Lisa Harris, M.D.
Primary Care Physician, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Rochester, NY

Dr. Harris is in private practice and has been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome.  She made changes in diet and exercise to treat the condition and currently has the syndrome and diabetes, under control.

Lisa Harris, M.D. was born in Oneida, New York, the eldest child and only daughter of the honorable Judge Roy and Mrs. Lucille King. Dr. Harris attended Monroe Jr. Sr. High School and then furthered her education at the University of Rochester, where she received a B.S. in neurosciences.  Later, she attended Morehouse School of Medicine where she received her medical degree. Her training was completed at the Detroit Medical Center in Detroit, MI. Dr. Harris is boarded in two specialties, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, allowing her to care for both the adult and pediatric populations. Currently, Dr. Harris is in private practice.

Christine Rogers
Health Reporter

Christine is an award winning producer and reporter. She is the recipient of two Edward R. Murrow awards for her investigative journalism work. She was nominated for an Emmy for her documentary on sex offenders and was recently recognized by the Mental Health Association of North Carolina for a series of reports on mental illness. Christine has extensive health reporting experience. She produces and hosts Healthwise on UNC-TV, North Carolina's public broadcasting network. Each month she tackles a different health care topic from diabetes prevention and control to the problem of childhood obesity. Christine also produces health features for Ivanhoe Broadcast News which serves over two hundred stations across the country. She received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and her master's from Duke University.

Donald McNeil
Journalist

Donald G. McNeil Jr., a science reporter at The New York Times, started at the paper as a copy boy in 1976.  He has been a city reporter, an environment reporter, an editor on several sections, a theater columnist, and a foreign correspondent in Africa and Eastern Europe.  Since joining the science staff, he has written mostly about diseases, especially pestilences affecting poor countries and the hunt for affordable cures.

 
   
Edward E. Walsh, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Edward E. Walsh, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in the Infectious Diseases Unit and is head of the Infectious Disease Unit at Rochester General Hospital.  Dr. Walsh graduated from SUNY-Downstate Medical School in 1974 and completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases at Strong Memorial Hospital. Since 1982 Dr. Walsh has been a consultant in infectious diseases at Rochester General Hospital and directed research in respiratory virus infections, including Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Influenza virus.    

Kathleen F. Gensheimer, M.D., M.P.H.
Epidemiologist
Center for Disease Control
Maine Department of Health and Human Services

Kathleen F. Gensheimer, M.D., M.P.H., is active on the Pandemic Influenza Task Force, Infectious Disease Society of America, where she provides input from the state public health perspective to the federal government's pandemic influenza planning efforts.

Dr. Gensheimer is the State Epidemiologist, for the Center for Disease Control, Maine Department of Health and Human Services. As State Epidemiologist, she plays a critical and dynamic role with responsibility for providing medical and epidemiological guidance and consultation to the Maine CDC's leadership team, medical professionals, diagnostic laboratories, veterinarians and other state- level professional, official, and voluntary health organizations involved in the control of infectious diseases. This position responds to requests for medical epidemiological assistance within the State of Maine; within the Northeastern United States as well as nationally, directing and/or coordinating special epidemiological surveys and studies; conducting outbreak investigations; providing input on public health policy; bio-emergency and pandemic influenza preparedness efforts. Dr. Gensheimer has been active in several national professional organizations, including the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, the American Society of Microbiology and the Infectious Disease Society of America, where she has assumed leadership positions.

Dr. Gensheimer is a graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and received her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prior to her assuming her current position in Maine.

James P. Dooher

James P. Dooher was born in Niagara Falls, NY and currently lives in Rochester, NY. He is 72 years old and is a graduate of Niagara University and continues to be an active alumnus. Dooher spent his life working with large scale computers and last worked as a systems engineer on data base communications for Chase Lincoln, now JP Morgan Chase. He retired from Chase Lincoln in 1994. He also worked at Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna, NY and the Carborundum Company in Niagara Falls, NY.

Dooher has a long medical history that began with a heart attack in 1995. He then arrested while exercising in 1998. In 1999 he found out he had prostate cancer and he currently has cardiac assistance from a defibrillator and pacemaker. He also had lumbar laminectomy in the past 5 years. While visiting his family in Arizona in December 2005, Dooher contracted Influenza A. He spent 6 days in the hospital, 3 of those in ICU. In January 2006 he went to Florida and while there he contracted pneumonia and suffered from heart arrhythmia. He spent 4 days in the hospital while still undergoing lumbar rehabilitation. Dooher's paternal grandparents both died from the flu during the Spanish Invasion in 1915 and 1918.

Dooher and his wife Annette have 7 children and 5 grandchildren. He is very active in Irish affairs as a long time member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) and is an officer and president of the local chapter of the Irish American Cultural Institute.