In today's healthcare environment, one of the most challanging aspects of providing on-line health education/marketing programs is to balance "standard-of-care" information with the latest "headline" health news that consumers read every day. And to present that information in a compelling format, and always in context…

Here are some of the HealthEra team members that strive to maintain that balance:

Lewis Mittelmark
President

As co-founder of HealthEra, Lewis brings fifteen years of experience in applying information technologies to healthcare and general business applications. Lewis has held executive and management positions with firms that include Windham Health, Panurgy Inc., InfoImage, Dataphaz, Perkin Elmer, and Sundstrand. Lewis attended the University of Minnesota and is certified by APICS in Resource Management.


Karin van Brunt
Senior Editor

Karin Van Brunt has extensive experience in all phases of web publishing and has served as a writing/editing consultant for such firms as Leapfrog.com, Dashboard Inc., and GlobalStreams, Inc. Previously, Ms. Van Brunt was Senior Editor/Content Manager for HealthCentral.com, Research Coordinator for the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, and a technical writer for Kaiser Permanente, IT group. She received her BA in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and Editing/Copy Editing certifications from UC, San Francisco.


Asha Swaroop, MD
Researcher

Dr. Asha Swaroop attended college and medical school at Brown University. She is Board-Certified in Family Medicine and currently practices Geriatrics at a Long-Term Care facility in California. She previously worked in a private group practice and at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention. She has a strong interest in integrative medicine / complementary therapies, and teaches classes on meditation and stress reduction


Myra Ross, RN
Researcher

Myra Ross has been a hospital, nursing home and hospice nurse for 35 years. She has extensive clinical experience in both staff and supervisory capacities within the hospital, community health care and instructional settings, as well as clinical instructor to medical assistants for Anatomy/Physiology, Pharmacology and a large array of technical procedures.


Alice Hale
Editor

Alice Hale has been a writer and editor of consumer health information in print and on line for more than 10 years, for organizations such as Krames Communications, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and HealthCentral.com.


Peter Koontz
Senior Architect

Peter Koontz is a senior software engineer with experience designing and building scalable web systems.
over a wide range of problem domains, including electronic commerce, business logic implementation, knowledge management, reporting, workflow, and data integration. Peter has worked for web-based business solution firms Panurgy Northern California and Infoimage, as well as being an independent consultant.


Kirk Nelson

Graphic Designer

Kirk Nelson has experience in interface design, illustration and multimedia design in cross browser/ cross platform web development programs. For the past 8 years, Kirk has paricipated in the development of corporate identity programs and web sites for health care, manufacturing and consulting services, and online communities. Kirk's personal interests and work experience include commercial photography and cartography.


Yin Ju Chen
Graphic Designer

Yin Ju Chen attended Taipei National University of the Arts and San Francisco Art Institute and has held positions with the Headland Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute. Yin Ju is a freelance artist with experience in web design, and personal interest in contempory and performance art, and experimental film and video.


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