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Charles S. Abrams, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ; Staff Physician, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Platelet-Mediated Bleeding Disorders

 

 

Mark J. Abzug, MD

 

 

Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), University of Colorado School of Medicine; Staff Pediatrician, The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado

 

 

Viral Meningitis and Encephalitis

 

 

Suraj Achar, MD

 

 

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and Associate Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla; Staff Physician, UCSD Thornton Hospital, La Jolla, and UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest, California

 

 

Common Sports Injuries

 

 

Sujeet S. Acharya, MD

 

 

Resident Physician, The University of Chicago Medical Center , Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Renal Calculi

 

 

Tod C. Aeby, MD

 

 

Residency Program Director, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women’s Health, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawaii

 

 

Uterine Leiomyomas

 

 

Carl M. Allen, DDS, MSD

 

 

Professor, Department of Oral Pathology, The Ohio State University College of Dentistry; Director, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Pathology, University Hospital; Professor, Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, Columbus, Ohio

 

 

Diseases of the Mouth

 

 

Antonio Almeida, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa School of Medicine; Consultant Hematologist, Instituto Portugès de Oncologia, Lisbon,

 

 

Sickle Cell Disease

 

 

Tina S. Alster, MD

 

 

Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Georgetown University School of Medicine; Director, Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery, Washington, DC

 

 

Keloids

 

 

Navin M. Amin, MD

 

 

Professor of Family Medicine, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine; Associate Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; and Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

 

 

Infective Endocarditis

 

 

Girish Anand, MD

 

 

Fellow in Gastroenterology, Albert Einstein Medical Center , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Dysphagia and Esophageal Obstruction

 

 

Deverick J. Anderson, MD

 

 

Clinical Associate, Duke University Medical Center , Durham, North Carolina

 

 

Rickettsial and Ehrlichial Infections

 

 

Vinicius C. S. Antao, MD, MSc, PhD

 

 

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Community Medicine Department, West Virginia University College of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia

 

 

Silicosis and Asbestosis

 

 

Karim Aoun, MD

 

 

Associate Professor, University of Tunis Faculty of Medicine; Attending Physician, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunisa,

 

 

Leishmaniasis

 

 

Baha M. Arafah, MD

 

 

Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Division of Endocrinology, University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Hyperprolactinemia

 

 

Paul M. Arguin, MD

 

 

Captain, Public Health Service; Chief, Domestic Malaria Unit, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta,

 

 

Malaria

 

 

Aydin Arici, MD

 

 

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

 

 

Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding

 

 

Isao Arita, MD

 

 

Chairman, Agency for Cooperation in International Health, Kumamoto, Kumamoto City,

 

 

Smallpox

 

 

Noel A. Armenakas, MD

 

 

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Urology, Cornell Weill Medical School; Attending Surgeon, Lenox Hill Hospital and New York–Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York

 

 

Trauma to the Genitourinary Tract

 

 

Ramesh Ayyala, MD

 

 

Associate Professor; Director, Residency Program in Ophthalmology; and Director, Glaucoma Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

Conjunctivitis

 

 

Claus Bachert, MD, PhD

 

 

Professor, University of Ghent Faculty of Medicine; Chief of Clinics, Ear-Nose-Throat Department, University Hospital of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

 

 

Nonallergic Perennial Rhinitis

 

 

Gopal H. Badlani, MD

 

 

Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center,New Hyde Park,New York

 

 

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

 

 

Adrianne Williams Bagley, MD

 

 

Clinical Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Associate Staff, Johns Hopkins Hospital , Baltimore, Maryland

 

 

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

 

 

David A. Baker, MD

 

 

Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York

 

 

Vulvovaginitis

 

 

David M. Bamberger, MD

 

 

Professor of Medicine and Vice-Chair of Educational Affairs, Department of Medicine, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine; Chief, Infectious Diseases Section, Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri

 

 

Gonorrhea

 

 

Raymond L. Barnhill, MD

 

 

Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami; Staff Pathologist, University of Miami Medical Group and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Coral Gables, Florida

 

 

Nevi

 

 

James C. Barton, MD

 

 

Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine; Medical Director, Southern Iron Disorders Center, Birmingham, Alabama

 

 

Iron Deficiency

 

 

Nurcan Baykam, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Ankara Faculty of Medicine; Staff, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Clinic, Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

 

 

Brucellosis

 

 

Carolyn E. Beck, MD, MSc

 

 

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; Staff Paediatrician, Division of Paediatric Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario,

 

 

Parenteral Fluid Therapy for Infants and Children

 

 

Meg Begany, RD, CSP, LDN

 

 

Clinical Neonatal Dietitian, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Normal Infant Feeding

 

 

Jerome Belinson, MD

 

 

Staff, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taussig Cancer Institute; Director, Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Ovarian Cancer

 

 

Nicholas P. Bell, MD

 

 

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas

 

 

Glaucoma

 

 

Pelayo C. Besa, MD

 

 

Radiation Oncology Head, Santiago,

 

 

Hodgkin’s Disease: Radiation Therapy

 

 

Karl R. Beutner, MD, PhD

 

 

Associate Clinical Professor of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California

 

 

Condyloma Acuminatum (Genital Warts)

 

 

Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, MB, BS, PhD

 

 

Husein Lalji Dewraj Professor of Pediatrics, Aga Khan University and Medical Center , Karachi,

 

 

Typhoid Fever

 

 

Joseph Biederman, MD

 

 

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School ; Chief of Clinical and Research in Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

 

 

John P. Bilezikian, MD

 

 

Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending Physician, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York

 

 

Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Hypoparathyroidism

 

 

Warren P. Bishop, MD

 

 

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine; Director, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Iowa Children ’s Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa

 

 

Constipation

 

 

Soenke Boettger, MD

 

 

Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

 

 

Delirium

 

 

Jonathan Bond, MB, MRCPI

 

 

Specialist Registrar in Hematology, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital , Dublin,

 

 

Chronic Leukemias

 

 

Herbert L. Bonkovsky, MD

 

 

Professor, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut; Professor, University of North Carolina College of Medicine; Vice President for Research, Carolinas Health Care System, Charlotte, North Carolina

 

 

Porphyria

 

 

Patrick Borgen, MD

 

 

Chief, Breast Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

 

 

Diseases of the Breast

 

 

Harisios Boudoulas, MD, PhD

 

 

Professor of Medicine and Pharmacy Emeritus, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, Columbus, Ohio; Director, Center of Clinical Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

 

 

Mitral Valve Prolapse: The Floppy Mitral Valve, Mitral Valve Prolapse, and Mitral Valvular Regurgitation

 

 

Aida Bouratbine, MD

 

 

Professor, University of Tunis Faculty of Medicine; Head, Laboratory of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

 

 

Leishmaniasis

 

 

Krystene I. Boyle, MD

 

 

Clinical Instructor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Clinical Fellow, Department of OB/GYN, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

 

Menopause

 

 

Robert Bradsher, MD

 

 

Richard V. Ebert Professor of Medicine, University of Arkansas College of Medicine; Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program; Vice-Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine; Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas

 

 

Blastomycosis

 

 

Daniel M. Brailita, MD

 

 

Fellow in Gastroenterology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

 

 

Acute and Chrunic Hepatitis

 

 

Marc Brand, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Rush Medical College; Attending Surgeon, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Tumors of the Rectum and Colon

 

 

Chad M. Braun, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Nausea and Vomiting

 

 

Mark E. Brecher, MD

 

 

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine; Director, McLendon Clinical Laboratories, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

 

 

Therapeutic Use of Blood Components

 

 

Patricia D. Brown, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Chief of Medicine, Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

 

 

Pyelonephritis

 

 

J. James Bruno II, MD

 

 

Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York

 

 

Trauma to the Genitourinary Tract

 

 

John Brusch, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Associate Chief of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

Streptococcal Pharyngitis

 

 

Peter Buckley, MD

 

 

Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Georgia; Staff Psychiatrist, MCG Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia

 

 

Schizophrenia

 

 

Cathy L. Budman, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York; Director, Movement Disorders Program in Psychiatry, North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, Manhassett, New York

 

 

Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

 

 

Irina Burd, MD, PhD

 

