Our Team
Consumer Health Interactive's Editorial Team and Writers
Consumer Health Interactive's Medical Review Board
Consumer Health Interactive's Editorial Team
The Consumer Health Interactive (CHI) editorial team brings decades of experience and a Pulitzer Prize to the task of creating reliable and engaging health content. Our writers and editors have worked for many of the nation's largest daily newspapers, medical trade journals, television health news broadcasts, consumer health magazines (including the award-winning publications Hippocrates and Health), and for several of the largest online providers of health information.
The editorial team members are:
Diana Hembree, Editor in Chief
- Diana Hembree is an award-winning health and medical journalist with more than 15 years' experience, including three years as a senior editor at Hippocrates, then a national magazine for physicians published by Time Inc. Health. She served for more than a decade as a news editor and reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco, working on health-related stories for CBS's '60 Minutes,' PBS's Frontline, the Times of London syndicate, and dozens of newspapers and magazines. While at CIR, she also worked with local and national TV stations and served as associate producer for Frontline's 'The Great American Bailout', an award-winning PBS documentary about the aftermath of the savings and loans debacle.
- Hembree was a contributing editor at Parenting magazine and helped launch ParentTIME, the magazine's Web site. She also worked as a book editor on Global Dumping Ground (Seven Locks Press, 1987), The Self-Care Advisor (Time Inc. Health, 1996), and The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers Movement (Harcourt Brace, 1997). A longtime member of the Association of Healthcare Journalists, she has lectured on journalism at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Laney College, San Francisco State, and other institutions. She has received more than two dozen national journalism awards, including the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for television reporting, the National Education Writers Award, a Jesse Neal Award for magazine editing, the National Press Foundation's Spanish Language Fellowship, and a team award for World Wide Web health reporting. Most recently, she has served as a mentor editor for the California Endowment for Health Journalism.
- Elaine Herscher is a veteran journalist, having worked as a daily reporter for the past two decades. She was a reporter and a night city editor at the San Francisco Chronicle for 14 years, covering health policy, the gay community, and other issues. As the Chronicle's health policy reporter at the height of the AIDS crisis, she broke numerous stories and was one of the first in the nation to bring to light the issue of health-care workers contracting HIV on the job. Her work on the Chronicle's AIDS reporting team resulted in a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1988. In 2001, for a series on work safety, she shared an award for Best Online Feature from the northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for CHI's series on job risks.
- Elaine also has worked as a staff writer for the Contra Costa Times, and has written for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Mother Jones, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and WebMD. She graduated with honors in English literature and writing from Pennsylvania State University and is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors. Along with CHI contributing editor Chris Woolston, she is the co-author of Generation Extra Large: Rescuing Our Children from the Epidemic of Obesity (Perseus, 2004).
- Psyche Pascual is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with two decades of experience in journalism, including six years as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. As one of the metro writers assigned to cover the Los Angeles riots in 1992, she reported on the scene and shared in the Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting. Most recently, reviews of health books that she edited for CHI received the award for outstanding commentary from the northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
- Her health stories have appeared in the Times, California Medicine, Consumer Health Interactive, and WebMD. She has also worked as a business writer and columnist for the Contra Costa Times, The Business Press, and the Daily Journal in Caracas, Venezuela. She also served as the managing editor of Inman News Features, an online real estate news syndicate. A longtime member of the Association of HealthCare Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors, Pascual has an M.A. in international journalism from the University of Southern California.
- Deepi Brar has a strong background in both scientific research and journalism. She worked as a research associate in a gene therapy lab for three years at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles, and has co-published several scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Cancer Gene Therapy. As a journalist, she has also worked as a production assistant for the daily radio program "Marketplace," and as an associate producer at Snap.com. She is also a member of the Association of Healthcare Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors. She earned a B.S. in biology and literature from the California Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.
- James Burke served for more than a decade as the managing editor of the Peace Education Foundation, one of the nation's leading producers of conflict resolution curricula for grades K-12. James also served as the Foundation's developmental editor, working with authors to take their ideas from concept to finished product. Prior to that, he was the assistant editor for Miami's Community Newspapers, where he edited the chain's 12 twice-weekly papers while covering the local political and business beat. James holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Florida and an M.B.A. from Florida International University.
