Dr. Craig Koniver Adds His Voice To Freelance MD

Craig Koniver MD has joined Freelance MD as a contributing physician author.

Dr. Koniver been practicing medicine since 2000 when he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

In 2006, Dr. Koniver opened Primary Plus Organic Medicine where he practices Organic Medicine. He started a supplement line formulating different types of nutritional supplements.

Dr. Koniver also created an iPhone App called 42 Healthy Solutions to help patients keep track of their supplement intake as well as provide supplement programs for them to try.

Dr. Koniver also wrote the book, Connect(ed): The New Rules of Medicine, my manifesto for how we can change medicine for the future, for the better.

Freelance MD is excited to have Dr. Konivers cotributions.

Dr.Dr. Julie Silver, Editor Of Harvard Health Publications Joins Freelance MD

Dr. Julie SIlver joins the physician authors of Freelance MD to educate other physicians about writing and publishing.

Dr. Julie Silver, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, is a noted expert in physical medicine and rehabilitation (physiatry).  Dr. Silver is the Chief Editor of Books at Harvard Health Publications, the consumer health branch of Harvard Medical School, and is on the medical staff at Massachusetts General, Brigham and Womens, and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts.  She has been a member of the medical staff at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where she worked in the Lance Armstrong Foundation Survivorship Clinic and is the co-founder of Oncology Rehab Partners, an innovative healthcare company breaking new ground in the field of cancer care.

Dr. Silver wears several hats in the publishing community, serving as Chief Editor of Books at Harvard Health Publications, Director of the Harvard CME course titled Publishing Books, Memoirs and Other Creative Nonfiction and an award-winning author of numerous books on health and wellness.

She is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including a number of medical textbooks and the books What Helped Get Me Through; After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger; Chronic Pain and the Family; Understanding Fitness; and Life After Stroke.

"I enjoy teaching doctors and other healthcare professionals how to write and publish," says Dr. Silver. "Teaching others how to publish is extremely gratifying as I work with so many talented healers who have much to offer people."

"We're very excited that Dr. Meyers has joined us," said Greg Bledsoe MD, Freelance MDs co-founder. "Dr. Silver is a fantasit communicator that has helped thousand of physicians realize thier goals in publishing, and personal fulfillment."

About Julie Silver MD
Julie K. Silver, MD is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is the Chief Editor of Books at Harvard Health Publications (www.HarvardHealthBooks.org), the consumer health branch of Harvard Medical School.

About Freelance MD
Freelance MD is an active community that gives physicians around the world intelligent information to gain greater control of their medical practice, income, and lifestyle.

Dr. Ryan Flesher, A Documentary Film Maker, Joins Freelance MD

Freelance MD today announced the addition of Dr. Ryan Flesher as a contributing physician writer.

Dr. Mazumdar is an affiliate of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) and a member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA>, the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP, and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

"We're tremendously excited to have Dr. Flesher onboard as a contributing writer." said Greg Bledsoe MD, one of Freelance MDs founders. "Dr. Flesher adds an important voice as both a physician and a film maker. His experience as both is of tremendous value to our physician members."

About Dr. Fyan Flesher
Ryan S. Flesher, MD, is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine physician, screenwriter, director and producer.

His peers in film and medicine recognize him as an outstanding clinician with an eye for the human-interest story. Dr. Flesher explores and exposes nuance in a realistic and accurate manner. His clinical expertise brings a rich knowledge that appeals to advertising agencies, marketing firms, medical vendors and pharmaceutical organizations. His knowledge of the film industry makes him an invaluable technical consultant, creative director, writer and key team member.

His film education has been through various outlets including, advanced screen-writing seminars at the acclaimed Grub Street in Boston, two independent short films of his own and work on major motion pictures. He wrote, directed, produced and edited a feature length independent film in 2002 while finishing his residency. His most recent work, The Vanishing Oath, is a feature length documentary: a view of health care from the inside.

Dr. Flesher was featured on the Learning Channel’s Trauma: Life in the ER in which the episode was focused on the fact that a physician was making an independent film, as it was, on his medical cases.

