Education

• University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 1972
• Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois 1975

General Educational Training

• Family Practice Residency 1975 – 1976 UCSF Fresno
• General Surgery 1976 – 1980 UCSF Fresno
• Thoracic Surgery 1984 – 1986 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan

Academic Appointments

• 1981 to Present
• Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery
• University of California San Francisco

Societies

• Association of Veteran’s Administration Surgeons
• Fresno-Surgical Society
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
• Fresno Madera Medical Society
• John Alexander Society
• Association of Military Surgeons of the United States

Licensure

• California
• Michigan

Board Certification

• National Boards, Diploma
• American Board of Surgery
• American Board of Thoracic Surgery
• Recertification of American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Committees

• Nutrition Support Team Chairman
  Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Tumor Board Past Chairman
  Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Transfusion Therapy Committee
  Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Critical Care Committee
  Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Medical Records Committee
  Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Operating Room Committee
  Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Ventricular Assist Device, Sub-Committee Post Chair-Person
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Cardiovascular Committee
  Fresno Community Hospital, Fresno, California
• Critical Care Committee
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Respiratory Care Committee
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Chairperson, Cardiovascular Department
  Valley Children’s Hospital
• Chairman, Cardiac Surgery Division
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Co-Chairman of Cardiac Surgery Case Conference
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Member of Steering Committee
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Medical Director of Cardiac Surgery Unit
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Research Project During Residency: Clinical Application of the Left Ventricular Assist Device and Retrograd Cardioplegia
• Medical Director of CSU
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Division of Cardiac Surgery Chairperson
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Surgical Supervisory Committee
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California
• Critical Care Committee
  Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California

Professional Appointments

• Valley Cardiac Surgery Medical Group Partner, 2004 – Present
• Valley Cardiac Surgery Medical Corporation, 1991 – Present Physician, Cardiothoracic Surgeon
• Central California Faculty Medical Group, 1986 – 1991
  Private Practice in Pediatric and Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Staff Surgeon, Veteran’s Administration, 1980 – 1984
  Fresno, California Instructor of Residents and Students in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Functioned as Vascular and General Thoracic Surgeon; Established Vascular Surgery Clinic and Education Program in Vascular Surgery for Senior Residents.
• Saint Agnes Medical Center, 1986 – Present
  Privileges in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Fresno, California 93720
• Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center, 1986 – Present
  Privileges in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Fresno, California 93715
• Children’s Hospital Central California, 1986 – Present
  Privileges in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Madera, California 93638
• University Medical Center, 1986 – Present
  Privileges in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Fresno, California 93702
• Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, 1986 – Present
  Privileges in Thoracic Surgery, Fresno, California 93726
• Fresno Heart Hospital, 2003 – Present
  Privileges in Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Dominican Hospital, 2005 – Present
  Privileges in Thoracic Surgery, Santa Cruz, CA 95065
• Active participant in the Resident Medical Education Program U.C.S.F. (Fresno)
  Director of Cardiac Surgery Rotation for Residents
  Children’s Hospital Central California and Saint Agnes Medical Center

Lectures

• “Gastric Carcinoma at Fresno Veteran’s Medical Center, A 30 Year Review”
• “Esophageal Carcinoma” Grand Rounds Presentation
• “Aortic Dissection” Grand Rounds Presentation
• “Transmyocardial Revascularization “Current Cardiac Surgery Update, St. Agnes Hospital
• Off Pump CABG, Presented at AORN Meeting, Saint, Agnes Hospital
• Cardiac Surgery Update, Presented at Cardiac Symposium at Saint Agnes Medical Center

Publications

• “Triple Synchronous Genitourinary Malignancies”; Wentworth; Head: Stewart.
  A case report published in the Journal of UROLOGY in 1982. 2
• “Radical Excision and Multi modality therapy of pulmonary artery sarcoma”; Head HD; Stewart RD;
  et al, published in Ann Thoracic Surgery 1992;53:332-4;
• “A Study of Forty-Nine Consecutive Whipple Resections for Perimpullary Adenocarcinoma”; Sung J;
  Stewart, RD etal, published in AmJ Surg.] 997;1 74:6-10

Honors

• Peck Award-Medical School Award given for Scholarship and Community Service
• Children’s Hospital Central California Award—given for outstanding contributions and dedication to Central California Children