Professional Activities

Academic/ Hospital Appointments

• 2011-13        Expert consultant, HRSA-USPHS on Graduate Medical Education in the U.S.
• 2010-   Member, New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education (Chair Nomination committee, 2012)
• 2010-2014       President Medical Executive  Board – North Bronx Healthcare Network
• 2009-   President – Council of Dental Chairman for the Health and Hospital Corporation
• 2007-2012       Finance Committee New York Medical Alliance (appointed ad-hoc member)
• 2007- 2009      Vice President Medical Board – North Bronx Healthcare Network
• 2006-   President- New York Dental Alliance/Aflliates
• 2005-2014       AIDS Institute –NYS Dept. of Health – HIV Medical Steering Committee
• 2005-2013       Chairman- AIDS Institute –NYS Dept. of Health Dental Standard of Care Committee
• 2004-   Chairperson- North Bronx Healthcare Network Department of Dentistry/ Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• 2001 – 2004    HRSA/HIV/AIDS Bureau – Oral Health Care Services to Persons Living with HIV/AIDS, Advisory Committee
• 2001-2003       Chairman Dental Faculty Practice – Montefiore Medical Center and affiliates
• 2000 - 2004     AIDS Institute – Dental Standard of Care Committee
• 1999,2001-      New York State Oral Health Task Force Steering Committee
• 1996 - Visiting Associate Professor  - New York University College of Dentistry
• 1996 -  Dental Public Health Residency Program NYSDOH- Site Director
• 1996 – 2000    Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor - University of Maryland Dental School
• 1995 – 1998    Ryan White HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program Evaluation, Woodhull Hosp. Ad-Hoc Advisory Group
• 1994 -  Adjunct Associate Professor of Dentistry - Columbia University
• 1994 – 2005    Attending Montefiore Medical Center
• 1994 – 1999    Member of Montefiore AIDS Steering Committee
• 1994 -  Associate Professor, Department of Dentistry – Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM)
• 1994 -  Associate Professor Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology – AECOM
• 1992 – 1993    Acting Chief of the Department of Dentistry - Bronx Municipal Hospital Center       

Academic/ Hospital Appointments (Cont.)

• 1992 - 2004     Dental Clinic Director – Montefiore Medical Center/Jacobi Medical Center
• 1992 - 2004     Member Faculty Senate – AECOM
• 1992 - 1998     Member Committee on Graduate Medical Education  - AECOM
• 1991 - Preceptor for Summer Dental interns New York University, Columbia University, and University of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh Dental Schools
• 1991    Selected as a Representative to the American Association of Dental School Faculty Legislative Workshop
• 1991 – 1993    Bronx Municipal Hospital Center- Executive Council of the Medical Board  
• 1990 – 1997    Preceptor for Health Research Training Program of the City of New York
• 1989 – 1991    Chairman Dental Faculty Practice – Montefiore Medical Center and affiliated hospitals
• 1989 -  Bronx Lebanon Hospital – Assistant Attending Department of Dentistry
• 1988 – 1993    AECOM – Assistant Professor Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• 1987 – 1993    Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Assistant Professor Department of Dentistry
• 1987 - 1997     Rikers Island Prison-Dental Director
• 1987 – 1992    Bronx Municipal Hospital Center – Associate Attending (1991) and Director of General Practice Residency Program
• 1987 - 2004     General Practice Residency Director – Montefiore Medical Center – East Campus
• 1987 - 1994     Montefiore Medical Center – Asst. Attending Department of Dentistry
• 1987 - 1994     North Central Bronx Hospital – Asst. Attending Department of Dentistry
• 1986 – 1987    University of California S.F. School of Dentistry – Acting Assistant Professor Department of Public Health and Hygiene
• 1986 – 1987    Mt. Zion Hospital Multidisciplinary Geriatric Assessment Program – UCSF Dental School Rep.
• 1984 – 1986    University of California LA School of Dentistry – Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Hospital Dentistry
• 1982 – 1984    Clinical Asst. Attending, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center

Quality Assurance/Review Experience

• 2005-   2009    Chief Dental Consultant on Utilization review and Quality- Fidelis Care NY
• 1997 – 2002    Utilization Review and Quality Assurance Developer/Consultant – Dental

Managed Care Network – DENTNY

• 1997 - 2004     Director, Quality Improvement Committee, Community Dental Programs – MMC
• 1997 -  Ad-hoc Reviewer Community Dentistry Oral Epidemiology
• 1986 – 1998    External Quality Assurance Consultant –City of San Jose Ca.
• 1996 -  Ad-hoc reviewer for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research on HIV/AIDS and Health Services Research
• 1992 – 1995    Editorial Review Board Special Care in Dentistry (Currently Ad-hoc Reviewer)
• 1992 – 1993    Ad-hoc Research Grant reviewer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Dental Health and HIV/AIDS)
• 1992 – 1996    Ad-hoc reviewer for the Agency of Health Care Policy and Research  (Dental  Health and HIV/AIDS)
• 1989 – 1990    State of Arizona – Dental Program Consultant
• 1989    American Association of Hospital Dentistry Committee on Quality Assurance/continuous Quality Improvement Indicator Development
• 1988 –97         Quality Assurance Director – Rikers Island Dental Department
• 1987 – 1994    Editorial Review Board Journal of Dental Education (currently Ad-hoc Reviewer)
• 1987 – 1994    Quality Assurance Director Department of Dentistry Bronx Municipal Hospital Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
• 1987- 94          Dental Quality Assurance-Co-Director City of San Jose Dental Plan
• 1986 – 1994    Partner-Dental Plan Consultants (DPC) – Assist dental practice plans with activities related to quality assurance, including consultation and practice review, peer review, and dental delivery system planning.
• 1985 – 1988    Quality Assurance Consultant – Cigna Dental Health Corporation Dental practice review and assessment
• 1984 – 1986    Adjunct member of Dr. Max Schoen and Associates-responsibility of reviews and assessments for the State of California