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| Speaker Biographies |
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| Gerald Levey, M.D. Provost,
Medical Sciences and Dean, UCLA School of Medicine |
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Dr. Gerald S. Levey, a nationally
recognized leader in both academic medicine and private sector medical affairs, is
Provost, Medical Sciences and Dean of the UCLA School of Medicine. As Provost of Medical
Sciences at UCLA, he oversees a diverse medical enterprise including the School of
Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, and the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital. Dr.
Leavey, a specialist in internal medicine, has a particular interest in issues of the
nation's physician suppy and the role of generalist physicians, and serves as co-chair of
the National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower. He is a past president of the
Association of Professors of Medicine and was a member of the Board of Governors of the
American Board of Internal Medicine. Widely known for his research on the thyroid
gland, Dr. Leavey was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator while at the
University of Miami in the 1970s. He has also served as as a consultant to the
National Institutes of Health. Dr. Leavey joined UCLA in September 1994, having previously
served as senior vice president for medical and scientific affairs at Merck & Co., one
of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. He has held major leadership position
throughout his career, including serving as chair of the department of medicine at the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is a member of the medical honorary
society Alpha Omega Alpha, and is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where he received his MD in 1961. |
| Kenneth I. Shine, M.D. President
of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences |
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Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., is President of the Institute of
Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. He is UCLA School of
Medicine's immediate past Dean and Provost for Medical Sciences. Currently he is Clinical
Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. A cardiologist
and physiologist, Dr. Shine received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1957 and his M.D.
from Harvard Medical School in 1961. Most of his advanced training was at Massachusetts
General Hospital (MGH), where he became Chief Resident in Medicine in 1968. Following his
postgraduate training at MGH, he held an appointment as Assistant Professor of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School. He moved in 1971 to the UCLA School of Medicine and became
Director of the Coronary Care Unit, Chief of the Cardiology Division, and subsequently,
Chair of the Department of Medicine. As Dean at UCLA, Dr. Shine stimulated major
initiatives in ambulatory education, community service for medical students and faculty,
mathematics and science education in the public schools, and the construction of new
research facilities funded entirely by the private sector.
Dr. Shine is a member of many honorific and academic societies, including Phi Beta
Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American College of Cardiology; Master of the American College of Physicians –
American Society of Internal Medicine; and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in
1988. He served as Chairman of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical
Colleges from 1991-1992, and was President of the American Heart Association from
1985-1986.
Dr. Shine's research interests include metabolic events in the heart muscle, the
relation of behavior to heart disease, and emergency medicine. He participated in efforts
to prove the value of cardiopulmonary resuscitation following a heart attack, and in
establishing the 911 emergency telephone number in the multijurisdictional Los Angeles
area. Dr. Shine is the author of numerous articles and scientific papers in the area of
heart physiology and clinical research.
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| J.Micheal McCoy, M.D. Associate
Dean for Information Technology, UCLA School of Medicine, Chief Information Officer,
UCLA Healthcare |
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Dr. Mike McCoy is Associate Dean for Information Technology
for the UCLA School of Medicine, Chief Information Officer of UCLA Healthcare, and an
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine. He graduated from Stanford University School of
Medicine in 1981, completed internal medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center, and was a
Robert Woods Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA from 1984 through 1986. In 1986, Dr. McCoy
joined the General Internal Medicine faculty at UCLA. Dr. McCoy co-directs UCLA's
Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) Planning Project, which was
funded by the National Library of Medicine in January 2000. UCLA's IAIMS Project
(InfoShare) will define and implement an information architecture for academic medicine
that enables ubiquitous and integrated information sharing for education, research, and
health care delivery.
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| Stacey Drant, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor Pediatrics-Cardiology,
UCLA School of Medicine |
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Stacey
Drant, MD is Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Director of the
Pediatric Echocardiography Lab, and Director of Fetal Echocardiography for the UCLA School
of Medicine. Dr. Drant graduated from Brown University School of Medicine in 1998,
completed pediatric internship, residency, and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at
UCLA Children’s Hospital. Dr. Drant is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics
and American Society of Echocardiography. Dr. Drant serves on the UCLA Pediatrics
Technology Committee and the UCLA Hospital Planning Committee.
