grant writing.

Research

4/07

Predictors of Mortality Among a Multi-ethnic Cohort of Hospitalized Elderly Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure at a Community Hospital Columbia University. Research Advisor: Matthew Maurer Using Cox-Proportional Hazards analysis in SPSS, generated a predictive model of mortality in this cohort of patients. Abstract presented at Societry of Geriatric Cardiology Annual Conference.

8/03-9/04

Hepatitis C Prevalence Study in Newark, NJ UMDNJ. Research Advisor: Peter Wenger Retrospective chart review (Electronic Medical Records) of patients admitted to the University Hospital in Newark to the services that uniformly check hepatitis C serology on all patients in order to describe prevalence of HCV in the community and to compare with other studies. Data presented to the NJ Department of Health.

8/2002

HIV-1 Tat protein interactions UMDNJ. Research Advisor: Tsafi Pe'ery Studied the binding of the HIV-1 Tat protein to the cellular positive transcription elongation factor b, as well as potential regulatory proteins involved in this interaction. Learned basic concepts of yeast two-hybrid screen experiment.

Presentations

10/01, 10/00, 3/98, 10/97, 3/97, 10/96

Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University Introduction to Microsoft Excel for Mental Health Professionals

10/97, 3/97, 10/96

Cornell University Urban Semester Program HIV/AIDS: Local effects of a Global Pandemic

10/97

Brooklyn College Continuing Education Program The Social impact of HIV and AIDS on the urban poor in northern Manhattan

Language Skills

Fluent in Spanish and proficient in Italian.