Barry M. Rasgon

Dr. Rasgon is a native Californian who attended the University of California Riverside where he graduated Magnum Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa and received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. He received his medical degree from the University of Southern California. He completed his residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Kaiser Permanente, Oakland in 1990. He has been on the medical staff at Kaiser Oakland since 1990. He has been involved with medical missionary work for the last 12 years in both Guatemala and the Philippines. He has been going to Guatemala for greater than 10 years now and went to the Philippines for the first time on a medical mission in 2010 and again in 2012. He plans on continuing the mission to the Philippines on a yearly bases. On these missions he has performed a variety of surgeries including otologic, oncologic, pediatric, and thyroid surgery. Locally he is involved with Operation Access, a program in the Bay Area that makes it possible for uninsured and underserved people to receive surgical and specialty care. He was raised in Malibu in Southern California and came from a family of Kaiser Physicians. He is married and has two children and enjoys working with his wife on medical missions. He also enjoys reading, fishing, skiing and traveling.