Richard L. Nevins, M.D., Medical Board of Advisor Chair

Dr. Nevins is a strategist and consultant to both the care delivery and business sides of the healthcare profession. His areas of interest include the design and development of evidenced-based clinical care delivery systems for acute and chronic care management, the integration of benefits design, formulary configuration, predictive modeling and analyses of patterns of care to improve clinical, financial, functional and productivity outcomes from healthcare for employers and employees, the design and development of telemedicine and Internet healthcare systems, the development and maintenance of compliance with healthcare law, policy and best-practice care delivery standards and the creation of care delivery systems that enhance relationships between providers and patients.

Dr. Nevins has thirty three years experience improving healthcare in the United States and several other nations. Dr. Nevins has been an occupational and employee health physician for several national companies, including Mobil Oil, Yellow Freight, Consolidated Freightways, Iowa Beef Packing, National Beef Packing, National Carriers, Northern Natural Gas Company, Panhandle Easter Pipeline Company, Anadarko and National Helium, as well as numerous local and regional companies and public entities. He has served as Chief Medical Officer, Medical Director, Director of Research and Development and Chief Clinical Information Officer for several companies. He has served as a Senior Editorial Consultant for Micromedex, as a Senior Physician Panel member for McNeil Consumer Products of Johnson and Johnson and as a chairman and member of several clinical and technical advisory boards.

Dr. Nevins graduated from the University of Oklahoma, School of Medicine. Following a post-graduate training in emergency medicine, he practiced emergency and family medicine for over 20 years. He has been a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice since 1978 and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians since 1981. Dr. Nevins has authored chapters and several papers on telemedicine, medical call center software and technology and strategies for employers’ decisions regarding employee health.

Phillip Joseph Silberberg, M.D., Board of Advisor

Dr. Silberberg is presently a Staff Radiologist at Omaha Children’s Hospital, Omaha, NE. He has served as a Clinical Associate Professor-Radiology at Creighton University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Silberberg has also been an Associate Professor at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and Oregon Health Sciences University for over nine years.

Currently, Dr. Silberberg is a member of the American Board of Radiology with a certificate of Added Qualifications in Pediatric Radiology. He has been a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a diplomat of the American Board of Radiology since 1993. Dr. Silberberg has been published in over 15 different peer reviewed journals and is a member of over eight professional societies, including the American roentgen Ray Society, the Radiologic Society of North America, the Fellow of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Society for Pediatric Radiology and the Society of Computer Assisted Radiography.

Dr. Silberberg graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa. He placed 29th out of 200 on the Surgical Merit List. He served his residency, in the department of Diagnostic Radiology, from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Silberberg performed a fellowship in Pediatric Radiology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Silberberg served a rotating internship at Hillbrow General Hospital, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Geoffrey H. Kalish, M.D, Board of Advisor

Geoffrey H. Kalish, M.D. is a Director of MD Communications and the former president and founder of Health Care Communications, Inc (HCC), the medical communication/meeting and medical society management division of Kendle International Inc. He Chairs the Scientific Advisory Board for Vemics, Inc., is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for InforMedix, Inc. and a consultant to Quadra Communications. Prior to founding HCC in 1987, he was President of the Clinical Medicine Research Institute division of McGraw-Hill/BMI Health Care and had served as Deputy Director of Clinical Research at Lederle Laboratories and as an Associate Medical Director for New Drug Development at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Kalish received a B.A. with Honors from the University of Rochester and an M.D. from The University of Tennessee (Memphis). He completed an internship in Pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital Medical Center and a residency in Pediatrics and Fellowship in Neonatology at Tufts-New England Medical Center. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics and he has published more than 20 articles in major medical journals. Dr. Kalish is also a former columnist for The New York Times (Westchester Weekly Section), the Gannett New York Suburban Newspapers, and Panache Magazine. Currently, he writes the monthly “Wining & Dining” column for The Wag magazine and is a regular contributor on wine and food to Bedford Magazine.

Stephen W. Coons , M.D., Board of Advisor

Dr. Coons received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Yale University in 1978. He received his medical degree from the University of Arizona College Of Medicine in 1983 where he also completed his pathology residency in 1987. After completing a Neuropathology fellowship at Barrow Neurological Institute in 1989, he joined the staff at Barrow has been Chief of the Section of Neuropathology since 1996.

Dr. Coons' principal research interest is in translating the results from basic research in the molecular genetics of brain tumors to clinical applications in the pathology laboratory. He also provides neuropathology support for a wide variety of projects directed by Barrow staff neurosurgeons, neurologists, residents, and fellows. Dr. Coons has published more than 20 chapters or review articles and more than 70 peer-reviewed papers related to nervous system tumors and other neurological topics.