Dr. Roosevelt
Theodore Steven Roosevelt, MD, PhD, JD, was born in Los Angeles, California on July 20, 1947. He was raised in Glendora, California and graduated from Glendora High School in 1965.
He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree awarded cum laude in Zoology. He then attended the University Of Utah College Of Medicine.
He studied in the laboratory of Don H. Nelson, M.D., one of the pre-eminent clinical endocrinologists of the modern era, and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Anatomy summa cum laude in 1972. At the same time he was engaged in medical studies and graduated with the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree magna cum laude in 1974.
Following medical school graduation, post graduate training was obtained at Barnes & Wohl Hospitals in St. Louis Missouri. Dr. Roosevelt completed his straight medicine internship in 1975, and then his Junior and Senior Assistant Residencies in Internal Medicine in 1976, and 1977 respectively. At the conclusion of his training he was awarded house staff honors. He took his Boards in Internal Medicine and passed them in the same year.
Dr. Roosevelt then finished his training at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance California from 1977 to 1979. His training was in the Department of Endocrinology, headed by Ronald Swerdloff, M.D., and his research training was in the laboratory of William O’Dell, M.D., Ph.D., where he perfected the first radioimmunoassay for beta-endorphin and studied the effect of adrenal corticosteroids on brain mitochondrial metabolism. At the same time he was engaged in further clinical training and was a sought-after attending in the Endocrine Clinic and the medical wards of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He took and passed his Boards in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism in 1983 and remains Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Endocrinology to this day.
In 1979, he began private practice in Glendora California and was on the staff of Foothill Presbyterian Hospital, Queen of the Valley Hospital, and Inter-Community Medical Center in the San Gabriel Valley. He was involved with the medical staff of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and assisted with the development of assay methods to ensure that athletes were not engaged in doping during the 1984 Olympic Games.
After the completion of the Olympics, Dr. Roosevelt developed and was the Medical Director of the Diabetes Treatment Unit at Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora, California. He engaged in clinical and administrative duties with the Diabetes Treatment Unit and accumulated more than 2000 hours in direct patient diabetes education to qualify for the Certified Diabetes Educator examination.
At the same time he attended law school at Western State University in Fullerton, California and graduated from that school in 1988. He took and passed the California Bar Exam (reputed to be the toughest in the country) on his first attempt and was admitted to the California Bar in 1988. He was subsequently admitted to the Bar of the United States District Court, for the Central District of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before moving to Idaho he represented personal and corporate clients both at trial and on appeal.
In 1993 Dr. Roosevelt relocated his practice to Boise, Idaho due to the decline in clinical standards wrought in the California medical community by corporatization of medicine, and the increasing demand by managed care organizations and HMOs that they dictate patient care without the responsibility for the decisions they make.
Dr. Roosevelt had been engaged in solo clinical practice since his move to Boise until 2006 with clinical privileges at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center and St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center.
During his time in Boise, he has been recognized as one of the premier clinical endocrinologists in the Northwestern United States (e.g., President Idaho Chapter American Association Clinical Endocrinologists, featured speaker at the annual convention of the American College of Legal Medicine, etc.) , and as a recognized regional thought leader in the treatment of diabetes, and metabolic and endocrine diseases, he frequently lectures in the Western United States on the clinical aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of these conditions.
Dr. Roosevelt has four children and five grandchildren. A sportsman in the Roosevelt tradition, Dr. Roosevelt enjoys hunting and fishing in the Pacific Northwest.
He has been an instructor in European fencing at the Boise West Family YMCA and trains in both Kendo and Iaido (Japanese fencing) (he is Dan ranked in the former) several times weekly. He is a membe and officer in the SCA and he is a consultant to the All US Kendo Federation, and SHE, Inc.
In answer to the most common question he faces, he is THE Theodore Roosevelt's 6th cousin, once removed. Theodore_Roosevelt
Dr. Roosevelt's complete resume (MS Word document)