- 1966 – NY Medical Collage
- 1968 – 1970 Active duty US Navy (Vietnam)
- Internship at UCLA, GS & PLS at Yale
- Faculty at Yale 1976
- Specialized in H&N + breast recon
- Est. Melanoma Center (still the Director)
- First description of the pectoralis major flap in 1979
- 1979 – 1991 Yale PLS Chairman
- 1986 – Founded National Match PLS Residency
- 1988 – Soviet Union invitation to help Armenia’s earthquake victims
- Est. Soviet PLS unit + training program
- 1993 – Yale MBA
- Published >300 papers, 4 surgical text books
- Served on many specialty committees/organizations
- ABPS, AAPS, ACGME