PAUL STEEN, MD, EDITOR
Dr. Steen retired in 2003 as Vice President of Clinical Development at McKesson Corporation's Medical Management Group in Newton, Massachusetts. For the past 20 years he developed a wide variety of software for the healthcare industry. Dr. Steen served as president of the Worcester District Medical Society in 1982. He received his MD degree from the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York and did his internal medicine residency at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Steen also holds a BS in engineering and business from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

ANTHONY ESPOSITIO, MD
is Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine and Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at St. Vincent Hospital.  Dr. Esposito received the John J. McKeever Medical Education Award four times over a seven-year period and in 1997 he was awarded the Outstanding Medical Educator Award by the graduating class of UMMS.

PETER LINDBLAD, MD
has been a board certified physician in Internal Medicine since 1985.  He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester and is a founding partner of Primary Physician Partners.  Dr. Lindblad is an assistant professor at UMMS and is actively involved in teaching medical students and residents at the Worcester Medical Center.

JANE LOCHRIE, MD
is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  Dr. Lochrie’s General Internal Medicine practice has been at Fallon Clinic for the past eighteen years.  Currently she is Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at St. Vincent Hospital.

MICHAEL MALLOY, PharmD
is Professor and Dean at School of Pharmacy - Worcester/Manchester, Director of the Worcester Campus. He is a clinician who specializes in cardiovascular diseases and sports medicine.  He is a co-preceptor of a joint Pharmacy Fellowship in Biotechnology with Genzyme Corporation.  He is a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

THORU PEDERSON, PhD
is the Vitold Arnett Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research.  He also is the Director of the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research which merged with the medical school in 1997. His research concerns the functional design of the cell nucleus with particular emphasis on gene expression and RNA dynamics.

JOEL POPKIN, MD
received a BA in Biology from New York University in 1970 and his MD from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, in 1974.  He did his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at St. Vincent Hospital and has practiced at the Fallon Clinic since 1977. He is the Program Director for Medicine at St. Vincent Hospital and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

ROBERT SORRENTI, MD
graduated from Harvard College in 1969 and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1973. He trained in pediatrics at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He served as the Chief of Pediatrics at the former Worcester City Hospital and was in private practice in Worcester. Currently he is the Staff Vice President and Medical Director for UniCare, a health care company. He served as President of the Worcester District Medical Society from 1993-1995.