George D. Lundberg, MD

Editor-in-Chief of the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, Medscape Core Content, and Medscape General Medicine

A 1995 "pioneer" of the medical internet, Dr. Lundberg has worked in tropical medicine in Central America and Forensic Medicine in New York, Sweden, and England. His major professional interests are toxicology, violence, communication, physician behavior, strategic management, and health system reform. He is past president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. From 1982 to 1999, Dr. Lundberg was at the American Medical Association as editor-in-chief, scientific information and multimedia with editorial responsibility for its 39 medical journals, American Medical News, and various Internet products, and the editor of JAMA. In 1999 Dr. Lundberg became editor-in-chief of Medscape, a leading source of online health information and education for physicians and healthcare professionals and the founding editor-in-chief of both Medscape General Medicine and CBS HealthWatch.com. Today, he serves as the editor-in-chief of eMedicine's Clinical Knowledge Base, Medscape Core Content, and Medscape General Medicine (www.medgenmed.com), the first and only online, peer-reviewed primary source general medical journal. A frequent lecturer, radio and television guest, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Lundberg holds academic appointments as a professor at Northwestern and Harvard. In 2000, the Industry Standard dubbed Dr. Lundberg "Online Health Care's Medicine Man." Dr. Lundberg holds earned and honorary degrees from North Park College, Baylor University, the University of Alabama (Birmingham and Tuscaloosa), the State University of New York, Syracuse, Thomas Jefferson University, and the Medical College of Ohio. He completed a clinical internship in Hawaii and a pathology residency in San Antonio.

Rick G. Kulkarni, MD
Medical Director, eMedicine

Rick G. Kulkarni, MD, was appointed to the position of Medical Director with eMedicine in 2004. His responsibilities include serving as the primary medical consultant for the various customized continuing medical education offerings, Medical Director for eMedicine's Clinical Knowledge Base, medical coordinator and editor for weekly clinical email mailings, Chief Editor of the Emergency Medicine volume, and Editor-in-Chief of the Clinical Procedures volume.

Dr. Kulkarni currently is an Attending Physician at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Adult Emergency Department where he serves in the role of Medical Director. He also holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Section of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Kulkarni completed his graduate medical training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program and earned his medical degree from the UCSF School of Medicine. His areas of research are in workflow optimization and clinical performance improvement in the Emergency Department and his clinical interests are in the management of emergent airway and wilderness medicine. He is an author in several medical textbooks in the field of Emergency Medicine including eMedicine: Emergency Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and eMedicine: Clinical Procedures.