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Expert Panel Review
In an effort to ensure all activities are of the highest scientific quality, Vindico created a board of experts who review all activities outside of the faculty planning members for the activity. The independent board of experts are made up of physician and nurses, who are well known in their specialty fields.

At the start of a Vindico activity, an expert from the related specialty is contacted. The content development staff then fields all materials, whether slide sets, enduring materials to the expert for peer review and to ensure accuracy and balance. The expert panel member is independent of the faculty involved in the content of the activity and provides a balanced view. The comments from the expert panel are then used to improve the activity.

Expert Panel Review Board
Cardiology Peter Kowey, MD Chief of Cardiology Main Line Health Heart Center Wynnewood, PA Dale K. Mueller, MD Dunlap, IL Elliot Rapaport, MD, FACC Emeritus Professor of Medicine San Francisco General Hospital San Francisco, CA Udho Thadani, MD Professor Emeritus (Active) of Medicine & Consultant Cardiologist University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Department of Medicine Oklahoma City, OK Endocrinology Pauline M. Camacho, MD, FACE Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism Director Loyola University Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease Center Loyola University Health System Maywood, IL Beverly A. Fox-Hawkins, MS, RNC, CDE Diabetes Educator Disetronic Medical Systems Fishers, IN Samy I. McFarlane, MD, MPH, FACP, FACE Endocrinology Division Chief Associate Editor, Associate Professor SUNY Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn, NY Virginia Zamudio, RN, MS, CDE, CPT Partner Alamo Diabetes Team, LLP Past President, American Association of Diabetes Educators San Antonio, TX Hematology/Oncology Joseph R. Bertino, MD Associate Director, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine New Brunswick, NJ Samuel Silver, MD, PhD, FACP Director, the Cancer Center Network Professor, Department of Internal Medicine University of Michigan Health System Ann Arbor, MI Infectious Disease James H. Brien, DO Co-Director, Division of General Pediatrics Chief, Section of Inpatient Pediatrics Chief, Section of Pediatric Infectious Disease Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Scott & White Memorial Hospital Temple, TX Richard F. Jacobs, MD Arkansas Children’s Hospital Little Rock, AR Jerome O. Klein, MD Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs, Department of Pediatrics Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine Lecturer, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Gary S. Marshall, MD Professor of Pediatrics University of Louisville Louisville, KY		Nursing Kathleen Buckwalter Associate Provost for Health Sciences University of Iowa Iowa City, IA Ophthalmology Allen C. Ho, MD Retinovitreous Associates Wills Eye Associates Wyndmoor, PA John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS Specialist in Cornea, External Ocular Disease, and Refractive Surgery Clinical Instructor, UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute Harvard Eye Associates Optometry John Potter, OD National Director of Clinical Affairs TLC Laser Eye Centers Dallas, TX Joseph Shovlin, OD, FAAO Northeastern Eye Institute Scranton, PA Leo Semes, OD Associate Professor of Optometry and Director of Continuing Education UAB School of Optometry Birmingham, AL Murray Fingeret, OD Department of Veterans Administration New York Harbor Health Care System Brooklyn, NY Orthopedics Steven F. Harwin, MD, FACS Chief, Division of Adult Reconstruction Department of Orthopedics Beth Israel Medical Center New York, NY Nabil Ebraheim, MD Chair, Orthopedic Surgery Professor of Orthopedic Surgery University Medical Center Medical University of Ohio Toledo, OH Pediatrics William A. Altemeier, III, MD Associate Dean of Medical Education University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO Mark Harris Pollack, MD Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry-Outpatient Department Boston, MA Kathryn Edwards, MD Professor of Pediatrics Vanderbilt University Medical Center Tom Selva, MD Columbia, MD Pediatric Ophthalmology Robert L. Schwartz, MD Torrance, CA