Abraham Solomon, M.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE

**** *** ****** ****** #***

Delray Beach, Florida 33484 Telephone :239-***-****

Email:adhw2b@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

Emergency Medicine based physician since 1986. I have enjoyed the clinical diversity and intensity of the Emergency Department in a variety of interesting geographic settings. I have also enjoyed returning to academics, instructing a number of healthcare subjects including: Radiology, Electrocardiography, Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology, Human Biology, Medical Terminology, and Medical Law & Ethics. I am also a consultant to a BioDefense Company.

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:

My desire is to join a progressive team of medical professionals who have the passion and desire to provide quality services in both an effective and efficient manner.

EDUCATION:

Medical University De Liege ( Belgium ) 1976-81

Medical Internship Lemuel Shattack Hospital 1981-1982

Surgical Residency

Boston University 1982-85

Orthopaedic Fellowship

Boston University 1985-86

Emergency Medicine

New York Medical College 1991-93

Beth Israel Medical Center 1993-1994

PROFESSOR:

Adjunct Professor

Senior Lecturer in charge of : Anatomy & Physiology / Medical Terminology Ave Maria University

Anatomy & Physiology 5050 Ave Maria blvd.

Ave Maria, Florida 34142-9505

Adjunct Professor / Florida Gulf Coast University

Senior Lecturer in charge of : Anatomy & Physiology / Medical Terminology

College of Health Professions

Fort Myers, Florida 33965-6565

Professor Edison State College

Anatomy & Physiology ( 2007 )

Collier Campus

Naples, Florida

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Juan Luis Hospital

Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands 00821-4421 1994-01

Lester Schneider Hospital

St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands 008**-****-**

Hempstead Hospital

Hempstead, New York 11550-4600 1999-00

South Nassau Community Hospital

Oceanside, New York 115**-****-**

Bronx Veteran’s Hospital

Bronx, New York 104**-****-**

St. Francis Hospital

Hartford, Connecticut 1990-91

Catholic Medical Center

Manchester, New Hampshire 1987-89

St. Joseph’s Hospital/Milford Medical Center

Nashua, New Hampshire 1986-87

INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES:

Rocky Boy Reservation, Havre Montana 8/86

Barrow Alaska 7/87

Kayenta, Arizona 11/87

Eagle Butte, South Dakota 12/90

Pine Ridge, South Dakota 12/90

Browning, Montana 4/97

CRUISE SHIP MEDICINE:

Carnival Cruise Ship Transatlantic Maiden Voyage: Ms Ecstasy 5/91

Holland American Cruise Ships Alaska Cruise 9/93

Regency Cruise Lines French Canada/ New England 9/95

Disney Cruise Line Transatlantic Maiden Voyage MS. Wonder 7/99

Celebrity Cruise Line Millennium Cruise MS. Mercury 12/ 99

AFFILIATIONS:

American College of Emergency Medicine

American Academy of Emergency Medicine

American Association of Physician Specialists

CERTIFICATE:

Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Advanced Trauma Life Support

Paediatric Advanced Life Support

E.C.F.M.G Certificate # 319-819-9

SCIENTIFIC / MEDICAL EXPERT BOOK CONSULTANT

PEARSON / PRENTICE HALL PUBLISHING

Member Editorial Development Team

Book Titled: Medical Terminology 7th Edition by Jane Rice

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-214802-3

COMPETITION JUDGE:

Thomas Alva Edison Science & Engineering

Florida State Regional Competition

January 2012

LECTURER:

Old and New Medical-Legal Issues in the Emergency Department:

Swimming with the Sharks

Old and New Medical-Legal Issues / Swimming with the Sharks

Methodist Hospital Emergency Medical Residency Conference

Brooklyn, New York

December, 2005

American College of Emergency Physicians Spring Conference Competition

Las Vegas

April, 2006

Lee Memorial Health System

Continuing Medical Education

Health Park Medical Center

Fort Myers, Florida

March, 2009

King Edward 7th Hospital

Continuing Medical Education

Hamilton, Bermuda

August, 2009

Ave Maria University

Seminar Series in Healthcare & the Sciences

Ave Maria (Naples), Florida

November, 2009

~Delray Medical Center-May 2014

~Regional Conference Osteopathic Society: October 2014 ~St. Petersburg Hospital: May 2015

