The finest at treating New York’s finest, Dr. Francis “Frank” Adams is a police surgeon with the NYPD and a pulmonary specialist with a special interest in asthma.

Dr. Adams is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and maintains his private practice in NYC. He has been voted “Best Doctor” by New York magazine and Castle Connelly Ltd. several times and is the author of three books, The Asthma Sourcebook, The Breathing Disorder Sourcebook and Healing Through Empathy.

Dr. Michael S. Aronoff is Attending Psychiatrist on the Senior Medical Staff of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University Medical Center. Dr. Aronoff is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and practices a subspecialty of Forensic Psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and additionally, a Fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts, a past Member of the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis (AAPDP) and Fellow of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Aronoff has served the American Psychiatric Association, in both elected and appointed capacities, for over 20 years. He has conducted well over 300 discussions, interviews and presentations aimed at public education regarding issues relevant to psychiatry. Additionally, he has authored or co-authored 20+ peer-reviewed articles as well as having authored a book (Sleep & Its secrets: The River of Crystal Light) and several op-ed pieces in New York area newspapers. He has a private practice in general and forensic psychiatry, psychopharmacology, hypnosis and psychoanalysis, with added emphasis on stress management and the treatment of both sleep disorders and marital/couple problems.

In addition to being a well-established practicing clinical psychiatrist who has been listed in New York Magazine and The Castle Connolly Guide “The Best Doctors, New York Metro Area,” Dr. Aronoff is well known for his extensive work in television and radio.

Dr. Alexandra Barzvi is a skilled parenting coach and clinical psychologist with expertise in evaluating and treating anxiety and mood disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults. She is a frequent medical contributor to The Today Show and CBS Early Show as well as the co-author of Who Invented Lemonade: The Power of Positive Perspective.

Dr. Barzvi has considerable experience treating Social Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, School Refusal, and Separation Anxiety. At the Child Study Center, Dr. Barzvi is the Clinical Director of the Anita Saltz Institute for Anxiety and Mood Disorders and Assistant Clinical Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. She is also the Cognitive Behavioral Therapist for the Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters Program at the Center.

This Vespa-riding gastroenterologist and internist is at home in the examination room, the classroom &mdashl he’s a Clinical Instructor at NYU School of Medicine — and the court room, as a frequent expert witness in the field of gastroenterology.

Dr. Breite is a general gastroenterologist and internist and a Clinical Instructor at NYU School of Medicine.

A specialist in the treatment of lung cancer, Dr. Chachoua runs the multidisciplinary thoracic malignancy board at NYU Langone Medical Center. He has participated in a number of clinical trials to evaluate new therapies for the treatment of lung cancer. Dr. Chachoua received his medical degree from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and then completed additional training at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. Dr. Chachoua specializes in the treatment of thoracic malignancies. He came to NYU to complete a research fellowship in medical oncology and was the recipient of an American Cancer Society career development award to evaluate the role of immune modulation in the treatment of solid tumors. Dr. Chachoua has been on the faculty of NYU since 1985.

Dr. Cheung is a New Yorker who graduated from Stuyvesant High School and the combined BA/MD program at SUNY Downstate. She is a board-certified dermatologist and fellowship-trained in minimally-invasive cosmetic surgery. Her procedural specialties include laser surgery, liposuction, fat transfer, injectable fillers, Botox®, mesotherapy, and sclerotherapy. Dr. Cheung also provides comprehensive general dermatological care. She is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and the Associate Director of Cosmetic Dermatology at NYU Medical Center.

Dr. Cheung enjoys cruising around the city on her Vespa and also going to the beach, where she has fun in the sun, safely.

Dr. Kimberly DeOre is an Internist at the Murray Hill Medical Group and faculty at the NYU School of Medicine. Part of her inspiration to become physician started when she volunteered as a firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician during college. She completed her BS in neurobiology at the University of Maryland while conducting research in obesity and metabolic disorders as a Howard Hughes Fellow. She continued her research at the National Institutes of Health while she attended Howard University Medical School. Dr. DeOre volunteered as a physician in India and studied tropical medicine before returning to start her residency in Internal Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. Her areas of interest lie in women's psychiatric and preventative medicine, tropical medicine and endocrine disorders.

Dr. DeOre has appeared on several television programs including CNN International as a medical consultant. She also speaks German and has been interviewed numerous times for both German and other European radio programs.

