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".

Thomas W. Heinrich, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Department of Psychiatry
Milwaukee, WI

Dr. Thomas W. Heinrich is a Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), completed a combined residency in psychiatry and family medicine. This was followed by a fellowship in consultation psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board certified in family medicine and general adult psychiatry and holds subspecialty certification in consultation psychiatry/psychosomatic medicine and neuropsychiatry. Clinically, Dr. Heinrich remains active in consultation psychiatry working on a busy academic psychiatric consultation service at Froedtert Hospital, a quaternary care medical center that serves as MCW’s primary teaching hospital. The consultation service specializes in the assessment and treatment of the diverse and complex presentations of medical, surgical, and neuropsychiatric illnesses. Administratively, Dr. Heinrich currently serves as Director of the Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Clinical Services within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at MCW. In addition, he is Medical Director of Process Improvement for inpatient medical and surgical services at Froedtert Hospital. In these roles, he has collaborated with multiple stakeholders in the development and implementation of several innovative cross-disciplinary and inter-institutional clinical programs.

George L. Higgins III, MD, FACEP
Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Portland, ME

Dr. George L. Higgins III graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, is a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians, and currently holds the rank of Professor Emeritus in Emergency Medicine at Maine Medical Center. For many years, he chaired MMC’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he was privileged to advance the academic mission of the department and to be involved with the establishment of a successful resident training program in Emergency Medicine. His career path eventually provided him with attractive administrative opportunities, initially as the Associate Vice President of Performance Improvement and then as the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Medical Affairs for the institution prior to returning to his true passion of caring for patients and teaching residents, APPs and medical students about the exciting field of Emergency Medicine. He also provides clinical services to small, rural Critical Access Hospitals in Maine, an experience he finds challenging, meaningful and rewarding.

Marijane Hynes, MD
Clinical Professor, General Internal Medicine
Director, Weight Management Program
The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates
Washington, DC

Silvio E. Inzucchi, MD
Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology
Clinical Director, Section of Endocrinology
Director, Yale Diabetes Center
Director, Endocrinology & Metabolism Fellowship
Director, Yale Affiliated Hospitals
Yale School of Medicine
Hartford, CT

Dr. Silvio E. Inzucchi received his undergraduate degree from Fordham University in New York City and his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and his post-doctoral Fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Yale-New Haven Hospital, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is currently Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, where he serves as Clinical Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Medical Director of the Yale Diabetes Center, and Program Director of the Endocrinology & Metabolism Fellowship.

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.

Ramon L. Rodriguez, MD
Professor of Neurology
University of Central Florida, College of Medicine
Orlando, FL

Dr. Ramon L. Rodriguez is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Rodriguez graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus and completed his internship and residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. After this, he completed a Fellowship in the Medical and Surgical Management of Movement Disorders and has been practicing academic medicine since then. Dr. Rodriguez has been involved in more than 40 research studies and more than 50 publications in both national and international journals. He is currently the director of the National VA PD consortia in Orlando, Florida.

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.

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".

J. Michael Bostwick, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Dr. J. Michael Bostwick is Professor of Psychiatry in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and has been a consultant in psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota since 1998. He earned a medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1987, and pursued training in pediatrics, psychiatry, and psychosomatic medicine in various Harvard University residencies and fellowships between 1987 and 1993. He is board-certified in Psychiatry with additional qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, and Psychosomatic Medicine. His areas of research include suicide epidemiology and preventions, medical marijuana, and diverse topics in hospital-based psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and psychosomatic medicine.

Peter Buch, MD, AGAF, FACP
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, GI
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
Frank H Netter School of Medicine/Quinnipiac University
Manchester, CT

Dr. Peter Buch is a clinical Gastroenterologist with over 30 years of teaching experience. Teaching is his PASSION. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Frank H Netter School of Medicine/Quinnipiac University. He has also taught at the University of Connecticut APRN School and at several PA Schools. Dr. Buch has mentored dozens of medical students, nurses, PAs and APRNs. His teaching style is case based, practical, very interactive and fun. He always learns from his audiences and is looking forward to learning from you.

