I am an Infectious Disease physician at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Dignity Health. I completed my Internal Medicine residency at Kern Medical Center and my fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Cedars-Sinai/UCLA Multi-Campus Program. I am board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases. I am the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Porgram and hold a Health Sciences Clinical Professor appointment with David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. I am a member of the Infectious Disease Association of California, Infectious Disease Society of America, American Federation for Medical Research, Coccidioidomycosis Study Group, American Society for Microbiology, American College of Physicians, Fellow, Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. I have several publications on my main interest in coccidioidomycosis and have been actively involved in several research projects including NIH sponsored.