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	John L. Pfenninger, M.D., FAAF John B. Pope, M.D. Paul Fox, M.D. Joseph S. Esherick, M.D., FAAFP John L. Pfenninger, M.D., FAAF Dr. Pfenninger graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed a residency in Family Practice at the University of Utah affiliated hospitals. He is Board Certified in Family Practice, a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and received the 2005 “Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s Excellence in Teaching Award” and the 2005 “Thomas W. Johnson Award for Career Contributions to Family Medicine Education.” Dr. Pfenninger’s current positions include: Founder, The National Procedures Institute, which conducts over 120 national continuing medical education courses on office surgery and procedural skills each year. Director, The Medical Procedures Center, PC, private practice limited to office surgery and procedures, Midland, Michigan. Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Michigan State College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Pfenninger is a medical reviewer for four family practice journals and Digestive and Liver Disease, The Italian Journal of Gastroenterology. He has published extensively on various office procedural skills. The second edition of Pfenninger & Fowler’s Procedures for Primary Care was published in August 2003. It is a 2080 page text which reviews 225 different procedures for primary care physicians. The first edition was a best seller and was ranked as one of the 37 all-time best medical texts ever. He also edited The Clinics Atlas of Office Procedures: Joint Injection Techniques (Saunders 2002) and is the author of 36 scientific articles and over 50 chapters in medical textbooks. His research led to the development of a novel treatment for the common wart which one dermatology journal now recommends as the first choice for cure. Dr. Pfenninger’s comments and opinions have been solicited by numerous journals for editorial publication including The British Medical Journal. He has written a weekly medical column in the Midland Daily News, “A Word from Dr. Pfenninger About…” since 1998. In 2002, Dr. Pfenninger was a finalist for the Ernst and Young Eastern Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He received the 1992 “Walter J. Kemp Award” for best scientific paper published in the American Family Physician, the 1988 “Robert E. Bowsher Best Clinical Teacher Award” at the Mid Michigan Regional Medical Center, and the 1982 “Best Family Physician Research Paper by Family Practice Faculty”, Michigan State University. In 1993 he received the “Colposcopy Recognition Award” from the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. Dr. Pfenninger has appeared on national Lifetime TV, and has recorded numerous patient education videotapes. Although he maintains a busy private practice, he remains active in family practice education. He has presented at the WONCA meeting in South Africa, in Singapore, and to plastic surgeons in Taiwan. He has been invited to speak in Russia and at the annual family physician assembly in Spain. He has been a regular speaker at the annual American Academy of Family Physicians Convention for the last 20 years. Dr. Pfenninger serves as consultant to numerous companies. <BACK TO TOP>

	John B. Pope, M.D.
	John B. Pope, M.D. is board certified in Family Practice and is a Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Louisiana where he has served on the faculty since 1991. He serves as Procedure Coordinator for the family medicine residency at LSUHSC where his primary responsibilities include training residents in various procedure skills including upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, exercise stress testing and colposcopy. Dr. Pope received his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport in 1988 where he also completed a residency in Family Medicine and served as Chief Resident. He speaks nationally for the American Academy of Family Practice and the National Procedures Institute. His topics include gastrointestinal endoscopy, colorectal cancer and screening, exercise stress testing and gastrointestinal diseases. Dr. Pope has published research in several family medicine journals and has written multiple book chapters on procedures and GI topics. He is currently involved with research funded by the National Cancer Institute on the chemoprevention of colon polyps. <BACK TO TOP>

	Paul Fox, M.D.
	Dr. Fox introduced the concept of exclusively non-surgical aesthetic medical procedures in Scottsdale, Arizona by opening Derma-Light Aesthetic Centers in 1997. He is board-certified in Anesthesiology and trained at the Los Angeles County - U.S.C. Medical Center. He received additional post-graduate training in cosmetic injection techniques, cutaneous lasers, and phlebology. Dr. Fox's many years as a practicing hospital anesthesiologist give him a unique expertise as a Cosmetic Injection Specialist. He works with a needle instead of a scalpel to specialize in non-surgical wrinkle treatments, including use of botulinum toxin and the newest tissue fillers, and is a recognized expert in laser and injection sclerotherapy. Dr. Fox personally injects more patients with cosmetic botulinum toxin yearly than any other Arizona physician. He now teaches these techniques nationally to almost 500 other physicians annually. Professional affiliations include the American Society of Anesthesiologists, American College of Phlebology, and the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. <BACK TO TOP>

	Joseph S. Esherick, M.D., FAAFP
	Joseph S. Esherick, M.D., FAAFP, is a graduate of the Yale University School of medicine and is currently a member of the family practice faculty, a hospitalist and associate ICU director at the Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, California. Prior to medical school Dr. Esherick received a bachelors degree in chemistry at Williams College. Dr. Esherick is also an editor for First Consult, the author of the Tarascon Primary Care Pocketbook and instructor for the National Procedures Institute’s Hospitalist Procedures course.

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