User:Rpwdoc1953

I was born in Brooklyn, New York and then spent my childhood and adolescence growing up on Long Island in the town of Massapequa. I attended MIT where I received my B.S. in Biology. During my undergraduate years, I began to engage in biomedical research and performed some biochemical-virological studies of an epizootic disease of the inbred rat strain NEDH Kx, under W. Eugene Knox, III, MD in the Harvard Medical School Dept of Biochemistry. Following graduation from MIT, I became involved in immunology research at Boston Children's Hospital, under Raif Geha, MD, Chief of Allergy and Immunology. We published a paper on human idiotypes in the Journal of Immunology, my first publication in a peer-reviewed journal. I subsequently went on to study medicine at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Old Westbury, New York, in the family tradition of my father who was a D.O. who graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. My earliest exposure to medicine occurred when my father brought me with him on house calls to patients' homes when I was 6 years old. After graduating from NYCOM, I spent 1 year in an Anatomic Residency program at Brown University in Providence, RI. Missing contact with and providing care to patients, I switched to an Internal Medicine residency at St Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA. After obtaining high scores on the FLEX exam in 1987, I first became licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. During the subsequent year, I divided my professional time between Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine until 2003. Becoming excited about the issuance of the blueprint for the Human Genome in 2002, and wanting to become more involved with the burgeoning field of biotechnology and medical devices, I went to law school where I majored and focused my studies on Patent Law and Intellectual Property Law. I spent a couple of years as a biotechnology and Medical Device expert reviewing patent applications while working for Cardinal Intellectual Property. In 2010, I was invited to join the research team led by Professor ChoKyun Rha at MIT where I spent 10 years on neuroscience research and the effects of phytochemical antioxidant chemicals and their capacity for the prevention of Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease. In 2019, I began a doctoral program in Pharmacology at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, where I am now finishing up my 2nd year G2.