CURRICULUM VITAE PUBLISHED PAPERS IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE '99 - Preventing Unnessesary Hypospadias Repair @ American Family Physician Nov. 99 Vol. 60 No. 7 pp. 1933 ‘99 - “Male Dyspareunia in the uncircumcised patient” American Family Physician -July ‘99 - Vol. 60, No. 1 pps. 54 - 56. ‘98 -The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recommended that a local anesthetic should be used in the performance of medical newborn circumcision.Rabbi Shechet responded that the recommendation does not apply to the authentic traditional newborn Bris technique.The authentic traditional newborn Bris is the fastes and most humane.Excising time is 1 second and the entire procedure takes 10 seconds.Furthermore there is no crushing of the skins neither with clamps nor with hemostats.Therefore with the authentic traditional Bris, the infant should not be subjected to a local anesthetic.JAMA April 15, ‘98 Vol. 279 No. 15 pp. 1170 ‘97 - “Ritual Circumcision and Natural Healing” Contemporary Pediatrics.April, ‘97 Vol. 14 No. 4 pp. 188. “Anti-Circumcision: Fact or Bias?”Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients.Feb/March, ‘97 Vol 163/164 pp. 109,110. Letter commenting on some aspects of AFP’s Descripton of the Mogen Clamp Technique.American Family Physician, Jan., ‘97 Vol. 55 No. 1 pp. 46. ‘96 -“Traditional Jewish Circumcision Technique of Bris” American Family Physician, March, ‘96 Vol. 53 No. 4 pp. 1070-1072. “Foreign Body in the Foreskin of a Former Gulag Prisoner” American Family Physician, Feb. 15, ‘96 Vol. 53 No.3 pp.865. ‘93 - “Ritual Circumcision in an Infant with von Willebrands Disease.”American Family Physician, June, ‘93 Vol. 47 No. 8 pp. 1709, 1710. BRIS PROGRAMS ‘90 - Started an Adult Bris program outside of operating rooms. ‘78 - Was granted privileges to perform Bris in the operating rooms of Cedar Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles.Performed thousands of Brisn there. ‘74 - Besides doing newborn Bris, started an Adult Bris program on the west coast, which continues to the present.Subsequently performed Brisn in the operating rooms of 23 hospitals.