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The primary health care professional
"on duty" here at Ask the Doctor is Rob "Doctor Bob" Jandl, M.D., Tripod's director of Health Services.
Our consulting physicians include:
Howard Blue is the director of clinical services in the Division of
Mental Hygiene at Yale University, and an assistant Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at Yale University of Medicine. He is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, with a post-doctoral
fellowship at Yale.
Alan Calhoun is with the University Health Service of the University
of Massachusetts in
Amherst, caring for students, students' families, and the university staff.
He is also the
occupational health physician for the UMass-Amherst campus.
Laura Hill Einbinder is a medical consultant to Tripod specializing
in issues of nutrition and
fitness. Ms. Einbinder is also a project analyst in the Department of
Clinical Practice Systems of the Harvard
Community Health Plan in Brookline, MA. In the past, she has served as a
nutrition specialist both in private
practice and with the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Rob Jandl, "Doctor Bob," is Tripod's director of Health Services. Rob is a
board-certified internist and nephrologist with a practice in northwestern
Massachusetts. He is a graduate of
Northwestern University, and the University of Vermont School of Medicine,
with a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and
Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has a keen interest in health education
and preventive healthcare.
Bo Kopynec, a
board-certified family practitioner in Bennington,Vermont,
is a former USAF Flight Surgeon and lover of aviation. He is a graduate
of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and
performed his residency under the auspices of the US Air Force. His
practice covers the gamut from new-born child exams to the very elderly.
Richard Pasternak is Tripod's senior health service advisor who has
helped guide the development of health services. He is an assistant
professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an associate
physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his undergraduate
and doctoral degrees at Yale and
carried out post-doctoral work at Massachusetts General Hospital and
Hadassah University Hospital in
Jerusalem. Among his many responsibilities and interests in patient care
and research, he is the director of
preventive cardiology and rehabilitation, as well as director of the
cardiology unit associates at Massachusetts General
Hospital.
Richard Provenzano provides consultation in the area of eye health
and diseases. He received his medical degree from Tufts University School
of Medicine and did his residency in internal medicine and opthalmology at
Albany Medical Center. Rick is in private practice, and is a fellow of the
American Academy of Opthalmology, as well as being an active member of
numerous state and national societies.
Nancy Rigotti is Tripod's senior medical consultant for Ask the Doctor. She
is an assistant professor of medicine and
preventive medicine at Harvard Medical School, director of the Quit Smoking
Service at Massachusetts
General Hospital, and course director for Harvard's required second-year
course on Preventive Medicine and
Nutrition.
Stephen St. Clair provides consultation in the area of men's health
and urology. Steve is a graduate of Williams College and George Washington
School of Medicine,
and did his residency at the USAF Medical Center in San Antonio. He has a
private practice here in Williamstown.
Susan Yates provides consultation in obstetrics and gynecology.
Susan is a graduate of Michigan State University for both her undergraduate
and medical degrees, and did her
residency at the University of Iowa. In addition to her private practice,
she works part-time in the Williams College Health Service.
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