Graduated from University of B.C. in 1964 with a degree in physical and occupational therapy. Completed postgraduate diploma in spinal manipulation from institute of technology, Adelaide South Australia in 1970. Completed Masters degree in Allied Health education in 1976 and Doctorate in Physical Therapy in May 2007.  Involved in the Kaiser Northern California postgraduate Residency program in Orthopedic Physical Therapy since its inception in 1979. Teaching as a member of the core faculty until 1986. Part time teaching since 1987. Owner of Hayward Physical Therapy from 1976 until 1992.   Presently senior P.T. at Physiotherapy Associates of Hayward, consultant to the Vascular Surgery Department at UCSF medical center and Assistant Clinical Professor in Graduate program in Physical Therapy at UCSF/SFSU.

Taught numerous courses over the years in examination and treatment of the spine, and for the past 15 years teaching Physical Therapists to use the Edgelow Neurovascular Entrapment Syndrome Treatment (ENVEST) approach to treatment of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome both pre and post surgical. Currently involved in a clinical project of developing and validating this approach to the treatment of chronic neurovascular entrapment syndromes of the upper quarter. This includes 2 retrospective studies: 1 The effect of treating this syndrome in 200 patients, both pre and post surgical, as compared to the more traditional approach of treatment of 300 pre and post surgical patients. 2. The effect on treating this syndrome in 2000 patients with signs and symptoms arising from Repetitive Strain Injury.

Member of Board of Directors of the American Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Association. (ATOSA), Consultant to the Consortium for Outcomes Research and Education on Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (CORE-TOS), and Winner of the California Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association’s Royce P. Noland award in 1988, and the American Physical Therapy Association’s Henry O. and Florence P. Kendall Practice award in 1999.

Major career goal is to assist in the identification, prevention and treatment of severe neurovascular entrapments of the upper quarter.