How Sweet It Is: The Intimate Hx of Diabetes & the Discovery of Insulin

~Department of BioEngineering / Engineering: FGCU/ February 4th, 2010

~St. Petersburg Hospital: January 2016

~Delray Medical Center:May 2016

~Regional Conference Osteopathic Society: October 2016

~Scheduled Speaker : 2Nd International Conference on Diabetes, Nutrition, Metabolism & Medicare:November 5-6,2018 Philadelphia, USA

The Intimate History of Cancer and the Search for a Cure ~ St. Petersburg Hospital: April 2016

The Last Frontier: Age & Ageing

Delray Medical Center: January 2019

St. Petersburg Hospital February 2019

Summary of Lecture Medical-Legal Lecture

There is a predatory medical-legal relationship that currently exists in American Medicine, that risks spilling over to other countries. Doctors make their living treating patients. There is a large number of attorneys and others in the legal profession that now feed on Physicians to make their living. These attorneys expenses are fixed, and in order for these attorney’s to survive, they need to feed successfully on physicians and their medical practice.

Right or wrong is not the question. Winning or losing is the question. This Adversarial legal environment feeds and breeds well in this climate. In theory the truth is the engine that drives the legal system, and should provide justice. However, big monetary settlements can easily motivate litigants to mask the truth. Perception becomes reality. Often physicians try to prevent malpractice litigation by ordering every test under the sun. This is expensive and has contributed to the USA being ranked 37th in the world of medicine. Just behind Slovenia!

The American Healthcare system is the most expensive, where the typical patient can no longer afford to be treated. Nor is the system effective for injured patients — according to the same study, 54 cents of every dollar paid in malpractice cases goes to administrative expenses like lawyers, experts and courts.

The medical experts used in these types of trials simply make up standards, to suit their fiscal needs. No longer is science the basis for medical judgments. Fear of a law suit is the predominant motivating factor. So how to avoid law suits lies more in the relationship between physician and patient, than simply medical skills. Medical cases are now decided jury by jury, without consistent application of medical standards.

Dr. Wendy Levinson has done some interesting studies in this area:

Non Sued physicians were more engaged in Active Listening, saying such things as: “Tell me more about that “They were more likely to be funny, during the visit. Interestingly, there was no difference in the amount or quality of information they gave their patient about medication or the patient’s condition. Simply put: treat the patient and their family like a human being. Above all do no harm.

According to a 2006 study in the New England Journal of Medicine, around 25 percent of cases where there was no identifiable error resulted in malpractice payments. There was however an important failure to communicate, and misdirected anger.

This presentation attempts to fill the gaps in human dynamics often left out of medical school and residency training.

Cover Letter :

I have been a physician since 1981, and my area of specialization and interest has been Emergency Medicine. I have enjoyed the clinical diversity and intensity of working in a variety of geographic settings, that permitted me to have an unobstructed view, and perspective of medical care and medical education, through a significant part of the world. I am fluent in both English and French, having grown up in Montreal.

I am a student of medical history, and have been deeply influenced by those who went before me, from Sir William Osler, to Alan Gregg, the Rockefeller Foundation representative responsible for the establishment of medical schools and healthcare programs throughout the world.

No discipline can lengthen a man’s arm, but it can lengthen his reach by hoisting him on the shoulder’s of his predecessors. I have had the profound privilege of having had a medical education in Europe, where the didactic standards were the highest.

At the time of my graduation from Medical School in Liege Belgium, the school was listed by the World Health Organization as being number one. I have been profoundly positively influenced by this experience, and the humanity of the profession I have been privileged to be associated with.

To paraphrase Tip O’Neil’s famous line that “ All politics is local “, I sincerely believe that all: ‘All medical care is local’; based on the local needs, the local common diseases and associated trauma, local income levels, and importantly local customs, expectations, level of satisfaction with healthcare, and requirements to sustain and grow service to their community. This observation is based on my emergency medical practice in which I devoted a significant part to underprivileged and underserved populations throughout the United States.

