Brief Bio

I am a 1970 graduate of New York Medical College and am a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Yale University School of Medicine I also founded and am President of County Obstetrics and Gynecology Group, with offices in Branford, Clinton, Wallingford and New Haven, Connecticut. I am attending physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital.  I first made my presence online in 1995 when I delveloped an online social networking site involving the tragedy of Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Loss. This program, Hygeia (http://hygeia.org) , is still online and growing. Since that time, I  have committted my I.T. endeavors to involve what I call the "humanistic aspect of the Internet."  With this philosophy, I have shunned the commercialization of the Internet and have tried to bridge the digital divide with my work.  I have been fortunate to have been honored for this work by becoming a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge, Stockholm, Sweeden two times, and have been selected as a juried presenter at MedNet 2003, in Geneva, Switzerland and again at MedNet, 2005 in Prague, cz.  Hygeia began, as many projects do, as a need to fulfill a personal mission. At its inception, it was one of only a few programs dedicated to pregnancy and neonatal loss utilizing Internet Technology. It remains the only program which is totally edited, managed and sponsored by a physician (Obstetrician/Gynecologist) who cares daily for patients experiencing these losses. Much has changed in Medicine and on the Internet since the inception of Hygeia, but its mission perseveres…using new technologies to share age-old feelings and lessons, and its founding principles remain: a. emphasize and incorporate humanism with technology; b. strive to reduce parallel disparities in access to both healthcare services and Information technologies. All of Hygeia’s programs are ongoing and successful.

In 1997,I founded  the Hygeia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring to medically indigent and under-served populations, nationally and internationally, interactive information with regards to Maternal and Child Health and facilitate access to these services. My first book Parenthood Lost, Healing the Pain after Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death was published in January, 2001. I am committed to teaching and am the Recipient of the Association of Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics Teaching Award and twice recpient of the C. Lee Buxton Teaching award and am actively involved in the medical education program at the Yale University School. I have been fortunate to have been interviewed about my work by Katie Couric on the NBC Today Show in August, 2001.