Curriculum Vitae

Education

• BA, Columbia College
• MD, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Positions

	"Dear Dr. Choy: I want to congratulate you on the wonderful work you are doing with Lasers on herniated discs. It is a wonderful development, and we are proud that as a member of the Columbia family that you played such a key role in bringing it about." –Herbert Pardes, M.D. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University

• Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
• Attending Physician, Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC
• Associate Attending Physician, Laser Laboratory, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center, Columbia University
• Former Director, Laser Laboratory, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
• Director, American Board of Laser Surgery
• Director, Laser Spine Center, NYC
• Founder & Medical Director, Tinnitus Control Center, NYC

Editorial Experience

• Executive Editor, Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine & Surgery
• Editor, Special Issue of Lasers in Medicine & Surgery, American Optical Society
• Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine & Surgery on Percutaneous Laser Disc Decompression, June 1995
• Executive Editor, Photomedicine & Laser Surgery
• Editor, Special Issue of Photomedicine & Laser Surgery devoted entirely to PLDD
• Former Associate Editor, Cardiac Chronicle
• Manuscript Reviewer, Lancet
• Manuscript Reviewer, American Journal Laser Medicine & Surgery
• Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Medicine & Surgery
• Manuscript Reviewer, New England Journal of Medicine

Consulting

• Consultant to National Bureau of Standards on biomedical applications of the Free Electron Laser, December 1987
• Consultant to the Walter Reed Hospital on Laser Angioplasty, December 1987
• Consultant to Messershmitt, Bolkow & Blohm 1984-1988
• Special Consultant to the Center for Investigation & Research in Neurosurgery, Havana, Cuba
• Headed a consortium of Columbia University, IBM and Bell Laboratories to compete for a Free Electron Laser from the Department of Defense, 1984

Memberships

• Founding Member, American Board of Laser Surgery
• Member, Committee on Continuing Medical Education, NYC County Medical Society
• Secretary, Section on Bioengineering, NY Academy of Medicine
• Member, International Advisory Board, Turkish Journal of Arthroplasty and Arthroscopic Surgery

Societies

• Fellow, American College of Physicians
• Fellow, American Board of Laser Surgery
• Fellow, Orthopedic Research Society
• Fellow, North American Spine Society
• Fellow, Laser Association of Neurological Surgeons, International
• Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
• Fellow, New York Academy of Science
• Fellow, International Musculoskeletal Laser Society

Listed In:

• Who's Who
• Who's Who in Medical Specialties
• Who's Who in Science and Engineering
• Who's Who in Frontiers of Science & Technology