Dr. Drant’s interests in information technology include the use of
personal digital assistants (ex. Palm Pilot) to improve efficiency and reduce the amount
of time required to complete medical documentation and telemedicine. Dr. Drant is
currently involved in a telemedicine program in which Antelope Valley Hospital can perform
ultrasounds of structurally abnormal hearts and send real-time imaging data to UCLA to
assist in diagnosis. |
| Bruce Hensel, M.D. Chief
Executive Officer, Dr.Koop.com; NBC-4 Health Correspondent |
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Dr. Bruce Hensel is the
multi-award-winning medical, health and science editor/reporter for NBC-4’s
"Channel 4 News." In addition to his daily medical reports, he is also the host
of "4 Your Health," a series of half hour specials featuring the latest in
medical breakthroughs, information and technology. Dr. Hensel
graduated from UCLA with a bachelor of arts degree in political theory. He studied
journalism at UCLA and Columbia University and attended medical school at Columbia
University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Hensel received his internship
and residency training at Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital and at UCLA. He is
board certified in both internal and emergency medicine.
Dr. Hensel is one of the few medical reporters in the country to
successfully combine a full-time career as a journalist with an active medical practice.
He is the medical/health and science advisor for KFWB radio in Los Angeles and also serves
as co-director of two emergency rooms in Southern California, Century City Hospital and
San Dimas Community Hospital. Dr. Hensel is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the UCLA
School of Medicine and is the chairman of the American Red Cross Medical Advisory
Committee for Health Fair Expo in Southern California. Dr. Hensel is a member of the
drkoop.com Medical Advisory Board. |
| Hooshang Kangarloo, M.D.
Professor Radiology and Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine |
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Dr.
Hooshang Kangarloo is Professor of Pediatrics as well as Professor of Radiological
Sciences in the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Telemedicine Division
with over ten years experience in the development of new health care plans and electronic
applications to medicine. Dr. Kangarloo serves on editorial boards and as a reviewer of
several scientific journals. He is the author of several books and book chapters and has
written over 200 scientific articles. He is awarded multiple grants from the National
Institutes of Health for his efforts in electronic imaging and holds a patent. His
concepts related to application of electronic imaging to management of health care has
been widely published and covered by national and international news media, including the
Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and National Geographic (January 1987).
Dr. Kangarloo has held a number of important
administrative roles at the UCLA School of Medicine, including the Directorship of
Pediatric Radiology, the Directorship of the Residency Training Program, Vice Chairmanship
of the Department of Radiology, and from 1986 to 1994 Executive Chairmanship of the
Department of Radiology and founding Leo G. Rigler Chair in Radiological Sciences. As
Executive Chair of the Department of Radiology, he was academically responsible for four
different hospitals and under his leadership the training program became one of the best
recognized in the country and academically the department has ranked in the top 5th
percentile.
Dr. Kangarloo has been essential to the development of
the UCLA Medical Group, initially functioning as its founding secretary, subsequently
Vice-Chair, and finally, Chairman of the Board for the UCLA Medical Group Practice. This
group practice is responsible for 800 physicians practicing at UCLA and Los Angeles
County.
Dr. Kangarloo has also been recognized as an effective
communicator and awarded three times by the Department of Pediatrics for outstanding
teaching and three times by the Department of Radiological Sciences for outstanding
teaching. He also has received the University's Gold Medal for teaching excellence. |
| Michael S. Wilkes, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine,
Director Doctoring 2 |
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Dr.Michael Wilkes is Associate Professor of
Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine and is the Senior Chair of the School of
Medicine's "Doctoring Curriculum." He is also the Chair elect of the School of
Medicine's Faculty Executive Committee. In addition he is the Co-director of the Venice
Family Clinic High Risk Teen Clinic and serves as the Co-Chair of the Venice Family Clinic
Medical Policy Committee. Michael is the Editor of the WJM (Western Journal of Medicine)
and is a regular commentator on health and health care for national public radio. Dr.
Wilkes together with Drs. Stuart Slavin, Richard Usatine and Jerome Hoffman developed the
Doctoring Curriculum which has served as a model for schools across the nation, in Europe
and South America. |
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