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Chairman

Bruce Dan Bruce B. Dan, MD
Bruce B. Dan, MD is the Medical Director of The Patient Channel.

He is a specialist in infectious diseases and medical communications. He is President of MedNet Communications, Adjunct Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Courtesy Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Dan was the Senior Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and Director of the AMA's Department of Scientific and Clinical Affairs.

He was the Executive Editor and Anchor for Medical News Network, Director of Medical Affairs for the Center for Bio-Medical Communication, and Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer for Medcast Networks, and Senior Medical Consultant for WebMD. In addtion Dr. Dan was the Medical Editor and on-air correspondent for WLS-TV (ABC News, Chicago) and was the founding Medical Editor and Anchor for American Medical Television on CNBC. He was Resident Physician for the award winning PBS programs Newton's Apple and HealthWeek, as well as the creator and anchor for Medical News Report, an international news program for physicians. Dr. Dan was named the American Medical Association's Morris Fishbein Fellow in Medical Journalism and was the University of Chicago's William Benton Fellow in Broadcast Journalism, the only physician ever to receive that honor. He has won two Emmy awards for his work in television, and the American Medical Writers Association's has honored him with the John P. McGovern Award for outstanding contributions to medical communications.

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Ethics, Legal and Regulatory Review Board

Wayne Pines Wayne Pines
Current Position: President, Regulatory Services and Health Care
Employer: APCO Worldwide
Location: Washington, DC


  • Former Chief of Consumer Education and Information
  • Former Associate Commissioner for Public Affairs
    - Food and Drug Administration
    - Washington, DC
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Medical Advisory Board

Eileen Breslin Eileen Breslin, PhD
Current Position: Dean of Schools of Nursing and Public Health & Health Sciences
Employer: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts


  • Former Professor and Chair Department of Nursing Northern Arizona University
    - Flagstaff, AZ
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Colleen Conway-Welch Colleen Conway-Welch, RN, Ph.D.
Current Position: Professor and Dean
Employer: Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Location: Nashville, TN


  • Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science
  • Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
  • Vice Chair, Tennessee State Board of Nursing
  • Member, Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC), Department of Health & Human Services
  • Member, Working group, Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness/Academic Health Centers Consultant, HHS Commission on Workforce/Workplace Systems Redesign
  • Member, Secretarys Council on Public Health Preparedness, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, DHHS, appointed by Secretary Tommy Thompson
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Vincent A. Fulginiti Vincent A. Fulginiti, MD
Current Position: Founding Head Department of Pediatrics (Retired)
Employer: University of Arizona
Location: Tuscon, Arizona


  • Former Chancellor, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
  • Former professor of pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
  • Former Dean, School of Medicine, Tulane University in New Orleans
  • Interim Dean, College of Medicine, University of Arizona
  • National Consultant
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William R. Hendee William R. Hendee, Ph.D.
Current Position: Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, President of the Medical College of Wisconsin Research Foundation
Employer: Medical College of Wisconsin
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Philip Lieberman Philip Lieberman, M.D.
Current Position: Clinical Professor of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Employer: University of Tennessee Medical School
- Chief, Allergy and Clinical Immunology
- Baptist Memorial Hospital
Location: Memphis, TN

  • Past President, American Academy of Allergy and Immunology
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Aliza A. Lifshitz Aliza A. Lifshitz, M.D.
Current Position: Editor-in-Chief of Hispanic Physician
Employer: Univision Spanish Television Network
Location: Los Angeles, CA


  • Medical Editor of Primer Impacto
  • Medical Correspondent for Radio Unica
  • Former President of the California Hispanic American Medical Association
  • Former Vice Chair of Los Angeles County Commission on AIDS
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Robert H. Moser Robert H. Moser, MD
Current Position: Exec. VP, Emeritus
Employer: American College of Physicians
Location: Green Valley, AZ


  • Former Chief, Department of Medicine at Walter Reed Medical Center
  • Former Editor-in-Chief, JAMA
  • Former Executive Vice President, American College of Physicians
  • Member Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science
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Paula Van Ness Paula Van Ness
Current Position: CEO
Employer: Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation
Location: Phoenix, Arizona


  • Former CEO - National AIDS Fund
    - Washington, DC
  • Former Executive Director & CEO - Make-A-Wish Foundation
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Mark Pochapin Mark Pochapin, M.D.
Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine
Employer: Chief of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Location: New York, NY

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Hospital Advisory Board

Donna Alexander
Current Position: Medical Librarian
Employer: St. Mary's Medical Center
Location: Reno, NV


Marc Brunetti
Current Position: Directory of Cardiovascular Services
Employer: Bridgeport Hospital
Location: Bridgeport, CT


Cathy Mauch, ARNP, MS
Current Position: Patient Education Coordinator
Employer: St. Joseph's Hospital
Location: Tampa, FL


JoAnn Mick, RN, MSN, MBA, AOCN, CNAA
Current Position: Associate Clinical Director, P4 Surgical Urology and Orthopedics
Employer: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Location: Houston, TX


Beth Quinn-O'Neil, RN, M.Ed, CNA
Current Position: Director of Clinical and Community Education
Employer: Holy Name Hospital
Location: Teaneck, NJ


Ricki Schopp, RN, CMC, PhD
Current Position: HCAPS Market Manager
Employer: HCA Physican Services
Location: Gainesville, FL

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