Editors
MARK C. HENDERSON, MD, FACP
Professor of Clinical Medicine and
Vice Chair
Department of Internal Medicine
Associate Dean for
Admissions
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, California
LAWRENCE M. TIERNEY,
JR., MD
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San
Francisco
Associate Chief of Medical Service
Veterans Affairs
Medical Center
San Francisco, California
GERALD
W. SMETANA, MD
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Contributors
Naheed R. Abbasi, MD
Summit Medical Group
Berkeley Heights,
New Jersey
Sandra G. Adams, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary/Critical Care Division,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio;
Staff
Physician, South Texas Veterans Health Care System
San Antonio, Texas
Miya E. Allen, MD
Fellow, Division of
Endocrinology, Department of Internal
Medicine, University of
California, Davis
Sacramento, California
Antonio Anzueto, MD
Department of Pulmonary/Critical Care
Medicine, University of
Texas Health Science Center and the South Texas
Veterans
Health Care System
San Antonio, Texas
Kenneth A. Arndt, MD
Co-director, SkinCare
Physicians
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts;
Adjunct Professor of
Dermatology, Brown Medical School;
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
(Dermatology),
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, New Hampshire;
Clinical Professor of Dermatology Emeritus, Harvard
Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Paul B. Aronowitz,
MD
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, California
Pacific
Medical Center
San Francisco, California
Matthew C. Baker, MD
Harvard Medical School,
MS IV
Boston, Massachusetts
Jason J.
S. Barton, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Professor and Canada Research Chair,
Departments of Medicine
(Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,
and
Psychology, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
Carol K. Bates, MD
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel
Deaconess
Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine;
Assistant Dean for
Faculty
Affairs, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Thomas E. Baudendistel, MD
Program
Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Kaiser Oakland
Oakland,
California
John Wolfe Blotzer, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine,
Pennsylvania State College of Medicine
Hershey, Pennsylvania;
Rheumatology, York Hospital
York, Pennsylvania
Alexander R. Carbo, MD
Assistant Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Hospitalist, Division of General
Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
Boston,
Massachusetts
Dayana Carcamo-Molina, MD
Resident Physician, Internal Medicine Department, Kaiser
Permanente
Medical Center
Oakland, California
Deborah
Lynn Cardell, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of General
Medicine,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
Gina R. Chacon, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Michigan State University
East Lansing,
Michigan
Helen K. Chew, MD, FACP
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of
Hematology and
Oncology, University of California, Davis
Sacramento, California
Roger Chou, MD, FACP
Associate
Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of
Medical Informatics
and Clinical Epidemiology,
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
Virginia U. Collier, MD,
MACP
Hugh R. Sharp, Jr. Chair of Medicine, Christina Care
Health System
Newark, Delaware;
Professor of Medicine, Jefferson
Medical College
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Michelle V. Conde, MD, FACP
Staff Physician, South Texas
Veterans Health Care System,
Audie L. Murphy Division;
Clinical
Associate Professor, Division of General Medicine,
University of Texas
Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas
Filippo Cremonini, MD, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Division of Gastroenterology,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Richard A. Deyo,
MD, MPH
Kaiser Permanente Professor of Evidence-Based Family
Medicine,
Department of Family Medicine and Department of Medicine,
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
Francesca C. Dwamena, MD, MS
Professor of
Medicine, Interim Chair, Department of Internal
Medicine, Michigan
State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Nephertiti Efeovbokhan, MD
Resident Physician, Department of
Internal Medicine,
Michigan State University
East Lansing,
Michigan
Aaron E. Falk, MD
Chief
Resident, Department of Internal Medicine,
California Pacific Medical
Center
San Francisco, California
Tonya
L. Fancher, MD, MPH, FACP
Associate Professor and Associate Program
Director,
Department of Internal Medicine, University of
California, Davis
Sacramento, California
Sara B. Fazio, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School;
Clerkship Director, Department of Internal Medicine,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
David S. Fefferman, MD
Clinical Instructor in
Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts;
Private
Practice, Digestive Health Associates
Stoneham, Massachusetts
David Feinbloom, MD
Hospital Medicine
Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Assistant Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Robert D. Ficalora, MD
Senior Associate
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Associate Professor of
Medicine,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota
Faith T. Fitzgerald, MD
Professor of
Medicine and Director of Humanities and
Bioethics, University of
California, Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, California
Auguste H. Fortin VI, MD, MPH
Associate
Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,
Yale University
School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Steven Gelber, MD, MPH
Physician, Kaiser Permanente
Santa
Rosa, California
Mona A. Gohara, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Department of
Dermatology,
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
John D. Goodson, MD
Associate Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Laurie M. Gordon,
MD
Instructor, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Emmy M. Graber, MD
Assistant Professor of
Dermatology, Boston University School of
Medicine and Boston Medical
Center;
Director, Cosmetic and Laser Center, Boston University;
Associate Director, Resident Training Program, Boston
University School
of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Michelle
M. Guidry, MD
Assistant Professor, Tulane University Health Science
Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
David
R. Gutknecht, MD
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine
Residency,
Geisinger Health System
Danville, Pennsylvania
Mary E. Harris, MD
Internal Medicine
Residency Director, Geisinger Health System
Danville, Pennsylvania
Mark C. Henderson, MD, FACP
Professor
of Clinical Medicine and Vice Chair, Department of
Internal Medicine,
Associate Dean for Admissions, University of
California, Davis School
of Medicine
Sacramento, California
Calvin
H. Hirsch, MD, FACP
Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine
(Geriatrics) and Public
Health Sciences, Division of General Medicine,
University of
California, Davis Medical Center
Sacramento,
California
Zachary B. Holt, MD
Associate Physician, Department of Internal Medicine,
University of
California, Davis
Sacramento, California
David F. Jacobson, MD, FACP
Associate Program Director,
Department of Medicine, California
Pacific Medical Center
San
Francisco, California
Craig R. Keenan, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of
California,
Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
Ciarán P. Kelly, MD
Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
Director, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center
Boston,
Massachusetts
Melanie M. Kingsley, MD
Assistant Professor, Director of Cosmetic Dermatology & Laser
Surgery, Department of Dermatology, Indiana University
School of
Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana
Veera
Pavan Kotaru, MD, FACP
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department
of Medicine,
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Helaina Laks Kravitz, MD
Student
Health and Counseling Services, University of
California, Davis
Sacramento, California
Richard L.
Kravitz, MD, MSPH, FACP
Division of General Medicine, University of
California, Davis
Sacramento, California
Randall E. Lee, MD, FACP
Staff Gastroenterologist, Veterans
Affairs Northern California
Healthcare System, Associate Clinical
Professor of Medicine,
University of California, Davis School of
Medicine
Sacramento, California
Anthony
Lembo, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Director of Gastrointestinal Motility Center, Beth Israel
Deaconess
Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Peter
A. Lio, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics,
Department
of Dermatology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School
of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Timothy
S. Loo, MD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Division of General
Medicine
and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Catherine R. Lucey,
MD, FACP
Vice Dean for Education, University of California, San
Francisco
School of Medicine
San Francisco, California
Iris Ma, MD
Department of Internal Medicine,
Stanford University
Medical Center
Stanford, California
Diego Maselli, MD
Department of
Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, University of
Texas Health Science
Center and the South Texas Veterans
Health Care System
San
Antonio, Texas
Kenneth R. McQuaid, MD
Chief of Gastroenterology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of California
San
Francisco, California
Felipe J. Molina,
MD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine
and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston,
Massachusetts
Jason A. Nieuwsma, PhD
Assistant Professor, Duke University Medical Center;
Associate
Director, Veterans Affairs Mental Health and
Chaplaincy Program
Durham, North Carolina
Thuan Ong, MD, MPH
Acting Instructor, Department of Medicine, Division of
Gerontology and
Geriatric Medicine, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Jane E. O'Rorke, MD, FACP
Professor,
Division of General Medicine, Department of
Medicine, University of
Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas
Jay I. Peters, MD
Professor of Medicine;
Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine, University of Texas Health
Sciences Center at
San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
Sumanth D. Prabhu, MD
Mary Gertrude Waters
Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine,
Director, Division of Cardiovascular
Disease;
Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics,
University of Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Daniel Press, MD
Staff Neurologist, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center;
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical
School
Boston, Massachusetts
Erika
E. Reid, MD
Dermatology Resident, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Michael
Ronthal, MB, BCh, FRCP
Professor, Department of Neurology, Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical
Center, Harvard Medical School
Boston,
Massachusetts
Stephany Sanchez, MD
Physician, Sacramento County Department of Health and
Human Services
and Department of Internal Medicine,
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, California
Amarpreet S.
Sandhu, DO
Department of Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, California
Mysti D. W. Schott,
MD, FACP
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of
General
Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center
San
Antonio, Texas
Jessica Sheehan, MD
Dermatologist and Mohs Surgeon, North Shore Center
for Medical
Aesthetics,
Lake Forest Northwestern Hospital
Chicago, Illinois
Amandeep Shergill, MD
Assistant
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of
Gastroenterology,
Department of Medicine, San Francisco
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
and University of California
San Francisco, California
Amy N. Ship, MD
Assistant Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Division of General Medicine and
Primary Care,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston,
Massachusetts
Richard J. Simons, MD
Professor of Medicine, Vice Dean for Educational Affairs,
Pennsylvania
State College of Medicine
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Gerald W. Smetana, MD
Division of General
Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center;
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston,
Massachusetts
M. E. Beth Smith, DO
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Department of
Medical
Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon
Health & Science
University
Portland, Oregon
Robert
C. Smith, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine,
College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Malathi
Srinivasan, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, School
of Medicine,
University of California, Davis
Sacramento,
California
Daniel J. Sullivan, MD, MPH
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel
Deaconess
Medical Center;
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Nicole A. Swallow,
MD, FACP
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Training
Program; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University,
Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Sara L. Swenson, MD
Associate Program
Director, Department of Medicine, California
Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco, California
Daniel Tarsy,
MD
Professor, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Anjala Tess, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard
Medical School, Hospital Medicine,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Lawrence M.
Tierney, Jr., MD
Professor of Medicine, University of California,
San Francisco;
Associate Chief of Medical Service, Veterans Affairs
Medical Center
San Francisco, California
Emily S. Wang, MD
Staff Physician, South Texas Veterans Health
Care System,
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of
Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
Jeff Wiese, MD, FACP
Professor of
Medicine, Associate Dean, Graduate Medical
Education, Tulane University
Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
John W. Williams, Jr., MD, MHSc
Professor of
Medicine, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Science,
Duke University Medical
Center and Durham Veterans Affairs
Center for Health Services Research
in Primary Care
Durham, North Carolina
Mark C. Wilson, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, and Associate
Dean for Graduate Medical
Education, University of Iowa Carver College
of Medicine
Iowa City, Iowa
Christopher
M. Wittich, MD, PharmD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine,
Division of General
Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota
Michael H.
Zaroukian, MD, PhD, FACP, FHIMSS
Professor of Medicine, Michigan
State University;
Vice President & Chief Medical Information
Officer
Sparrow Health System
Lansing, Michigan