These emergency medical activities ranged in location, from the tropics of the United States Virgin Islands, to the far desolate Arctic region of Barrow Alaska; working with their Eskimo Community. I also worked in diverse areas as the Atlantic Coast of Maine, to the far Pacific region of Guam, during the time of their last major Typhoon: Packa.

I was privileged to have worked in many western Indian communities, including Pine Ridge, South Dakota, the nation’s poorest. I have also worked extensively in several New York City Emergency Departments, specifically in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan; dealing with a wide range of inner city trauma victims, including but not limited to gunshots injuries; as well as a very diverse range of inner city medical problems.

I have also have been exposed to medical care in Europe, Asia, and the Middle

East through my travels and contacts. These varied emergency medical experiences

have been the foundation of a solid knowledge base in both common and rare medical conditions.

I have had the privilege and honor to being associated with both Edison College, as a Professor of Biology, Florida Gulf Coast University, Hodges University, Southwest Florida College, as an Adjunct Professor. I have recently been nominated for a teaching award at FGCU, and awaiting their decision, on this prize.

I have enjoyed both their staff and the student population, and have been greatly impressed by the motivation of both these groups in seeking to have an excellent educational experience. I have taught Anatomy/Physiology, Microbiology, Human Biology, Radiology, EKG, Medical Law & Ethics, as well as an online course in Medical Terminology.

I am also a scientific / medical expert consultant reviewer for the Pearson Publishing Company. My duties require me to make certain, that the books to be published by Pearson, are scientifically and medically accurate. I take deep personal pride in this important task. I am currently working on a book: Medicine & Law for Healthcare Students. Subtitled “Swimming with the Sharks”.

My association with the Virgin Islands goes back over many years. I was asked by the former Commissioner of Health to create a Proposed Medical Preparedness Disaster Plan for St. Thomas; to deal with Counter-Terrorist Activity that might affect the island and the important cruise line industry. I also worked at establishing the Disney Cruise ship’s Medical Department, and I continue to have contacts, at a number of major cruise line’s, including Carnival Cruise line.

Through my contacts at Florida Gulf Coast University Healthcare Faculty, and FGCU’s affiliation with a medical school in China. Liaisons are being established that might offer, the nursing students and others scholars, having possible rotations in Florida, and possibly even China; and vice versa.

I was a member of the Edison College Ethics Committee; I drafted the Edison Committees procedural guideline. I believe, as this document clearly illustrates, that the basis for any dispute resolution, demands an essential desire to have fairness, equality, impartiality, and the timely resolution of any dispute. Essentially aiming to resolve any problems before the horses are outside of the barn!

My real life medical experience has permitted me to appreciate the academic foundation required to pursue a career in today’s technologically driven world. No field of academic study can permit any student to be computer and internet illiterate. There are several interesting ways this can be encouraged in both the student and academic staff.

Despite all these diverse intense interest, I pride myself at being able to maintain a sense of humor and balance. Nothing brings me more pleasure than in making a student smile, while learning an important academic concept, A little humor can go a long way, if appropriate.

Respectfully submitted;

Dr. Abraham Solomon

Lee Memorial Health System

Continuing Medical Education March 2009

“Old and New Medical Legal Issues: Swimming with the Sharks”

Abraham Solomon, M.D.

Adjunct Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University College of Health Professions Monday, March 16, 2009, 6:30 – 7:30 PM

HealthPark Medical Center Room HP1B

Learning Objectives - Participants will be able to describe the past, present and future impact of

attorneys and the legal system on medical practice. RSVP for Dinner by March 13th - 573-5680

Lee Memorial Health System is accredited by the Florida Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Lee Memorial Health

System designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with

extent of their participation in the activity. This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 1.00 prescribed credit by the American Academy of Family

Physicians. Faculty and Lee Memorial Health System will disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of the presentation. Faculty will also identify any off label or investigational uses discussed as such.

