Advisory, Editorial & Public Health Boards
PhillyHealthInfo.org’s Advisory Board:
The PhillyHealthInfo.org team relies on expertise and guidance from the following:
- Chair, Marie Savard, MD
- Ms. Willo Carey
Executive Director, Wider Horizons
WHYY - Richard J. Cohen, Ph.D.
President, Philadelphia Health Management Corporation - Donald M. Gleklen
Consultant; Former Chair and CEO of InteliHealth - Bruce Jay Gould, MD
Cardiologist - Ms. Irene Hannan
Senior Vice President, Not for Profit and Healthcare Department
Citizens Bank - Anne Kappler, RSM, RN, MSN
Coordinator of Health Education and Services
Project H.O.M.E. - David D. Langfitt, Esquire
Partner, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP - Brian McDonough, MD
Fox 29; KYW Newsradio
Family Practice Residency Program, St. Francis Hospital - William B. Mebane, MD
Family Practitioner - Mark Mishkin, MD
Neuroradiologist - Donald Parks, MD
Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs, Temple Center for Minority Health
Medical Director, Parkstone Medical Associates - Dalton G. Paxman, PhD
Regional Health Administrator, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service – Region III - Carol Rogers, PA
Philadelphia Department of Public Health - Laureen Tavolaro-Ryley, RN, MSN
Department of Nursing, Community College of Philadelphia - Mr. Ed Schwartz
Institute for the Study of Civic Values/Philly Neighborhoods Online/Philly Blocks - Joseph Scorza, MLS
Executive Director
Health Science Library Consortium - Ms. Leslie Stiles
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Commission for Women - Lara Carson Weinstein, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital - Andrew Wigglesworth
President, Philadelphia International Medicine - State Senator Connie Williams
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Honorary Member(s):
C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD
C. Everett Koop Institute
Ex Officio Member(s):
George M. Wohlreich, MD
Director and Chief Executive Officer
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Staff Liaison:
Andrea L. Kenyon, AMLS
Director of Public Services, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Philly Health Info Project Director
PhillyHealthInfo.org’s Editorial Board:
Philly Health Info.org is indebted to the following Fellows (members) of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia for their assistance in editing and vetting website content:
- Melvin J. Chisum, MD
- Bruce Jay Gould, MD
- Marta E. Guttenberg, MD
- William N. Mebane, III, MD
- Mark M. Mishkin, MD
- Marie Savard, MD
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia’s Section on Public Health
The Section brings together public health professionals from all across the region to study public health problems, assesses potential responses and provides information for the development of health policy.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2005-2006
- Chair
James D. Plumb, MD
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital - Clerk
Dalton G. Paxman, PhD
Regional Health Administrator
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Ann L. O’Sullivan, PhD, CPNP, CRNP, FAAN
School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania - Carolyn H. Asbury, PhD
Dana Foundation - Robert J. Groves, MA, MPH
- Suet T. Lim, PhD
Philadelphia Dept. of Public Health - Rickie Brawer, MPH
Office to Advance Population Health
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital - Michael P. Rosenthal, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Jefferson Medical College - Patricia West, MSSW
Public Health Consultant - Marla J. Gold, MD
Dean, Drexel University
School of Public Health - Shiriki K. Kumanyika, PhD, MPH
Director, Graduate Program in Public
Health Studies, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics - Andrea Crivelli-Kovach, PhD
Directory of Health Education & Public Health Program
Arcadia University
COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTS
- Eleanor M. Travers, MD, MHA, FCAP
Director
Bucks County Health Department - John P. Maher, MD, MPH
Director
Chester County Health Department - Maureen Hennessey Herman, Ed.D.
Director, Intercommunity Health
County of Delaware - Joseph M. DiMino, DO
Director of Health/Medical Director
Montgomery County Health Department - Carmen I. Paris, MPH
Interim Health Commissioner
Philadelphia Department of Public Health
THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS
- Walter Tsou, MD, MPH
- Robert W. Gage, MSPH
COLLEGE OFFICERS
- Arthur K. Asbury, MD
Past President
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia - Robert E. Campbell, MD
President
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
STAFF LIAISON
- Andrea L. Kenyon
College of Physicians of Philadelphia










