Lisa Sanders, MD
Internist
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Dr. Sanders is an internist practicing in Connecticut and is on the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine. In her research and practice, she specializes in the treatment of overweight and obese patients. She writes and speaks widely on obesity, nutrition and weight loss. She is the author of The Perfect Fit Diet: How to Lose Weight, Keep it Off and Still Eat the Foods You Love. Before entering medical school, Sanders was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News, where she covered medicine and health. Dr. Sanders also writes the widely acclaimed "Diagnosis" column that appears monthly in The New York Times. She also consults on the popular Fox television, House. Dr. Sanders lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband and two daughters.

Christine Rogers
Health Reporter

Christine is an award winning producer and reporter. She is the recipient of two Edward R. Murrow awards for her investigative journalism work. She was nominated for an Emmy for her documentary on sex offenders and was recently recognized by the Mental Health Association of North Carolina for a series of reports on mental illness. Christine has extensive health reporting experience. She produces and hosts Healthwise on UNC-TV, North Carolina's public broadcasting network. Each month she tackles a different health care topic from diabetes prevention and control to the problem of childhood obesity. Christine also produces health features for Ivanhoe Broadcast News which serves over two hundred stations across the country. She received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and her master's from Duke University.

Thomas L. Campbell, MD
William G. Rocktaschel Professor and Chair of Family Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY

Thomas L. Campbell, M.D. graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. Tom completed his family practice residency and fellowship in psychosomatic medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where he is currently Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry.  He has written extensively on the role of the family in medical practice and on the influence of the family on health.  His NIMH monograph, Family's Impact on Health, has been an influential review of the research in this area.  Other books, he has co-authored include: Families and Health with William Doherty, Ph.D. and Family-oriented Primary Care with Susan McDaniel, Ph.D. and David Seaburn, M.S.  He is a board certified family physician, a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and a member of the board of the American Family Therapy Academy.  He co-edits, with Susan McDaniel, Families, Systems & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family Healthcare.    In 2004, he was appointed William G. Rocktaschel Professor and Chair of Family Medicine and the Associate Director of the Center for Primary Care at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Michael Robert Clark, MD, MPH
Associate Professor & Director
Chronic Pain Treatment Programs
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Baltimore, MD 

Michael R. Clark is an Associate Professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.  He is the Director of the Adolf Meyer Chronic Pain Treatment Programs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and has joint appointments in the Departments of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery in the School of Medicine and of Mental Hygiene in the Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health.

A fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, Dr. Clark currently devotes his research work to psychiatric aspects of somatic symptoms such as chronic pain, including studies on neuropathic pain, substance abuse, and the phenomenology of depression in patients with chronic pain.  He serves on the National Institutes of Health Division of Research Grants Risk Prevention and Health Behavior Study Section, and he has participated as an expert for in the design of Gulf War Specialized Health Care Centers with the U.S. Department of Defense.

Dr. Clark received his MPH from the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle and his MD from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO.  He completed his internship and residency in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and his fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine.  Dr. Clark completed his MBA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Professional Studies in Business and Education.

Carmen R. Green, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Director, Pain Management Research
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI

Dr. Green is an associate professor of anesthesiology and director of pain management research, as well as a practicing anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician at the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School. She received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan-Flint, an M.D. from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and did an Anesthesiology residency and Pain Medicine fellowship at the University of Michigan Health System. Dr. Green has received fellowships from the American Association of Medical Colleges Health Services Research Institute and the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM), and was the inaugural Mayday Pain and Society fellow.

Dr. Green received tenure at the U-M and is nationally known for her research focusing on disparities in pain care and health care provider variability in pain management decision-making. She was the founding chair of the American Pain Society's special interest group for pain and disparities, guest editor for Pain Medicine's special issue on the unequal burden of pain, serves on the editorial board for several journals and has received many honors for her community service and research.  Dr. Green has a long-standing interest in health policy and health disparities, particularly in the area of disparities in pain assessment and management among minorities, women, and elderly people.  She was recently selected for the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship (2006), a program administered by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Helen Dearman

Helen Dearman received her undergraduate degree from Loma Linda University, School of Allied Health Professions in the Department of Respiratory Care. Ms. Dearman has chronic pain from a fall of four stories that resulted in a broken back in three places. For a 15-year period, her fractures were undetected, and she learned how to live with chronic pain. To date, her treatments have been varied, including 9 back surgeries and an intrathecal drug infusion pump. Her personal experiences with pain led her to start and become the Executive Director of the National Chronic Pain Society. This organization is dedicated to helping people with chronic pain through support groups, newsletters, a weekly international internet radio show (Pain Tamers on Voice America), and patient conferences (Houston's first patient-oriented "Living with Chronic Pain" conference with Keynote Speakers Jerry Lewis and Patch Adams), and lecturing/teaching.

In her leadership role with this organization, she has participated in numerous activities that include: Medtronic, Inc.'s media training with Jerry Lewis for the Tame the Pain campaign; task force member to the Texas Medical Center Pain and Palliative Care Group; and speaker at state press conferences addressing the preferred drug list for Medicaid patients and legislation regarding Medicaid patients and their ability to receive pain medication. She is a guest faculty on an interdisciplinary pain course offered by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She also has been featured in the March-April, 2004, issue of FDA Consumer Magazine, Managing Chronic Pain and in the Spring 2006 issue of PainView, the American Society of Pain Educators. She is co-authoring a book titled Written for the Person with Pain.