Coordinated by Joanne Gorgone RN – 574-0397, Cathy Hassen, CPMSM – 574-0374, Judy Abler –

573-5458

Continuing Medical Education Department

“Improving Patient Care Through Education”

September 9, 2009

Dr. Abraham Solomon

9701 Orange River Boulevard #315

Fort Myers, Florida 33905

E-Mail: adhw2b@r.postjobfree.com

Dear Dr. Solomon,

On behalf of the Bermuda Hospitals Board and the CME program, I would like to thank you very much indeed for giving the CME lecture for our physicians on Wednesday, August 26th on the topic: “Old and New Medical Legal Issues: Swimming with the Sharks”.

We had an excellent attendance and you provided our physicians and medical staff with a great deal of very interesting information. Attached is a compiled overall evaluation form reflecting the responses and comments received from the attendees.

Once again, many thanks for your participation and support of the CME initiative. The time and effort you put into your presentation is most appreciated.

Best regards,

Dr. Annie Pinto,

CME Director

Chief of Staff Office

5th Floor, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital

Paget, DV O4

Bermuda

Phone: 441-***-**** Email: adhw2b@r.postjobfree.com

Continuing Medical Education Department

“Improving Patient Care Through Education”

Title:

Old and New Medical Legal Issues: Swimming with the Sharks

Facilitator(s):

Professor Abraham Solomon, MD

Date:

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

SUMMARY OF FEEDBACK FROM ATTENDEES

Total of 49 attendees - 31 – MDs 18 – RNs+ others

Evaluation Forms received 40

Agree

1

Neutral

2

Disagree

3

1. The session complied with stated goals.

35

4

1

2. The session was appropriate to my practice.

34

6

3. I acquired new knowledge from the presentation.

32

6

2

4. This session met my needs.

31

7

2

5. The session will help me modify my practice.

28

10

2

6. I was satisfied with the organization of this presentation.

35

4

1

Yes - 26

7. Did the presenter make a disclosure statement?

No - 14

Facilitator Assessment

Agree

1

Neutral

2

Disagree

3

8. The presenter demonstrated a thorough understanding of the subject.

38

1

1

9. The presenter demonstrated a proficiency in speaking.

39

1

10. Did the presenter disclose any conflicts of interest before the presentation?

Yes – 21

No- 11

Not Sure – 8

Comments:

•Excellent

•Ended well, but deviated in the middle

•Wonderful – points well made and illustrated – Thank You!

•Captivating Speaker!

•Confident ease of flow of information – Thanks!

•Excellent presentation – please invite Dr. Solomon back

•A Bermudian perspective would be good even for comparison sake

•Excellent

•Very entertaining speaker

•Good Job

•Very impressive presentation/slides

•Excellent!

February 8, 2009

Faculty Excellence Awards Committee

Florida Gulf Coast University

Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to nominate Abraham Solomon, MD for the Adjunct Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr.

Solomon has taught in the College of Health Professions for a number of years, first in the Anatomy and Physiology sequence. After teaching that course for several semesters, Abe came to me and asked if we would be interested in developing a course in medical terminology because he believed it would help students make a smooth transition into the upper division majors in Health Professions. We explored texts and concluded that the course would make an excellent online offering that would fit FGCU students’ busy academic and work schedules.

HSC 3531 Medical Terminology is an online three (3) credit elective course that is open to lower division students preparing for admission to a healthcare major. Upper division students may also elect to take the course. Because it is online, the course is a good fit for students who have clinical rotations that take them off campus one or two days a week. Dr. Solomon has worked diligently with Instructional Technology experts to expand the learning strategies in the course since it was launched.

The course offers learning opportunities that are visual as well as auditory. When you preview the course, you will see that the first module opens with Dr. Solomon speaking in fluent French! Besides immediately riveting everyone’s undivided attention, it is an exceptional way of getting the message across to students that the health care enterprise is like a foreign country to the novice student in a healthcare discipline. Learning the language of the realm is an excellent strategy to maximizing their learning opportunities in their major courses.

Successful online courses require regular attention by the faculty involved. Dr. Solomon is always available to students and responds promptly to students’ email inquiries. Abe added podcasts to the course – an achievement that took a great deal of his personal time. As he gained experience with the textbook used in the course, it became apparent that there were many errors in the text and the test bank. Dr. Solomon devoted a great deal of time to reviewing and editing each question in the test bank. The results were presented to the publisher’s representative in two three-ring notebooks! This is just one example of Abe’s dedication to the teaching enterprise. He holds students to a high standard and expects then to give their best to the learning activities in the course. He does the same!

