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Lisa Harris, MD
Primary Care Physician, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Diagnosed with Metabolic Syndrome
Rochester, NY
Dr. Harris is in private practice and has been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome. She made changes in diet and exercise to treat the condition and currently has the syndrome and diabetes, under control.
Lisa Harris, MD, was born in Oneida, New York, the eldest child and only daughter of the honorable Judge Roy and Mrs. Lucille King. Dr. Harris attended Monroe Jr. Sr. High School and then furthered her education at the University of Rochester, where she received a B.S. in neurosciences. Later, she attended Morehouse School of Medicine where she received her medical degree. Her training was completed at the Detroit Medical Center in Detroit, MI. Dr. Harris is boarded in two specialties, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, allowing her to care for both the adult and pediatric populations. Currently, Dr. Harris is in private practice. 
Laurel C. Milberg, PhD
Behavioral Science and Education Development Director
Forbes Family Practice Residency Program
Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Milberg is a counseling psychologist, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, where, for the past 30 years she has developed curricula, trained clinical faculty and fellows and directed core courses in medical interviewing. Currently, she serves as Education Development Director for the Institute for Doctor-Patient Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. Dr. Milberg is Director of Behavioral Science and Education at the Forbes Family Practice Residency Program, where she trains family physicians in communication skills and therapeutic use of the doctor patient relationship, using Balint groups. A founding member, past president, and chair of the credentialing coordinating committee of the American Balint Society, Dr Milberg has directed and served as faculty for numerous courses designed to train Balint group leaders all over the US and in the UK. She has published and co-authored articles on the Balint group method and its leadership skills; teaching family systems through behavioral pediatrics consultations; and faculty development for teaching women's health in a family practice residency program. A member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, she has chaired its nominating committee and served as chair for both the Conference on Families and Health and the NE Regional Conference. 
Arthur J. Moss, MD
Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY
Arthur Moss, MD, is a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Director, Heart Research Follow-up Program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry in Rochester, NY. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Moss received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his graduate degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed his Medical Internship and Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, and in Cardiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
Dr. Moss' major areas of interest are in genetic and acquired heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias), acute and chronic coronary heart disease, prevention of sudden cardiac death, and clinical trials involving drugs and devices. He is a consultant to the FDA for drugs used in the prevention and treatment of heart disease. His major scientific accomplishments involve the study of mechanical and electrical risk factors in coronary heart disease, investigations into lipid and clotting factors that contribute to coronary disease, clinical trials involving the implanted defibrillator in high-risk coronary patients, electrocardiology, phenotype/genotype investigations of the inherited long QT syndrome, and studies of drug-induced heart rhythm disorders. Dr. Moss has authored more than 300 scientific medical articles and four medical books. He is a current member of National Institutes of Health Study Section. 
Nanette K. Wenger, MD, M.CP, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine
Chief of Cardiology, Grady Memorial Hospital
Consultant, Emory Heart and Vascular Center
Atlanta, GA
Coronary heart disease in women is one of Dr. Wenger's major clinical and research interests. She chaired the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Conference on Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women. Dr. Wenger chaired the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Rehabilitation after Cardiovascular Disease, and co-chaired the Guideline Panel on Cardiac Rehabilitation for the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Dr. Wenger has had a longstanding interest in geriatric cardiology, and is a Past President of the Society of Geriatric Cardiology and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology.
Dr. Wenger received the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from Hunter College in 1993, the President's Woman in Science Award of the American Medical Women's Association in 1993, and the Physician of the Year Award of the American Heart Association in 1998. In 1999, Dr. Wenger received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Scientific Councils of the American Heart Association and the American Heart Association's Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award. In 2000, she was chosen by Atlanta Women in Law and Medicine to receive the Shining Star Award for her distinguished career in cardiology and women's health issues. In 2000, Dr. Wenger was presented the James D. Bruce Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians for distinguished contributions in preventive medicine. In 2002 she received the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Society of Geriatric Cardiology. In 2003, she was included in the National Library of Medicine Exhibition Changing the Face of Medicine: A History of American Women Physicians. In 2004, Dr. Wenger received the Gold Heart Award, the highest award of the American Heart Association. At the Emory University Commencement in 2004, Dr. Wenger received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award of the University and the Evangeline Papageorge Alumni Teaching Award of the Emory University School of Medicine. In 2005, Dr. Wenger received the Health-Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award of the Atlanta Business Chronicle. In 2006, Dr. Wenger received the Hatter Award, an international award for the advancement of cardiovascular science. She is listed in Best Doctors in America.
Dr. Wenger has authored or coauthored over 1300 scientific and review articles and book chapters. 
William L. Blanchet, MD
Internist
Boulder Community Internal Medicine
Boulder, CO
William Blanchet was born on a rice farm in Southern Louisiana, the middle child of 7. His father was a high school math and science teacher and part time farmer. His mother was an ethnomusicologist who recorded and preserved hundreds of Cajun folk songs that would have been lost.
William started college with the intention of becoming a veterinarian, however found human medicine to be more attractive. After completing his residency, he followed my wife to Boulder where she attended Law school. After working at the University for three years, William entered private practice of Internal Medicine in 1986. As a primary care Internist, he takes care of adults with a high incidence of chronic medical illnesses.
The most common cause of death and disability in the country is atherosclerotic disease, primarily heart disease, strokes, peripheral vascular and renal vascular disease. As a result, William has an increased interest in the diagnosis and prevention of vascular disease.
In 2001, he was introduced to the science behind coronary atherosclerotic imaging. Since then, he has been utilizing EBT coronary imaging as the most reliable predictor of coronary events and as the basis for treatment of atherosclerotic heart disease.
In June 2003, William opened "Front Range Preventive Imaging" to provide a more convenient location for Boulder patients to obtain EBT coronary imaging. Since then, he has been able to diagnose coronary disease in individuals who would not have had a clue that they were at risk based upon conventional risk factor stratification. He has also been able to determine adequacy of treatment based upon serial scanning and have identified those individuals in whom the initial treatment was inadequate.
The result of his application of EBT technology and consequently more aggressive treatment of risk factors has been to reduce the incidence of heart attacks dramatically in his own patient population. He has also seen a reduction in heart attacks, along with a dramatic reduction in the need for stress tests, angiography, and revascularization within his practice. 
Nic Minetor
Guest/Patient
Lighting Director/Designer, Second Opinion
Nic Minetor is a professional lighting designer for theater, opera, dance, television, galleries, museums, and architectural installations. He has served as lighting director for Second Opinion since its inception, and has lighted episodes of the PBS series Nova, television news, corporate broadcasts, and the feature film version of Samuel Beckett's Endgame for the Smithsonian Institution. He is the principal lighting designer for Eastman Opera Theatre, Mercury Opera, The National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. He also teaches lighting for film and video as an adjunct professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Nic's still photography can be seen in two FalconGuides books from The Globe Pequot Press: Acadia National Park: A Pocket Guide and Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A Pocket Guide (February 2008).
Nic is a panelist in this episode because he suffered a heart attack at 38 years old while shoveling snow, and underwent double bypass surgery. In excellent health today-fifteen years later-Nic provides his insights about his experience as a cardiac patient. He lives in upstate New York with his wife, author Randi Minetor.
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