I am a native Arizonan. I got my medical degree from the U of A, spent time in the Army where I did an internship and then was Officer-in-Charge at Rock Island Arsenal. I then did my residency in Anesthesiology at University of Washington where I was trained in pain management by Dr. John Bonica.

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I have practiced addiction medicine since 2004, done extensive outpatient and inpatient treatment of addiction. I have done extensive work with persons with both pain and addiction. It is very challenging, but can be very rewarding. I have been doing medication assisted treatment since Suboxone became available with good success.

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What I am not: I am not a primary care provider nor a psychiatrist.

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I limit my practice to addiction medicine and pain management. I specialize in pain patients who want or need to stop opioids. I rarely prescribe opiates other than buprenorphine for chronic pain. I also do not prescribe benzodiazepines, except short term for withdrawal. In my experience, persons with an addiction or alcoholism do very poorly when prescribed these medications unless managed by psychiatrists. 

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