I am a medical doctor board certified in General Pediatrics, Anatomic Pathology and Pediatric and Developmental Pathology and I am board eligible in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine.
I have been engaged in the continuous practice of medicine for more than 35 years. I completed my residency in Anatomic Pathology at New York University Medical Center in 1981, a residency in General Pediatrics and a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Maternal and Child Health between 1981 and 1985, and another fellowship in Pediatric and Developmental Pathology at Brown Medical School, Women and Infants Hospital in 1992. For the past 15 years, I have served as the Director of the Division of Perinatal and Pediatric Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Women and Infants Hospital, in Providence, Rhode Island.
I am also a Consultant in Perinatal and Pediatric Pathology for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, and State Medical Examiner’s Office of the State of Rhode Island, Providence. I am a full Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence. I am a Reviewer for several peer review medical journals, including Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Journal of Perinatology, and Placenta among others. In addition to my clinical and teaching responsibilities, I have authored and co-authored many publications, abstracts, book chapters and a book titled “Normal Developmental Biology of the Human Placenta”, have given presentations and lectured on a variety of topics related to my areas of specialty. I conduct and oversee more than 400 autopsies and fetopsies annually and have examined approximately 80,000+ placentas throughout my many years of practice.
