June 2, 2011
Shalendar Bhasin, MD is a professor of medicine
and section chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and
Nutrition at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr.
Bhasin received his medical degree from the All India Institute of
Medical Sciences, completed his residency at Northwestern
University School of Medicine, and completed a Fellowship in
Endocrinology and Metabolism at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Dr. Bhasin's interests include male and female reproductive
endocrinology, sexual dysfunction in men and women, testosterone
deficiency, and erectile dysfunction.
Dr. Bhasin has received numerous awards, including the Institute
Gold Medal for the Graduate of the Year, the Richard Weitzman
Memorial Young Investigator Award at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center,
the UT Southwestern Medical School, GCRC Award for Excellence in
Patient-Oriented Research and the Best Doctors in Boston
award. He is the Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical
Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Chair of the Endocrine
Society's Expert Panel on Androgen Deficiency Syndromes in Men.
Alfred DeMaria, MD serves as the medical
director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease Prevention, Response
and Services at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
(DPH). He has been the state epidemiologist for Massachusetts since
1990. Dr. DeMaria is a graduate of Boston University and Harvard
Medical School. He trained in internal medicine at Montefiore
Medical Center in The Bronx, New York, and in infectious diseases
at Boston City Hospital and the Boston University School of
Medicine.
Prior to joining the DPH in 1989, he was an infectious diseases
consultant in private practice and served on the staffs of the
Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and the Section
of Infectious Diseases at Boston City Hospital and Boston
University School of Medicine. Dr. DeMaria is a Fellow of the
Infectious Diseases Society of America and serves on committees of
the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Society for Healthcare
Epidemiology of America and on the boards of the Massachusetts
Public Health Association and the Public Health Museum.
Henry Friedman, MD has been in private practice
since 1966, specializing in intensive analytic psychotherapy and
psychoanalysis. Dr. Friedman's writing has concentrated on
making individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis relevant to the
emotional problems of contemporary patients by increasing the
transparency of the analytic process while increasing effectiveness
in addressing the need for character change. When
aspects of any patient's character that are detrimental to their
effective adaptation to their life circumstances emerge in the
relationship to the therapist it is important that these be shared
with the patient and analyzed by the patient-therapist pair.
These issues have been addressed in many papers published in a wide
variety of psychiatric and psychoanalytic journals.
Dr. Friedman is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
with an internship in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Osler
Medical Service, and completed his residency in Psychiatry at the
Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School.
He completed Psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic
Institute and Society. Dr. Friedman was an Associate
Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical School and Director of
Outpatient Psychiatry at Tufts New England Medical Center.
Dr. Friedman is currently an associate clinical professor of
psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital.
Edward (Ned) Hallowell, MD is a child and adult
psychiatrist and graduate of Harvard College and Tulane Medical
School, is the founder of The Hallowell Centers in Sudbury,
Massachusetts and New York City. He was a member of the Harvard
Medical School faculty from 1983 until he retired from academics in
2004 to devote his full professional attention to his clinical
practice, lectures, and the writing of books. He has authored
eighteen books on various psychological topics, including attention
deficit disorder, the power of the human connection, the childhood
roots of happiness in life, methods of forgiving others, dealing
with worry and managing excessive busyness. Dr. Hallowell observes
that people who do not have ADHD still often show many of its
symptoms due to lives that are so busy that they overload their
brains. He has explored this phenomenon as it affects business in
an article published in The Harvard Business Review entitled,
Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform. These
same focus, attention and brain management issues are the topic of
his wider-ranging book, CrazyBusy: Overbooked, Overstretched,
and about to Snap, published in the spring of 2006. In it he
explores how the pace of modern life has induced brain overload to
the point where our entire society is suffering from
culturally-induced ADD. This state of constant frenzy saps us of
our creativity, humanity, mental well-being and the ability to
focus on what truly matters. "CrazyBusy" then provides a
step-by-step approach to unsnarling busy lives and moving to a
calmer, more fulfilling life that is focused on our own
priorities.
Perry Karfunkel, MD is a primary care Internist
in practice at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA. He
received an MD from Harvard after having gotten a Ph.D. from Yale
and doing a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford. Eighty five
percent of his primary care patients are men, which is how he got
involved with Men's Health issues. One of the things that
interests him the most is that in seeing male patients the same
healthcare issues come up over and over again, thus leading to a
realization that most men know very little about their own health
care needs and health care risks. His particular interest is in
trying to deal with Metabolic Syndrome issues for men, particularly
organizing medically-supervised exercise programs to prevent the
adverse outcomes known to be related to the Metabolic
Syndrome. Dr. Karfunkel's most recent publication is an
assessment of the extent of Vitamin D deficiency in men in his
practice, documenting that MOST men outside of Boston have vitamin
D deficiency and that this is particularly prevalent among
subpopulations within his practice who were born in either India or
China.
Prior to going to medical school, Dr. Karfunkel taught
Developmental Biology at Amherst College. That background has made
it of interest to him to keep in mind the basic science of
pathophysiology in general and prostate cancer in particular as he
has dealt with the process of guiding patients through the steps
between getting PSA testing and dealing with the decision-making
about how to precede once prostate cancer is diagnosed. His
presentation here will focus on that basic science, particularly as
it has itself evolved in the last decade.