Dr. DeOre now lives with her husband, and two young children in Queens, New York. She is currently focusing on getting at least one of her two children potty trained and learning how to cook.

Behavioral psychologist Dr. Lori Evans is a specialist in ADHD and Behavior Disorders. But she wishes she had her behavioral psychologist help out at home with her own two young children.

Dr. Lori Evans is Director of Training at the NYU Medical Center Psychology program. A specialist in ADHD and Behavior Disorders, Dr. Evans has coordinated the "Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters" study at the NYU Child Study Center and has appeared on several TV programs, including ABC and NBC News.

Dr. Frederick Feit is among the pioneers who revolutionized the treatment of heart attacks – if you need a heart catheter, he’s the guy you want working on you. But you’ll also want to hear how the Director of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab enjoys treating not just blocked arteries, but the whole patient.

Dr. George Foltin is the Director of the Center for Pediatric Emergency Medicine of the New York University School of Medicine, where he is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, and has served as Director of the Pediatric Emergency Service at Bellevue Hospital since 1987. During his tenure there, he developed the first Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship in the State of New York and has been involved with the education of medical students, residents and fellows and prehospital providers. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Among his numerous committee activities, he is the Chairperson of the AAP District II Committee on EMSC, Chairperson of the NYC Task Force on Terrorism Preparedness for Children and Founding President of the New York Society for Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He has published extensively in the field of Emergency Medical Services for Children, and serves as a consultant to the New York City and State Departments of Health, as well as to Federal programs such as MCHB and NHTSA. He recently served on National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Committees on the Future of Emergency Care in The U.S. Health System and the Pediatric Subcommittee for Future of Health Care.

In his 15 years as an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Billy Goldberg has been asked every medical question imaginable. Get your own answers from the co-author of Why Do Men Have Nipples? and Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? And find out why he finds humor to be an effective treatment in the ER.

Decode the latest findings and get answers to common women’s health questions with Dr. Nieca Goldberg, a nationally recognized cardiologist and pioneer in women’s health and the award-winning author of Women Are Not Small Men and Dr. Nieca Goldberg’s Complete Guide to Women’s Health.

Dr. Goldberg, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine and the medical director of New York University’s Women’s Heart Program and has received numerous awards, including the American Heart Association’s. As an award-winning author she has been responsible for shedding light on women’s health and preventing heart disease. In addition, Dr. Goldberg is a national spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s “Go Red” campaign and has appeared on many television shows such as the Today show, The View, and Good Morning America. Her other published work includes a myriad of articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Fitness magazine as well as many scholarly publications.

Samantha Heller is a registered dietitian, certified dietitian/nutritionist, and an exercise physiologist with a dual Master of Science degree in nutrition and applied physiology. She was a senior clinical nutritionist and exercise physiologist at NYU Medical center for almost a decade. Samantha designed, implemented and ran the outpatient nutrition program for the NYU Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. She has also been a fitness instructor for fifteen years. Currently Samantha is working as a consultant, writer, lecturer, a contributing editor to HEALTH magazine and is the nutrition coordinator at the Fairfield Connecticut YMCA.

Heller is Regarded as a specialist in the fields of clinical nutrition, health and medical nutrition therapy -- including expertise in diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity – as well as wellness, stress management, exercise and fitness. She is a highly sought after expert, spokesperson, writer and public speaker. Investment, food and cosmetic companies, health spas, colleges, pharmaceutical corporations and businesses from all walks of life, seek out Heller’s expertise as a consultant, spokesperson and lecturer. She is currently writing a book for Johns Hopkins University Press due out Fall 2009.

Dr. Nolan Karp is an Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at New York University School of Medicine. His specialty is breast and body plastic surgery, with extensive experience in all areas of breast surgery including: reconstruction, reduction, augmentation, and breast lifting. He also does all aspects of body contouring surgery. This includes liposuction, fat transfer, tummy tucks and surgery after massive weight loss.

He has been the principal investigator at NYU for the silicone breast implant studies and directed the breast plastic surgery service. He is also the Director of Plastic Surgery at Tisch Hospital.

Dr. Karp’s has been interviewed by numerous national and local TV and radio stations, including CBS, NBC, ABC and NY1 local news, as well as the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and House Calls on CNN with Sanjay Gupta.