- Tim Fitzgeraldselects and edits stories from the news and magazine feeds that are posted daily on CHI sites. The articles he has written for CHI include a feature on the job risks of professional athletes and the hazards of "economy-class syndrome." He studied Communications at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Montgomery has wide-ranging experience in the health-care and broadcast fields, including five years in the managed care department at McKesson and a one-year stint at PlanetRx.com. Prior to that, she and a colleague syndicated a column for over 50 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada for six years. She is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and shared a team award for Best Online Feature from the northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
- Jen Robb comes to Consumer Health Interactive from Time Inc. Health, where she worked as a fact checker and researcher at Health and Hippocrates magazines. She has also worked as a researcher at Wired and Mother Jones. She holds a B.A. in English from Boston University. She recently shared a team award for Best Online Feature from the northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Also, meet our other health and medical writers:
Lisa Asta, M.D., Health and Medical Writer- Dr. Asta is a writer and pediatrician who practices in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, and leads parenting groups at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Hippocrates, and the Annals of Internal Medicine. She is a contributing editor at the New Physician magazine, and her health and medical articles for parents have appeared in Bay Area Parent, Valley Parent, Parents' Express, and MetroKids. Dr. Asta is board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics. She graduated from Temple University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University. She has written numerous stories for CHI's children's health section.
- Bierma is an award-winning health journalist who works in San Francisco. Her expose on the abuses in wilderness therapy camps for troubled teens won the Investigative Reporters and Editors top award for outstanding magazine journalism. She has written for Hippocrates, Consumer Health Interactive, HealthLeaders, and Safety + Health, among other publications, and has won a Casey citation for her reporting on childen's and teen health issues. She also works for Current TV and her videos have been screened in various film festivals. She has a BA in journalism from the University of Iowa and a M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University.
- A freelance health reporter when he wrote for Consumer Health Interactive, Boyd is now in the communications department at UCSF Medical School in San Francisco, California.
- A veteran health writer and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Haiken was formerly the health editor of Parenting magazine and has served as executive editor of BabyCenter.com and the Industry Standard and as managing editor of San Francisco magazine. She writes regularly on family issues and women's and children's health for Parenting, Health, and a number of other publications. She is also a regular contributor to BabyCenter.com, ParentCenter.com, and Consumer Health Interactive. She lives in San Rafael,California, with her two daughters.
- Sarah is a freelance writer who specializes in health and parenting issues. She worked for almost a decade at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco where her health and science-related articles appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Parenting, and other newspapers and magazines. While at CIR she also worked as an associate producer on several TV programs on health topics, including the first installment of the PBS series "The Health Quarterly" and a story for CBS' 60 Minutes.
- Prior to being a freelancer, Henry was a staff writer for Hippocrates and Health magazines. In recent years her health reporting has appeared in publications such as Hippocrates, BabyCenter.com, ParentCenter.com, San Francisco, and other media outlets. She has covered a wide-range of health topics including infertility, assisted suicide, health insurance, repetitive strain injuries, lead poisoning, diabetes, asthma, and physician stress.
- A freelance writer, editor, and translator in San Francisco, Jamison has edited and translated for Harcourt-Brace, Oxford University Press, and other publishers, and has written for WebMD, Hippocrates, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Latin American Review, among others. She won two PEN awards for stories in the 1980s, and published a book of short stories with Futharc Press in 1996. She also contributes health stories and book reviews to CHI.
- Peter is a freelance and medical writer who has published widely on the subjects of business, health, and the environment. He is a frequent contributor to National Wildlife magazine, Health, and other publications. His work has appeared in National Geographic, Newsweek, Men's Journal, Remedy, Harper's Bazaar, and other national magazines. Jaret is the recipient of the 1992 American Medical Association award for medical reporting and the 1998 James Beard Award for journalism. He is the author of In Self-Defense (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), Active Living Every Day, and the forthcoming Heart Healthy for Life.
- Also from Time Inc. Health, where she worked as a researcher. She currently works at the literary magazine Book in New York City, where she edits and writes reviews and news features. In addition, she's been a contributing writer for the Chicago Tribune, San Francisco magazine, the San Francisco Examiner magazine, and other publications. She has an M.A. in journalism from Northwestern University.
- Kriner has a master's degree in public health and has written for Medical Economics and California Lawyer, among other places. As a consultant for California's Department of Health Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she has also written and developed training materials about breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and follow-up for clinicians.
- Lee is a former associate editor at Consumer Health Interactive and a former researcher at Time Inc. Health. She is currently a senior editor for health at BabyCenter.
- Levine has 10 years' experience in research and investigative reporting. He is a former staff reporter for the Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent news agency based in San Francisco that works with CBS's "60 Minutes," "Frontline," and other outlets. In addition, he served as an associate producer on the Emmy-award-winning Frontline documentary "Hot Guns: Crime, Cheap Guns, and Public Neglect" and as research editor on several other PBS documentaries.
