Stainless Steel Island Productions LLC.

I am a practicing Dermatologist in suburban Detroit. 

Produced Projects:  The Road to Hell; TV/Webcast pilot.  Post production, TR2H/Bigscreen Entertainment.

Optioned scripts:  1. "Clipperton" to Lefthook Entertainment, New York, NY    2.  "You Gotta Want It" to Lefthook Entertainment, New York, NY    3. "The Legend of Cooperville", to Purple Rose Productions, Farmington Hills, MI (option expired)  4. "Inner Demons" to the Skeleton Factory, Detroit, MI (option expired).

Brood 19 "Best Original Screenplay" Terror Film Festival, Philadelphia 2009.  Finalist at the Paranoia Horror Film Festival, Long Beach, CA 2009, and finalist at the Online Horror Screenwriting Competition, 2009.

Assistant to editor and frequent contributor to "The Michigan Daily" arts page 1983-1985.  "Sentimental Gestures" in "Barbaric Yawp" a collection of short fiction, University of Michigan, 1985.

I have benefited greatly from the tutelage of Jack Epps, Jr.  The head of creative writing at University of Southern California, and co-writer of "Top Gun", Dick Tracy", among others. (see letter linked below)

B.A. University of Michigan, 1985.  M.D. University of Michigan Medical School, 1989.  Dermatology Residency Training, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit MI 1989-1993.

Chief of the Division of Dermatology at St. John's Macomb Hospital, Warren, MI.  Assistant Clinical Professor, Div. of Internal Medicine, Michigan State University.  Teaching faculty for the St. Joe's, Ann Arbor, Dermatology Residency Training Program.  Executive Board and Past President of the Michigan Dermatological Society.