About Freelance MD
Freelance MD is an active community that gives physicians around the world intelligent information to gain greater control of their medical practice, income, and lifestyle.

Dr. Arlen D. Meyers, Founder Of The Society Of Physician Entrepreneurs, Joins Freelance MD

Freelance MD today announced the addition of Dr. Arlen D. Meyers as a contributing physician writer.

Arlen D. Meyers, MD MBA is the cofounder, and Chief Medical Officer of MedVoy, a medical tourism company. He is also a Professor of Otolaryngology, Dentistry and Engineering at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. He teaches at the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver and the Daniels School of Business at the University of Denver and is a consultant to several biotech, medical device and bioscience investment firms.

"We're very excited that Dr. Meyers has joined us," said Jeff Barson, Freelance MD's Founder. "Dr. Meyers background with technoloy and life-science startups gives him a unique understanding of many of the areas that physicians want and need more information."

Dr. Meyers is the author of over 300 articles and book chapters and is Editor-in Chief of eMedicine.com: Otolaryngology-Facial Plastic Surgery. He is the cofounder of two medical biophotonics companies and is a consultant to several other bioscience investment and medical device and biotech companies.

He presently serves on the Executive Committee of the University of Colorado Bioengineering Center and is a member of the executive committee of the Colorado Advanced Photonics Technology Center at the University of Colorado-Denver. He is Vice-President of the Biomedical Division of VentureQuest, a technology development consulting company, President and CEO of Oncolux, a biophotonics company, and former founder of Oncolight.Dr. Meyers was a member of the Colorado Governor's Commission on Science and Technology, a member of the Colorado Nanotechnology Task Force and was formerly the Executive Director of the Colorado Alliance for Bioengineering. In addition, he is cofounder and former director of the University of Colorado MD/MBA program and former director of the Bard Center Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program.

Dr. Meyers was named as a member of the Denver Business Journal’s 2004 Who’s Who in Healthcare and has received multiple awards for teaching, clinical care and research. He is on the Fulbright Senior Scholars Roster. Dr. Meyers serves on the editorial boards of The Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, Biotechnology Healthcare, The Journal of Comparative Technology Transfer and Society and the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology.

About Arlen D. Meyers MD, MBA
Dr. Meyers received his B.S. degree from Dickinson College, his M. D. from Jefferson Medical College and did his residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. His received his MBA from the University of Colorado and is a former Harvard-Macy fellow.

About Freelance MD
Freelance MD is an active community that gives physicians around the world intelligent information to gain greater control of their medical practice, income, and lifestyle.

Ashley Wendel Joins Freelance MD

Freelance MD today announced the addition of Ashley Wendel from High Agility Healthcare as a contributing writer covering change management and organization for doctors.

"Ashley's expertise can make career change accessable and much less threatening for physicians." said Jeff Barson, Freelance MDs Founder. "Her meticulous approch to change managment  can make a world of difference for doctors contemplating a career outside of clinical medicine."

Through her business at High Agility Healtchare, Ashley works with Physician Leaders who are experiencing a feeling of being "stuck" in their professional lives, and who want to take that extra step to build their ability to manage and direct change in themselves and their organizations. She helps individuals in leadership roles to expertly address the challenges they face and to develop and implement concrete strategies to achieve their goals and exceed even their own peformance expectations.

As an organizational consultant, Ashley works with Physician Executives who need to find new and innovative ways to drive change within their complex health organizations. She works together with both executive and clinical staff to develop new strategies that build buy-in, accountability and sustainability for critical organizational initiatives. She helps heallth organizations build their "agility" competency, and become more responsive, flexible and adaptive in their response to rapid change.

About Ashley Wendel

Ashley has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, with a specialization in Behavioral Medicine, from San Diego State University / University of California, San Diego (Joint Program). Ashley spent 7 years studying and doing freelance work in the area of clinical diagnostics, neuropsychological testing, quantitative/qualitative research, teaching, and behavioral interventions in medical settings.

