1956 – Completes an internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
1956 – Serves as Captain, M.C., in the U.S. Army Medical Corps
1958 – Goes into private general practice at the Austin Clinic in Austin, Minn.
1967 – Completes an internal medicine residency at VA Wadsworth Medical Center
1968 – Completes a rheumatology fellowship at VA Wadsworth Medical Center
1969 – Completes a rheumatology fellowship at UCLA Medical Center
1969 – Becomes assistant professor of medicine in residence at UCLA School of Medicine
1969 – Completes a clinical pharmacology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
1972 – Becomes associate director of the Institute of Rehabilitation and Chronic Diseases, UCLA
1973 – Becomes associate professor of medicine at UCLA School of Medicine
1977 – Becomes associate director of the Division of Rheumatology, UCLA School of Medicine
1978 – Becomes professor of medicine at UCLA School of Medicine
1981 – Becomes acing director of the Division of Rheumatology, UCLA School of Medicine
1999 – Becomes emeritus professor of medicine at UCLA School of Medicine