Physician Editor-in-Chief
Jonathan M. Bertman, MD
Dr. Bertman is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Brown University. He is the founder and president of two successful Internet companies, one providing an EHR solution to more than 1,000 small- and medium-sized practices (AmazingCharts.com) and the other providing patient information on sensitive healthcare topics to more than 500,000 people a month (AfraidToAsk.com). Dr. Bertman is in private practice in Hope Valley, Rhode Island.

Larry Chu, MD, MS
Larry Chu is a senior anesthesia resident at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He co-founded the MedWorld project, an early innovator in developing WWW-based tools for medical education, at Stanford University in 1995. He is also a co-founder of Savvyhealth, Inc., a San Francisco-based health technology company.

Daniel Hier, MD
Dr. Daniel B. Hier is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He completed his medical internship at the Bronx Municipal Hospital and his neurology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed a two-year clinical and research fellowship in stroke and behavior at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation, Professor of Bioengineering and Head of the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He serves as Neurologist-in-Chief and Physiatrist-in-Chief for the University of Illinois Medical Center. His clinical interests are in stroke, dementia, and multiple sclerosis, and his interest in research lies within health informatics and functional brain imaging. He is the author or co-author of 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Ira Katz, MD
Dr. Ira Katz comes to MD Net Guide as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally recognized expert in geriatric psychiatry with a specialization in the relationship between mental and physical co-morbidity, Dr. Katz is the Director of the Section of Geriatric Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania and Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Dr. Katz also serves as the Principal Investigator of several National Institute of Health awards.

Neil A. Mehta, MD, MS
Dr. Neil Mehta is an internist with joint appointments in Division of Education and Information Technology Division at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is Director of the Center for Online Medical Education and Training (COMET) whose interests include teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM); use of computers and the Internet in the education of patients, medical students, house staff and the continuing education of physicians; use of web-based survey tools for automation and streamlining of data collection for research projects; and studying the role of computers and the Internet in health care and educating patients and physicians about it. He has been a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the College of Medicine of the Penn State University since 1995 and an Associate Professor at Ohio State University School of Medicine since 1999. He is an associate editor and reviewer, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, reviewer for the Annals of Internal Medicine, reviewer for the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and an editorial board member of Medical Matrix.

Holly Miller, MD, MBA
Currently the Director of Clinical Internet Systems at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Miller shares responsibility for the development of Internet strategy. Dr. Miller supports the development of e-health initiatives for e-Cleveland Clinic, the e-business organization of The Cleveland Clinic as Director of e-product development. She maintains a practice in the Department of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Miller has more than five years of experience in Medical Informatics; she was formerly a product manager for a medical software company.

Holly D. Miller, M.D., MBA has multiple responsibilities within the Division of Information Technology at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. As Director of Clinical Internet Systems, Dr. Miller develops Internet strategy at The Cleveland Clinic. In her role as Director of e-Product Development, Dr. Miller supports the development of e-health initiatives for e-Cleveland Clinic, the e-business organization of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She is an Associate Staff physician and practices in the department of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Miller has over 8 years experience in Medical Informatics and is a frequent presenter at national meetings on health care and technology. She was formerly a Product Manager for a medical software company. She also is active in healthcare informatics research. Dr. Miller, an American educated and trained physician, previously lived in Europe where she had multi-faceted experiences as a Project Manager in the Pharmaceutical Industry, leading phase III and IV research trials; and as the Chief Resident at the American Hospital of Paris. She completed her MBA at one of the leading business schools in France.

Gary Stephen Nace, MD
G. Stephen Nace, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, IL. His clinical research interest is the development and implementation of database tools to improve patient care. He maintains The Doctor's Page (www.doctorspage.net), a website with a wide range of resources for practicing physicians.

Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH
Dr. Danny Sands is an internationally recognized lecturer, consultant, and thought leader in the area of clinical computing and patient and clinician empowerment through the use of computer technology. He is Director of EPR and Communication at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he has worked since 1991. He earned his baccalaureate at Brown University, medical degree at Ohio State University, and a master’s degree at Harvard School of Public Health. He did residency training at Boston City Hospital and an informatics fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is a primary care internist who uses computers extensively in his practice. In 1998, Dr. Sands received the President’s Award from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in recognition of his leadership in co-authoring the first national guidelines for the use of e-mail in patient care. Since 1998, he has maintained the Electronic Patient Centered Communication Resource Center at
www.e-PCC.org. Dr. Sands was the scientific chair of the AMIA Spring Congress 2002 on the topic of medication informatics and is a member of the AMIA Board of Directors.

Eric G. Tangalos, MD, FACP, AGSF, CMD
Dr. Eric Tangalos is Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Division of Community Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is also the Co-Director at the Robert and Arlene Kogod Program on Aging. Dr. Tangalos received his undergraduate training from the University of Michigan, is a graduate of the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, and was a resident and fellow in Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic.