Emeritus Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine 
Gerontology Co-Director, Elder House Call Program JHBMC
John Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

Tom Finucane, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Throughout his 3 decades there, he has seen patients with learners in the clinic, hospital, nursing home, rehabilitation center and chronic ventilator unit. He was chair of the hospital ethics committee at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center for 12 years. He continues to teach and write about the problems of overtreatment and undertreatment of frail older people. His special interests include urinary tract infection, aspiration pneumonia and tube feeding, nutrition support, type 2 diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer treatment, and more generally the dangers of aggressive pharmaceutical advertising.  He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
 

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Department of Family Medicine 
Georgetown University Medical Center

 

Dr. Fugh-Berman teaches courses on medicinal plants and evidence-based medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. She directs PharmedOut, a GUMC project that advances evidence-based prescribing. Her research focuses on pharmaceutical marketing practices and the culture of medicine.
 

Endocrinologist and Molecular Biologist

 

Dr. Lippman worked most recently as an Endocrinologist in the Department of Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System and was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.
 

Pharmacist Inspector, Pharmaceutical Control Division 
Director, The DC Center for Rational Prescribing 
District of Columbia Department of Health

 

Dr. Onumah serves as a Pharmacist Inspector with the District of Columbia Department of Health. Dr. Onumah also directs the DC Center for Rational Prescribing (DCRx). Dr. Onumah has practiced pharmacy in the pharmacy benefit management industry, as well as the community and long term care setting. Dr. Onumah has a genuine passion for evidence-based value add interventions that improve healthcare outcomes. Dr. Onumah also helped implement the District of Columbia Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.
 

National Director Medicine, Office of Specialty Care Services
Veterans Health Administration

 

Dr. Pogach has been the VA Co-lead of the VA/DoD Diabetes Guidelines since 1996. The 2017 Update was released in April 2017. He has also been the co-lead of the Federal Interagency Workgroup for the Department of Health and Human Services National Action Plan for Prevention of Adverse Drug Events-Diabetes Agent since its inception in 2012. He also has published extensively on methodology to improve upon existing “all-or-none” glycemic performance measures, and hypoglycemia as a public health issue among older adults. He has also served as an external Technical Advisor to AHRQ Evidence Reviews on Diabetes Medication. His passion is Shared Decision Making for persons with diabetes, medication safety, and de-intensification of unnecessary anti-glycemic management.
 

Director of Diabetes Education and Care
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

 

Dr. Trapp is the director of diabetes education and care at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). She is a doctorally-prepared nurse practitioner with an internal medicine practice in Farmington Hills, Michigan, where she has specialized in the care of people with diabetes for more than 20 years. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan, and a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Trapp has found no intervention as powerful in the prevention and reversal of type 2 diabetes as a high-fiber, nutrient-dense, whole-foods, plant based dietary pattern. She has found this to be true from remote parts of the Navajo Nation in AZ, to urban areas of Detroit, MI. She encourages her colleagues and students to learn all they can about plants over pills to promote health.
 

Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Director, Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 
The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health

 

Dr. Wood's research focuses on women’s health and the use of scientific knowledge in public policy. She teaches courses in health policy and in women’s health at the GWU Milken Institute School of Public Health. She previously was Assistant Commissioner for Women's Health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and directed the FDA Office of Women's Health from 2000 - 2005. Prior to the FDA, Dr. Wood was the Director of Policy and Program Development at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health.

 

 

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