07 May 2011

BEST DOCTORS

Medical Leadership
Two Harvard Medical School physicians created Best Doctors to realize their vision of making the best medical expertise available around the world.  In our continuing effort to identify the very best that medicine has to offer, Best Doctors has assembled the Best Doctors Medical Advisory Board, which supports and guides our vision across the globe. 

Kenneth H. Falchuk, MD Founder

Kenneth H. Falchuk, MD
Kenneth H. Falchuk, MD founded Best Doctors in 1989 and has served on the Board of Directors since its inception.  A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Falchuk was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and was an active member of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.  He was also on the affiliate teaching staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   

Jose Halperin, MD Founder

Jose Halperin, MD
Jose Halperin, MD co-founded Best Doctors in 1989 and has served on the Board of Directors since its inception.  A cum laude graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, he joined the Faculty of the Harvard Medical School in 1984 as an Associate Professor of Medicine and is an active member of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.  For the past 16 years, Dr. Halperin has developed a strong research program at the Laboratory of Membrane Transport.  His recent discovery of a drug with great anti-cancer potential made national news.

Lewis Levy, MD Medical Director

Lewis Levy, MD
As the Medical Director of the U.S. Group Health Division, Dr. Lewis Levy provides medical leadership to the clinical operations team to deliver the highest quality clinical information on diagnosis and treatment to members and their treating physicians. He has over twenty years of clinical experience as an internist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. Dr. Levy also has an extensive teaching career through his role as a Preceptor in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and also as an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He earned his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

David Harrison, MD Associate Medical Director

David Harrison, MD
David Harrison, MD, Associate Medical Director for the U.S. Group Health Division, has served with Best Doctors since 2005. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and trained in the Harvard Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program. In addition to his work with Best Doctors, Dr. Harrison maintains an active primary care practice at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Harrison works closely with our clinical staff to ensure delivery of the highest quality service to all of our members

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UK:MUMPS

MUMPS - UK (03): (ENGLAND) UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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A ProMED-mail post
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International Society for Infectious Diseases
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Date: Thu 5 May 2011
Source: BBC New UK [edited]
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-13295418>

University mumps vaccine outbreak advice
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Students across north west England have been advised to check their
vaccination records after outbreaks of mumps at 2 universities. The
disease has affected 47 students at the University of Central
Lancashire (UCLan) and 35 at the University of Manchester since
February [2011].
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has advised students to ask their
GPs [general practitioners] if they have had the full MMR [mumps,
measles, and rubella] vaccine. It said some may have missed out on
their 2nd protective dose of MMR.
Dr Sam Ghebrehewet of the HPA said: "Mumps is an ever-present risk in
universities and further education colleges. It is an infectious
disease that spreads easily amongst young adults who missed out on the
protection of 2 doses of MMR vaccine when they were children. 2 doses
of the MMR vaccine are necessary for full protection."
Mumps is a viral illness marked by symptoms of swollen neck glands,
fever, and headache. Its complications can result in meningitis and
deafness.
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[Mumps outbreaks often occur in congregate settings, where prolonged,
close contacts facilitate transmission. Mumps is spread by droplets of
saliva or mucus from the mouth, nose, or throat of an infected person,
usually when the person coughs, sneezes, or talks. Items used by an
infected person, such as cups or soft drink cans, can also be
contaminated with the virus, which may spread to others if those items
are shared. Most mumps transmission likely occurs before the salivary
glands begin to swell and within the 5 days after the swelling begins.
Therefore, mumps sufferers should be isolated for 5 days after their
glands begin to swell. The level of immunity produced by a single dose
of the MMR triple vaccine may not be fully protective (with regard to
mumps) and may decline with time. A 2nd dose of vaccine may be
required to produce adequate protection in all circumstances, and in
particular in the case of young adults who may have received only a
single dose of vaccine previously.