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.  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.

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.

Jim Gibney

Jim Gibney is a 7-year survivor of prostate cancer.  As part of his survival he had to have a radical prostectomy, which has since had the repercussions of erectile dysfunction.  He is still a happily married man of 12 years and resides in Rochester, NY where he is a driver for an auction house.

Jean V. Joseph, M.D.
Urology Surgeon and Professor
University of Rochester Medical Center

Dr. Joseph specializes in what he calls "key hole surgery," minimally invasive operations, using small incisions ("key holes") and equally small instruments, that achieve the same results as traditional surgery. These include robot assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (removal of the prostate), laparoscopic partial or full nephrectomy (partial or complete removal of a kidney) and robot assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty (removal of obstructions in the connection between the kidney and the ureter).

Dr. Joseph is also involved in many ongoing clinical trials focused mainly around the prostate and prostate cancer. After his medical education in Rochester, Dr. Joseph spent time in private practice in Orlando, Florida, traveled to London for additional training in reconstructive urology and laparoscopy, and then returned to the University of Rochester Medical Center and Strong Memorial Hospital.

Pepper Schwartz, PhD
Professor
University of Washington
 
Pepper Schwartz is presently a Professor at the University of Washington, with an adjunct appointment in Women's Studies and Psychiatry.  She received her B.A. and M.A. (Magna Cum Laude) from Washington University of St. Louis and her Ph.D. from Yale University. She has published 15 books and over 45 academic articles. She has been President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and also of the Pacific Sociological Association. She is a member and fellow of the International Academy of Sex Research and on the board of the National Sexuality Research Center. She is a past board member of SIECUS (Sexuality Information, Education Council of the United States). She has been the recipient of many awards, among them, the American Sociological Association's 2005 award for Public Understanding of Sociology. In addition she has received awards from Mortar Board, Mother's Voices and the International Women's Forum. 

Dr. Schwartz is presently the columnist and relationship expert for Perfectmatch.com and the designer of Duet, their personality profiler and matching system. She is also an expert on Medhealth.com and has worked in the past for Ivillage.com, Classmates.com and Lifetime.com among others.  She lives at Rosebud River Ranch, a horse farm near Seattle, with her two children.

Mark Hyman, MD

Dr. Hyman is editor in chief of "Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine", the most prestigious journal in the field of Integrative Medicine, and the Medical Editor of Alternative Medicine, the Art and Science of Healthy Living.  He is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book published by Scribner, Ultraprevention, the Six Week Plan that Will Make You Healthy for Life, and The Detox Box, A Program for Greater Health and Vitality, recently published by Sounds True, 2004, and The Five Forces of Wellness: The Ultraprevention System for Living an Active, Age-Defying, Disease-Free Life (Nightingale-Conant 2005), NutriGenomics, The New Science of Health (2006).  His latest book is, the New York Times Bestseller, UltraMetabolism, The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Scribner March 2006). It focuses on a cutting-edge personalized -- or "nutrigenomic" -- approach to weight loss and metabolism.  A companion PBS pledge special produced by WLIW features this approach.

A guest on the Today show, The Early Show, and The View with Barbara Walters, Dr. Hyman has also appeared on CNN, FOX, PBS, and NPR, as well as many other television and radio stations. He has written for and is quoted regularly in leading consumer magazines including Parade, Elle, Fitness, Glamour, Family Circle, US, Women's World, Health, Natural Health, Self, Shape, and Town & Country.

For almost 10 years, Dr. Hyman was the Co-Medical Director at Canyon Ranch Lenox an internationally acclaimed Health Resort.    His websites www.drhyman.com  and www.ultrametabolism.com  empower health care consumers and allowing them to take advantage of the medicine of the future, today. He is on the Board of Advisors and faculty of Food as Medicine, Center for Mind Body Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is also on the Board of Directors and faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and collaborates with the Harvard Medical School's Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medicine.