A widely published author, practitioner and an early pioneer in human organ transplantation, he is also an expert on worldwide physician migration and international medical education. His documentary film, "Doctors in America - a quarter century of change" won a Bronze Award at the New York International Film Festival; his published monograph, "Mahatma Gandhi. Yesterday's Man! Tomorrow's Myth?" serves as the basis for lectures and seminars on non-violence' in 1998, he received a Computerworld-Smithsonian Laureate Award for "Inflight Telemetry of Vital Signs via the Internet" which is housed in the Smithsonian Institution's Permanent Research Collection.