 

Instructor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Staff, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Menopause

 

 

Kevin A. Bybee, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine; Consulting Cardiologist, Mid-America Heart Institute, Cardiovascular Consultants, PA, Kansas City, Missouri

 

 

Acute Myocardial Infarction

 

 

John Byrne, MCh

 

 

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Albany Medical College; Member, The Vascular Group, Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York

 

 

Acquired Diseases of the Aorta

 

 

Alexander Bystritsky, MD, PhD

 

 

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Director, Anxiety Disorder Program, The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, California

 

 

Panic Disorder

 

 

Diego Cadavid, MD

 

 

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey

 

 

Relapsing Fever

 

 

Grant R. Caddy, MD

 

 

Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Ulster Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland

 

 

Cholelithiasis and Cholecystitis

 

 

Thomas R. Caraccio, PharmD

 

 

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Stony Brook; Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, New York

 

 

Medical Toxicology: Ingestions, Inhalations, and Dermal and Ocular Absorptions

 

 

Enrique V. Carbajal, MD

 

 

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco; Staff Physician–Cardiology, VA Central California Health Care System, Fresno, California

 

 

Premature Beats

 

 

Stephen D. Cassivi, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

 

 

Associate Professor of Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Director of Lung Transplantation, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

 

 

Pleural Effusion and Empyema Thoracis

 

 

Serguei A. Castaneda, MD

 

 

Research Associate, Cancer Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Thalassemia

 

 

Frank R. Cerniglia, Jr., MD

 

 

Director of Pediatric Urology, Urologic Institute of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

Childhood Enuresis

 

 

Joumana T. Chaiban, MD

 

 

Fellow in Endocrinology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Hyperprolactinemia

 

 

Sarah L. Chamlin, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Atopic Dermatitis

 

 

Miriam M. Chan, RPh, PharmD

 

 

Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University; Director of Pharmacy Education, Riverside Family Medicine Residency Education, Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

 

 

Popular Herbs and Nutritional Supplements; New Drugs

 

 

Sam S. Chang, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

 

 

Malignant Tumors of the Urogenital Tract

 

 

Gary C. Chen, MD

 

 

Resident Physician, Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

 

 

Bleeding Esophageal Varices

 

 

Stella T. Chou, MD

 

 

Instructor in Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Attending Physician, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Nonimmune Hemolytic Anemia

 

 

Bart L. Clarke, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Consultant, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

 

 

Osteoporosis

 

 

Claus-Frenz Claussen, MD

 

 

Professor Extraordinarius in Neuro-otology, Julius-Maximilaus University Faculty of Medicine, Wuerzburg, Germany; Acting Director, Neuro-otological Research Institute of 4GF, Bad Kissingen, Germany

 

 

Tinnitus

 

 

Harris R. Clearfield, MD

 

 

Professor of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine; Section Chief, Gastroenterology, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Diverticula of the Alimentary Tract

 

 

Donald Clemons, MD

 

 

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Practice, Quillen School of Medicine, Johnson City, Tennessee

 

 

Premalignant Lesions

 

 

Melanie W. Conway, MD

 

 

Attending Psychiatrist, Texarkana Living Hope, Texarkana; Dardanelle Hospital, Dardanelle; Levi Hospital, Hot Springs; and White River Medical Center, Batesville, Arkansas

 

 

Mood Disorders

 

 

Michael S. Cookson, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

 

 

Malignant Tumors of the Urogenital Tract

 

 

John F. Coyle II, MD

 

 

Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine–Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

 

Disturbances Caused by Heat

 

 

Lester M. Crawford, PhD

 

 

Former Research Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; Former Head, Department of Physiology, University of Georgia College of Medicine, Athens, Georgia

 

 

Foodborne Illness

 

 

Burke A. Cunha, MD

 

 

Professor of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Stony Brook; Chief, Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York

 

 

Viral and Mycoplasmal Pneumonias; Urinary Tract Infections in Women

 

 

Stella Dantas, MD

 

 

Physician, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beaverton Medical Office, Northwest Permanente PC Physicians and Surgeons, Beaverton, Oregon

 

 

Uterine Leiomyomas

 

 

