Beth Seltzer’s path to MD and MPH was not a straight line. She started out as a documentary filmmaker in San Francisco, where she created award-winning documentaries with a national reach, shared in creative decisions from idea to final edit, hired and supervised staff, conducted community outreach campaigns, wrote grant proposals, and managed finances. While there, she co-produced programs that garnered long list of honors such as Northern California Area Emmy Award; Gold Apple, National Educational Media Festival; Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival; Best Documentary Short, Nashville Independent Film Festival; and Finalist, IDA Documentary Awards.
Beth received her MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, in 2003, and her MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (NY) in 2008. Her residencies included general preventive medicine and public health at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and a transitional year at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown. Beth is board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, and is a medical consultant and writer, creating original, nonfiction works for wide audiences, including 101 Careers in Public Health, a comprehensive career guide from Springer Publishing Company, which has been endorsed as “first-rate advice” by the American Public Health Association.
20 Questions
20 Questions: Gurpreet S. Khurana, DMD, MBA, Author
Dr. Gurpreet S. Khurana is a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and has been a forum moderator for the Student Doctor Network Dental Forums since 2002. He currently is in private practice in Washington, D.C. Khurana is the author of Student Doctor Network Dental Admissions Guide, the first title available from SDN Academic Press.
20 Questions: Dr. Yvonne Thornton, MD, MPH, OB-GYN
Dr. Yvonne Thornton, author of Something to Prove: A Daughter’s Journey to Fulfill a Father’s Legacy (2010), and the e-book Inside Information for Women: Answers to the Mysteries of the Female Body and Her Health (2011), has broken down gender and race barriers, and in the process become an inspiration to millions.
In Dr. Thornton’s first book, the Pulitzer-prize nominated best-selling memoir The Ditch Digger’s Daughters (1995), she describes her upbringing, detailing how her parents, a maid and a manual laborer, brought her and her four sisters from the projects to possibility, with four of the girls eventually pursuing careers in medicine at the behest of their father.
20 Questions: Craig S. Stern, RPh, PharmD, MBA
Dr. Craig Stern, PharmD, is founder of Pro Pharma Pharmaceutical Consultants, Inc.
20 Questions: Timur Durrani [Preventive Medicine/Medical Toxicology]
Timur Durrani, MD, MPH, MBA, is currently a medical toxicology fellow at UCSF. Dr. Durrani, who specializes in preventive medicine, attended University of California Irvine, where he received a Master of Business Administration with a focus on Health Care administration in June 2008. Prior to that, he received a Medical Doctorate from University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2004, and a Master of Public Health with a focus on Community Oriented Public Health from the University of Arizona, College of Public Health in 2004. Dr. Durrani served a family medicine residency at the University of California Los Angeles from July 2004 – June 2007, followed by a preventive medicine residency at the California Department of Public Health, Los Angeles County Public Health Department, from July 2007 – 2008. He also speaks Spanish.
20 Questions: Gary Flashner, MD [Family Medicine]
Dr. Gary Flashner, MS, MD, ABFP is an emergency physician and Vice President of Medical Content for ExitCare, LLC. He completed his undergraduate work at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA), Masters work at Penn State, medical school at Thomas Jefferson University, and residency in Family Medicine at Sacred Heart Hospital (Allentown, PA). His 20 years of clinical practice and teaching endeavors (including 13 years of full-time work in hospital-based emergency medicine) were split between the eastern U.S. (Pennsylvania and Ohio) and California, including working at Yosemite National Park.
20 Questions: Harry Rosen, MD [Hospitalist, Author]
Dr. Harry Rosen was born in Israel and received his bachelor’s degree from California State University, Northridge. He attended The Sackler School of Medicine, obtaining his M.D. in 2000.
He completed his residency at West Los Angeles Veterans Administration in 2004, and he currently works as a hospitalist at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in Southern California. Most recently, Dr. Rosen has written “The Consult Manual of Internal Medicine.”
Editor’s Note: For more book information and sample content from “The Consult Manual of Internal Medicine”, please visit http://www.medconsultpublishing.com.
Q: Describe a typical day at work
A: A usual day at work starts off at about 9am when I arrive at the hospital and start on my first can of Pepsi or Coke — or, if I feel daring, a Mountain Dew. The caffeine and sugar help start the day off with a sweet pick-me-up.
20 Questions: Michael Hyde, O.D. [Optometry]
Optometrist Michael Hyde graduated from the University of Houston in 2002. He currently practices on … Read more
20 Questions: Otha Myles, MD [Infectious Disease]
Otha Myles, M.D. is the Deputy Chief of Epidemiology and Threat Assessment at Walter Reed … Read more
20 Questions: Lawrence Terra, MD [Reproductive Endocrinology]
After starting out as a failed journalism major, Dr. Lawrence Terra wound up graduating Phi Beta Kappa from a prestigious midwestern university with a B.A. in Psychology. He graduated with High Honors from an University of California medical school and now pursues his original dream of journalism through a popular blog.
He completed a four-year OB/GYN Residency and then went on to a Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI). He has worked with many of the pioneers in the field of In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Dr. Terra is currently in full-time private practice as the Medical Director of an IVF program in Southern California. He is a sought-after lecturer, giving educational talks to hundreds of physicians and medical students annually. Dr. Terra is a Board-Certified Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and an active faculty member at two medical schools.
He recently sat down with SDN to give us a glimpse of life as a Reproductive Endocrinologist.
20 Questions: Lee C. Rogers, DPM, Diabetic Limb Salvage
Lee C. Rogers, DPM is the director of the Amputation Prevention Center at Broadlawns Medical … Read more
20 Questions: Ken Elder, O.D. [Optometry]
Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ken Elder, O.D. graduated from the State University of … Read more
20 Questions: John T. Sinnott, MD, FACP, Infectious Disease
John T. Sinnott, MD, FACP is the Director of the Division of Infectious Disease and … Read more
20 Questions: Michael Rack, MD, Sleep Medicine
Michael Rack, MD grew up in Southern California. He graduated from the University of Iowa … Read more
20 Questions: Dennis Stokes, MD, MPH, Pediatric Pulmonologist
Dr. Dennis C. Stokes is a Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Program in … Read more
20 Questions: Kenneth Kirsh, Ph.D. – Medical Psychology
Dr. Kirsh, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University … Read more
20 Questions: William Baker, MD, Anesthesiologist
Dr. William Baker is an anesthesiologist working in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Baker was in private … Read more
20 Questions: Dai Chinh Phan, DDS, MS, Maxillofacial Prosthodontist
Dai Chinh Phan is a staff maxillofacial prosthodontist at the Albuquerque Veterans Administration Medical Center … Read more
20 Questions: David C. Hilmers, Med-Peds, Former Astronaut
David C. Hilmers, MD, EE, MPH, is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine … Read more
20 Questions: Crystal Holmes, DPM, Podiatric Medicine
Crystal Holmes, DPM, is a podiatric physician practicing in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She graduated from … Read more