FGCU is fortunate, indeed, to have an extraordinary pool of healthcare professionals in SW Florida who are willing to serve as adjunct faculty. Abe Solomon is an outstanding example. I hope you will preview the online course in ANGEL to get a sense of the quality of his work.

Sincerely,

Denise Heinemann, RN, DrPH

Dean

Dr. Abraham Solomon

Teaching Philosophy

My education and philosophy on teaching, have been forged by the 1000 year tradition of excellence at the Universite de Liege in Belgium. In my estimation: All things excellent are difficult and rare.

I believe the Professor’s job is to assist the student, by offering lectures that are both passionate for the course, and as clear as possible. Differentiating and helping the student to prioritize the important information, and reducing irrelevant details.

The clarity of the lectures will influence the length of time the students will retain the information offered. Ultimately, it is what the student takes away from the course, long after the final exam, where the information acquired really matters.

The Professor’s role is not only to teach the material, but to offer intelligent options as to ‘how to study the material’. How to pose a question, and how to wisely seek an answer, from a group of options. Knowing the proper technique, will serve the student well, in the application of the material learnt in the classroom; and later used in their chosen career.

A Professor, like any other professional, needs to be affable, and available to discuss issues as they arise, and to mentor, when a student seeks guidance or direction. Mentoring can only happen after a student has the respect, and the appreciation of their professor’s humanity, experience, and wisdom.

Above all it is important for the student to finish, what they start. This is one of life’s important lessons. Too often it is easy for the student to abandon a course, when the going simply gets too tough, or life issues, or health issues intervene to prevent the successful completion of a course.

The Professor has an obligation to encourage the student to make the most appropriate choice, ultimately finishing the course, with the best grade possible! And to move forward in their career choice, when appropriate.

It is also equally important for a University Professor to guide the student in evolving a professional attitude, and work ethic. I personally encourage “Oral Presentations” of selected Power Point Assignments. This exercise allows them to both learn and polish their presentations, and permits naturally inhibited individuals to swim in open water. This should never be a group activity, where some hide, while others pontificate.

This individual oral presentation, permits other students to judge each others abilities, and to better understand their own work, relative to their peers. This is easily obvious in sports activities. One player notes the abilities of others, and is thus able to judge, whether someone else runs faster, jumps higher, or swims farther.

In academics, being cloistered inhibits gaining important insight, about the intellectual abilities of other students. Simply knowing someone received an “A” in a written exam, or project, conceals academic excellence needlessly. The Academy Awards, motivates movie mavens to observe, judge, and adjust their own efforts in striving for excellence. Seeing someone else’s work product is an important part of their educational process. Toyota gained prominence over GM, by dissecting GM’s cars! GM was initially too arrogant to think anyone else knew their business. The Yankees need the Red Socks, as much as the Red Socks need the Yankees. Each without the other, would make for mediocrity!

The Healthcare profession is a ‘contact sport’. We deal with people, in both large and small numbers. A patient can sometimes come with 15 members of their immediate family to a healthcare facility. The future professional, needs to be able to easily communicate orally in front of any group. If not learnt in the classroom, when will it be learnt? If not now, maybe never!

There is a place for memos, and emails in our complicated world, but often one needs to speak! Anthony proclaimed “ Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your EARS.” He did not ask for an email list to express his thoughts!

Each generation of university students have similarities, and distinct differences that need to be taken into the Professor’s radar screen. The Millennium Generation of students need and require instant gratification. They demand multiple short benchmarks for their work. Multiple assignments, multiple exams, and multiple feedback options.

The Millennium Generation are not content with simply having a Final Exam. Their financial pressures, and their need to be competitive to get into professional programs, demands that they know where they stand at all times! They all are desperately seeking A’s. It is on their minds and hearts, morning, noon, and night! They are under a lot of pressure to achieve this objective. With the proper pacing, focused effort, passion, and motivation; they deserve the opportunity to achieve their predetermined goals.

