About Dr. Phil

Professional Background
A childhood interest in butterflies led Phil Goscienski to the natural sciences, then all the way to medical school. As a zoology major at the University of Arizona, he discovered microbiology and made it his unofficial minor. After being graduated from the New Jersey College of Medicine with a scholarship from the United States Navy he did a rotating internship at the St. Albans Naval Hospital and a pediatric residency at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia. Following a three-year tour of duty as the sole pediatrician at a naval station in Puerto Rico, he extended his knowledge of microbiology as a fellow in pediatric infectious diseases at Children's and Parkland hospitals in Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Goscienski retired from the Navy with the rank of captain, and head of the Infectious Diseases Branch, in the Department of Pediatrics at the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego. Formerly Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, he continues to teach medical students on a volunteer basis.

Areas of self-study have included nutrition, exercise physiology, anthropology and the development of human languages. This mosaic of interrelated disciplines set the stage for Health Secrets of the Stone Age, both the book and the seminar.

Publications
Dr. Goscienski is the author of several medical journal articles and textbook chapters on various topics in pediatric infectious diseases. He has been the author of hundreds of newsletters for lay and professional audiences since early in his medical career.

He has written articles for the newsletter of the American Heart Association, and the Saturday Evening Post.

Related interests
Dr. Goscienski is a certified instructor in CPR for both the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association. He is the medical director of a Public Access Defibrillation program in Oceanside, California, where he resides with his wife, Pat. They have five children and six grandchildren.