Jan N. Basile, MD, FACP, FASH, FAHA
Seinsheimer Cardiovascular Health Program
Professor of Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina
Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center
Charleston, SC

Dr. Jan N. Basile earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He then completed his internship and residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where he was also Chief Resident. He is board certified in internal medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and the American Society of Hypertension (FASH), and for many years served on the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) Board of Directors. Most recently, with the dissolution of ASH, he is serving within the AHA as Vice-Chair of Clinical Programs on the Council of Hypertension (FAHA).

His many honors and awards include the Medical University of South Carolina School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching award, the Golden Apple award, and, in 2014, he was the first recipient of the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control Hypertension Physician of the Year award. He was President of the Southern Medical Association in 2008-2009.

Currently, he is Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Basile spent 31 years at the Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center having retired as Chief of Primary Care in 2009. He now directs the resistant hypertension clinic within the Seinsheimer Cardiovascular Health Program, a multiple-risk factor lipid and resistant hypertension referral clinic at MUSC.

Dr. Basile’s research interests include outcome-based studies involving hypertension, lipid disorders, and diabetes. He has been involved in many large hypertension trials including the ALLHAT, ACCORD, ONTARGET, ACCOMPLISH, and SPRINT trials under the auspices of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He was a contributing reviewer of the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) and the 2017 ACC-AHA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. Dr. Basile has published more than 300 original papers, abstracts, and book chapters, as well as a textbook, Hot Topics: Hypertension. He also is a contributing author for the hypertension section of "Up To Date".

Andrew M. Kaunitz, MD, FACOG, NCMP
Term Professor and Associate Chairman
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL

Dr. Andrew M. Kaunitz is a tenured University of Florida Term Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. He also serves as Medical Director and Director of Menopause and Gynecologic Ultrasound services at UF–Southside Women’s Specialists at Emerson.

After receiving his medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, Dr. Kaunitz completed his OB/GYN Residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. After completing his residency, Dr. Kaunitz served as an Epidemic Intelligence Officer in the Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Dr. Kaunitz advises the CDC, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) regarding guidelines concerning contraception and menopause. He is Editor-In-Chief of NEJM Journal Watch Women’s Health and an Expert Advisor for Medscape OB/GYN and Women’s Health. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Contraception, Menopause, OBG Management, and Contraceptive Technology Update. Dr. Kaunitz has served as Chair of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, President of the Florida OB/GYN Society and on the NAMS’ Board of Trustees. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, an organization for individuals who are BRCA mutation carriers).

Dr. Kaunitz has made invited presentations to FDA Advisory Committees and the National Institutes of Health regarding contraception and menopause and has authored or coauthored numerous chapters (including 12 current sections in UpToDate) and has published over 225 articles in peer-reviewed journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Contraception, Menopause, and the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Clarence W. Legerton III, MD, FACR
Low Country Rheumatology
Managing Partner
Articularis Healthcare
Charleston, SC

Dr. Clarence W. Legerton currently serves as Managing Partner of Low Country Rheumatology, Articularis Healthcare in Charleston, SC. Dr. Legerton is a native of Charleston, SC, graduated Davidson College (cum laude) in Davidson, NC, and received his M.D. degree from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in 1986 where he was awarded the Clinical Science and Physical Diagnosis Award. He matriculated to Vanderbilt University to complete a 3 year internship and residency in Internal Medicine, followed by Fellowships both in Internal Medicine/Health Promotion and in Rheumatology. While at Vanderbilt, he served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Saint Thomas Hospital from 1990-1991. In 1992, Dr. Legerton returned to Charleston to join the faculty at MUSC in the Division of Rheumatology where he was actively involved in graduate education, research, and clinical care of patients with a wide variety of rheumatic diseases. In addition to his clinical and research interests, he, along with Dr. Julius Sagel, directed the Internal Medicine Core for Junior medical students and served as both Vice-President and President of the Medical Staff of the MUSC Hospital. His efforts as a teacher and clinician resulted in appointment to the AOA National Medical Honor Society. In 2002, he joined Low Country Rheumatology. During his tenure, Low Country Rheumatology has expanded as Articularis Healthcare into 2 states, SC and GA, and has grown to include more than 25 rheumatologists. Dr. Legerton is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Rheumatology, the Charleston County Medical Society which he served as treasurer, Vice-President, and President, and the South Carolina Rheumatology Society which he has served as Program Chair and President. He is listed as a member of the Best Doctors in America. He continues his strong interest in clinical research, participating in many clinical trials involving rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, lupus, and other disease states. Dr. Legerton is board-certified in Rheumatology and Internal Medicine.

