Louis J. Papa, M.D.
Primary Care Physician
Partner, Olsan Medical Group, Strong Health, Rochester, NY

Louis J. Papa M.D., FACP is board certified in Internal Medicine and is a primary care physician and partner at Olsan Medical Group.  He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Rochester, where he helps educate internal medicine residents on primary outpatient care.  In 1989, Dr. Papa graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine and came to Rochester to complete his residency at Strong Memorial Hospital where he is currently an attending physician. Dr. Papa is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a former Delegate for the Young Physicians Section representing New York State to the American Medical Association, and was named by his peers to "Best Doctors in America" in 2001.  He was selected by "Rochester Business Journal" as one of the "Forty under Forty" young community leaders in 2001 and was named as one of only 25 physicians under 40 years old nationally to receive the "Excellence in Medicine Award" from the American Medical Association Foundation for leadership in 2003. Dr. Papa is involved in a number of medical, civic and community activities and boards including his role as a board member of the largest health foundation in Upstate New York - the Greater Rochester Healthcare Foundation, volunteer work with the uninsured, as a New York Council member for the American College of Physicians and is currently President of the local medical society.

Kathy Cole-Kelly, MS, MSW
Professor, Family Medicine
CWRU School of Medicine

Kathy Cole-Kelly, MS, MSW is professor of Family Medicine at Case School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Communications in Medicine Curriculum at the medical school as well as co-directing the Foundations of Clinical Medicine seminars on doctoring. Ms. Cole-Kelly is a frequent national and international speaker or workshop leader at meetings dedicated to doctor patient communication, medical family interviewing, and addressing the core competencies in medical education. She has been part of several major grant initiatives on doctor patient communication curriculum, most significantly with the Macy Foundation on Healthcare Communication grants both at Case Western School of Medicine and University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher and won the most prestigious teaching award at the medical school, the Kaiser Permanente Outstanding Teacher award that was given to one clinical faculty and one basic science faculty each year.

Ms. Cole-Kelly has published multiple articles in the areas of doctor patient communication and medical family interviewing. She has written many book chapters on these topics and is a contributor to the doc.com interactive educational modules produced by the American Academy of Communication in Healthcare. For 19 years Ms. Cole-Kelly directed the psychosocial curriculum in the Department of Family Medicine at Metrohealth Hospital.

Robert G. Holloway, M.D., MPH
Professor of Neurology and
  Community & Preventive Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Community & Preventive Medicine and is the Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.  His research interests involve technology assessment and cost-effectiveness of neurological practices and policies, methods to improve the quality and safety of medical care, and conflicts of interest in research and practice.  Dr. Holloway has taught numerous courses and mentored over 2 dozen students and faculty.  He has participated in 65 invited conferences, written or co-authored more than 70 articles, 25 editorials and invited commentaries, 7 invited manuscripts, 2 books and 13 book chapters.  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Monique Giroux, M.D.
Medical Director
Boothe Gardner Parkinson's Care Center

Monique Giroux is the Medical Director/Movement Disorder Specialist at Booth Gardner Parkinson's Care Center at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, WA where she has developed a multidisciplinary rehabilitation approach to Parkinson's disease care.
Dr. Giroux received her medical degree from Ohio State University.  She completed her Neurology residency at the Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut and her fellowship in Movement Disorders at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  Prior to her current position, Dr. Giroux served as the Director of Movement Disorders, Outpatient Services in the Center for Neurological Restoration at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Medical Director of the National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence for Parkinson's disease.  She was also the Medical Director for the newly developed Comprehensive Care Program for Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders at Euclid Hospital Department of Rehabilitation in Euclid, Ohio.

Dr. Giroux is a specialist in treating patients with Parkinson's disease, Tremor, Dystonia and other debilitating conditions.  Her goal is to improve quality of life with the development and implementation of interdisciplinary and patient focused care models.

Glenn McGee, PhD
Director of Alden March
Bioethics Institute

Dr. Glenn McGee is the director of the Alden March Bioethics Institute,  a comprehensive ethics research and education organization of the Albany Medical College of Union University, founded in 2005 with programs in Albany Law School, College of Pharmacy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, GE Global Research, Albany Nanotech, Rockefeller Institute and a dozen other institutions of higher learning, research and government in the New York capital district.

He holds the John A. Balint Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics, and is a tenured Professor of medicine, and is professor of law, public health and of philosophy at both SUNY and Union. He has served as Chief of the Office of Bioethics for the New York State Health Department Wadsworth Center,  and in 2007 was elected to the board of directors of the American Society for Bioethics & the Humanities.

Professor McGee is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Bioethics. Professor McGee has authored more than 150 articles in medical, legal, business and scientific journals. In 2007 an anthology of his work entitled Imagination, Experiments, Courage and Values will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. McGee received his BA and PhD at Baylor and Vanderbilt Universities. He is currently Director of a project funded by the Charitable Leadership Foundation to study the effect of ethics consultation on length-of-stay in the ICU.  In April 2006 he was given the Appignani Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Bioethics at the United Nations. 

John Testa
Parkinson's Patient

John Testa was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease over 11 years ago when he was just 46. John and his wife Donna are strong proponents of funding embryonic stem cell research for all incurable diseases, not just Parkinson's. John graduated from the University of Rochester in 1976 and is a retired Supply Chain Analyst. John and Donna currently reside in Irondequoit, New York.