Judy Norsigian
Co-Author, Our Bodies, Ourselves

Judy Norsigian, Executive Director of Our Bodies Ourselves and one of the co-founders of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, is a co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves and the forthcoming Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era (May 2005).  She served on the board of the National Women's Health Network for more than 14 years and is now a member of the board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research. She has also served almost 15 years as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Contraceptive Research and Development Program as well as several Institute of Medicine committees related to contraceptive research. She has worked closely with the Office for Research on Women's Health at NIH, and is on the advisory board for the (Council for Responsible Genetics. Her primary interests include reproductive health, tobacco and women, genetics, menopause,and midwifery advocacy.  She has appeared on numerous national television and radio programs, including Oprah, Donahue, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.

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.

Mark Hyman, M.D.
Co-Medical Director, Canyon Ranch
Author, Ultraprevention

Mark Hyman, M.D. is Co-Medical Director at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, an internationally acclaimed Health Resort.   He is the co- author of the New York Times bestselling book recently 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.  His book Ultraprevention, won the Books for a Better Life Award. His website www.drhyman.com empowers health care consumers and allowing them to take advantage of the medicine of the future, today.  His practice at Canyon Ranch is an affiliated practice with Harvard Universitys Brigham and Womens Hospital. He recently testified at the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine on Health Promotion and Wellness, and met with and advised the Surgeon General on a new diabetes prevention  initiative. He is editor in chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the most prestigious journal in the field of Integrative Medicine.

Diane Hartmann M.D.
Gynecologist
University of Rochester Medical Center

Diane M. Hartmann, M.D. is the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  She is a graduate of Canisius College in Buffalo and received her Doctor of Medicine degree with Honor from the University of Rochester.  She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester.  As the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Dr. Hartmann is responsible for 70 residency and fellowship programs and over 600 graduate medical trainees at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.  In 1998, she was named the Glasgow Teaching Scholar at the University of Rochester for excellence as an educator.  She received the 1999 Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology National Faculty Award for Excellence in Resident Education and the 1999 Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology Excellence in Teaching Award.  Dr. Hartmann practices general ambulatory gynecology in the University of Rochester's division of gynecologic specialties.  She has special clinical expertise in the areas of menopause and geriatric gynecology.  She has lectured extensively in these areas.  Her work in the care of the older woman was recognized by the American Geriatrics Society as she was awarded a grant by the Hartford Foundation to improve the quality of resident education in this area. Dr. Hartmann is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Obstetrics and serves as an Oral Board Examiner.  She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a member of the North American Menopause Society, and serves as the  Chair of the Education Committee of the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Judith Hsia M.D.
George Washington University
Women's Health Initiative Investigator

Judith Hsia, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Director of the Lipid Research Clinic at George Washington University, is a cardiologist with expertise and experience in the fields of estrogen replacement, lipids, and cardiovascular disease in women.  She is currently a principal investigator for the Women's Health Initiative and was also a principal investigator for the Heart & Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study and chaired the Morbidity & Mortality committee for the Women's Angiographic Vitamin & Estrogen (WAVE) trial.  In her role as director of the Lipid Research Clinic at George Washington, Dr. Hsia runs a clinical lipid service and supervises a variety of industry-supported cardiovascular prevention trials, predominantly of lipid-lowering therapies. She also serves as scientific director of the GW Women's Heart Program, one of "America's Top" cardiac centers for women. Dr. Hsia has published extensively on cardiovascular disease in women.

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.