1981

Internal Endocrinology, Erasmus University Medical

1983

Cardiology, Thorax Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1981

Cardiology & Electrophysiology, Saint Francis Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1982

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory County “Zuider” Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1986

PhD, Biomedical Image Processing, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

1997

University of Southern California Office of Executive Development Management Development Program for Physicians.

Professional Appointments:

1981-1984

Medical Director – CAPRI Project: Cardiac Rehabilitation and Cardiac Prevention Project, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1986-1988,

Senior Resident Research Associate (National Research Council/NASA) California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Biomedical Imaging Processing Laboratory, Pasadena, California

1989-1992

Principal Investigator/Coordinator “REGRESS” project (Netherlands National Regression of Atherosclerosis Program), Utrecht, The Netherlands

1989-1992,

Medical Director, Cardiovascular Image Processing CORE Laboratory of the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands

1991-1994

Cardiovascular Consultant to the European Community’s Committee of Olive Oil Research and Promotion

1993-1995

Medical Director, Healthy Heart Prevention Program, Vancouver, BC

1985

Senior Clinical Cardiologist, Zuiderzee Hospital, Lelystad, the Netherlands

1992-1995

Senior Research Scientist, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

1988-1992

Director Cardiology Outpatient Clinic, Department of Cardiology, Radboud University Hospital, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

1997

President, Prevention Concepts, Inc., Inage CORE lab. Los Angeles, California

2000

Executive Director/Director of Research SPARC Research Encino, California

Fluent:

English, Dutch, German, French

Limited:

Spanish, Italian

1984

European Congress of Cardiology, Semifinalist Young Investigator Awards, Düsseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany,

1985

Corresponding Fellow of the Argentine Cardiology Society

1986

Finalist Young Investigator Award, World Congress of Cardiology, Washington, DC

1986-1988

Recipient National Research Council Senior Research Resident Associate Award of the American Academy of Sciences, USA

1990

Fellow American College of Cardiology

1995

Fellow American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention

1996

Fellow American Heart Association Council Arteriosclerosis

1998

Best Cardiovascular Poster Presentation Amsterdam Menopause Symposium

1998

Excellence in Media American Heart Association Award for PBS Series on Women’s Health and Heart Disease

1999

American Heart Association Special Honoree at the Compliance on Health Care Conference, Waltham, MA

Cardiovascular Diseases of all Member States the European Union (Re-certification as of June 10, 1999 for 5 additional years)

1984

Fellow/Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Department of Clinical Cardiovascular Epidemiology, The Thorax Center, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1985

Visiting Scholar and Researcher, Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Atherosclerosis Research. University Hospital ‘Dijkzigt’, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1986-1987

Visiting Scholar, Department of Kinesiology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA

1990

Assistant Professor of Cardiology, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands

1986-1991

Visiting Assistant Professor Medicine, Atherosclerosis Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

1991-1993

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1995

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

1995-1998

Associate Professor Medicine (Division of Cardiology and Department of Preventive Medicine) University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Mentor during cardiology fellowship program (Erasmus Medical School, Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Teaching during medical school training: School of Nursing on “Pathophysiology of Human Disease” (Erasmus Medical School, Rotterdam The Netherlands)

Cardiovascular educational program for primary care physicians (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Tutorials on coronary heart disease at different European/American/Canadian and South America Cardiological Institutes

Tutorial at the first, second, and third symposium on management of atherosclerosis, The Netherlands

Postdoctoral education in preventive-cardiology leading a thesis 1991, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (Collaboration with University of Gottingen, Germany) on Preventive Cardiology

PhD thesis mentor and examiner in cardio/lipid-biochemistry leading to a thesis: on liposomes 1991, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC

Teaching cardiology fellows at LAC County Hospital in echocardiography reading and trans-esophageal echocardiography techniques

Teaching a postdoctoral course at de Institute of Prevention Research (USC) on the pathophysiology of disease 1995-1996

Pharmacotherapy Advisory Committee at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Chair, Networking Committee Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation, Health Heart Coalition

Core Member British Columbia Heart and Stroke Foundation, Vancouver, BC

Cardiology Representative on behalf of the Netherlands Cardiological Society on Cholesterol

Member Scientific/Grants Committee Lipoprotein Section Netherlands Heart Foundation

Cardiological Consultant to the Netherlands National Health Care Program ’STG 2000’ (Stuurgoep Toekomstscenario’s Gezondheidzorg). Task Force Netherlands National Health Care 2000

Chair, Roundtable Conference: “Cholesterol Consensus: A Transatlantic Perspective”, October 31-November 1, 1991, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Southern California Lipoprotein Working Group

Los Angeles Country medical association

Member of California medical association

California Society for Cardiac Rehabilitation And Prevention

Los Angeles Society for Echocardiography

Royal Dutch Society of Medicine

Dutch Association of Specialists in Internal Medicine

Dutch Society of Cardiology

International Federation of Societies in Cardiology

European Society of Cardiology

American Society for Cardiac an Pulmonary Rehabilitation

American Society for Clinical Research

New York Academy of Sciences

American Heart Association, Council on Arteriosclerosis

American Her Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention

American Heart Association, Council on Stroke

British Columbia Medical Association

British Columbia Cardiological Society

Canadian Cardiac Rehabilitation Society

American Society of Preventive Cardiology

American Medical Association

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Cardiologie (Netherlands Journal of Cardiology) expertise: Preventive Cardiology

DIA consultant on cardiovascular surrogate endpoints May 1, 1999, Philadelphia

University of California Berkeley, Special Division on Smoking in Ethnic Minorities

Cardiovascular Consultant to SYNARC, Bedford, MA

Cardiovascular Consultant Parexel Imaging, Parexel Inc, Waltham, MA

Biomedical Image Processing of Non-invasive Ultrasound Techniques Preventive Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Medicine

Behavioral Modification of Risk Factors for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease.

CORE Laboratory Supervisor Image Processing Prevention Concepts Inc.

Happiness Headquarters, Inc. Community initiative development.

SPARC Research Center Inc., Encino, California, Executive Director/Director of Research.