Address:
Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
Pitt County Memorial Hospital
2100 Stantonsburg Road
Greenville, NC 27835
252.847.6957

EDUCATION
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2005-2006: Surgical Critical Care Fellow
University of Tennessee, Memphis 2000-2005: General Surgery Residency
University of Tennessee, College of Medicine, Memphis 1996-2000 Doctor of Medicine, with high honors
Rhodes College, 1990-1994 Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, cum laude, with honors

HONORS
Medical School
        Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society
        $4000 Graham scholarship by University of Tennessee, Memphis
        $1300 scholarship by University of Tennessee, Memphis
        McGraw Hill Book Award
College
        Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
        Senior Honors Research
        ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award
        William Spandow Scholarship in Chemistry

LICENSES
Active Candidate for Certification in General Surgery
State of North Carolina Medical License (2005 to present)

EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
July 2005-present: University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill: Surgical Critical Care Fellow

2000-June 2005:  University of Tennessee, Memphis- General Surgery Residency.

Summer 1997:  NIH Medical Student Research Fellow at the University of Tennessee, Memphis- Investigated the phosphorylation state of PKA dependent phosphorylation of rat ventricular yachts.  This project was part of the lab’s overall study of the protective effects of prior myocardial infarctions in surviving subsequent myocardial infarctions.

1994-1996: Research Technologist in Department of Infectious Diseases at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital- Investigated the intracellular pharmacokinetics of several anti-reverse transcriptase HIV drugs in human leukocytes, both in vitro by primary culture and in vivo.

Summer 1993-1994:  Howard Hughes Research Grant/Senior Honors Research Project at Rhodes College- Investigated the isolation and characterization of cellulases produced by Achlya ambisexualis.  These proteins are believed to be involved in controlling the morphology of this water mold in various environs and involved in hyphen branching.

Summer 1992:  PEW Consortium Grant at Washington University-  Investigated the chemistry of 2,6-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl-phosphinidene, a theoretical free radical of phosphorous.

Summer 1991:  Schering-Plough Grant at Rhodes College- Investigated the structures of some pent dentate copper (II) complexes.

PUBLICATIONS
Quantitation of intracellular zidovudine phosphates by use of combined cartridge- radioimmunoassay methodology.  Brian Robbins, Brett Waibel, Arnold Fridland.Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Nov 1996, p. 2651-2654.

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES   
Scuba diving (Advanced open water diver via PADI), Tai-Kwon Do,  photography