However, the ultimate judge of their abilities, will be the national exams. The majority of these healthcare students will need to be submitted to these exams. The national exams offer a generally unbiased cold evaluation of their knowledge base. Personal factors are removed.

In this frosty setting, these students will become anonymous. Their results will depend on their groundwork in prioritizing information, and their professors’ abilities to be

hard task masters in making their preparation, bear the fruits they desperately seek and deserve.

Ultimately excellence is both difficult and rare, but can be achieved for those willing to put up with the great effort required.

Respectfully submitted;

Dr. Abraham Solomon

Professor Solomon’s Florida Gulf Coast University Anatomy & Physiology Students that got the highest grade, allowing them to have a personalized tour of the Operating Room to observe surgery

AMU Anatomy & Physiology Students Gain an Experience of a Lifetime

This article was written by the A & P 1 class:

Danielle Armstrong; Lauren Wilson; Ruth Judd; Karen Perez; Deirdre Harkins; Alicia Lalak; Aimee Van Rooyen; Kerri-Ann Anderson; Steven DiLauro; Cedric Duval

When we all walked into Dr. Abraham Solomon's Anatomy & Physiology class, we were expecting to learn from textbooks and models; however we were pleasantly astonished to find out in our first lecture, and clearly described and presented to us in our syllabus, mention of an operating room (OR) experience that was in store for us. We all had seen surgery in the movies, and on television, but we never imagined actually being able to observe and experience; what remains a mystery and behind closed forbidden doors, for most people.

As students interested in the healthcare professions, we all knew this would be an experience like no other. Our fellow AMU students, when they learnt of our scheduled OR visit; were either amazed, or repulsed at the thought of actually seeing surgical procedures. We however, were thrilled and anticipated that faithful day.

As the semester slowly evolved, we developed a solid

and meaningful foundation in Anatomy & Physiology. We learnt to appreciate both how complex and interesting the human body is. We memorized and sweated over the endless anatomical names, and began to gradually appreciate the varied functions of each physiologic system presented to us. We also began to understand the long, noble, and sometimes difficult history of Anatomy, and its profound implication and application to art history. We were all amazed at the anatomical competence of artists like Michael Angelo, and Leonardo Da Vinci. How did they do it? And without the help of Dr. Solomon?

We all worked hard as a class, as the days of the academic calendar drifted past ever so quickly. Our anticipation grew for our pending OR experience. We gradually grew in our knowledge and were better able, and better prepared to experience surgery! Finally the scheduled date for our visit was set.

We were however not prepared for the announcement that surgery is a very early morning event, requiring us to get up well before dawn. The date finally arrived, our alarm clocks were screeching, and as we looked out at the darkened AMU campus, we knew our fellow AMU students were still asleep; while we were pulling ourselves out of bed at 5:00am.

We dragged ourselves to the waiting AMU van, that Lauren Wilson; our fearless classmate had procured for this unfolding adventure. There was a torrential rainstorm that morning. We were not deterred by the rain, as we made the 1 hour journey to the hospital. The windshield wipers were fitfully clanking away, barely removing buckets of rain, as we moved through the darkness, on our AMU chariot

/ van.

We had joined the A & P class as strangers; we had been molded to become a team of Anatomists, about to experience surgery, in the raw! Wow! Arriving at the busy hospital at 7:30 am. Patients and their families were marching to their appointed schedules. Doctors, nurses, and technicians were squiring about, grabbing their morning coffee for the start of their day. We also noticed almost an equal number of these professionals, getting ready to finish their hard day's night. Work at a hospital is a 24/ 7 day activity.

We were greeted by our professor, Dr. Solomon, and shortly thereafter greeted and warmly welcomed by the OR's head nurse. As we walked through the double doors of the Surgical Services Department, we knew an unforgettable day was in store for us. The head nurse led us to the locker rooms to don our surgical scrubs. None of us had ever worn scrubs! As we pulled on the green cotton, the experience began to become real to us. We slipped on our scrub hats, and booties that covered our shoes. We hardly recognized each other. We all looked like surgeons! We were now fully

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