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Signal's Medical Advisory Panel comprises a distinguished group of medical professionals from a variety of specialties. Each of our highly qualified Panel members brings demonstrated expertise in their respective fields. Further, several Panel members have pursued business opportunities that have grown out of their interest in combining the rapidly changing world of medicine with an ever-changing business environment.
Panel members are our most valuable resources for providing up-to-date information on medical issues, offering valuable opinions and insights on services and procedures, while sharing their knowledge about key medical issues facing the world today.
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Ace Allen (Oncologist, E-health Entrepreneur)
Ace Allen, M.D., is a board-certified medical oncologist and former associate professor in the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Medicine. He is at the forefront of the telemedicine and the e-health field. Motivated by his awareness of the difficulties connected to providing quality care to rural areas, Allen set up a series of tele-oncology clinics between the University of Kansas Medical School and rural Kansas. He has participated in research on the efficacy and cost benefits of home telehealth care and tele-oncology. Allen edited and published Telemedicine Today magazine for eight years. He also serves on the staff of the Kansas City VA Hospital, where he caares for cancer patients and is the chair of the hospital’s Telemedicine Advisory Board. Allen is the CEO of Today Communications, Inc., an e-health company that matches Internet searchers with tailored, filtered health information and resources on VitalSeek, its website.
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Jeffrey M. Borkan (Family Physician, Medical Anthropologist)
Jeffrey M. Borkan, M.D., Ph.D., has combined family medicine and behavioral sciences throughout his career. Currently a family physician in the Department of Family Medicine at the Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Borkan was a senior lecturer in family medicine at Tel Aviv University and vice-chairman of behavioral sciences at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine. In addition, he was associate professor of family and community medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. At Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva, Israel, Borkan lectured in both family medicine and behavioral science. He has published extensively in national and international professional journals.
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Alexander C. Davis (Internist)
In addition to his private practice in Overland Park, Kansas, internist Alexander Davis, M.D., serves as a clinical instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Davis has been an active member of numerous medical committees and has directed several major Kansas health care facilities. He currently serves as director of Kansas City's Village Shalom Geriatric Center. Davis graduated from the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio.
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Milbhor D'Silva (Transplant Surgeon and Drug Safety Expert)
Milbhor D'Silva, M.D., is head of clinical safety for Amersham Health Inc., a pharmaceutical company based in Princeton, New Jersey. Before joining Amersham, he headed the transplant therapeutic drug development efforts within the Clinical Safety & Epidemiology Department of Novartis Pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom. D'Silva is a graduate of Goa Medical College in Mumbai (Bombay), India. In addition to his primary specialization, D'Silva holds a master's degree in public health.
D'Silva is a member of numerous professional organizations and was cited by Who's Who in Medicine 2000. He has published extensively in professional publications and has been a contributing author to medical textbooks.
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Scott K. Epstein (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PMR) physician, Scott K. Epstein is a partner at Northeastern Rehabilitation Associates, P.C., a private practice in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attends at the Allied Services Rehabilitation Hospital in Scranton, where he serves as president of the medical staff, and at the Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale, where he serves as credential committee chairperson. He works at numerous other medical centers in northeastern Pennsylvania. In addition to his PMR specialization, Epstein has expertise in the fields of pain medicine and electrodiagnosis.
He is a member of the American Academy of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Medical Association, and the Lackawanna County Medical Society.
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Roger Goldenberg (Emergency Medicine)
Roger Goldenberg, M.D., is chairman of the Emergency Medicine Department at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. He is also a staff physician at the University of Kansas Medical Center and at Providence Medical Center in Kansas City. Goldenberg currently serves as medical director for the area's AMR ambulance service. In addition to his primary specialization in emergency medicine, Goldenberg specializes in occupational medicine. He is certified in emergency medicine, advanced trauma life support, and advanced cardiac life support. Goldenberg is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago.
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Sheldon Hersh Gottlieb (Cardiologist)
Sheldon Hersh Gottlieb, M.D., serves as associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Concurrently, he is medical director of disease management at Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC and senior cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. In addition to his membership in other professional organizations and societies, Gottlieb is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a fellow on the Council on Geriatric Cardiology. He has published extensively in professional publications and has been a contributing author to medical textbooks.
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Norman Heisler (Psychiatrist)
A psychiatrist in private practice for more than 15 years, Norman Heisler, M.D., is affiliated with the Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Merriam, Kansas. A clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Heisler's professional expertise extends to the fields of geriatric psychiatry, psychotic illnesses, anxiety disorders, and psychopharmacology. Dr. Heisler has given multiple presentations related to mood disorders, psychopharmacology, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Gary Kauffman (Cardiologist)
Gary Kauffman, M.D., F.A.C.C., is president and senior partner of the North Phoenix Heart Center in Phoenix, Arizona, where he specializes in invasive/interventional cardiology. Kauffman has led and participated in several cardiology research projects and multicenter trials. He maintains an active membership in numerous medical associations and has been the spokesperson for several pharmaceutical companies. An associate professor at the Midwestern University Medical School, Kauffman was recently named cardiovascular telemetry (CVT) chairman and medical director for the cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) and telemetry units at the John C. Lincoln Hospital in Arizona.
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Douglas A. Perednia (Internist and Dermatologist)
Douglas A. Perednia, M.D., is a board certified internist and dermatologist who has spent a number of years researching the role of digital imaging and communications in health care. In 1994, Perednia founded the Telemedicine Research Center, which contains the largest database of telemedicine information worldwide. Several years later, Perednia founded the Association of Telehealth Service Providers (ATSP), the only industry trade association dedicated exclusively to the business applications of telemedicine and e-health technologies.
A highly regarded telehealth investigator for the past 13 years, Perednia has secured over $8 million for telemedicine research. He has served as a consultant and speaker on telehealth topics in venues as diverse as the National Institutes of Health, the Economic Development Council of Prince Edward Island (Canada), and the U.S. military.
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Marcia Lynn Sokol-Anderson (Internist)
Internist Marcia Lynn Sokol-Anderson, M.D., is currently an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center. She directs the Infectious Diseases Clinic/New Hope Comprehensive Care Clinic at the same facility. Active on numerous committees and organizations, Sokol-Anderson currently supervises the Antibiotic Utilization Program at St. Louis University Hospital and is a member of the executive committee of Project ARK. A member of the American College of Physicians, Sokol-Anderson has considerable clinical research experience and has published extensively.
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David Voran (Physician Executive and Family Practitioner)
David Voran, M.D. is a client physician executive for the Cerner Corporation and is the chief medical information officer for Health Midwest. Prior to joining Cerner and Health Midwest, Voran was the executive director of information technology at Kansas University. A board-certified family practitioner, Voran is a faculty member of the Family Practice Residency program at Goppert Family Care (a Health Midwest facility). Voran earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. A national speaker on healthcare information technology, Voran volunteers his time in teaching resident physicians at the University of Kansas.
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Teresa K. Yang (Dentist)
A member of the UCLA School of Dentistry faculty, Teresa K. Yang, D.D.S., is a clinic group director and clinical instructor. Yang maintains a private dentistry practice in Los Angeles, California. In her capacity as a consultant to the California State Dental Board, she monitors dentists on probation and serves as an expert witness. Yang received awards from the California Dental Association, the Academy of Operative Dentistry, and other prestigious professional organizations. She is an active member of the Los Angeles Women's Dental Association and the Stanford Professional Women's Club of Los Angeles.
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