George L. Higgins III, MD, FACEP
Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Portland, ME

Dr. George L. Higgins III graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, is a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians, and currently holds the rank of Professor Emeritus in Emergency Medicine at Maine Medical Center. For many years, he chaired MMC’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he was privileged to advance the academic mission of the department and to be involved with the establishment of a successful resident training program in Emergency Medicine. His career path eventually provided him with attractive administrative opportunities, initially as the Associate Vice President of Performance Improvement and then as the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Medical Affairs for the institution prior to returning to his true passion of caring for patients and teaching residents, APPs and medical students about the exciting field of Emergency Medicine. He also provides clinical services to small, rural Critical Access Hospitals in Maine, an experience he finds challenging, meaningful and rewarding.

Silvio E. Inzucchi, MD
Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology
Clinical Director, Section of Endocrinology
Director, Yale Diabetes Center
Director, Endocrinology & Metabolism Fellowship
Director, Yale Affiliated Hospitals
Yale School of Medicine
Hartford, CT

Dr. Silvio E. Inzucchi received his undergraduate degree from Fordham University in New York City and his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and his post-doctoral Fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Yale-New Haven Hospital, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is currently Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, where he serves as Clinical Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Medical Director of the Yale Diabetes Center, and Program Director of the Endocrinology & Metabolism Fellowship.

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.

Alanna A. Morris, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Heart Failure Therapy and Transplantation
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

Dr. Alanna A. Morris currently serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine, with her clinical time spent as faculty for Emory’s Center for Heart Failure Therapy and Transplantation. She received her undergraduate degree from Xavier University of Louisiana, and her medical degree from the Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in 2008. Subsequently, she came to Emory University to complete fellowships in general cardiology in 2012, and advanced heart failure and transplant in 2013. After completion of her fellowship training, Dr. Morris also joined the faculty of the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute in 2013. Her research interests include studying the importance of non-modifiable risk factors such as race/ethnicity and gender that may contribute to excess disease in high risk populations and identifying the role of biomarkers of oxidative stress (OS) and endothelial dysfunction in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Finally, her research examines race- and gender-based differences in outcomes after heart transplantation and left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation.

John H. Post III, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon
Martha Jefferson Hospital
Charlottesville, VA

Dr. John H. Post III is an Orthopedic Surgeon from Charlottesville, Virginia with expertise in Sports Medicine, arthroscopic knee and shoulder surgery and knee replacement arthroplasty. He is the Medical Advisor of a major triathlon training company. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, served as a U.S. Marine helicopter pilot and subsequent Helicopter Instructor for the U.S. Navy. He received his MBA from the University of West Florida and his MD from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is a Fellow in the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. His wife is the Director of Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia Northridge Clinic. He has completed the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and the English Channel Swim. They have three children and two labs.

Richard P. Usatine, MD
Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Professor of Dermatology and Medicine
University of Texas Health San Antonio
Medical Director, Skin Clinic, University Health System
San Antonio, TX

Dr. Richard P. Usatine is a full Professor of Family and Community Medicine and of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery. He received his MD from Columbia University and completed his family medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center. He is the co-author of 9 books and the lead author of The Color Atlas of Family Medicine and Dermatological and Cosmetic Procedures in Office Practice. He has published over one-hundred and twenty peer-reviewed articles and has won numerous teaching awards. Among his numerous honors and awards is the 2000 Humanism in Medicine Education award, presented by the Association of American Medical Colleges. He received the UTHSCSA Family Medicine Residency Faculty Recognition Award in 2004 and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006. Dr. Usatine has been working with medical students to provide health care to homeless families and the medically underserved since 1984. He is the founder and medical director of the University Health System Skin Clinic in San Antonio, which provides underserved patients access to medical and surgical care for their dermatological needs. He also directs the only underserved dermatology fellowship for family physicians in the US. Dr. Usatine is the founder of the Interactive Dermatology Atlas on the web and the editor of "Photo Rounds" in the Journal of Family Practice. He is also the national chair of the yearly Skin Course put on by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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.