Mark Lemos, MD currently practices orthopedic
sports medicine at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Dr. Lemos completed his undergraduate work at Williams College and
his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine. He completed a sports medicine Fellowship at the
Southern California Center for Sports Medicine.
Dr. Lemos' interest include arthroscopy, knee ligament
reconstruction, rotator cuff problems, shoulder and knee joint
replacement surgery, shoulder and knee reconstruction, shoulder
injuries, and sports medicine.
Terrence Real, MSW is an author and founder of
Real Relational Solutions in Arlington, Massachusetts. Before
launching his groundbreaking new company, REAL Relational
Solutions, Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI),
(formed in 2002 as The Relational Recovery Institute). A family
therapist and teacher for more than twenty years, Terry is the
best-selling author of I Don't Want to Talk About It:
Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (Scribner,
1997), the straight-talking How Can I Get Through to You?
Reconnecting Men and Women (Scribner, 2002), and most recently
The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work
(Random House). Terry knows how to lead couples on a step-by-step
journey to greater intimacy - and greater personal
fulfillment.
A senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge in
Massachusetts and a retired Clinical Fellow of the Meadows
Institute in Arizona, Terry has worked with thousands of
individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. Through his books, the
Institute, and workshops around the country, Terry helps women and
men, parents and non-parents, to help them create the connection
they desire in their relationships.
Terry's work, with its rigorous commonsense approach, speaks to
both men and women. His ideas on men's issues and on couple's
therapy have been celebrated in venues from the Today Show
and 20/20, to Oprah and The New York
Times.
Arnold Robbins, MD is a Professor of Clinical
Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School and lecturer on
Psychiatry with Tufts University School of Medicine. He is a
distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
and a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic
Psychiatry. Dr. Robbins was Associate Editor of the
International Journal of Men's Health and currently serves on its
Advisory Board. He is the former chair of the
Massachusetts Medical Society's (MMS) Committee on Men's Health and
Committee on Public Health. In 2007, Dr. Robbins received the
MMS Distinguished Service Award of and in 2010 he was named
Community Clinician of the Year by the Suffolk District Medical
Society.
Mark Rubin MD is a practicing genitourinary
pathologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, New
York. Dr. Rubin received his M.D. from Mount Sinai Medical
Center and completed training in anatomic pathology at Georgetown
University Medical Center followed by a clinical fellowship in
anatomic pathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His first academic
appointment was Assistant Professor of Pathology at Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons, followed by
Associate Professor of Pathology with Tenure at the University of
Michigan and most recently as Associate Professor of Pathology at
Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Mark Rubin is one of the foremost academic anatomic
pathologists in the United States. He is widely recognized for his
clinical diagnostic expertise in prostate pathology.
Jeremy Ruskin, MD In 1978, Dr. Ruskin founded
the first cardiac arrhythmia service and clinical electrophysiology
laboratory in New England and one of the first such services in the
United States. As founder and director of the MGH Fellowship
Training Program in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, he has been
responsible for the training of more than 100 fellows in the
subspecialty of cardiac arrhythmias over the past 32 years, many of
whom are in leadership positions at academic centers throughout the
world. His major research interests include the mechanisms
and management of atrial fibrillation, new antiarrhythmic drugs and
innovative technologies for catheter ablation of atrial
fibrillation, the mechanisms and prevention of ventricular
arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death, risk stratification for
sudden death, the role of arrhythmia control devices in the
prevention of sudden cardiac death, the proarrhythmic effects of
cardiac and non-cardiac drugs and cardiac safety issues in new drug
and device development.
Henrie Treadwell, PhD is the director of
Community Voices and associate director of development in the
National Center for Primary Care (NCPC) at the Morehouse School of
Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. NCPC has the unique distinction
of being the only congressionally sanctioned center in the country
dedicated to promoting optimal health care for all, with a special
focus on serving underserved communities. Community Voices, managed
by the NCPC, was founded in 1998 by the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation. It consists of eight sites across the country to
ensure the survival of safety-net providers and strengthens
community support services.
Dr. Treadwell works to promote excellence in community oriented
primary health care and optimal health outcomes for all Americans,
with a special focus on underserved populations and on the
elimination of health disparities. Her major responsibilities
include program design and oversight and administration of
strategic initiatives to improve access to health coverage and
services. Dr. Treadwell is also responsible for development
of leadership development programs that improve the potential for
program sustainability and policy option formulation.
In addition to Community Voices, Dr. Treadwell oversees multiple
pre- and post doctoral programs that support the development of a
culturally diverse leadership cadre, and the development of policy
briefs that selectively inform policy and practice on the local,
state, and national level. She has served as consultant to many
national organizations including the National Science Foundation,
and the National Institute of Health.
Dr. Treadwell received her B.A. in biology from the University
of South Carolina, where she enrolled as the first African American
student as a result of a desegregation lawsuit. She received
an M.A. in biology at Boston University, and a Ph.D. in
biochemistry and molecular biology at Atlanta University.