Ever wonder how doctors themselves struggle to balance the conflicting needs of profession, self and family? No one tells those stories better than Dr. Perri Klass, an NYU professor of Journalism and Pediatrics, who has written about her practice, her patients and her own family. Tune in to get insights into pediatrics, infectious diseases, travel medicine and literacy and reading.

Perri Klass, M.D. has been writing as a medical journalist dating back to her years as a student at Harvard Medical School in the 1980s, when she published a series of essays, reflections on medical training, in the “Hers” column of The New York Times. Since that time she has published her medical journalism in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times Science Section, The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, Esquire, Parenting, and Vogue. Her essays about medicine and medical training have been collected in the books A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student (1987), and Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician’s Training (1992). She is also the author, with Dr. Eileen Costello, of Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn’t Fit In (2003). Her most recent books are Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to A Young Doctor (2007) and a novel, The Mercy Rule, forthcoming in July, 2008. She has frequently lectured on medicine and writing, including commencement addresses at many medical schools. Her role as a medical journalist was recently featured in the National Library of Medicine exhibit on Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians at the National Institutes of Health. As the Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national literacy program, she has trained physicians around the country on how to integrate books and advice about reading aloud into pediatrics.

Dr. Herbert Lepor is world-renowned for his research-driven approach to treating the prostate. In collaboration with his mentor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Patrick Walsh, M.D., he helped pioneer surgical techniques for removing the prostate while preserving sexual function, which has made it much easier for men to accept prostate surgery. Since 1993, he has performed the operation more than 2,000 times, with results that are among the best in the nation. Dr. Lepor became fascinated with medicine when his brother had one of the very first open heart surgeries in the country.

Dr. Lepor was appointed Chairman of Urology at NYU School of Medicine in 1993. At the time, he was the youngest chair of urology in the country. He has authored over 250 articles and book chapters and 10 textbooks related to the prostate. Dr. Lepor is recognized as one of the 17 best urologists in America and one of the best urologists in New York City and the United States by Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd. Dr. Lepor was recently inducted into the Hopkins Society of Scholars, a distinction awarded yearly to twelve post doctoral graduates of John Hopkins University.

Dolores Malaspina MD, MPH, is an expert psychiatrist, an accomplished research scientist and an award winning educator of physicians, trainees and the general public. Her broad approach to mental health issues is influenced by her advanced training in zoology and epidemiology, in addition to medicine and psychiatry. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has funded her research to identify risk factors and protective pathways for mental health for the last 25 years. She has authored more than 200 scientific papers, and also serves on editorial boards and as an NIH grant reviewer. Dr. Malaspina is also well known as a mentor who is training a new generation of psychiatric research scientists. She is a member of the group that is redefining the book criteria for making psychiatric diagnoses, called the DSM V.

At NYU, she is the Anita and Joseph Steckler Professor of Psychiatry and a former chairman of the NYU Bellevue Department of Psychiatry. She now directs InSPIRES, an institute for Social and Psychiatric Initiatives at the NYU Medical Center which is focused on preventing and curing severe mental disorders.

Dr. Joseph G. McCarthy is a champion of the cause of patients with facial deformity. In the field of reconstructive facial surgery, he pioneered and developed the concept of craniofacial distraction, which has revolutionized this surgical discipline. He also introduced the concept of surgical reconstruction of the face as early as infancy to avoid or ameliorate psychosocial problems arising during childhood and adolescence. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction since 1981 and Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of Smile Train since 1999, the latter organization having provided pro bono surgery to over 150,000 children with cleft lip/palate around the world. These organizations promote the access of all patients with facial deformity for proper treatment and rehabilitation. This work has been recognized by special awards from the NFFR, The Smile Train, the International Variety Club (Sir James Carreras Award), as well as designation as Father of the Year in 1995.

As Director of the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Dr. McCarthy oversees the largest national educational effort in plastic surgery and has trained over 100 plastic surgery residents and 25 post-resident fellows in craniofacial surgery. The graduates of the residency training program have gone on to assume the Chairs of Plastic Surgery in over 20 universities around the world. He was given the Pioneer Surgeon Award by the University of Zurich in 2003 and was presented the Honorary Award of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons in 2005. He has been on the Best Doctors List (New York Magazine) since 1980 and the Best Doctors in America list since 1996. In 2007 he was awarded the National Physician Award, Connolly List of Best Doctors in America.

