ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006 till present.  1356 Lusitana Street, Honolulu, HI 96813
• Assistant Professor of Neurology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Director Sleep Center Neurology, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, January 1st 2003 to 2005
• Assistant Professor of Neurology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center, 525 East 68th Street, New York NY 10021, August 1999 to October 2001
• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Freiburg University Sleep Center, 1996 to 1998, Freiburg University Medical Center, Hugstetterstrasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai Center for Sleep Medicine, Associate Director, 1994 to 1996, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, N.Y. 10029

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS

• Mount Sinai Medical Center, N.Y. Director Sleep Center Neurology, 2002 to 2005
• Munich University Medical Center, Germany Attending Physician, 2001 to 2002
• New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY. Attending Physician, Director, Sleep Wake Disorders Center, 1999 to 2001
• Freiburg University Hospital, Germany Attending Physician Director of the Sleep Laboratory, 1996 to 1999
• Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y. Attending Physician, Co-director of the Sleep Laboratory Department of Medicine, Pulmonary division, 1994 to 1996
• New York University/HJD, New York, N.Y. Epilepsy Fellow, 1992 to 1993
• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, N.Y. Neurology Resident, 1990 to 1992
• Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, N.Y. Medical Intern, 1989 to 1990
• Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York Research Fellow, Sleep Medicine, 1987 to 1988 Neurology Resident, 1988 to 1989
• Munich University Medical Center Neurology Resident 1985 to 1987
• Munich University Medical Center and Regensburg Psychiatric Hospital Psychiatry Resident 1984 to 1985

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

• Sleep Disorders Fellow, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1993 to 1994. Chief:  Alvin Tierstein, New York, N.Y.
• Epilepsy Fellow, Department of Neurology, New York University, 1992 to 1993. Chief: Orrin Devinsky MD Chairman: Edwin Kolodny MD, Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, N.Y.
• Neurology Resident, Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1990 to 1992 Chairmen: Melvin Yahr MD and Howard Lipton MD, New York, N.Y.
• Medical Intern, Lenox Hill Hospital, 1989 to1990 Chief: Michael Bruno MD, New York N.Y.
• Neurology Resident, Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein Medical School, 1988 to 1989. Chairman: Herbert Schaumburg MD, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y.
• Research Fellow, Sleep-Wake-Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein Medical School, 1987 to 1988. Chief: Michael J. Thorpy MD; Chairman: Herbert Schaumburg MD, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y.
• Neurology Resident, Technical University of Munich, 1985 to 1986. Chairman: Albert Struppler MD, Munich, Germany
• Psychiatry Resident, University of Munich and University Hospital of Regensburg, 1984 to 1985.  Chairman: Louis Hippius MD, Germany

CERTIFICATION

• American Board of Neurology, 1994 (recertified 2005)
• American Board of Sleep Medicine, 1988 (recertified 2007)
• Federal Licensing Examination (FLEX) USA, 1987
• German Board of Neurology, 1995
• German Board of Sports Medicine, Munich, 1984

LICENSURE

• New York State Licence # 212897
• Pennsylvania State License # MD 046630 L (inactive)
• New Jersey State Licence # 63662 (inactive)
• German Medical License # 6246
• Guam Medical License # M001533
• Guam DEA # 07-M1533
• Hawaii Medical License # 13614
• Hawaii DEA # E07830

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

• Fellow, American Academy of Sleep Medicine since 1988
• Medical Advisor, American Dental Sleep Society, Educational Board, since 1998
• Fellow, American Academy of Neurology, since 1994
• Secretary and Treasurer, Hawaii Neurological Society, since 2006
• President-elect, Hawaii Sleep Society, since 2007

MEMBERSHIPS

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine
• American Academy of Neurology
• National Sleep Foundation
• Pickwick Club
• Mount Sinai Alumni
• North Eastern Sleep Society
• New York State Sleep Society
• Hawaii Neurological Society
• Hawaii Sleep Society