David Mokotoff went to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He did post graduate medical training at the University of California in San Diego. Excited by the growing field of cardiology, he did a fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital, in Houston, Texas, with renowned heart surgeon Michael Debakey. He has been in the private practice of cardiology in St. Petersburg, Florida since 1982, where he formed the Bay Area Heart Center. He is practicing medicine part-time, so he may pursue his other life passion, writing.

Despite his love of medicine, he has always had a passion for writing. He has repeatedly had letters to the editor of the St. Petersburg Times published, and did movie reviews for several years for the PICOMESO, the monthly magazine of the Pinellas County Medical Society. He has been published, “When Did I Become the Bad Guy?” The American Medical News, “Remembering Earl” JAMA, 2008, and recently had accepted, “Why I Brought Spirituality to my Practice,” in Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal.” He has also done two on-line travel blogs for Diversion Magazine. He has studied with four-time Pulitzer-prize nominee author and speaker Fawn Germer, and attended the 2006 SEAK 7th Annual Medical Fiction Writing for Physicians Conference in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

He now is semi-retired from his cardiology practice, so that he can expand his fervor for creative writing. His first novel, Fallible, is completed and ready for submission. He is currently working on a memoir, “The Moose’s Daughters,” He will shortly begin work on a non-fiction book, with another physician, about the many things consumers do not know about how hospitals really deliver healthcare, “Not Part of Your Medical Record.”