Qualifications
  • Board certification in internal medicine and fellowship of the American College of Physicians
  • Board-qualification in infectious diseases
  • Training in geriatrics with Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine and fellowship in the American Geriatrics Society
  • Recertification in internal medicine and geriatrics in 2003
  • ACLS recertification in 2012
Administrative positions include leadership positions in medical administration and medical education in universities and teaching hospitals in Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, and California.

Academic Appointments
  • Professor of medicine, emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco
  • Full professorships of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the University of Maryland, and the University of Tennessee at Memphis
  • Additional medical school faculty appointments at Harvard University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bowman Gray, and Case Western Reserve University.
I have served on committees for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. 

Publications
Author or editor of fourteen books and monographs, and more than 300 scientific articles or book chapters. A skilled public speaker and teacher, I have lectured throughout the world on my scholarly work.
  • The New England Journal of Medicine
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
  • JAMA
  • Archives of Internal Medicine
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • American Journal of Medicine
Topics include primary care medicine, stresses of medical residency training and medical practice, geriatrics, infectious diseases, medical education, and medical cost containment.

My latest book is the second edition of Cannabis Pharmacy:
Backes M, McCue JD (ed.). Cannabis Pharmacy, 2nd ed. London:Black Dog Publishers, 2017