DAVID J. REED, M.D., J.D.
921 Roxwood Lane
Boulder, Colorado 80303
(303) 494-3154
Neptune@ecentral.com
CURRICULUM VITAE
I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and Exeter, New Hampshire (Phillips Exeter graduate), then came to Colorado to attend the United States Air Force Academy. After graduation in 1960, the next seven years were spent flying fighter aircraft and parachuting during assignments in the USA and overseas. I totally enjoyed the Academy and the USAF.
An earlier interest in medicine resurfaced during my Air Force years, so I resigned from the Regular Air Force and was admitted to the University Of Nebraska College Of Medicine in 1967. I worked my way through medical school by flying fighters with the Nebraska Air National Guard and graduated from medical school in 1971.
While in medical school I had spent five months of elective time in New Zealand and Australia. After graduation I returned to Auckland, New Zealand and did a two and a half year rotating internship from July 1971 to December 19773 with the Auckland Hospital Board. I also did a two-month locum-tenens job in David City, Nebraska to make some money for a trip to New Zealand for my parents. The experience was excellent. I then did a four-year anesthesia residency from January 1974 to December 1977 including six months in intensive care, and then six months of locum-tenens private practice with friends in Sydney, Australia.
I returned to the USA in June of 1978 and spent a year on the teaching staff at the University of Colorado as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia. I then entered the private practice of anesthesia and was on staff at several Denver hospitals for the next eight years.
Personal involvement in a malpractice case made me realize that there are significant opportunities for a physician who has a broad range of medical knowledge if he/she can also become a skilled trial attorney. With this goal in mind I started law school at the University of Denver in September 1987 and graduated in December 1989. I was admitted to the Colorado Bar in May 1990.
I clerked for a major Denver firm since May of 1988, and after passing the bar examination continued working for them on an "of counsel" basis involving medical malpractice and personal injury until September of 1991. During this time I continued to staff at Denver General Hospital approximately 40 hours per week, but then returned to a part-time private practice of anesthesia. I deliberately let my law license lapse as I was not using it after returning to private medical practice.
I have been involved in several straight-forward clinical investigations in anesthesia but have not published. I have given several lectures to local legal conferences concerning the complexities of anesthesiology as well as lectures to medical staffs concerning the practicalities of medical malpractice litigation. In summary I consider myself to be primarily a clinically-oriented general practitioner and anesthesiologist with a significant practical background in medical malpractice litigation. I was Board Certified in 1977 - F.F.A.R.A.C.S. - Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. This degree was recognized as being USA Board equivalent and is now termed F.A.N.Z.C.A. - Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists .
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I have interests that span a range from multiple outdoor sports to opera. I am fluent in French and German, have a passable knowledge of Spanish and Italian, and have traveled extensively in the USA and overseas. Until 2001 I was Director of the Loveland Doctors' Ski Patrol for twenty years and in this capacity had supervisory responsibility for sixty volunteer physicians dealing with major trauma. My wife and I have spent six months in New Zealand for many years, the rest in Boulder. I still fly glider aircraft over the Rockies and sail the coast in New Zealand. I enjoy work, but also have a fine appreciation of the briefness of life, and enjoy a multitude of pursuits.
For fifteen years I have run a business evaluating medical malpractice for merit for attorneys throughout the United States. I find the work to be ethically satisfying as well as academically challenging. I take pride in being a United States Air Force Academy graduate at a time when there still was a functioning Honor Code. My opinions are not for hire.
Please contact me personally if you need further information.