R. Clement Darling III, MD

 

 

Professor of Surgery, Albany Medical College; Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery, Albany Medical Center Hospital, The Vascular Group, PLLC, Albany, New York

 

 

Acquired Diseases of the Aorta

 

 

Andre Dascal, MD, FRCPC

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University Faculty of Medicine; Senior Infectious Disease Physician, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

 

 

Acute Infectious Diarrhea; Toxic Shock Syndrome

 

 

Susan Davids, MD, MPH

 

 

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin; Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

 

Acute Bronchitis

 

 

Susan A. Davidson, MD

 

 

Associate Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Chief, Gynecologic Oncology, University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, Colorado

 

 

Neoplasms of the Vulva

 

 

Prakash C. Deedwania, MD

 

 

Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco; Chief, Cardiology Section, VA Central California Health Care System, Fresno, California

 

 

Premature Beats

 

 

Albert A. Del Negro, MD

 

 

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; Medical Director, Cardiac Pacemaker Clinic, and Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Virginia

 

 

Heart Block

 

 

Marie-France Demierre, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Dermatology and Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Director, Skin Oncology, and Director, Photopheresis Program, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma

 

 

Stephen R. Deputy, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine; Staff Neurologists, Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

Traumatic Brain Injury in Children

 

 

Sarah E. Dick, MD

 

 

Senior Dermatology Resident, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Bullous Diseases

 

 

Ram Dickman, MD

 

 

Research Fellow, Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, Neuro-Enteric Clinical Research Group, Tucson, Arizona

 

 

Gaseousness and Indigestion

 

 

Alice N. Do, DO

 

 

Research Fellow, Solano Clinical Research, Division Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vallejo, California

 

 

Condyloma Acuminatum (Genital Warts)

 

 

Sunil Dogra, MD, DNB, MNAMS

 

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

 

 

Leprosy

 

 

Basak Dokuzoguz, MD

 

 

Chief, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Clinic, Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

 

 

Brucellosis

 

 

Douglas A. Drevets, MD, DTM&H

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Oklahoma School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Oklahoma City VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

 

Plague

 

 

Jean Dudler, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

 

Rat-Bite Fever

 

 

Kamryn T. Eddy, PhD

 

 

Clinical Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Bulimia Nervosa

 

 

Libby Edwards, MD

 

 

Associate Clinical Professor of Dermatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill; Chief, Division of Dermatology, Carolinas Medical Center and Southeast Vulvar Clinic, Charlotte, North Carolina

 

 

Pruritus Ani and Vulvae

 

 

George E. Ehrlich, MD

 

 

Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Adjunct Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York

 

 

Osteoarthritis

 

 

Kimberly May Eickhorst, MD

 

 

Chief Resident, St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York

 

 

Diseases of the Hair

 

 

Brandon D. Einstein, BA

 

 

Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Nevi

 

 

Julian Elliott, MB, BS, FRACP

 

 

Conjoint Senior Lecturer, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Infectious Diseases Physician, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; HIV Clinical Advisor, International Health Research Group, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia

 

 

Psittacosis

 

 

John M. Embil, MD, FRCP(C), FACP

 

 

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Medical Microbiology, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine; Director, Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Health Science Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

 

 

Necrotizing Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

 

 

Elizabeth D. Ennis, MD

 

 

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine; Vice President of Medical Education and Research, Baptist Health System–Birmingham; Director, Internal Residency Program, Baptist Health System, Birmingham, Alabama

 

 

Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Syndrome

 

 

Helen Enright, MD

 

 

Department of Haematology, Adelaide and Meath Hospitals, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland

 

 

Chronic Leukemias

 

 

Alexander Espinoza, MD

 

 

University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

 

 

Common Sports Injuries

 

 

Chukwuemeka N. Etufugh, MD

 

 

Resident, Department of Pathology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

 

 

Venous Stasis Ulcers

 

 

Amanda Nickles Fader, MD

 

 

Clinical Fellow in Gynecologic Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Ovarian Cancer

 

 

Ruth Falik, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Attending Physician, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas

 

 

Pain; Atrial Fibrillation

 

 

Ronnie Fass, MD

 

 

Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona School of Medicine; Director, GI Motility Laboratories, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, Tucson, Arizona

 

 

Gaseousness and Indigestion

 

 

Fred G. Fedok, MD, FACS

 

 

Professor, Department of Surgery, Chief, Division of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania

 

 

Bell’s Palsy (Idiopathic Acute Peripheral Facial Paralysis)

 

 

Seth I. Felder, BA

 

 

Medical Student, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida

 

 

Nevi

 

 

Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD

 

 

Professor of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

 

 

Eve S. Ferdman, BA

 

 

Managing Editor, Brachytherapy, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,New York,New York

 

 

Brain Tumors

 

 

L. Jaime Fitten, MDS

 

 

Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Administration, Sepulveda Campus, Los Angeles, California

 

 

Alzheimer’s Disease

 

 

Alan B. Fleischer, Jr., MD

 

 

Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

 

 

Acne Vulgaris and Rosacea

 

 

Adriana Foster, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia; Staff Psychiatrist, MCG Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia

 

 

Schizophrenia

 

 

Melvin H. Freedman, MD

 

 

Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; Honorary Consultant, Hematology-Oncology; Senior Scientist Emeritus, Research Institute; and Chair, Research Ethics Board (IRB), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

 

Neutropenia

 

 

Ellen W. Freeman, PhD

 

 

Research Professor, Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Premenstrual Syndrome

 

 

Eugene P. Frenkel, MD

 

 

Professor of Internal Medicine and Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas; Patsy R. & Raymond D. Nasher Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research; Elaine Dewey Sammons Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research in honor of Eugene P. Frenkel, M.D.; and A. Kenneth Pye Professorship in Cancer Research, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

 

 

Pernicious Anemia and Other Megaloblastic Anemias

 

 

Jermy N. Friedman, MB, ChB

 

 

Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; Head, Division of Paediatric Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

 

Parenteral Fluid Therapy for Infants and Children

 

 

Neil J. Friedman, MD

 

 

Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; Private Practice, Mid-Peninsula Ophthalmology, Palo Alto, California

 

 

Vision Correction Procedures

 

 

Deborah K. Froh, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia

 

 

Cystic Fibrosis

 

 

Maisie M. Fung, MD

 

 

Staff Physician, Camino Medical Group, Mountain View, California

 

 

Peripheral Arterial Disease

 

 

Joseph M. Furman, MD, PhD

 

 

Professor, Departments of Otolaryngology and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

 

Episodic Vertigo

 

 

Steven L. Galetta, MD

 

 

Ruth Wagner Van Meter and Ray Van Meter Professor of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Optic Neuritis

 

 

R. Michael Gallagher, DO

 

 

Director, Headache Center of Central Florida, Melbourne, Florida

 

 

Headache

 

 

Andrea Gallina, MD

 

 

Vita-Salute University; Resident in Training, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

 

 

Prostatitis

 

 

Juan Armando Garcia, MD

 

 

Staff-Intensivist, Cardiovascular ICU, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas

 

 

Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

 

 

Christopher S. George, MD

 

 

Attending Physician, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

 

 

Primary Lung Cancer

 

 

James N. George, MD

 

 

George Lynn Cross Professor of Medicine, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine; Hematology-Oncology Section, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

 

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

 

 

Teresa M. George, MD

 

 

Assistant Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

 

 

Primary Lung Cancer

 

 

Glenn S. Gerber, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Surgery/Urology, Director of Endourology, and Director of Residency Program and Student Clerkship, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Renal Calculi

 

 

Paul L. F. Giangrande, MD

 

 

Senior Lecturer in Haematology, University of Oxford; Consultant Haematologist, Oxford Haemophilia Centre and Thrombosis Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

 

 

Venous Thrombosis

 

 

David B. K. Golden, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Allergy-Immunology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

 

 

Allergic Reactions to Insect Stings

 

 

Monica Peterson Gordon, MD

 

 

Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

 

 

Alzheimer’s Disease

 

 

E. Ann Gormley, MD

 

 

Professor of Surgery (Urology), Dartmouth Medical School; Staff Urologist, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire

 

 

Urinary Incontinence

 

 

