Medical Advisory Board

Robert Schwarzberg, MD — Chief Medical Director

Boca Raton, FL - Dr. Schwarzberg brings extensive experience in telemedicine and disease management to this position, and is recognized as a leader in the telemedicine industry. Dr. Schwarzberg was the Chairman and Medical Director of Cardiolife, a national cardiac monitoring company, and was instrumental in its business and technology development from a startup to 18 million in revenue with substantial intellectual property including a patent he authored on a hybrid smart event recorder. In 1996, he became Chief Medical Officer of Ralin Medical and its subsidiary's: Cardiac Solutions (now CorSolutions) and LifeWatch Corp. (LWC), the largest arrhythmia management company in the U.S. CorSolutions is a national disease management company. He was responsible for ongoing development and growth of disease management programs in heart failure, diabetes, chronic obstructive lung disease, coronary artery disease and the application of quality improvement programs into the delivery of healthcare. Dr. Schwarzberg has consulted in disease management for the United Healthcare group, Humana, and Doctor Quality. Dr. Schwarzberg is a board certified cardiologist and fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He continues to enjoy an active Cardiology practice in Boca Raton, Florida. He received his medical degree from Wayne State University and B.A. from Columbia University.

Alan Kadish, MD

Evanston, IL — Dr. Alan Kadish received his BA from Columbia University (1976) and his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1980), both located in New York, NY. He completed his internship and residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (Boston, MA) from 1980 — 1983 and his Fellowship in Cardiology from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. A recognized authority in cardiology and its academic applications, Dr. Kadish’s research, letters, reviews and scientific abstracts have been published in more than 400 medical journals over the last 25 years. He is a fellow of both the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, and sits on the editorial board or is an Editorial Consultant for more than a dozen cardiology journals. Affiliated with Northwestern University since 1990, Dr. Kadish currently serves as Senior Associate Chief of Cardiology and is a member of the Graduate School Faculty. Dr. Kadish has served as Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Director of both Electrophysiology (1990 — 2002) and Electrocardiology (1994 — 2002), as well as the Associate Director of the Electrophysiology Lab at University Hospital, University of Michigan from 1987 — 1990.

Harry Kopelman, MD

Atlanta, GA - QA Program - Dr. Kopelman is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. (1980). He completed his internship/residency at North Carolina Memorial Hospital/University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1983). He completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiac Electrophysiology at The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN (1985), where he has also served as an Instructor in Medicine. He spent two years in academic medicine as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Philadelphia Heart Institute (1988). He founded the cardiac electrophysiology program at Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta and at The Atlanta Cardiology Group, P.C. in 1989, serving as its Director until 1993. He is Co-Director of Electrophysiology Research and affiliate Scientist at the Atlanta Cardiovascular Research Institute where he has played a central role in the program's development in ongoing clinical and pre-clinical research. He has served specific areas of research interest including three dimensional electroanatomical cardiac mapping and ablation. He has authored and co-authored a number of papers in highly refereed publications. He is board certified in Internal Medicine (1983) and the subspecialties of Cardiovascular Disease (1985) and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (1992). Dr. Kopelman has been serving as a Medical Director of LWC/Quality Diagnostic Services since 1995. He has also been named chairperson of the Card Guard International Advisory Board providing new product development and testing assessment.

Steve Prater, MD

Atlanta, GA - QA program - Stephen Prater, MD, is a board certified cardiologist and electrophysiologist. Dr. Prater completed his Electrophysiology fellowship at Loyola University of Chicago, and is currently a practicing Electrophysiologist at the Atlanta Cardiology Group.