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.  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.

Kathy Cole-Kelly, MS, MSW
Professor, Family Medicine
CWRU School of Medicine

Kathy Cole-Kelly, MS, MSW is professor of Family Medicine at Case School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Communications in Medicine curriculum at the medical school as well as co-directing the Foundations of Clinical Medicine seminars ON DOCTORING. Ms. Cole-Kelly is a frequent national and international speaker or workshop leader at meetings dedicated to doctor patient communication, medical family interviewing, and addressing the core competencies in medical education. She has been part of several major grant initiatives on doctor patient communication curriculum, most significantly with the Macy Foundation on Healthcare Communication grants both at Case Western School of Medicine and University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher and won the most prestigious teaching award at the medical school, the Kaiser Permanente Outstanding Teacher award that was given to one clinical faculty and one basic science faculty each year.

Ms. Cole-Kelly has published multiple articles in the areas of doctor patient communication and medical family interviewing. She has written many book chapters on these topics and is a contributor to the doc.com interactive educational modules produced by the American Academy of Communication in Healthcare. For 19 years Ms. Cole-Kelly directed the psychosocial curriculum in the Department of Family Medicine at Metrohealth Hospital.

Paul Levy, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Vice Chairman in the Department of Medicine.
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Dr. Paul Levy obtained his medical degree from Ohio State University and completed an internal medicine residency at Strong Memorial Hospital where he also served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine.  He then went on to complete a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in 1989. He served as the Clinical Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at the University of Rochester from 1992-2003.

As Vice Chairman for the Department of Medicine he oversees clinical program development, faculty educational initiatives and the department's quality assurance activities.  In addition to his role in the Department of Medicine, Dr. Levy is a consultant for the Monroe County Department of Health Tuberculosis Control Program.  In this capacity Dr. Levy oversees the care of tuberculosis patients in the Upstate New York region and is involved in educational initiatives.

Dr. Levy is the inaugural recipient of the Ralph Prince Endowed Professorship in Medicine and is a past President of the New York State Chapter of the American Thoracic Society.  He also is a recipient of the Arthur W. Bauman Award for Outstanding Teacher in the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester. 

Michael D. Iseman, M.D.
Professor, Division of Mycobacterial and Respiratory Medicine
University of Colorado

Michael D. Iseman, M.D. received his doctorate in 1965 from Columbia University where he also received his residency training in internal medicine, as well as his fellowship training in pulmonary medicine. Dr. Iseman joined the faculty at the University of Colorado in 1972 and National Jewish Medical and Research Center in 1982.  He is currently Professor of Medicine with appointments in both pulmonary medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Iseman holds the Girard & Madeline Beno Chair in Mycobacterial Diseases, and is well known for his work in the management of drug-resistant tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases.  In addition to providing patient care in the ward and clinic, he has been the Director of a thrice-yearly, week-long course held at National Jewish on the management of tuberculosis; over the past 21 years, nearly 6,000 physicians and nurses from across the United States and around the world have attended.  Dr. Iseman has been a consultant for the Colorado State Health Department, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. He also has lectured in 47 states and 34 foreign countries.  From 1997 to 2002, he was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, which is published in Paris, France.  In addition to contributing chapters to eight different textbooks, he has recently completed a single-authored book, A Clinician's Guide to Tuberculosis.

Dr. Iseman received the Edward Livingston Trudeau award from the American Thoracic Society and the American Lung Association in 2005.  The Trudeau medal recognizes lifelong major contributions to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of lung disease through leadership in research, education or clinical care.

Betsy McCaughey, PhD
Founder and Chairman of the
Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID)

Dr. McCaughey, former Lieutenant Governor of the state of New York, is founder and Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) –  a national campaign to support greater infection control in hospitals and other healthcare institutions. Her research on how to prevent infection deaths has been featured on ABC's Good Morning America, the CBS Morning Show, 20/20, Dateline NBC, and many other national television and radio programs. And her steps that patients can take to help protect themselves from infection was featured recently in the Wall Street Journal."

Before entering politics, McCaughey had a distinguished career as a college professor and scholar. She served as the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, held a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and taught at Vassar College and Columbia University. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Vassar College, where she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Herbert H. Lehman Fellowship, John Jay Fellowship, Honorary Vassar Fellowship, Bancroft Dissertation Award, and the Richard B. Morris Prize.

McCaughey's writings on health, education, and the law have appeared in many national publications, including Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and The Wall Street Journal. Her 1994 analysis of the Clinton health plan won the H.L. Mencken Award and the National Magazine Award for the best article in the nation on public policy.

Anne Meade
Tuberculosis Patient

Anne Meade lived at the Trudeau Sanatorium, a tuberculosis (TB) treatment facility located in Saranac Lake NY, until she was 7.  Her father, Dr. Gordon Meade, was the director of the facility. She later went on to study TB and cellular immunity, and now works as an educator at Strong Memorial Hospital. In 1983 she contracted active TB for the first time, despite the fact that she had been exposed to it her entire life without becoming ill. With medical observation and homeopathic remedies, she was able to recover from the illness.