Eduardo Gotuzzo, MD

 

 

Principal Professor of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; Chief, Department of Infectious, Tropical, and Dermatologic Diseases, Hospital National Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

 

 

Cholera

 

 

John E. Gough, MD, FACEP

 

 

Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University; Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, North Carolina

 

 

Marine Trauma, Envenomations, and Intoxications

 

 

Mark A. Granner, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine; Director, Iowa Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa

 

 

Seizures and Epilepsy in Adolescents and Adults

 

 

Charles S. Greene, DDS

 

 

Clinical Professor and Director of Orofacial Pain Studies, University of Illinois College of Dentistry; Orofacial Pain Consultant, Illinois Masonic Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Temporomandibular Disorders

 

 

Joseph Greensher, MD

 

 

Professor of Pediatrics, State University of New York at Stony Brook Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Stony Brook; Medical Director and Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Long Island Regional Poison and Drug Information Center, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York

 

 

Medical Toxicology: Ingestions, Inhalations, and Dermal and Ocular Absorptions

 

 

Charles Grose, MD

 

 

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine; Director of Infectious Diseases Division, Children’s Hospital of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

 

 

Varicella (Chickenpox)

 

 

Marlon A. Guerrero, MD

 

 

Chief Surgical Resident, St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System, Houston, Texas

 

 

Thyroid Cancer

 

 

Abdo Haddad, MD

 

 

Fellow, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Aplastic Anemia

 

 

Frank G. Haluska, MD, PhD

 

 

Tufts University School of Medicine; Deputy Director and Clinical Director, Cancer Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Melanoma

 

 

Rashidul Haque, MB, PhD

 

 

Scientist, Laboratory Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

 

Amebiasis

 

 

Rachel Haroz, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper University Hospital Camden, New Jersey

 

 

Spider Bites and Scorpion Stings

 

 

E. John Harris, Jr., MD

 

 

Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

 

 

Peripheral Arterial Disease

 

 

Umur Hatipog? lu, MD

 

 

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine; Section Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Bacterial Pneumonia

 

 

Dana M. Hayden, MD, MPH

 

 

General Surgery Resident, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Tumurs of the Rectum and Colon

 

 

Emil R. Heinze, MD

 

 

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; Senior Rheumatology Fellow, UCLA San Fernando Valley Program, Olive View–UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California

 

 

Bursitis, Tendinitis, Myofascial Pain, and Fibromyalgia

 

 

J. Claude Hemphill III, MD, MAS

 

 

Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; Director, Neurocritical Care, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California

 

 

Intracerebral Hemorrhage

 

 

William Henderson, MD

 

 

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver; Attending Physician, Royal Columbia Hospital, New Westminister, British Columbia, Canada

 

 

Acute Respiratory Failure

 

 

David B. Herzog, MD

 

 

Professor of Psychiatry (Pediatrics), Harvard Medical School, Cambridge; Director, Eating Disorders Unit—Child Psychiatry Service, and Director, Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Bulimia Nervosa

 

 

Camile Hexsel, MD

 

 

Research Fellow, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

 

 

Sunburn

 

 

David G. Hill, MD

 

 

Waterbury Pulmonary Associates, Waterbury; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

 

 

Cough

 

 

Christopher D. Hillyer, MD

 

 

Transfusion Medicine Program, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

 

 

Adverse Effects of Blood Transfusion

 

 

Darryl T. Hiyama, MD

 

 

Professor of Clinical Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Staff Surgeon, UCLA Center for Health Sciences, Los Angeles, California

 

 

Parenteral Nutrition in Adults

 

 

Brian D. Hoit, MD

 

 

Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, Case School of Medicine; Director, Echocardiography, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Pericarditis

 

 

M. Ekramul Hoque, MBBS, MPH (Hons), PhD

 

 

Research Fellow, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

 

 

Giardiasis

 

 

Duane R. Hospenthal, MD, PhD

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio, San Antonio; Chief, Infectious Disease Service, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas

 

 

Coccidioidomycosis

 

 

Tamara Salam Housman, MD

 

 

Procedural Dermatology/Mohs Micrographic Surgery Fellow, Dermatologic Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

 

 