About Freelance MD
Freelance MD is an active community that gives physicians around the world intelligent information to gain greater control of their medical practice, income, and lifestyle.

Dr. Setu Mazumdar Joins Freelance MD

Freelance MD today announced the addition of Dr. Setu Mazumdar as a contributing physician writer covering physician investing and wealth management.

Dr. Mazumdar is an affiliate of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) and a member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA>, the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP, and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

"Setu is a great resource for our physican members." said Jeff Barson, Freelance MDs Founder. "Dr. Mazumdar is a passionate proponant for physicians and offers level-headed advice and fantastic insight that set him apart. We're excited to have him on board as a contributing writer."

As a Freelance MD physician contributor, Dr. Mazumdar will be writing on both wealth creation and wealth management for doctors.

About Dr. Setu Mazumdar
Setu Mazumdar MD graduated as the valedictorian of Woodward Academy, the largest independent day school in the US. He then attended Johns Hopkins University and was admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society for ranking among the top 1% in his class. After earning his MD degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he practiced emergency medicine in Atlanta, GA. As his passion for financial planning and investment portfolio management grew, he completed the CFP Board registered professional education program and passed the rigorous 10-hour CFP Certification Examination. He then worked for a finacial planning firm in Atlanta before launching his own wealth management firm, Lotus Wealth Solutions.

About Freelance MD
Freelance MD is an active community that gives physicians around the world intelligent information to gain greater control of their medical practice, income, and lifestyle.

Dr. Gary Taff Joins Freelance MD

Freelance MD today announced the addition of Dr. Gary Taff as a contributing physician writer.

Dr. Gary Taff brings a unique perspective to Freelance MD with broad experience in both occupational medicine and real estate investing.

"Dr. Taff is well-know as a principled physician who teaches other doctors how to get started as real-estate investors." said Jeff Barson, one of Freelance MDs Founders, "but Dr. Taff's expertise also extends to occupational medicine. We're excited to have him on board."

As a Freelance MD physician contributor, Dr. Taff will be writing on both real-estate investments for physicians as well as occupational medicine.

Despite previously negative experiences of "buying high and selling low", he started with $20,000 capital, and used equity sharing, intensive market research and an eye for buying the best deal in emerging small to medium- sized markets. This plan allowed Gary to purchase 190 properties in 13 states over a five year period. The portfolio spanned a wide range of residential properties from single family homes to condos, duplex to fourplexes, rehab projects, condo conversions and multi-unit apartment complexes. Gary is most proud of the fact that his portfolio has achieved a 39% per annum appreciation rate, mainly based on buying below market value.

Over the past two years, Gary has turned his attention to wholesaling, in which he buys multiple properties at significant discounts and then sells or assigns the properties to investors at prices below current market values. He has served as the Northern California Area Manager for a nation-wide clearing-house type of real estate network, as well as other real estate networks. He has given several seminars on value investing, use ofleverage, understanding and taking advantage of the five stages of a real estate cycle, and working with wholesalers.

About Dr. Gary Taff
Born in New Jersey, and schooled in New York City, Gary followed a well-worn family tradition by becoming a physician. As a foreshadow of a life- lon~ tendency towards ''getting there first", he started college at the age of 16 and became a doctor after just turning 23.

Gary attained Board-Certification in Emergency Medicine in the first year of that field of medicine's recognition as a specialty. He went on to direct several hospital emergency departments in Southern California. In 1983, Gary opened one of the nations' first urgent care centers. He grew that first site into a seven medical center, 70 employee, 60,000 patient visits-per-year medical group. This achievement earned Gary several awards, including the California Inland Empire Crescendo Award, Small Business Person of the Year and finally, Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in 1993.

Gary sold his medical group in 1998 at the peak of the health-care market cycle, and moved to Northern California. After creating a hospital-based occupational medicine program and directing an ambulance company, Gary turned his attention to real estate investing.

About Freelance MD
Freelance MD is an active community that gives physicians around the world intelligent information to gain greater control of their medical practice, income, and lifestyle.