Dr. Andrew R. McCullough is an internationally recognized expert and educator in sexual health. He is the Director of the Male Sexual Health, Fertility and Microsurgery division in Urology at NYU School of Medicine and has presented his research work in male sexual health and fertility at major conferences throughout the world.

Dr. McCullough, Associate Professor in the Department of Urology at the NYU School of Medicine, was one of the original clinical investigators for sildenafil and continues to investigate new medical therapies for the treatment of male sexual dysfunction. He has written extensively on sexual rehabilitation after radical prostatectomy and has served as principal investigator in over 30 major clinical trials. In addition to his teaching and mentoring responsibilities to undergraduates, medical students and urology residents, he generously donates his time for patient education seminars throughout the year. He serves as reviewer for the Journal of Urology, Urology, International Journal of Impotence Research, and Andrology. He has been interviewed on ABC 20/20 as well as virtually every network news channel on topics ranging from male sexual dysfunction to male factor infertility.

Dr. Cindy Osman, the mother of two children, is a general pediatrician who practices in Bellevue Hospital’s pediatric clinic, where she is the Associate Medical Director and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. In addition, she is the Continuity Clinic Director for the NYU Pediatric Residency. Dr. Osman supervises the community pediatrics experience and the quality improvement training program for NYU pediatric residents as well. She was recently elected Regional Co-Chair for her region of the Academic Pediatric Association.

Dr. Osman sat on the National Pediatric Residency Review Committee, which accredits pediatric residency programs. In addition, she spent a year after medical school working as the National President of the American Medical Student Association where she lobbied on Capitol Hill for such items as increased access to health care and decreased medical student indebtedness. During that time she testified on Capitol Hill, was interviewed on a local Las Vegas news program and was quoted in Rolling Stone magazine.

Dr. Daniel Rauch is the Director of the Pediatric Hospitalist program at the New York University School of Medicine. He is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Hospital Medicine Special Interest Group of the of the APA (Academic Pediatric Association), Co-Chair of the Pediatric Core Curriculum Task Force and member of the Pediatric Committee for the Society of Hospital Medicine and member of the Executive Committee of the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) Section of Hospital Medicine. He was invited to serve on the Pediatric Technical Advisory Panel, as part of the National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Hospital Care: Additional Priorities, 2006-2007, and has been a planning committee member for the national Pediatric Hospital Medicine conferences. He remains active in medical education as the Assistant Residency Director at NYU, as a member of the Executive Committee of the APA Education Committee, and as faculty of the APA Educational Scholars Program.

Dr. Rauch has been interviewed by CNN, News4, the CW11, Parenting Magazine, the Daily News, and the Journal News.

What happens when when a minimally invasive heart surgeon gets stuck in traffic on the way to an operation? Get the stories behind these life-saving procedures and the latest findings for your health with Dr. Greg Ribakove.

Dr. Ribakove is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at New York University School of Medicine. He is a senior adult cardiac surgeon at NYU Medical Center, specializing in minimally invasive approaches to heart surgery. Much to the detriment of his social life, Dr. Ribakove often spends weekends in the O.R.

No question is taboo for Dr. Sadock. Sexual dysfunction, relational problems and depression and anxiety disorders – find out everything you ever wanted to know from the director of the Program in Human Sexuality and Sex Therapy at the NYU Langone Medical Center, one of the largest treatment and training programs of its kind in the United States.

Virginia Alcott Sadock, MD is a member of the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine, where she is clinical professor of psychiatry and attending psychiatrist at Tisch Hospital and Bellevue Hospital. She is the author of over 50 articles and chapters on sexual behavior, including the effects of drugs on sexual function, and was the developmental editor of The Sexual Experience, one of the first major textbooks on human sexuality. Dr. Sadock was a founder of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research and a founder of the Committee on Women in Psychiatry of the New York County District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association. She is active in academic matters, has served as an assistant and associate examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for over 15 years, and was also a member of the test committee in psychiatry for both the American Board of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric Knowledge and Self-Assessment Program (PKSAP) of the American Psychiatric Association. She lectures extensively both in the United States and abroad on sexual dysfunction, relational problems, and depression and anxiety disorders. She is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.