Bachelor of Science from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1973;
M.D.
from the University of Miami, 1982;
Ph.D. in astrophysics from the Harvard University,
1978; at the time of selection employed by Stanford Medical Center, Stanford,
California; semi finalist in
NASA group 10 selection; 1978-1980 Chaim Weisman
Research Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of
Technology; 1984-- Member,
NASA Life Sciences Strategic Planning Committee,
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; 1985-Consultant, President
Reagan's National Commission on Space; 1985-Team member, longest civilian
combined air-sea rescue mission in the history of the US Air force, Moffitt
NAS,
Mountain View, CA; 1988-1992 Resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiac
Transplantation, Stanford University Medical Center; 1990 Member,
NASA Radiation Biology Review Team, Washington, DC;
2009-present Member, Research Committee, Congenital Heart Surgeons Society;
2004-present Professor of Surgery, University of Central Florida College of
Medicine, Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery and Chairman, Department of
Surgery, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.