Ash
Nashed, MD
President and CEO, Founder
Dr.
Nashed, a co-founder of MDchoice.com, is a recognized Internet healthcare
pioneer, and a nationally known expert in computers and medicine. He
developed one of the first Web sites for medical professionals in early
1995, the Emergency Medicine and Primary Care Home Page. Dr. Nashed
is on the Board of Directors of Emergency Medical Associates, one of
the country's largest medical practice groups. He participated in the
development of EMA's electronic medical records and patient tracking
systems, one of the most successful of it's kind in the healthcare industry.
Dr. Nashed lectures nationally for the American College of Emergency
Physicians on Computers in Medicine and has authored several textbook
chapters and articles on Medical Information Systems. He is a regular
columnist on Internet technology in Emergency Medicine News, published
by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Dr. Nashed is a board-certified
Emergency Physician and was the Associate Residency Director for the
Morristown Memorial Hospital Residency in Emergency Medicine. He has
published numerous scientific articles in highly respected peer-reviewed
medical journals.
Robert
Cecere
Vice-President of Sales
Mr.
Cecere brings over 20 years of senior-level medical marketing and sales
experience to MDchoice. He was most recently Senior Vice-President of
Sales at Physicians' Online, the leading Web site for physicians, where
he increased advertising revenues four-fold in 2 years. Under Mr. Cecere's
leadership, the industry's first Internet-based drug compliance program
was sold to a major pharmaceutical manufacturer. Prior to POL, Mr. Cecere
was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Formedic Communications,
a leading media publisher of medical records forms and prescription
pads for physicians. He was the Executive Vice President and Group Publisher
of the Medical Tribune from 1989 to 1995. Bob has developed excellent
relationships with senior management at a variety of e-healthcare and
pharmaceutical companies and he is actively involved in the strategic
partnering functions of the company.
Peter
Richman, MD
Editor-in-Chief, Founder
Dr.
Richman is an accomplished researcher in Emergency Medicine. Over the
past several years, he has been among the most productive investigators
in his field on the national level. He has published several scientific
articles on heart disease, neurologic disease and smoking cessation.
In addition to his talents in clinical research, Dr. Richman is a reviewer
for one of the premier, peer-reviewed Emergency Medicine journals, Academic
Emergency Medicine. He brings these skills to his role as Chief Editor
for MDchoice.com. Dr. Richman has assembled an editorial board of some
of the nation's leading physicians in multiple specialties. He is a
board-certified Emergency Physician.
Glenn
Fink, MD
Vice-President of Strategic Planning, Founder
Dr.
Fink was most recently Vice President of Information Systems for Emergency
Medical Associates for the last two years and is a senior Board member
of Emergency Medical Associates, one of the country's largest private
medical practice groups. He has been integral in developing one of the
country's most successful electronic medical records systems for physicians,
which has generated several million medical charts. Dr. Fink also directed
the development of the MedAmerica Analysis and Reporting System, a unique
enterprise-wide system that connects data from clinical, billing, and
customer satisfaction data for MedAmerica, a large medical practice
management company. Dr. Fink was a co-founder of MDchoice.com. An e-healthcare
pioneer, he developed one of the first medical Web site rating systems,
published on the Physicians' Choice Web site and referred to in many
top publications. He also co-developed the Emergency Medicine and Primary
Care Home Page, one of the first Web sites for medical professionals.
He is a regular columnist on Internet technology in Emergency Medicine
News, the most widely read emergency medicine print publication in the
U.S. He is a board-certified Emergency Physician and is on the Board
of Directors of MDchoice.com, Inc.
Andrew
Schiller, MD
Vice-President of Business Development
Dr.
Schiller is an entrepreneurial physician with a long history of successful
accomplishments. In 1984, he founded one of New Jersey's most successful
Urgent Care Center chains. During this time Dr. Schiller directed and
took creative control of all marketing including direct mail, print
media, and billboard campaigns. He also directed operations, implemented
computer billing and charts, and created innovative, uniform practice
guidelines for physicians. He built the group up to six urgent care
sites and created an occupational health center, multi-specialty group,
radiology satellite, physical therapy center, and pharmacy program.
More recently Dr. Schiller founded an alternative-medicine group practice,
and was president-elect of the New Jersey section of the American Academy
of Medical Acupuncture. He developed alternative medicine evidence-based
protocols and a physician acupuncture web site, MDacupuncture.com. He
has also been running a graphic design web site and has arranged financing
for medical web sites directed at seniors and alternative medicine consumers.
Dr. Schiller is on the Board of Directors of Emergency Medical Associates,
one of the country's largest private medical practice groups.