Kat Carney
CNN Headline News

Kat Carney is a health news anchor for CNN Headline News, the network designed especially for viewers who need current information to comply with their urgent schedules. Based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Carney joined the network in July 2001. Carney provides reports on consumer health news and gives viewers up-to-date health information that can be used in their daily lives. After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Carney reported extensively on the anthrax threats against the United States and provided reports on health safety and safety precautions against the anthrax virus. Carney hosts two Web sites: SoulCysters.com, helping women, like herself, who suffer from Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome; and theWeighWeWere.com, a site where Internet users can share stories about health and weight loss. Carney lost more than 90 pounds and incorporates weight loss and healthy living into her reporting. Before joining CNN Headline News, Carney hosted the medical documentary series The Body Invaders for the Discovery Health Channel. She also served as a health correspondent for Fit: Resort and Spa. Earlier, Carney served as host of Vacation Living, a travel vacation series for Home & Garden Television and was the co-host of the nationally syndicated series DreamMaker, with health and fitness guru, Richard Simmons. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Carney is the daughter of an Army colonel and spent her early years living and traveling in Europe before studying at Howard University on a full academic scholarship.

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.

Philippe Szapary, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Phillipe Szapary, M.D. is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is also a member of both the Cardiovascular Risk Intervention Program and Diabetes Center, and an Associate Scholar of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania.  His clinical and research interests are in Preventive Cardiology. Clinically, he focuses his practice on evaluation and treatment of patients with dyslipidemia, obesity, metabolic syndrome and hypertension. He is an investigator of many clinical trials including new and established drugs for non-diabetic patients with metabolic syndrome.  He also studies the role of lifestyle modification and dietary supplements in reducing cardiovascular risk.  He is an investigator of clinical trials evaluating herbals (guggulipid, turmeric), minerals (chromium picolinate, magnesium),diets (low carb diets) and functional foods (plant stanol esters, flaxseed, almonds) as adjunctive therapies in modulating cardiovascular risk.

Mark Hyman, M.D.
Co-Medical Director Canyon Ranch
Editor-in-Chief, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

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 University's Brigham and Women's 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.

Zsolt de Papp, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester
Academic Endocrinologist, Highland Hospital

Zsolt G. de Papp, M.D. received his premedical, medical and post-graduate training at Dartmouth College, the University of Rochester, Yale, and Strong Memorial Hospital respectively.  For the past 25 years he has been the academic endocrinologist at Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York.  Currently, he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester.

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.