Dedicated, strategic biopharmaceutical physician with 12 years of experience in industry and 14 years inacademic medicine completing both bench (CLCN5 gene, X-linked renal failure, renal stone) and clinicalresearch (Autosomal Polycystic Kidney Disease).Extensive clinical experience as an internist, nephrologist and geriatrician. Prior to medical school, I wasa physician assistant on the ground floor in the development of the Division of Geriatrics andGerontology at UCLA, working with leaders in the field nationally. Completed medical school at theUniversity of Washington, an internship /residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital,and a joint clinical fellowship in Nephrology and Gerontology at the Harvard teaching hospitals followedby a 5-year fellowship in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.