- Levine has a strong background in print reporting and teaching as well. He is the co-author of the book Paper Trails: A Guide to Public Records in California, often used in college journalism classes. He has freelanced for Hippocrates, Parenting, and the San Francisco Examiner, and has worked at the San Francisco Business Times, California Lawyer, and as a stringer for the Washington Post. He has taught investigative reporting at UC Santa Cruz and Media Alliance. Among other awards, he has received the National Press Foundation Spanish Language Fellowship, the Investigative Editors and Reporters Award (book category), the Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award, and the National Press Club's First Place Award for Consumer Journalism. Levine earned a B.A. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley.
- Dr. Toni Martin is a board-certified internist and geriatrician who has practiced in Oakland, California, for 19 years. She has served as Chief of Patient Education at Kaiser Oakland and on the Berkeley Community Health Commission, and is a member of the clinical faculty at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School. She is also the author of How to Survive Medical School (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983), and served as a contributing writer at Hippocrates magazine. Dr. Martin lives in Berkeley with her husband and three children. She has written for CHI's children's health and book review sections and serves on CHI's medical review board.
- McCarthy was a longtime reviewer for the Washington Post as well as a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. He currently writes freelance articles, including book reviews, for the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, Salon.com, the National Catholic Reporter, and other publications. He teaches peace studies at high schools and seven universities in the District of Columbia, and lectures at colleges throughout the country. At CHI, he has contributed reviews about books on aging and caregiving issues, for which he won an award for best online commentary from the northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
- Moore is a media studies instructor at the University of San Francisco. A former reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle for eight years, she specialized in juvenile health and welfare and disability rights. Her reporting on San Francisco's foster care system was honored by the Youth Law Center. Moore has written for the Family Therapy Networker, Ms. magazine, the Washington Post, New York Newsday, Parenting, and Microsoft Network. Moore received a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a two-time recipient of an Annie E. Casey Foundation fellowship.
- Motamedi is a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter and a former contract editor at Time Inc. Health. She has written for Consumer Health Interactive, BabyCenter, PlanetRx, and many other online health portals.
- A former associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting, Nelson is a freelance writer and library sciences specialist living in Berkeley. She has worked on health manuscripts for the Hesperian foundation, which published Where There Is No Doctor, and has served as a consultant to the staff of the Library of Parliament of Namibia.
- Ness has been a San Francisco Bay Area writer for 11 years, first at the San Francisco Examiner and currently at the San Francisco Chronicle. As an editor at the Examiner, Ness headed up coverage of health, environmental and legal issues, as well as state and national politics. She ran the paper's coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign, and worked on the city, national/foreign and copy desks. Ness was project editor of the Examiner's 16-part series on gay and lesbian culture, "Gay in America," published in 1989 and winner of the Penney-Missouri Paul Myhre Award for Excellence. As a reporter, she chiefly covered social issues, especially those pertaining to women, the gay community, age, race, affirmative action, and demographic change. Ness earned her bachelor of arts degree at Middlebury College in Vermont. She won a Michigan Journalism Fellowship to study at the University of Michigan in 1985-86 and an Annenberg Fellowship for the study of immigration issues at the University of Southern California in 2001.
- Dr. Tonse N.K. Raju is a board-certified neonatologist and professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois; he is also clinical director of the Neonatal ICU. A serious amateur medical historian and past president of the Society for Medical History of Chicago, he holds memberships in many medical history organizations, including the prestigious American Association for the History of Medicine. Dr. Raju writes regularly for professional journals, including a popular biography series, "The Nobel Chronicles," for The Lancet, and a monthly column entitled "Great Moments in Medicine" for Hippocrates magazine. He has also written fiction in Kannada, a South Indian language; one of his short stories (Unreachable Heights, 1977) was included in a 1999 anthology of 100 best short stories of the century.
- An associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting, Reiss-Koncar has written for Hippocrates, Time-Inc. Health, and Salon.com, produced radio broadcasts for the Smithsonian Institute, and edited books for W.W. Norton and Chronicle Books. In 1999, Reiss-Koncar was awarded the Swedish Embassy's Bicentennial Award for journalism. She also has a background in health care and is working as a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic.
- Roth is a former associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting and a former assistant director of Providence House, which provides shelter to people suffering from AIDS and recovering from substance abuse.
- Scott is the former editor of Consumer Health Interactive and a former senior editor at Health magazine. He is currently editor-in-chief of BabyCenter.com.
- Stein has served as a fitness columnist for MSNBC and a former managing editor for Inside Triathlon magazine. A cyclist herself, she has written for Sports Illustrated for Women, Bicycling Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. She has contributed many articles to CHI's fitness section.
- Szudy is a health and safety educator who has worked with the Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) at the University of California at Berkeley since 1988. She directs LOHP's Hazardous Waste Worker Training Project and is also the Training Coordinator for the Asia Health and Safety Project, for which she has conducted factory worker safety trainings in Indonesia and the People's Republic of China. Her areas of expertise include curriculum development, designing participatory training courses ranging from two to forty hours, and developing national and international training projects for trade unionists, joint labor-management groups, and community activists.
- Ms. Szudy co-authored the nationally recognized publication The Right to Understand: Linking Literacy to Health and Safety Training, a manual that provides tools and practical tips for developing materials and training programs that work for audiences with a range of reading and writing skills. She has also published numerous articles on the impact of health and safety training on improving safety at the workplace. She has a bachelor's degree in Social Work from the California State University at Chico.
- Tuller, a former staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, is the former health editor of Salon.com. He has also written for The New York Times and the Washington Post, and is the author of Cracks in the Iron Closet (Faber &Faber 1996).
- Udesky is an award-winning journalist and editor who has reported on health and medical issues for both print and radio for more than 15 years. She has filed stories for National Public Radio, and produced stories for "Crossroads" a weekly program that was aired nationally on public radio, the Pacifica program "AIDS in Focus," and NPR affiliate KQED, and has served as a reporter or editor for medical trade journals such as TB Monitor, AIDS Alert, Clinical Laser Monthly, Subacute Care Monthly, and Women's Healthcare Management. She wrote a chapter on drug interactions for The Self-Care Advisor, a Time Inc. Health publication, and has written regularly on senior, children's, and women's health for Consumer Health Interactive since 1999. She has also served as associate editor of Southern Exposure magazine.
- Udesky has also written for Children's Advocate, the San Francisco Examiner, the Baltimore Sun, the Dallas Morning News, the St. Petersburg Times, the Turkish Daily News, and Salon.com. She has received a number of national awards, including the 1995 Exceptional Merit Media Award (EMMA) for her expose of health and safety hazards facing garment workers sewing for large U.S. corporations here and abroad. Her Southern Exposure series on the shortcomings of federal antipoverty programs also won the prestigious gold awards in magazine writing from both the Sidney Hillman Foundation and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). She graduated with honors in English literature from the UC Santa Cruz.
- Former Managing Editor of Consumer Health Interactive, he previously worked as an editor for Miller Freeman, Inc., a San Francisco-based publishing company. He is an award-winning poet and holds a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan. In 2001, for his CHI series on the hazards of sports supplements containing ephedra, he was named Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year in the online category by the northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
- Caroline is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She received her M.D. from the University of California at San Francisco in 1991 and completed her residency in Family Practice in Santa Rosa, California in 1994. After finishing a one-year fellowship in medical editing at Georgetown University, she joined the Department of Family Medicine Faculty, where she currently teaches medical students and residents. She is assistant deputy editor of American Family Physician, the professional journal for the American Academy of Family Physicians, and sees patients at Unity Health Care in Washington, DC.
- Todd is a former senior editor and senior writer at The Industry Standard, where he led the newsmagazine's health care coverage. He previously served as an associate editor and senior writer at The Recorder, a San Francisco legal daily newspaper, where he covered environmental issues. He has also worked as a reporter at metropolitan newspapers in South Florida, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, Wired magazine, Outside magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, and other publications. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Prior to joining CHI, he was at Time Inc. Health, where he worked as a staff writer for Hippocrates magazine. He has written for Time Inc. Health, Hippocrates, Consumer Health Interactive, and WebMD, and is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the Association of Health Care Journalists. In 2001, Woolston shared a team award for his reporting on worker safety from the northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
- He has a bachelor's degree in biology (fish and wildlife management program) and a master's in biology from Montana State University in Bozeman. (He studied nitrogen cycles in Antarctic lakes and was bitten by a penguin while completing his master's). He has a graduate certificate in science writing and communication from UC Santa Cruz. With CHI managing editor Elaine Herscher, he is the co-author of Generation Extra Large: Rescuing Our Children from the Obesity Epidemic (Perseus, 2004).
Consumer Health Interactive's Medical Review Board
The medical reviewers for Consumer Health Interactive include physicians and other clinicians who work or teach at the National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School, Yale, Stanford, and other top universities and health agencies across the country. Most of CHI's reviewers are practicing clinicians, department heads or researchers who have published widely in their field; many have either written textbooks or served as reviewers for the leading peer-reviewed journals in their field.
The medical review board team members are:
ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
- James Wedner, M.D., allergy and immunology
Chief of clinical allergy and immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Professor of medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Associate physician, Barnes West County Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Associate physician, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
- Martha Vetter White, MD
Director of Research, Institute for Asthma and Allergy
Coordinator of Pediatric Allergy, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH 1988 - 1993
Senior Staff Fellow, Allergic Diseases Section, National Institute of Allergy, 1988 - 1993
Staff Fellow, Center for Drugs and Biologics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, 1985- 1986
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Public Education Committee, member -- 1995 - present
Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics, Board of Director, 1987 - present
Has written for the Journal of Immunology, Annals of Allergy, Blood, the American Review of Respiratory Diseases, and many others
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
- Carl Hangee-Bauer, M.A., N.D., alternative medicine
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Bastyr University, Seattle Diplomate of Acupuncture, San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Certified Accupressure Therapist, Acupressure Institute, Berkeley, California
Private practice, primary patient care blending naturopathic medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Medical Corps, Madigan Army Medical Center, Washington
Member, Naturopathic Advisory Committee, American Specialty Health Plans
Editorial Review board, Alternative Medicine Review
- D. Tina Madej, R.Ph., pharmacology and herbal medicine
Contributing writer, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, published by Therapeutic Research Center/Pharmacist's Letter Stockton, California
CARDIOLOGY
- Gordon Lindsay Fung, M.D., M.P.H., cardiology
Associate clinical professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine
UCSF Cardiology Faculty Practice, San Francisco, California UCSF, Attending staff
California Pacific Medical Center, Active staff
Chinese Hospital, Active staff
St. Francis Memorial Hospital, Active staff
Medical Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
Director of Electrocardiography, Moffitt-Long Hospitals, UCSF
Regional faculty and provider, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Western States Affiliate, American Heart Association
Affiliate faculty, Physicians' Cholesterol Education Program, California Affiliate, American Heart Association
Member, National AMA Board of Directors, 1999-2001
Co-author, Stress as Suffering: The Pacific World, New Series, No. 6: 96-99, 1990
- George Sopko, MD, MPH, cardiology
Medical officer-cardiology expert, Cardiovascular Medicine Scientific Research Group, Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (advising Consumer Health Interactive in a personal capacity and not as a representative of the federal government)
Project Officer, Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation (WISE)
Leader, Pediatric and Adult Cardiovascular Medicine and Nutrition Scientific Research Group, Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, NHBLI, NIH, 1994- 2000
Physician/consultant, Cardiovascular Center of Northern Virginia
2001 NHLBI Performance Award
1999 NHLBI Performance Award
Reviewer, Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
Reviewer, Journal of the American Medical Association
2000, NHLBI representative, National Heart Attack Alert Program
Board certification, Cardiovascular Disease
- Matthew Sorrentino, MD, FACC, cardiology
Assistant professor of clinical medicine, University of Chicago
Director, Clinical Programs: Clinical Cardiology/Education/ Echocardiography.
Clinical research in lipids, hypertension and acute ischemic syndromes.
Reviewer, Consumer materials on heart disease, American Medical Association
DENTISTRY
- Alan W. Budenz, M.S., D.D.S., dentistry
Assistant professor, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, San Francisco, California
Course director, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry
Clinical group practice administrator, student clinic, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry
DERMATOLOGY
- Thomas A. Sattler, M.D., dermatology
Assistant clinical professor of dermatology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Staff physician, Alta Bates-Herrick Hospitals, Berkeley, California
Private practice, Dermatology Associates of Berkeley, Berkeley and Orinda, California
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
- Steven M. Moskowitz, M.D., disability, rehabilitation, and disease management
President, Doctors Health Management (utilization management consultants)
Assistant medical director of utilization management, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts
Staff physician, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts
Staff physician, New England Rehabilitation Center, Woburn, Massachusetts
Staff physician, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
- Michael J. Mello, M.D., M.P.H., emergency medicine
Assistant clinical professor of medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
Staff attending physician, University Emergency Medicine Foundation, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
ENDOCRINOLOGY
- Bruce J. Biller, M.D., internal medicine and endocrinology
Medical director, Harvard University Business School Health Services
