Previous Medical Practice

• Associate Radiologist, General and Interventional Radiology, Highland Regional Medical Center, Sebring, Fl. July 2008 – October 2011
• Chief of Radiology, Doctors Memorial Hospital, 333 Byron Butler Parkway, Perry, Fl. 32347 August 2000 – June 2008.
• Radiology Staff, Veterans Admin. Hospital, Biloxi, Ms., April 2000 – August 2000.
• Associate Professor Florida State University 2000 -2008.
• Associate Radiologist, Kendal Medical Center, Miami, Fl. April 1998 – April 2000
• Associate Radiologist, Hialeah Hospital. Miami, Fl. August 1997 – March 1998.
• Director of Radiology. Doctors Memorial Hospital, Perry, Fl. April 1995 – July 1997.
• Professor of Radiology. Director of the Radiology Residency Program. University Rafael Urdaneta and Hospital Coromoto, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1984 – 1995.
• Director of Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology. Hospital Coromoto, Maracaibo, Venezuela. 1978-1995.

Education

• Certified by the American Board of Radiology, June 9, 1978
• Fellowships in Special Procedures and Computed Tomography, VA Hospital and Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami: July 1977- June 1978
• Residency in Diagnostic Radiology – Mount Sinai Medical Center, University of Miami: July 1974 – June 1977
• Medical School, Degree of Medical Surgeon, University of Zulia, School of Medicine, Maracaibo, Venezuela 1974.

Awards and Publications

• Honorary Mention, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, 1978, for the exhibit “Percutaneous Placement of a Biliary Prosthesis in Malignant Obstructive Jaundice”.
• Relief of Malignant Obstructive Jaundice by Percutaneous Placement of a Permanent Prosthesis in the Biliary Tree. Annals of Internal Medicine, November 1978.
• Percutaneous Antegrade Ureteral Stent Placement: an Alternate Modality of Permanent Internal Ureteral Decompression. Journal of Urology, July 1979.
• Cholangiographic Findings in Agenesis of the Gallbladder. Canadian Journal of Radiology, March 1976.
• Combined use of I-123 and Technetium 99m in Recurrent Ovarian Struma. Interamerican Journal of Radiology, January 1978.
• Agenesis of the Right Pulmonary Artery with severe Hemoptysis. Medical Tribune, February 1985.
• Direct Splenoportography in the Diagnosis of Portal Vein Obstruction in Pediatric Patients. Brazilian Journal of Radiology, 1992.

Medical Societies

• Radiological Society of North America
• American College of Radiology
• American Roentgen Society