Alan Maisel, MD, FACC
Professor of Cardiology
University of California, San Diego
Director, Coronary Care Unit and Heart Failure Program
San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center
San Diego, CA

Dr. Alan Maisel graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, received his internal medicine training at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, where he was chief resident, and completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Maisel is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is the Director of the Coronary Care Unit and Heart Failure Program at the VA San Diego Healthcare System in La Jolla, California. Dr. Maisel is active on the faculty at UCSD where he has won numerous teaching awards. He just completed a ten-year stint as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Alan Maisel is considered one of the world’s experts on cardiac biomarkers and has over 400 scientific publications. He has authored several ground-breaking manuscripts that have paved the way for development of diagnostic tools for patients with congestive heart failure. In particular, he was the leading investigator on studies that brought the use of BNP into clinical practice. He has been lead investigator on seven multicentre biomarker trials.

His recent work on cardiac biomarkers has led to a connection between diet, cardiovascular disease and breast cancer, and currently works on two biomarkers that predict the development of breast cancer. He recently co-founded the UCSD Biomarker Research Center, which among other things make data and a statistician available for research by residents and fellows.

Dr. Maisel is also a writer of medical fiction. His first novel, Bedside Manners, was optioned to Warner Brothers. His second novel, Brain Chicane, is about a young and idealistic physician working at the premier multiple-organ transplant hospital in Chicago where he investigates overdose cases that are not totally kosher.

He is also co-founder of a mitochondrial drug company and a biomarker discovery company. He is founder of My Life Diagnostics. He recently founded Whispering Hearts - a noise canceling digital stethoscope line with artificial intelligence. He helps raise five children and gave up on sleep five years ago.

Christopher M. Moore, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

Dr. Christopher M. Moore is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Program Director for Transplant Hepatology in the Section of Hepatology, Northwestern University. He is Board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Transplant Hepatology. He practices in all aspects of Hepatology, with particular focus to pre and post-transplant Hepatology. He is very active in Medical education at all levels - medical school, residency, GI fellowship and Transplant Hepatology Fellowship, in the classroom and in the wards. He is also a College Mentor for 18 medical school students in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He has 30 bio-medical publications.

David Sadava, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Cancer Cell Biology
City of Hope Medical Center
Duarte, CA
Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, Emeritus
The Claremont Colleges
Claremont, CA

Dr. David Sadava is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Cancer Cell Biology at the City of Hope Medical Center and Pritzker Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at The Keck Science Center, Claremont, California.

Dr. Sadava graduated from Carleton University as science medalist. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he received a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at San Diego. Following research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he joined the faculty at Claremont. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado and at the California Institute of Technology. He currently serves as an Advisory Board member at the Keck Graduate Institute and at the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics and is a trustee of Western University of Health Sciences.

A bench scientist throughout his career, he has held numerous research grants and written over 60 peer-reviewed scientific research papers. For the past 25 years, his research has focused on resistance to chemotherapy in human lung cancer, with a view to developing new, plant and mold-based medicines to treat this disease. Much of this work has been presented at clinical conferences and published in leading journals. He is the co-author of five books, including the recently published eleventh edition of a leading biology textbook, Life: The Science of Biology; a new innovative conceptual text, Principles of Life; and Plants, Genes and Crop Biotechnology. Committed to educating the general public, he has presented innumerable public talks on biological topics and has given free public courses on cancer. He recently created “What Science Knows about Cancer” for The Great Courses (Teaching Company) and several years ago created another highly successful course for them, “Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes and Their Real-World Applications”.

C. Wayne Weart, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAPhA
Professor, Clinical Pharmacy and Outcome Sciences
Professor of Family Medicine
South Carolina College of Pharmacy
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Dr. Wayne Weart received his Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy in 1971 from the University of Georgia. He served his residency in Hospital Pharmacy at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston, SC in 1972. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1974.

Dr. Weart is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcome Sciences in the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Pharmacy, as well as Professor of Family Medicine in the College of Medicine, MUSC. Prior to his teaching at the Medical University, Dr. Weart instructed at West Virginia University in pharmacy and family medicine.

