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.  He is also an attending physician at Strong Memorial Hospital. 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.  He is a member of the American College of Physicians.   Dr. Papa was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians at age 33, is 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 a member of numerous medical, civic and community committees and boards including volunteer work with the uninsured, and as Vice- President of the local medical society.

Elissa Orlando
Civilian Guest

Elissa L. Orlando is a 20-year veteran of public affairs programming and multimedia storytelling. Orlando is director of national programming and special projects at WXXI Public Broadcasting. She was producer of the nationally televised Crucible of Freedom companion program to Ken Burns Not for Ourselves Alone.  Orlando has won several New York State broadcasting awards for television news reporting in Somalia Africa, Homestead Florida and other local and national venues.  She is a recipient of the Gracie award for television programming from American Women in Radio and Television, and she is the recipient of a Telly award for her production of the TV documentary Reclaiming the Crescent.  Orlando also received the Woman of the Distinction award from the Jefferson County Women's Conference in 1995. She was formerly TV news and public affairs director at WXXI, where she also served as executive producer, Website editor and news anchor of Need to Know, WXXI's Emmy Award-winning newsmagazine.

Arthur J. Moss, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
University of Rochester Medical Center

Arthur Moss M.D. 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' education included: Undergraduate-Yale University, Graduate-Harvard Medical School, Medical Internship and Residency-Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Cardiology-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.

Nora Goldschlager, M.D.
Director, Coronary Care Unit
San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF

Nora Goldschlager, M.D. is the Co-Director of the Cardiology Division, the Director of the Pacemaker Clinic, Coronary Care Unit and Electrocardiography Laboratory at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center.  She is also a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.  She has authored many books, including a few of the most recent, "Cardiac Pacing for the Clinician" and  "Electrical Therapy for Cardiac Arrhythmias: Pacing, Antitachycardia Devices," and she has published more than 150 articles. Currently a Fellow of the American Heart Association and a member of the Foundation for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Prevention, Dr. Goldschlager is active in numerous editorial boards, associations and boards.  She received her medical degree from New York University School of medicine in New York, New York, where she grew up.  Dr. Goldschlager sites her forthrightness due to her upbringing in NYC as a trait that has served her well in life and in her career-she says straightforwardness in approach always succeeds.  With her father an internist and cardiologist, Dr. Goldschlager always knew she wanted to be a doctor, even though she majored in music and voice in high school and philosophy in college.  Dr. Goldschlager says practicing medicine is a joy because of the challenge and because what she does actually makes people feel better and live longer with enhanced quality of life.

H. Todd Massey, M.D.
Director, Cardiac Transplant Artificial Heart Program
University of Rochester Medical Center

H. Todd Massey, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center.  Dr. Massey is the Senior Transplant Surgeon for the Heart Failure and Transplantation Program at the Strong Heart and Vascular Center in Rochester, New York. Dr. Massey has been involved in more than 100 heart and heart-lung transplants. Dr. Massey received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his surgical residency at the University of Louisville and his thoracic residency at the University of Texas Southwestern.  Dr. Massey also completed fellowships in heart/lung transplant and adult cardiac surgery at Duke University Medical Center. He received his certifications from the American Board of Thoracic Surgery in 1999 and the American Board of Surgery in 1996. Dr. Massey specializes in all areas of adult cardiac surgery with expertise in heart transplantation and circulatory support devices for heart failure.

Bob Morreale
Retired Teacher
Heart Transplant

Bob Morreale was diagnosed with heart failure in 1985. He had a heart transplant at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York in 2001. He is now sixty-seven years young. Bob taught fifth and sixth grades for fifteen years and secondary math for twelve years-he retired from teaching in 1991. He also managed a credit union during that time. Bob is married and has two children. He has one grandson and is expecting his second grand child in January 2005.