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Thomas C. Blevins, MD Endocrinologist, Texas Diabetes & Endocrinology, P.A.

Dr. Thomas Blevins attended the University of Texas at Austin as an undergraduate, majoring in Plan II. He attended medical school at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed his internal medicine and endocrinology training there as well. He founded Texas Diabetes and Endocrinology, a practice devoted to bringing the latest in diabetes advances, thyroid care and osteoporosis diagnostics and treatment. Dr. Blevins is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, and Metabolism and serves as Chief of Endocrinology at Seton Hospital and St. David's Medical Center. Dr. Blevins is also a Fellow of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, Member of the American Diabetes Association and Member of the International and Society of Clinical Densitometry.

Robin Farias-Eisner, MD, PhD Chief, Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology at UCLA School of Medicine; Co-director, Women’s Cancer Program, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA School of Medicine; Director, Center for Biomarker Discovery and Research at UCLA School of Medicine; Principle Investigator-Gynecologic Oncology Group/NCI Multicenter Clinical Trials at UCLA; Director, Gynecologic Oncology at Greater Los Angeles Health Care Systems; UCLA-Westside Veteran Administration Hospital Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

Dr. Farias-Eisner is a foremost authority on gynecologic oncology and biomarker discovery and research. After graduating from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, he performed her residency in emergency medicine/critical care at the University of Illinois/University of Chicago, where he served as chief resident and was a member of the junior faculty at the University of Illinois. Dr. Farias-Eisner completed a second residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he was also chief resident, followed by a fellowship in gynecologic oncology. He received a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Molecular Biology Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA under the Physician-Scientist Star Program. An acclaimed professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine since 1993, Dr. Farias-Eisner is a frequent lecturer at medical meetings and an investigator and recipient of numerous grants for women’s cancer research. He is a guest editor for Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology and serves as an editorial reviewer for 10 medical journals. Dr. Farias-Eisner is also a prolific contributor to peer-reviewed medical journals and medical textbooks on the subject of gynecologic oncology and biomarker science as it applies to the detection of gynecologic cancer.

Bruce A. Friedman, MD Active Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dr. Friedman is one of the world's leading experts in the area of pathology and laboratory informatics, which is the medical discipline that addresses the storage, retrieval, and publication of information generated in pathology and the hospital clinical laboratories. He is board-certified in both anatomic and clinical pathology and served as a faculty member in the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, for 33 years. His affiliation with the Department continues after his retirement as an Active Emeritus Professor. While active in the department, he served as the co-director of Division of Pathology Informatics in the Department and also as the Director of Clinical Support Services, Medical Center Information Technology, for the University of Michigan Health System. He was the founding co-president of the Association for Pathology Informatics. He has served as the director of a yearly conference on pathology informatics for 25 years. For the past for years, this conference, Lab InfoTech Summit, has been presented in Las Vegas under the sponsorship of the Pathology Education Consortium of which he is president. He is the author of a well-known clinical laboratory blog, Lab Soft News. He is also the author of some 90 scientific articles, book chapters and abstracts.

Gene G. Hunder, MD Consultant, Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Retired Professor Emeritus, Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Past Chair, Division of Rheumatology

Dr. Hunder is one of the world's leading experts in the area of rheumatology. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology and served as a faculty member in the Department of Rheumatology, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine for 33 years. His affiliation with the Department continues after his retirement as an Active Emeritus Professor. While active in the department, he served as the Chair of the Rheumatology Research Committee and Chair of Division of Rheumatology. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Arthritis Foundation, member of the Board of Directors of the American College of Rheumatology and President of the American Society of Clinical Rheumatology. He is also the author of some 417 scientific articles publications.

Stephen L. Kopecky, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, Consultant, Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota

Dr. Kopecky is a respected cardiologist, who specializes in preventing heart disease. A graduate of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, he completed his clinical internship and residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. After performing intervention procedures to treat heart attacks at the Mayo Clinic for 18 years, Dr. Kopecky turned his attention to finding ways to prevent heart disease. He currently works in the Cardiovascular Health Clinic, the prevention clinic in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Mayo Clinic, where he is researching the role of inflammation in cardiovascular disease and how lifestyle — including a Mediterranean diet, exercise and proper nutrition — influence the progression of cardiovascular disease. He has authored numerous articles on his research findings, which have been published in peer-reviewed medical journals such as American Heart Journal, American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Medicine, Circulation, JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Kopecky is also the recipient of multiple Teacher of the Year awards from the division of Cardiovascular Diseases and the Department of Internal Medicine at the Mayo Medical School.