Kat Carney
CNN Headline News
Lost 90 Lbs.

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.

Lisa Sanders, M.D.
Author, "The Perfect Fit Diet"
Yale Internal Medicine

Lisa Sanders, M.D., is an internist practicing in Connecticut and is on the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine. In her research and practice, she specializes in the treatment of overweight and obese patients. Before entering medical school, she was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News, where she covered medicine and health. Her widely read "Diagnosis" column appears monthly in The New York Times. Dr. Sanders lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband and two daughters. She is the author of The Perfect Fit Diet: Combine What Science Knows About Weight Loss With What You Know About Yourself.

David L. Katz, M.D.
Author, The Way to Eat
Co-Founder and Director, Yale's Prevention Research Center

David L. Katz, M.D., MPH, FACPM, FACP is Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he Directs Yale's Prevention Research Center.  He is a board-certified specialist in both Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and has been in clinical practice for 15 years.  He is a nationally renowned expert on nutrition and weight control, and has served as a consultant to the US Secretary of Health, the US Food and Drug Administration, the Florida Governor's Obesity Task Force, and the Ministries of Health in Canada and Israel.  Dr. Katz has published some 70 scientific articles and 7 books to date, including a nutrition textbook for clinicians, and a book for the public detailing skills and strategies for lifelong healthful eating and weight control, entitled The Way to Eat (Sourcebooks, 2002; www.thewaytoeat.net). A featured speaker in 2004 at the TIME Magazine/ABC News Summit on Obesity in Williamsburg, VA, Dr. Katz is also featured in an upcoming PBS special on the obesity epidemic hosted by Walter Cronkite, and a VH1 celebrity weight loss program to air in January, '05.  Dr. Katz is the nutrition columnist to 'O,' the Oprah Magazine, contributing a monthly column entiteld 'The Way to Eat.'  In early '05, he will be launching a nutrition column with the New York Times syndicate.  Dr. Katz lives in Connecticut with his wife, Catherine, and their 5 children: Rebecca, Corinda, Valerie, Natalia, and Gabriel.

Sarah Mustillo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Duke University School of Medicine

Sarah A. Mustillo, Ph.D., is a social psychologist with interests in methodology and biometry, psychiatric epidemiology, psychophysiology, and the delivery of mental health services in pediatric populations.  Her current research focuses on using longitudinal methodology to study the social factors associated with mental and physical illness as well as the interaction of mental and physical illness.  In one current project, she is examining racial/ethnic differences in the association between obesity and psychopathology in children.  Dr. Mustillo received her Ph.D. from Duke University and is currently appointed at Duke University School of Medicine as Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology.

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.