1956
Earns a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College.
1962
Obtains a Doctor of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
1962
Is an intern and fellow in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Division of Baltimore City Hospitals and Johns Hopkins University until 1967.
1963
Serves as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and post surgeon in the U.S. Army at Pine Bluff Arsenal until 1965.
1967
Is a senior resident in medicine at the University of Maryland Hospital until 1968.
1968
Is a physician and internist at Kaiser Permanente until 2018.
1974
Serves as a board member of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente until 1977 and again from 1980 to 1985.
1975
Is the founder and chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Kaiser Permanente until 2001.
1979
Receives the Partner of the Year Award from the Southern California Permanente Medical Group.
1982
Is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California through today.
1990
Becomes co-principal investigator of “The Adverse Childhood Experience Study.”
1997
Receives the 11th Annual Teaching Award from the Department of Medicine at the University of California.
1998
Becomes senior editor of The Permanente Journal; Receives a Distinguished Service Award from the Southern California Permanente Medical Group.
2005
Receives a Lifetime Achievement Award from Optifast; Serves on the Task Force on Early Childhood Violence, part of the American Psychiatric Association.
2006
Serves on the international academic board of Trauma und Gewalt in Zurich, Switzerland through today.
2012
Receives the McAllister Award for Advancing Trauma Informed Care.
2015
Receives a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Family Justice Center.
2016
Receives the Vincent Felitti Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy on Violence and Abuse.
2017
Receives an Impact Award from HealthSpottr.
2019
Receives the Paul Fink Interpersonal Violence Prevention Award from the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan.