HealthAtoZ Medical Advisory Board

David Alcid, M.D.
Dr. Alcid is an associate professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and director of the microbiology laboratory for St. Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J. He received his medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia. Dr. Alcid is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases and clinical tropical medicine, and travel medicine.

Paul Auwaerter, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.P.
One of the leading researchers in the fields of virology and immunology, Dr. Auwaerter is managing editor of the Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide, director of general internal medicine for Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine at Green Spring Station, Md., is medical director of point of care-information technologies for Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine at Lighthouse Point, and holds an assistant professorship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Dr. Auwaerter earned his medical degree from Columbia University, completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. He also received his M.B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Professional Studies in Business and Education in Baltimore.

Robert Belfer, M.D.
Dr. Belfer is assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine/pediatrics for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden. He is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine. Dr. Belfer received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

George Blackburn, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. George Blackburn is associate professor of surgery, associate director of the division of nutrition, and first incumbent of the S. Daniel Abraham Chair in Nutrition Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Blackburn is also Medical Director of the Center for the Study of Nutrition and Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. As part of his distinguished 30-year research career in nutritional medicine, Dr. Blackburn has published widely and continues to investigate complex issues dealing with applied and clinical nutrition. He is the president of the American Board of Nutrition and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, and has served as the chairman of the scientific advisory committee of the C. Everett Koop Foundation "Shape Up America" Campaign.

Robert Carr, M.D.
Dr. Carr is the residency director at Georgetown Providence University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Hahnemann University School of Medicine and completed his family practice residency at Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Georgia. He completed a faculty development fellowship in geriatrics at East Carolina University and holds a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine.

Stephen Colucciello, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.
Dr. Colucciello is a faculty member in the department of emergency medicine and a clinical assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Colucciello is the editor of a new trauma textbook as well as the editor-in-chief of a new emergency medicine journal.

Richard Dart, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.
Dr. Dart is the director of the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center in Denver, and an associate professor of surgery, medicine and pharmacy at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. He is board certified in both emergency medicine and medical toxicology. His doctoral degree is in pharmacology and toxicology. As a member of two federal advisory groups, he has advised Congress and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on poisoning and poison control centers.

Philip P. Gerbino, Pharm.D.
Dr. Gerbino is president of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, which includes the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He is a national leader in the pharmacy profession having served as president of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1990 and president of the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice from 1986 to 1987. He has served on the U.S. Pharmacopoeia Advisory Panel on Geriatrics and as chairman of the Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy. He is a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a fellow of the American Pharmaceutical Association Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management, and a fellow of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.

Edith D. Gurewitsch, M.D.
Dr. Gurewitsch is director of the High Risk Obstetrics Clinic, director of the Fetal Assessment Center and director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Liaison Program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. She is also director of The Diabetes in Pregnancy Program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine also located in Baltimore, Md. She completed her Internship and Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as a Fellowship in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at the New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical Center in New York, N.Y., where she was also the Administrative Chief Resident. Dr. Gurewitsch has Special Certification in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Certification in General Obstetrics and Gynecology by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a noted author, lecturer and researcher, as well as a peer reviewer for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Journal of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Journal of Perinatology.

Frances P. Glascoe, Ph.D.
Dr. Glascoe is the associate professor of pediatrics for the division of child development, department of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. She is the joint editor of Ambulatory Child Health: The Journal of General and Community Pediatrics as well as a consulting reviewer for Infants and Young Children and Clinical Pediatrics.

Mark Graber, M.D.
Dr. Graber, attended medical school at Eastern Virginia Medical School. After an internship at Basset Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y., he worked for the National Health Service Corps in Wyoming for four years. He is a board-certified family practitioner and associate professor of clinical surgery and family medicine at the University of Iowa hospital. His medical interests include emergency medicine, medical informatics, and medical ethics. Dr. Graber was the recipient of the Iowa Excellence in Geriatrics Research Health Care Professional Award in 2000, and won the Teacher of the Year Award at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 1997 and 1999.

Iver Juster, M.D.
Dr. Juster is the chief medical officer of Heads Up, LLC, a Chicago-based company that provides software and informatics for Web-based solutions to support health care organizations' entry into population health management. He received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed a family practice residency with Kaiser Permanente in California. He has considerable experience with utilization management and clinical information systems. Dr. Juster worked with OpTx Corp. for three years, developing clinical information systems for population health management and implementing an electronic medical record system in several practices in the United States and Canada.

