Composed of world-class experts in complementary and integrative medicine, the Healthnotes Medical Advisory Board is a working group advising and informing our editorial and development processes. With their university affiliations and teaching experience, Advisory Board members’ valuable input assists us in creating the finest information products possible.
Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD
Dr. Barrett is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1992 and completed a family practice residency in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 1997. Dr. Barrett returned to the University of Wisconsin to complete a research fellowship in family medicine and receive a Master’s degree in population health—epidemiology. He has conducted research in alternative medicine, including a double-blind community trial to test the effectiveness of echinacea extract for early treatment of respiratory infections. Recently, he received the K-23 Patient-Oriented Career Development Research Award from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. He has written numerous articles on medicinal plants that have been published in The Journal of Community Health, Social Science and Medicine, and Family Medicine.
Sarah L. Berga, MD
Dr. Berga is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences with a joint appointment in Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is the Medical Director of the Magee-Women’s Clinical Research Center and Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) for the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Berga serves as a member of the study section for the National Center for Research Resources, which reviews applications for GCRC funding, and she also directs the fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed medical school at the University of Virginia and then conducted her internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Berga is currently an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and is now on the editorial board of Fertility and Sterility.
Richard N. Podell, MD, FACP
Dr. Podell is the Medical Director and Principal Investigator for East Coast Clinical Research, where he supervises ongoing clinical research in a network of 16 physicians. In addition to his private practice in family and internal medicine, he is the Principal Investigator of the FDA studies on Ampligen for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. Dr. Podell is also a Clinical Professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey—Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Family Medicine. He completed medical school and a research fellowship in health care organization at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Podell went on to receive a Master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and later complete a fellowship in allergy and environmental health at Lutheran Medical Systems and Hospitals in Carrollton, Texas.
Barry H. Rumack, MD
Dr. Rumack is Chairman Emeritus and founder of Micromedex, Inc., a provider of computerized and printed information for professionals and consumers on toxicology, pharmacology, acute care, patient education, occupational medicine, alternative medicine, chemical safety, and regulatory compliance. In addition, Dr. Rumack is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and a Special Government Employee for the Food and Drug Administration. He completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin and residency at the University of Colorado. He went on to do a fellowship in clinical pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and was a clinical associate at the Regional Poisoning Treatment Center, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He sits on the editorial boards of several journals, including Clinical Toxicology, Topics in Emergency Medicine, and Pediatric Pharmacology.
Victor S. Sierpina, MD
Dr. Sierpina is Clinical Medical Director at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas. He is also a member-at-large of the Medical Executive Committee at UTMB. Dr. Sierpina reviews papers about procedures training and alternative or complementary medicine for several journals, including Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Journal of Family Practice. He attended medical school at the University of Illinois, Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in Chicago. Dr. Sierpina then went on to complete advanced studies in Ayurvedic medicine at International University in Fairfield, Iowa, and in medical acupuncture for physicians at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine.
Eileen M. Stuart-Shor, RN, C, MS
Ms. Stuart-Shor is a nurse practitioner in private practice, a cardiovascular nurse specialist, and a Fellow in the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing. She is a principal at WellCare Associates, a consulting group for integrative health in Boston. Ms. Stuart-Shor is on the adjunct faculty of the Graduate School of Health Sciences at Simmons College in Boston and is a consultant on several grants. She was the founder and director of the innovative cardiovascular programs in the Division of Behavioral Medicine at the New England Deaconess Hospital, a Senior Scientist in the Mind/Body Medical Institute, and an Associate in Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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