CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified by the American Board of Family Practice, 1977
• Re-certified by the American Board of Family Practice, 1984 and 1991
• Certified by the American Board of Bariatric Medicine 1984
• Certified (Practitioner) Neuro-Linguistic Programming, 1987
• American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine, 1999

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• American Medical Association, 1974 to present
• Oklahoma State Medical Association, 1974 to present
• Seminole-Hughes County Medical Society, 1974-1977
• Canadian County Medical Society, 1977-1979
• American Society of Bariatric Physicians, 1978 to present
• Oklahoma County Medical Society, 1979 to present
• Mercy Clinical Society, 1979 to present
• Oklahoma City Clinical Society
• Member, Advisory Council, American Obesity Association 1995 to present
• American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine Member 1996 to present

HONORS, POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS HELD

• Chairman, Family Practice Department, Mercy Health Center, 1983-1985
• Medical Director, Alcohol Treatment Program, Mercy Health Center, 1982
• Medical Director, Anorexia/Bulimia Treatment Center, Mercy Health Center 1984 and 1985
• Vice Chairman, The Obesity Foundation, 1985-1986
• President, Hughes-Seminole County Medical Society, 1975 -1976
• Parliamentarian, American Society of Bariatric Physicians, 1985
• Chairman, Long Range Planning Committee, ASBP, 1985
• ASBP Member, Board of Trustee's, 1986, 3 year term
• ASBP Representative to National Council on Medicine, Dentistry and Surgery of Appearance, 1988 -1990
• Vice-President, ASBP, 1991-1992
• ASBP "Bariatrician of the Year" 1993
• President-Elect, ASBP, 1993 - 1995
• President, ASBP, 1995 - 1997
• Fellow, ASBP, 1997
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees, ASBP, 1997
• Member, Joint Committee of Shape Up America! (C. Everett Koop,M.D.) and AOA which produced “Guidance for treatment of Adult Obesity”
• 1996
• Member of the Board of Trustees, ASBP, 2002 - 2003
• President-Elect, ASBP, 2003 – 2004
• President, ASPB, 2004-2005
• Recipient of the Raymond F. Deitz Award (for meritorious service in bariatrics), 2004
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees, ASBP, 2005-2007
• Editor, The American Journal of Bariatric Medicine, 2006-present
• ASBP “Bariatrician of the Year”, 2006