Charles B. Kahn, M.D.
Board certified in both internal medicine and endocrinology, Dr. Kahn holds a full clinical professorship at Brown University and also is chief of endocrinology for the Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I. Dr. Kahn graduated from the University of Colorado Medical School and completed fellowships at Harvard Medical School’s Joslin Research Lab and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Kahn was an alternate delegate for the American Medical Association, is former president of the Rhode Island Medical Society and former president of the staff and chairman of the board of trustees at the Miriam Hospital.

Robert R. Larsen, M.D.
Dr. Larsen is the president and CEO of MD Execs, Inc., which provides temporary medical management and consulting services to physician groups and health care organizations. He also provides international consulting services on managed care principles. Previously, Dr. Larsen was chief of staff and chairman of the department of surgery for the Platte Valley Medical Center near Denver.

Richard Lichenstein, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Dr. Lichenstein is associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of the pediatric emergency department at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore. He is board certified in both pediatrics and the subspecialty of pediatric emergency medicine, and is an American Academy of Pediatrics fellow. Dr. Lichenstein has been the principal investigator of several studies on the management of enteroviral meningitis in children, including a National Institutes of Health trial.

Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D.
An author or editor of more than 23 books and white papers on a variety of medical subjects, Dr. Margolis holds professorships in medicine and biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. A Hopkins graduate, Dr. Margolis has served as director of the department of medicine’s division of endocrinology and metabolism, associate dean for faculty and academic affairs as well as a prior co-director of the Ciccarone Center for Preventive Cardiology. Dr. Margolis also acted as an adviser or board member for the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the National Diabetes Advisory Board.

David N. Neubauer, M.D., M.A.
An expert in sleep disorders, Dr. Neubauer is associate director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center, medical director of the Psychiatric Mobile Treatment Program and Acute Psychiatric Unit of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, a Sleep Disorders Medicine Specialist at the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Psychiatry at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Service of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and received his M.D. at the University of Miami School of Medicine.

Dennis C. Policastro, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E.P.
Dr. Policastro is the residency program director in internal medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He received his medical degree from Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, N.Y. and is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. He has received numerous awards, including the Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine.

Ernest H. Rosenbaum, M.D.
Dr. Rosenbaum is hematologist and associate chief of the departments of medicine and pathology at the Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Rosenbaum is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology, having received his medical degree from the University of Colorado and completed fellowships at Tufts University and MIT. He holds a clinical professorship of medicine at the University of California, co-founded the Northern California Academy of Clinical Oncology, is medical director of the Better Health Foundation of San Francisco and former medical director of the San Francisco Regional Cancer Foundation.

Maura Rossman, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Dr. Rossman is the medical consultant for the Baltimore City School Health program and the editor of "Ask Dr. Rossman" on the MedConnect Web site. She is a board-certified pediatrician who has completed fellowship training in developmental and behavioral pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Rossman’s area of interest is pediatric developmental disorders and children with special needs.

Harry S. Strothers, M.D.
Dr. Strothers is the associate chairman, associate professor, clinical services director and residency program director of the department of family medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. His research work on "Primary Care Physicians’ Use and Knowledge of Community Services for the Elderly" was presented at the American Geriatrics Society poster sessions. His publications include "Asthma in Family Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment" and "Dementia in Family Medicine: Beyond the Differential Diagnosis" for MedConnect Online CME Journal.

David Weismantel, M.D.
Dr. Weismantel received his medical degree from the University of Michigan, completed a residency in family practice at Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine, is board certified in family practice, and is certified in sports medicine.

John A. Winder, M.D., F.A.C.A.A.I.
An author of numerous articles and a noted asthma researcher, Dr. Winder is chairman of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology's public education committee and nationwide asthma screening program. Board certified in pediatrics, allergy and immunology, he received his medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine and carried out his allergy-immunology fellowship at Children's Asthma Research Institute (CARIH) at the National Asthma Center in Denver. Dr. Winder holds a clinical assistant professorship in the departments of family medicine and pediatrics at the Medical College of Ohio. He is director of the Toledo Center for Clinical Research and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Asthma.

Ara Dermarderosian, Ph.D.
Ara DerMarderosian, Ph.D., professor of pharmacognosy at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, is one of the nation's leading experts in alternative medicine. His research interests include hallucinogenic botanicals: medicinal and poisonous plants and their phytochemistry and pharmacology; marine pharmaceuticals; drugs of abuse and medical foods or "nutraceuticals."