1968-69 University of Washington No Degree

Swedish Hospital Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program, Seattle WA

Chief Resident, 1982

Certified by the American Board of Family Practice, 1983

Recertified, 1989

Recertified, 1995

Recertified, 2002

ISCD Certified Clinical Densitometrist, 2005

American Academy of Family Physicians

Washington Academy of Family Physicians

Washington State Medical Association

International Society of Clinical Densitometry

Phi Beta Kappa

Alpha Omega Alpha

Overlake Hospital Medical Center, Active Staff 1983 - present. Committees served on include Patient Education, Quality Assurance, Utilization Review, Family Practice Professional Activities Committee. Chairman, Family Practice Section 1991-1993.

Swedish Hospital Medical Center, Active Staff, 2003 to present

1983–2003: Founded and practiced at Pine Lake Family Medicine, Issaquah (now Sammamish) WA.

1986-1989: Medical Director Sound Health Network (the largest freestanding PPO in Washington State at the time)

1989-1991: Medical Director Washington Health Network (including Sound Health and Good Health Plan- a capitated HMO)

1989: Clinical Instructor – Community Medicine & Rural Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine

1993-1994: Medical Director Coordinated Medical Care (a hospital-sponsored IPA)

1994-2000: Cascade Healthcare Alliance Interim Board, UR Committee, Board of Directors (a physician sponsored IPA)

1995–1996: Consultant to Milliman & Robertson regarding outpatient medical care guidelines

1998: Consultant to Regence Blue Shield on Physician Performance Reporting

2000: Adjunct Professor of Clinical Medicine, Rocky Mountain College

2003-2007: 　 Medical Director Swedish Physicians Pine Lake

2007: WAFP House of Delegates

2003-present: Participant in Practice Partner Research Network (a nationwide quality improvement research network utilizing the EMR). Earned High Performance Award, 2005 and 2006

2006-2007: Participant in Washington State Diabetes Collaborative V

2007: NCQA Recognized Diabetes Physician

1983-1985: Medical Director, Digital Equipment Corp. Lifetime Health Screening Program, Washington State.

1987-1990: Developed database applications for Utilization Review and Monitoring and Physician Quality reports for Sound Health Network and Good Health Plan of Washington using KnowledgeMan and AWK. Authored some K-Man programming utilities.

1993-1994: Developed database applications for Disease Management for Coordinated Medical Care in Microsoft Access.

1997-2001: Implemented EMR in my private medical practice using Virtual Intern software on a Newton Message Pad. In 2001 obtained source code for Virtual Intern and released a not-copy protected version with several bug fixes and enhancements. (NewtonScript)

2001-present: Implemented EMR in my private medical practice with Practice Partner.

2002-present: Paperless in the office.

2006: Developed techniques for interface between Practice Partner and the CDEMS chronic disease management registry.

2006 – 2007: Participant Swedish Hospital Ambulatory Documentation Tools Workgroup for EPIC implementation.

2006 – 2007: Member ASTM E31 CCR Committee

July 2003: Practice Partner Users Group yearly national meeting on "Using Macro Express to Automate and Extend Practice Partner." Released several sets of Macros.

July 2005: Practice Partner Users Group yearly national meeting "Advanced Template Design." Released a Conditional Logic Tutorial.

April 2006: Speaker at Lumetra Health Information Technology Conference on "Using an EMR to Improve Quality of Diabetes Care."

May 2006: Speaker at TEPR workshop on "Implementing an EMR in a Small Medical Practice."

July 2006: Speaker at Practice Partner Users Group annual meeting on "Using Conditional Logic in Templates to Improve Quality of Care," and "Advanced Template Programming".

May 2007: Speaker at TEPR: "Chronic Disease Management using EHR Tools: A Practical Approach to Improving Quality" and speaker at TEPR workshop on "Implementing an EMR in a Small Medical Practice."

July 2007: Speaker at Practice Partner Users Group annual meeting on "Using Macro Express to Automate Practice Partner" and "Advanced Template Programming."

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