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He spent 4 years as a Senior Investigator for the National Cancer Institute and, for two of those years, was Director of the Lymphoma Treatment Center in Kampala, Uganda, where he was also an Honorary Lecturer at Makerere University.

He has taught at medical and academic institutions around the country, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, UCLA and USC. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Medicine at USC, a Senior Attending Physician at the LA County USC Medical Center, and has been an invited speaker at the Royal College of Physicians in London, the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the International Society of Hematology in Jerusalem, and at annual meetings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in the United States.

He has served as Director of Oncology, Chief of Medicine and Chief of Staff at both Encino Hospital and at the Tarzana Regional Medical Center, and was Chairman of the Professional Education Committee of the American Cancer Society in the San Fernanado Valley (the second largest of the ACS branches in the country).

He organized the first study of lumpectomy for the treatment of breast cancer in the western United States; was a co-investigator on the original study evaluating the relationship between the timing of initial breast cancer surgery within the menstrual cycle and prognosis, and for the past 13 years, he has been studying and publishing the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy administered to women with a previous history of treated breast cancer.

The author of several textbook chapters and many original research articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, he has served on the editorial review committee of several medical journals including Blood, Cancer Research, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, The Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science.

He has served on the Clinical Practice Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Ethical Practice Committee of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, the Immunotherapy Contract Committee of the National Cancer Institute, was a founding Board member of the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN), and is a Charter Member of The Council for Scientific Medicine (A 53 member committee, including five Nobel Laureates, headquarted at Stanford University, committed to the scientific review of alternative medicine).

He has been profiled in the Los Angeles Times and the British medical publication, The Lancet. He has been quoted in the New York Times and Newsweek. He is mentioned in Norman Cousin's book, Head First - The Biology of Hope, in Jack Canfield's book, Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul, in Gail Sheehy's book, The Silent Passage, and in Berry Gordy's book, To Be Loved.

He has cooked with Danny Kaye, played Balalaika - guitar duets with Theodore Bikel, flown a T33 jet fighter, traveled with the Tuareg in the Southern Sahara, spent time in a Buddhist Monastery on Mount Koya in Japan, and was the official Mohel (ritual circumcisor) for the Jewish community in Uganda, where, for a very brief time, he was also physician to Idi Amin.

In 1994, he was elected to Mastership in the American College of Physicians, an honor accorded to only 400 of the over 100,000 Board-certified Internists in this country. He is also listed in the Woodward-White book, The Best Doctors in America.

He is a founder and was President for over 20 years of the H.O.P.E. Foundation, established to provide both information and bereavement counseling to families touched by cancer, and is a founder and current President of the Los Angeles Free-Net, a non-profit organization, inaugurated in 1994, providing inexpensive internet access (free to K-12 students) and extensive medical information resources on the World Wide Web. In 1996, the Clinton White House identified the Los Angeles Free-Net as the prototype for community information resources that should be emulated around the country.

For the past several years, he has been an occasional guest oncologist on The Group Room. He is happily married, has two children, two children-in-law, and a grandchild.

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