Physician, Harvard University Health Services
Former staff internist and endocrinologist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Medical Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Clinical associate in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Associate staff physician, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Associate staff physician, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY MEDICINE
- Michael B. Potter, MD, FAAFP
Board Certified by the American Board of Family Practice
Assistant clinical professor and attending physician, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
Assistant director, UCSF/Stanford Collaborative Research Network
President, San Francisco chapter, American Academy of Family Physicians
Public health consultant, Haiti, West Indies, 1984-86
Reviewer, Western Journal of Medicine
Editorial Board, California Family Physician
Published in The Journal of Family Practice, The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, and California Family Physician
GASTROENTEROLOGY
- John M. Inadomi, M.D., gastroenterology
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center
Chief, Endoscopy Unit, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Acting Chief, Gastroenterology Section, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Robynne Kamala Chutkan, M.D., gastroenterology
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Division of Gastroenterology
Former Assistant Professor of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Digestive Diseases Branch
Author of several studies on gastroenterology published in peer-reviewed journals
- George W. Meyer, M.D., F.A.C.P., gastroenterology
Staff part-time gastroenterologist, Kaiser Hospital, Sacramento, California
Former Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, Davis, California
Former Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Morehouse U. Medical School, Atlanta, GA
Author of several studies on gastroenterology published in peer-reviewed journals
- Robert M. Strauss, M.D., gastroenterology
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University
Private practitioner, Northwest Georgia Gastroenterology, Marietta, Georgia
Former Chief, Gastrointestinal Oncology, The Emory Clinic and Emory University Hospital
Former instructor, Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Harvard Medical School
Governor's Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, American College of Gastroenterology
Fellow, American College in Gastroenterology
Author of several studies on gastroenterology published in peer-reviewed journals
GERIATRICS
- Patrick Irvine, M.D., geriatrics
Former Chief Medical Officer, Consumer Health Interactive
Former executive director and medical director, UnitedHealth Group
Former director, EverCare managed-care business
Geriatric Medicine Academic Award grant, National Institute on Aging
Special Recognition Award, American Geriatrics Society
Author of more than 40 publications on geriatrics and aging
- Peter Pompei, M.D., geriatrics
Associate professor of medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Associate director for clinical programs, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Director, Fellowship Program in Geriatric Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Director, Internal Medicine Clinic, Stanford University School of Medicine
Medical director, Lytton Gardens Health Care Center
American Geriatrics Society, Geriatrics Recognition Award
Editorial board, Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences
American Board of Internal Medicine/Geriatric Medicine
INTERNAL MEDICINE
- Linda Tsai, M.D., internal medicine
Staff attending physician, Rochester General Hospital (affiliated with University of Rochester School of Medicine), Rochester, New York
NEUROLOGY
- James McDowell, M.D., neurology
Active staff physician, St. Peter Hospital, Olympia, Washington
Private practitioner, Memorial Clinic, Olympia, Washington
Author of several studies on stroke published in peer-reviewed journals.
NUTRITION
- Kathryn M. Kolasa, Ph.D., R.D., nutrition
Professor of nutrition, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina
Section head, nutrition education and services, East Carolina University School of Medicine
Section head, resident education (family medicine), East Carolina University School of Medicine
- Lisa Tartamella, M.S., R.D., clinical nutrition and exercise physiology
Ambulatory nutrition specialist and faculty preceptor, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
Recognized Young Dietician of the Year, 1997
Nutrition consultant, Weight Watchers International
Professional affiliations: American Dietetic Association, ADA Sports and Cardiovascular Nutrition Practice Group, American College of Sports Medicine
Contributing author, The Yale Guide to Children's Nutrition: New Haven: Yale University
Experienced television and radio speaker on health issues
OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
- John Hobbs, M.D., obstetrics and gynecology
Associate professor, Rush Medical College department of obstetrics and gynecology, Chicago, Illinois
Senior attending physician and coordinator of gynecologic laparoscopy, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Private practitioner, Female Health Care Associates, Chicago, Illinois
- Gary M. Joffe, M.D., obstetrics and gynecology
Director of perinatal medicine, Lovelace Medical Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Volunteer clinical faculty, University of New Mexico Medical Center, Albuquerque, N.M.