Warts (Verrucae)

 

 

Samuel S. Hsu, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

 

 

Tetanus

 

 

Katherine Hughes, MB, ChB

 

 

Specialist Registrar in Endocrinology and Diabetes, Endocrinology Unit, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

 

 

Thyroiditis

 

 

Scott A. Hundahl, MD

 

 

Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine; Chief of Surgery, VA Northern California Health Care System, Sacramento VA Medical Center, Sacramento, California

 

 

Tumors of the Stomach

 

 

Nader Husseinzadeh, MD

 

 

Professor, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

 

Cancer of the Uterine Cervix

 

 

Neil H. Hyman, MD

 

 

Samuel B. and Michlle D. Labow Professor of Surgery, University of Vermont College of Medicine; Chief, Division of General Surgery, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vermont

 

 

Hemorrhoids, Anal Fissure, and Anorectal Abscess and Fistula

 

 

Robert D. Inman, MD

 

 

Professor of Medicine and Immunology, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; Director, Arthritis Center of Excellence, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

 

Ankylosing Spondylitis

 

 

Matilde lorizzo, MD

 

 

Department of Dermatology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

 

 

Diseases of the Nails

 

 

Jon E. Isaacson, MD

 

 

Division of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania

 

 

Bell’s Palsy (Idiopathic Acute Peripheral Facial Paralysis)

 

 

Alan C. Jackson, MD, FRCPC

 

 

Professor of Medicine (Neurology) and Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine; Head, Section of Neurology, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

 

 

Rabies

 

 

Aleda A. Jacobs, MD

 

 

Mohs Fellow, Procedural Dermatology, Baylor College of Medicine/Baylor Clinic, Houston, Texas

 

 

Cancers of The Skin

 

 

Robert M. Jacobson, MD

 

 

Professor of Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Chair, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, and Consultant in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

 

 

Office-Based Immunization Practices

 

 

Mamta K. Jain, MD, MPH

 

 

Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, Dallas, Texas

 

 

Acute and Chronic Hepatitis

 

 

James J. James, MD, DrPH, MHA

 

 

Director, Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Toxic Chemical Agents Reference Chart: Symptoms and Treatment; Biologic Agents Reference Chart—Symptoms, Tests, and Treatment

 

 

Stephen G. Jenkinson, MD

 

 

Chief, Pulmonary Diseases Section, Audie Murphy VA Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas

 

 

Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

 

 

Gordon L. Jensen, MD, PhD

 

 

Professor and Head, Department of Nutritional Sciences, and Professor of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania

 

 

Obesity

 

 

Jeffrey Jim, MD, MS

 

 

Resident Physician, Department of Surgery, UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, California

 

 

Parenteral Nutrition in Adults

 

 

Michael Johns, MD

 

 

Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

 

 

Hoarseness and Laryngitis

 

 

Candice E. Johnson, MD, PhD

 

 

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Medicine; Volunteer Faculty, The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado

 

 

Bacterial Infections of the Urinary Tract in Girls

 

 

James F. Jones, MD

 

 

Research Medical Officer, Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

 

 

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

 

 

Michael P. Jones, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

 

 

Joseph L. Jorizzo, MD

 

 

Professor, Founding and Former Chair, Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

 

 

Cutaneous Vasculitis

 

 

Rome Jutabha, MD

 

 

Associate Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Director, UCLA Center for Small Bowel Diseases, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

 

 

Bleeding Esophageal Varices

 

 

S. Patrick Kachur, MD

 

 

Commander, U.S. Public Health Service; Chief, Malaria Strategic Applied Science Unit, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

 

 

Malaria

 

 

Tamilarasu Kadhiravan, MD

 

 

Senior Resident, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

 

 

Management of the Patient with HIV Disease

 

 

Pierre I. Karakiewicz, MD

 

 

Associate Professor, Department of Urology, University of Montreal Faculty of Medicine; Urologic Oncologist and Director, Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

 

 

Prostatitis

 

 

Matthew E. Karlovsky, MD

 

 

Staff Urologist (Voiding Dysfunction/Female Urology), Private Practice, Center for Urological Services, PC, Phoenix, Arizona