Dr. Weart has more than 100 publications and he has given scores of lectures to numerous professional groups and societies. He has received outstanding teacher awards at both West Virginia University and MUSC and has been named Hospital Pharmacist of the Year in both South Carolina and West Virginia. In 1991, Dr. Weart was among the first pharmacists to become a Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. Dr. Weart was named a Primary Care Policy Fellow for 1999 by the U.S. Public Health Service and he was honored by the Alumni Association of the MUSC College of Pharmacy as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2002. He also received the Bowl of Hygeia Award from the SC Pharmacy Association in 2003 for outstanding service to the community and the profession of pharmacy and the George D. Schwerin Mentor Award, from the South Carolina Society of Health System Pharmacists in 2004. In 2008 the MUSC Board of Trustees named Dr. Weart as a Master Teacher. In 2012 he received the Proctor and Gamble National Leadership Award from the Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society. In 2014 he was awarded the Ralph M. Wilkie Distinguished Lifetime Service Award by the SC Pharmacy Association Board of Directors. In 2015 he received the Kenneth Flinchum Distinguished Service Award from the SC Society of Health System Pharmacists.

Dr. Weart served on the Board of Directors of the SC Pharmacists Association and as President and Chairman of the Board for 2010-2011. He served on the Board of Directors for the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy from 2009-2013 and as President of the Waring Library Society for 2014-2015. He serves one of many Hot Dog Ministry volunteers involved with serving the homeless of Charleston.

Matthew R. Weir, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief of Nephrology Division
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Dr. Matthew R. Weir is attending physician and Director of the Division of Nephrology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Dr. Weir’s primary research interests include the use of antihypertensive therapy for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive renal injury in African Americans, and preventing allograft nephropathy in transplant recipients. He has written more than 600 manuscripts and book chapters about these topics. He has edited 8 books: on topics in nephrology, transplantation, and hypertension. He has presented at numerous international scientific association meetings, hospitals, and medical schools.

Dr. Weir currently reviews manuscripts for more than 30 major medical journals, including the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and Archives of Internal Medicine. He is on the editorial board of 12 journals and is Section Editor of Current Hypertension Reports and Current Opinion in Hypertension and Nephrology. He has 3 active NIH supported grants from NIDDK and two from NHLBI. In addition, he is a member of numerous associations, including the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation, the American Heart Association, and the American Society of Transplantation.

Dr. Weir received his medical degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He completed his internship and residency programs in medicine at the Waterbury and Yale-New Haven Hospitals in Connecticut and completed his nephrology training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts. He then moved to the University of Maryland where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1983.

Laura A. Young, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Dr. Laura A. Young is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nutritional Sciences at Michigan State University, and her MD/PhD from the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Young completed her residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and her clinical fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of several professional organizations including American Diabetes Association and Endocrine Society. Dr. Young specializes in the care of patients with diabetes. She enjoys working closely with patients to help them realize and achieve both their short and long-term health goals. Her research program focuses on a wide breadth of areas in diabetes, but Dr. Young has a special interest in the use of technology in diabetes. A common thread throughout much of Dr. Young’s research is the use of novel behavioral approaches to improve the care of patients with diabetes. The overarching goal of her clinical and research efforts is to help patients with diabetes live happier, healthier lives. In addition to her clinical work and research, Dr. Young spends a significant amount of her time at UNC working with trainees. In addition to mentoring medical students and residents, she is the Endocrinology Fellowship Program Director. In her free time, Dr. Young enjoys taking long walks, cooking, gardening, and spending time with family and friends.

Kevin L. Zacharoff, MD, FACIP, FACPE, FAAP
Faculty and Clinical Instructor
SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine
Stony Brook, NY

Dr. Kevin L. Zacharoff is a Board-Certified Anesthesiologist with over 25 years of clinical experience in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and an active Faculty Member at the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine in the Department of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine. He is a sitting member of the Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee to the Food and Drug Administration, the Editor-in-Chief of The PAINWeek Journal and serves on the editorial review board of several peer-reviewed journals including The Journal of Pain, Pain Medicine, the British Medical Journal Open, and Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. Dr. Zacharoff also serves as Chairperson of the Ethics Committee at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, New York.