Contributing Experts
Russell J. Ricci, M.D.

Dr. Ricci is a former general manager of IBM's Healthcare Industry, has held a broad range of senior level positions spanning the healthcare industry including technology organizations, payor organizations, service providers, non-profit organizations and trade associations, and governmental and research...

Patricia E. Adams, LMFT

Patricia E. Adams, President of Zeitgeist Wellness Group is a family therapist and one of only ten women nationwide to be named 2011 Entrepreneurial Winning Women by Ernst & Young LLP. As a subject matter expert, Dr. Adams has more than 16 years of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is a certified mediator and crisis intervention specialist. Dr....

Nima Amjadi, MD

Dr. Nima Amjadi is the Chief of Cardiology at St. David’s South Austin Medical Center.

Dr. Amjadi specializes in all aspects of cardiovascular disease. While he maintains a busy office-based practice, he has an emphasis in Interventional Cardiology and performs procedures such as cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, stent placement, intravascular ultrasound...

Neel Anand, MD

Neel Anand, MD, Mch Orth is a Clinical Professor of Surgery and Director of Spine Trauma at the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center.

Dr. Anand's primary area of research interest involves minimally invasive surgical techniques for spinal disorders and trauma in adults and children, which result in smaller incisions, faster recovery and better patient outcomes. He is also...

Jocelyn Ang, MD, FAAP

Dr. Jocelyn Ang MD, FAAP, is an Infectious Diseases Specialist on staff at DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan.

Mark Bans, D.C.

Mark Bans is a Chiropractic Physician and health care provider specializing in traditional chiropractic therapy. Bans also schooled in alternative mind-body-emotions-energy techniques such as Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique (BEST), Nutrition Response Testing (NRT)and Total Body Modification (TBM).

James Barr, M.D.

Dr. Barr is a board-certified Family Physician with an active clinical practice at Pleasant Run Family Physicians, a Level III NCQA recognized Patient-Centered Medical Home in Neshanic Station, NJ. He obtained his medical degree from

Anthony Berdis, Ph.D.

Dr. Anthony Berdis is currently an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Berdis is considered a leading authority on chemotherapeutic agents, especially nucleoside analogs used as anti-cancer agents. To date, Dr. Berdis has published 60 research papers and review articles in areas...

Richard Berri, MD

Richard N. Berri, MD is director of Surgical Oncology at St. John Hospital and Medical Center's Van Elslander Cancer Center. Dr. Berri's special interests are surgical oncology, with a specific focus on hepatobiliary and pancreas tumors, (Hepatocellular carcinoma, Cholangiocarcinoma, Gallbladder cancer, primary or metastatic liver tumors), gastric, colorectal, small...

Keith L. Black, M.D.

An internationally renowned neurosurgeon and researcher, Dr. Black’s groundbreaking research and pioneering work includes success in: opening the blood-brain barrier, allowing chemotherapy drugs to be delivered directly into the tumor; developing a vaccine to strengthen the body defenses against brain tumors; using gene arrays to develop molecular profiles of tumors and...