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Paul G. Auwaerter is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine serving as the clinical director for the Division of Infectious Diseases. He is a graduate of Columbia College and received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Dr. Auwaerter completed his internal medicine residency training at Johns Hopkins and served as an Assistant Chief of Service.

Following fellowship, Dr. Auwaerter joined the Johns Hopkins faculty as an assistant professor of medicine within the Division of General Internal Medicine practicing both infectious diseases and primary care. He earned a masters of business administration through the Johns Hopkins School of Professional Studies.

He serves as the chief medical officer of the Johns Hopkins Point of Care-Information Technology (POC-IT) Center responsible for producing the Johns Hopkins ABX (Antibiotic) and Johns Hopkins HIV Guides and he is the managing editor for the JH ABX Guide. Dr. Auwaerter's interests include Lyme disease, Epstein-Barr virus and respiratory tract infections.



Dr. Blumenthal is director of the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease Director of Preventive Cardiology. He is a professor of medicine (division of cardiology) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. He received his medical degree from the Cornell University Medical College and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology & Prevention.

His clinical and research interests include the prevention and management of coronary artery disease, use of cardiac CT to improve risk prediction and familial clustered heart disease. He is Chairman of the American College of Cardiology Committee on Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Blumenthal is also an official national spokesperson for the American Heart Association.


Dr. Gurewitsch is director of the Fetal Assessment Center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. She is also Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine also located in Baltimore. 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, Journal of Perinatology, and other medical periodicals.


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 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 advisor or board member for the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the National Diabetes Advisory Board.

He is the author of more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 34 book chapters for medical professionals. Dr. Margolis is also an author or editor of more than 23 books and white papers for the general lay public on a variety of medical subjects.


Dr. McFarland is Vice-Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Wayne H. Lewis Professor of orthopaedic and shoulder surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American College of Sports Medicine and of the American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons.


An expert in sleep disorders, Dr. Neubauer is the associate director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center. He serves as the medical director of the Psychiatric Mobile Treatment Program of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Neubauer is also 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.


Craig A. Vander Kolk, M.D., worked at Johns Hopkins for twenty years and rose to the rank of Professor of Plastic Surgery. Recently Dr. Vander Kolk relocated his practice to Mercy Medical Center. He has been appointed Associate Director of the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Weinberg Center for Women's Health and Medicine at Mercy.

At Mercy, Dr. Vander Kolk continues to provide his expertise in the area of facial surgery, including cosmetic surgery and reconstruction of cleft lip and palate, in addition to performing general cosmetic procedures such as breast augmentation, tummy tuck and liposuction.

Dr. Vander Kolk's specialized training and his commitment to perfecting surgical and non-surgical techniques incorporates multidisciplinary and natural approaches, such as skin products and Medi-Spa treatments, to provide each patient with customized, balanced and natural looking results. This work is being advanced and perfected through continued collaboration and appointments with the Johns Hopkins Cosmetic Center at Chevy Chase and Dr. Vander Kolk's position as Acting Medical Director of Klinger Advanced Aesthetics in Chevy Chase.

An established speaker and author of numerous medical papers and textbooks, Dr. Vander Kolk is internationally recognized for research and developments in craniofacial and aesthetic plastic surgery. Dr. Vander Kolk is currently a Professor of Plastic Surgery (part time) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.


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.


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 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.


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.


Dr. Rosenbaum is a 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 is the former medical director of the San Francisco Regional Cancer Foundation.

Dr. Rosenbaum is also an award winning author and co-author of more than twenty books and almost 60 scholarly articles and research findings published in professional journals.


An author of numerous articles and a noted asthma researcher, Dr. Winder is chairman of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology's Nationwide Asthma Screening Program. Board certified in pediatrics and 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 University of Toledo Medical Center. He is director of the Toledo Center for Clinical Research and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Asthma.




Dr. Alcid is a professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and director of the microbiology laboratory for St. Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ. 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.


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.


Dr. Carr is the former residency director for Georgetown Providence University Hospital in Washington, D.C and is the current Medical Director of Primary Care of Southbury, CT. 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.


Dr. Colucciello is an Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine with the University of North Carolina Medical School in Chapel Hill. He is also Director of Clinical Services and Associate Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a well-known authority and lecturer in emergency medicine and a former member of the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policy Committee. Dr. Colucciello has authored chapters in numerous textbooks and is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. He has addressed dozens of national and international meetings, and is a recipient of the American College of Emergency Physicians Speaker of the Year Award. He is co-editor of the text Trauma Management for Emergency Physicians. Dr. Colucciello has also been featured in ACEP's Star Speaker Series.


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.


Carlo C. DiClemente, Ph.D. is a nationally known behavioral psychologist, best known as the co-author of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavioral Change. The Transtheoretical Model of Behavioral Change serves as the basis for clinically sound and supported interventions for behavioral-related conditions such as substance abuse, obesity and other health related behaviors.

Dr. DiClemente's experience is varied. He is the Lipitz Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.

He is also a member of the editorial boards of several journals including the International Journal of Health Psychology and Alcohol and Alcoholism and has received awards from the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Psychological Association for his work.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island, has his Diplomate in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, is a nationally registered Health Services Provider in Psychology and is a Licensed and Certified Psychologist by the State of Maryland.


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.


Dr. Graber, attended medical school at Eastern Virginia Medical School. After an internship at Basset Hospital in Cooperstown, NY, 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.


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 Health Plans principles. Previously, Dr. Larsen was chief of staff and chairman of the department of surgery for the Platte Valley Medical Center near Denver.


Dr. Lichenstein is associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of the pediatric emergency medicine research 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 is the site principal investigator for the Pediatric Emergency Case Applied Research Network (PECARN), which is federally funded, and is actively doing research in the clinical areas of patient safety, EMS, influenza and bronchiolitis. He currently serves on the National Committee on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

He is also the immediate past-president of the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and currently chairs their charitable functions.


Dr. Policastro is the clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia. He received his medical degree from Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY. 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.


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.


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.


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


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."