Co-author of numerous studies published in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Journal of Perinatology
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
- Edward J. Bernacki, M.D., M.P.H., occupational medicine
Board-certified specialist in general preventive medicine and occupational medicine
Director of occupational medicine, School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital/University
Associate professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Chair, Joint Committee on Health, Safety, and Environment, Johns Hopkins University
Has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, including the Journal of Occupational Medicine
- Gwen Orr Brachman, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., occupational medicine
Board-certified in internal medicine and by the National Board of Medical Examiners
Fellow, America College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Assistant clinical professor of medicine, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark
Attending physician in internal medicine, Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey
Has lectured widely on topics such as occupational lung diseases
- Lawrence D. Budnick, M.D., M.P.H., occupational medicine
Director, Occupational Medicine Service, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Newark, New Jersey
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, reviewer
American Journal of Public Health, reviewer
Certification, American Board of Preventive Medicine, National Board of Medical Occupational Medicine Advisor, Exxon corporation, 1989-1994
Assistant Medical director, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, 1986-1987
Preventive Medicine Recognition Awards, American College of Preventive Medicine
- Robert L. Goldberg, M.D., F.A.C.O.E.M., occupational medicine
President, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Vice-chair, Occupational Medicine, American Board of Preventive Medicine
Assistant clinical professor of medicine, University of California at San Francisco
Consultant in e-health and occupational medicine
Board-certified specialist in occupational medicine
- Natalie P. Hartenbaum, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.O.E.M, occupational medicine
Board-certified in occupational medicine and internal medicine
Chief Medical Officer, OccuMedix in Maple Glen, Pennsylvania
Medical director, Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Treasurer, Computers in Occupational Medicine, 1996-1998
Fellow and board member, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
President, Philadelphia Occupational and Environmental Medicine Society
Specialist in transportation safety
Has written for Occupational Safety and Health and American Family Physician
- Chris C.W. Kunis, M.D., occupational medicine
Board certified in internal medicine and occupational and environmental medicine, American Board of Forensic Examiners
Company physician, crane manufacturer in Pennsylvania
- Paul Manchester, M.D., M.P.H., occupational medicine
Chief Medical Officer for US Healthworks of California
Board-certified in occupational medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine
Certified by the State of California as a Qualified Medical Evaluator for performing disability examinations
Has practiced occupational medicine since 1988
- David H. Wegman, M.D., occupational health
Professor and chair, Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts
Co-editor, Occupational Health: Recognizing and Treating Work-related Disease and Injury, 4th edition, New York: Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins
ONCOLOGY
- Gary R. Cecchi, M.D., hematology and oncology
Bone marrow transplant physician, Alta Bates Medical Center, Berkeley, California
Director, Alta Bates Medical Center apheresis unit
Associate director, Alta Bates Bone Marrow Transplant Center
Assistant director, Alta Bates Cancer Research Program Aviation Medical Examiner
- Jocelyn J. Dunn, M.D., surgery
Harvard-trained surgeon specializing in breast diseases and breast cancer, Palo Alto, California
Former general surgery chief resident, Stanford University Hospital
Board certification, American Board of Surgery
Hospital privileges, Stanford University Hospital and Recovery Inn (Menlo Park)
Former researcher, National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute
Fellow, American Board of Surgeons
Credentialling committee, Department of Surgery at Stanford
OPHTHALMOLOGY
- Dean R. Hirabayashi, M.D., ophthalmology
Private practitioner, San Francisco, California
Active staff, St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco, California
Active staff, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California
Courtesy staff, University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California
Courtesy staff, St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, California
Ophthalmology consultant, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs for Federal Employees
PATHOLOGY
- Elizabeth A. Hartwell, M.D., pathology
Associate professor, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas
Chief of clinical pathology, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of Texas Medical School
Medical director, laboratory, Children's Assessment Center, Houston, Texas
Medical director, Dynacare Hermann Laboratory Services and Hermann Hospital Laboratory Services, Houston, Texas
Active staff physician, Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas
Active staff physician, Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Houston, Texas
PEDIATRICS
- Anthony J. Alario, M.D., pediatrics
Associate professor of pediatrics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Director, pediatric rheumatology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Associate physician, pediatric emergency department, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
- Karen F. Buchi, M.D., pediatrics (neonatal)
Associate professor of pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Medical director, 2 North Nursery, University of Utah Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah
Medical director, University Clinic at South Main Public Health Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Carrie Lynn Byington, M.D., pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases
Assistant professor of pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Core faculty, pediatric primary care residency program, University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Medical director, "Reach Out and Read" community literacy program
- Jonathan E. Fielding, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., public health and pediatrics
