Education and Professional History

Undergraduate studies: University of Illinois.
M.D.: University of Illinois 1965
Internship: Highland General Hospital, Oakland CA., 1965-66.
Military: Commanding Officer, 757th Medical Detachment USMC - Europe. 1966-69.
Attached to Trauma staff 5th General Hospital, Bad Canstatt Germany.
Director, Trauma and Emergency Services, St. Joseph's Hospital, San Francisco 1969-71.
Institute for Analytical Psychology, Zürich. 1971-73
Private practive in psychosomatic medicine/psychiatry 1973-90.
Graduate of Transportation Safety Institute in Accident Investigation 1988.
Private practice in Human performance Analysis, 1980-present.


Current Activities

Director: California Human Factors Analysis Center [ph 510-531-7300]
Human Performance consultant to Federal Aviation Administration, and National Transportation Safety Board.
FAA designation as Senior Medical Examiner , Accident Investigator and Safety specialist.
Consultant in forensic Human Factors Analysis.


Research

1.	Ongoing studies in human cognition, including awareness determinants and application to human performance. [current work compares highway and aviation accident determinants including substance misuse].
2.	Night vision evaluation and calibration project.

Publications

-	Air Accident Investigation Desk and Field guide ch.39 - "Human Performance".
-	Book in pre-publication: "Consciousness in Homo sapiens."
-	"The Human Factor" - Transportation Safety Institute - DOT.
-	"Forensic Accident Investigation: Motor Vehicles" - chapter author for Vol I "Human Factors [1995] Vol II -"Memory" [1997]

Teaching

-	"The Nature of Human Consciousness" University of California, Berkeley.
-	Lecturer in Human Factors Analysis, Transportation Safety Institute, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration.
-	Lecturer to US Coast Guard in human factors.
-	"People, Airplanes and Disaster"- lecture to American Academy of Forensic Science.[1996]
-	"Theatre of the Absurd"-lecture of American Academy of Forensic Science. [2004]
-	Embry-Riddle Aviation Academy: Instructor in Aviation Physiology.

Memberships

-	Human Factors Society.
-	American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
-	American Bar Association.
-	Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists (past member).
-	Civil Aviation Medical Association.
-	International Society of Air Safety Investigators .

Experience

Post accident evaluation of human factors in highway, rail, rapid transit and aviation settings. Human Performance Analyst FAA Western Pacific Region. Human factors consultant to NTSB.


Litigation

Case work has included a high percentage of highway accident evaluation, as well as rail, and other forms of human/machinery interaction, including safety methodology evaluation.

Litigation and trial testimony has included visual and auditory performance, Night vision, design failure, reaction analysis, cognitive processing, drug and alcohol effects, memory, and reliability of witnesses.


Licensing

Cal Lic. #G 16480. Nat. Bd Med. E # 81681 F.A.A. Des. # 13733-8