Professor of health services and pediatrics, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Co-director, Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities, University of California at Los Angeles Director of public health and health officer, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
President, American College of Preventive Medicine Editor, Annual Review of Public Health
- Annemary Martinez Franks, M.D., pediatrics
Private practitioner, Berkeley Pediatric Medical Group, Berkeley, California
Advisory Committee, Children's Hospital Oakland Nurse Advice Line
Director, Berkeley Pediatric Medical Group Lab Director
Member, Alta Bates Medical Group Credential Committee
- Howard S. Gruber, M.D., pediatrics
Clinical faculty, health and medical sciences program, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Private Practitioner, Berkeley Pediatric Medical Group, Berkeley, California
Attending physician, Children's Hospital, Oakland, California
Attending physician, Alta Bates Medical Center, Berkeley, California
- Laura Grunbaum, M.D., pediatrics
Private practitioner, Bancroft Pediatric Medical Group, San Leandro, California
Staff physician, Children's Hospital, Oakland, California
Staff physician, Eden Hospital, Castro Valley, California
- Clifford I. Harris, M.D., pediatrics
Private practitioner, Bancroft Pediatric Medical Group, San Leandro, California
Staff physician, Children's Hospital, Oakland, California
Staff physician, Eden Hospital, Castro Valley, California
Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Eliot W. Nelson, M.D., pediatrics
Associate professor of pediatrics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont
Attending physician, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Reviewer, Journal of Pediatrics
Reviewer, Pediatrics
Reviewer, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Board certification in pediatrics
- William Sears, M.D., pediatrics
Associate clinical professor of pediatrics, University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California
Private practitioner, pediatrics, San Clemente, California
Author of 24 books on pregnancy and parenting, including The Pregnancy Book, The Birth Book, The Baby Book, The Discipline Book, and The A.D.D. Book
- Nancy C. Showen, M.D., pediatrics
Attending physician, Children's Hospital, Oakland, California
Board certified, Pediatrics
Counselor/supervisor at Amado House, residential treatment center for disturbed adolescents, 1986-1987
Professional affiliation, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Paul C. Young, M.D., pediatrics
Associate professor of pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Medical staff, University of Utah Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah
Medical staff, Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Editorial board member, Pediatrics
PHARMACOLOGY
- D. Tina Madej, R.Ph., pharmacology and herbal medicine
Contributing writer, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, published by Therapeutic Research Center/Pharmacist's Letter Stockton, California
PLASTIC SURGERY
- Elizabeth Slass Lee, M.D., plastic and reconstructive surgery
Private practitioner, Berkeley, California
Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery
Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery
PSYCHIATRY
- Amanda J. Gruber, M.D., psychiatry
Associate Chief, Substance Abuse, Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital (Harvard affiliate)
Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1991-1994
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1994 - present
Assistant Psychiatrist, McLean Hospital, 1994 - present
NIDA Training Grant-Drug Abuse, 1994-1995
Livingston Award, 1994-1995
Invited Speaker, World Psychiatric Association, Paris, France
PSYCHOLOGY
- Lynn Cohen, M.A., M.F.T., psychology
Licensed marriage, family, and child therapist in private practice, Vacaville, CA
Case-manager, Community Treatment Center, 1986- 1991
Ask the Expert, Blue Shield of California, mylifepath.com
Masters in Marriage/Family/Child Counseling
- Irwin A. Hyman, Ed.D., child psychology
Professor of school psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Director of the National Center for the Study of Corporal Punishment and Alternatives, Temple University
Private practitioner, individual, group, and family psychotherapy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Bruce Linton, Ph.D., psychotherapy
Private practitioner, marriage and family counseling, Berkeley, California
Author, Finding Time for Fatherhood
Founder, Father's Forum program for expectant and new fathers
SPORTS MEDICINE AND EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY
- Richard T. Cotton, M.A., exercise physiology
Chief exercise physiologist and vice president, instructor certification, American Council on Exercise, San Diego, California
Exercise physiologist and owner, Fitness Progressions personal training consulting service, Carlsbad, California
Chairman of the board of advisers for the San Diego Community College District's fitness instructor training program
- Steven S. Isono, M.D., orthopedic surgery and sports medicine
Orthopedic surgery consultant, Alta Bates-Herrick Medical Center, Berkeley, California
Orthopedic surgery consultant, Palo Alto Veterans Hospital, Palo Alto, California
Physician for national and international judo, tae kwon do, boxing, track-and-field, and triathlon events
Qualified medical evaluator, State of California division of industrial accidents
- C.E. McLaughlin, M.D., sports medicine
Adjunct assistant professor in Sports Medicine, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Medical director, U.C. Berkeley Fitness Testing Lab
Clinical preceptor, U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine
Team physician, Berkeley High School Athletics
Clinical practice in Family Medicine and Sports Medicine, Berkeley, California
TRAVEL MEDICINE
- Richard Thompson, M.D., travel medicine
Medical director, Camino Medical Group International Travel Clinic and Occupational Medicine Division, Sunnyvale, California
Author, Travel and Routine Immunizations - A Practical Guide for the Medical Office, 2001
Author, Well on the Road: A Practical Guide for the International Traveler, 2001
Assistant editor, Stuart Roses's International Travel Health Guide, 2001
Author, "Travel Vaccines," Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 1999
Domain Expert on Immunizations, WebMD
Board-certified, American Board of Preventive Medicine
Medical director, Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Medical director, Guidant (Advanced Cardiovascular systems)
Member, Merck, Inc., board of advisors, travel immunizations
UROLOGY
- Joel A. Piser, M.D., urology
Private practitioner, Berkeley Urological Associates, California
Active staff physician, Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, California
Active staff physician, Children's Hospital, Oakland, California