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Michael F. Roizen, MD
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Advisor
Dr. Roizen has both the medical and business experience to help make Trio Health successful. He was the co-founder of the Executive Health Program at the University of Chicago, and until July 2003 staffed the Executive Health Program there two-days a month.

Dr. Roizen is the former Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago. During his 16 years as the head of this top 10 nationally rated department, Dr. Roizen led the department from $0 in peer reviewed funding and 6 publications, 12,000 anesthesia hours, and a financial deficit in 1984, to over $3 million a year in peer reviewed funding, over 100 peer reviewed publications, 58,000 anesthesia hours and the largest financial surplus of any department in 1999-2000. He then became Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice-President for Biomedical Sciences at SUNY Upstate. On July 1, 2005, he became Chair of the Division of Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine & Comprehensive Pain Management for The Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Roizen is the past chair of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee, an editor or associate editor for six medical journals, and has published more than 155 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 30 editorials, and three medical books (one a 'medical' best-seller, translated into 13 languages). His first lay book, RealAge: Are You As Young As You Can Be? published by Harper-Collins, became a #1 New York Times bestseller. His most recent book, “You: The Owner’s Manual” is also a #1 New York Times bestseller with over 2 million copies in print. Dr Roizen has given talks to medical groups in 49 of the US states and 16 foreign countries, over 1000 lectures on medical topics to professional medical groups, and has been recognized with over 20 named professional lectureships.

Dr. Roizen is a founder and serves as Director of the Science Team of RealAge, Inc. (RealAge.com). RealAge, Inc. provides information and solutions to help people live healthier, longer lives. Since 1999, over 12 million people have taken the patented RealAge test, which is widely accepted as the gold standard for measuring individual health status. RealAge has also become an international brand, through a health reality show that was the number one rated TV program in Holland for 17 of its 20 "episodes". Sponsors plan to syndicate the program to more than 10 countries.

Dr. Roizen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College, and Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of California, San Francisco medical school. He performed his residency in internal medicine at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital and completed a tour of duty at the National Institutes of Health in the laboratory of Irv Kopin and Nobel Prize winner Julius Axelrod. He is certified by both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Anesthesiology.
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Aaron Gerber, MD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
As the General Manager of Physicians Interactive and Group Vice President of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX), Dr. Gerber was responsible for the overall management and leadership of the Physicians Interactive business unit of Allscripts. During his four years as head of the Physicians Interactive business, Dr. Gerber grew the company from 2 clients, 5 employees and $150,000 in revenue, to 41 clients, 50 employees and over $12,000,000 in revenue, making it the most profitable business unit at Allscripts.

Dr. Gerber came to Allscripts from Sprout Group, the venture capital affiliate of Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette. At Sprout Group, Dr. Gerber was responsible for all phases of the investment process and focused on companies in the areas of health care services and health care information technology.

Prior to his tenure at Sprout Group, Dr. Gerber was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, where he worked with a number of national and international health care service and product companies on a variety of strategic and operational engagements.

Dr. Gerber received his Medical Doctorate from Northwestern University Medical School and his Master of Management degrees from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Bronze Tablet with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Jane Spinner, MSW, MBA
Chief Operating Officer
Jane Spinner (MSW, MBA) has over 20 years of operations and consulting experience in the health care industry. For 10 years, she was CEO of the Michigan Heart and Vascular Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan, forming the Institute with 13 physicians in two cardiovascular specialties at three sites and growing it to over 40 physicians in four specialties at 7 sites. During her tenure, she spearheaded a national initiative through the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) that resulted in an award given to only four cardiovascular centers in the country. The award was based upon ability to achieve high quality outcomes while significantly decreasing cost.

The national attention received as a result of this award and Ms. Spinner’s experience with service line business planning, marketing and program development led her to start her own consulting firm in 1998, specializing in center of excellence development, physician-hospital collaboration, strategic marketing planning and leadership development. She has worked with hospital systems and large physician groups to develop centers in cardiovascular care, cancer, orthopedics, integrative medicine and wellness.

Prior to her experience at the Michigan Heart and Vascular Institute, Ms Spinner was a hospital administrator at a large medical center, and vice president of marketing and business development for the health care division of a large retail drug chain. She has also been a national lecturer on health care marketing and physician-hospital relationships, and a mediator/facilitator for physician groups.

Ms Spinner received her BA in psychology from the University of Michigan, her Masters in Social Work from Wayne State University, and her Masters in Business (graduated with honors) from Michigan State University’s Executive MBA program.
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Michael Kessel, MBA, CPA
Vice President Finance and Business Development
 As the financial manager of a $200 million medical-surgical products group at Cardinal Health, Mr. Kessel was responsible for the strategic financial leadership of the business. During his tenure, the self-manufacturing business unit grew revenues 6% per year and operating income 10% per year.

Mr. Kessel came to Cardinal Health from Ignition State, a web development firm. As one of the founding members, Mr. Kessel grew the company over an 18-month period from 5 employees and $20,000 in revenue to 55 employees and $3 million in revenue.

Prior to his tenure at Ignition State, Mr. Kessel was a supervisor at a public accounting firm, where he worked with companies in various sectors.

Mr. Kessel holds a MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern.
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Elizabeth Crane, MBA
Executive Director, Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
 Ms. Crane is responsible for the day-to-day leadership and management of the Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Prior to joining Trio Health in April of 2005, she spent 12 years in both clinical and operational roles at Cancer Treatment Centers of America. In her last position with CTCA she was responsible for drafting and implementing standard operating and quality assessment procedures throughout the hospital chain.

Ms. Crane has a Masters degree in psychology and an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Business. She has special training and expertise in Lean Systems Thinking, an operations methodology focused on improving quality and achieving cost efficiencies. back to top ^

Jeff Klein
Vice President Information Technology
As the Vice President of Information Technology for Trio Health, Jeff Klein is responsible for the design, development and support of Trio Health’s information products and services. Mr. Klein has an extensive background in enterprise level system design and has been working in the health care IT field for many years.

Prior to joining Trio Health, Mr. Klein was the senior development manager with Physicians Interactive group, a business unit of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX). During his five years with Physicians Interactive, Mr. Klein was responsible for leading the technology division. Under his guidance the system expanded to provide e-Detailing services to over 70,000 physicians per year providing Allscripts with more than $12,000,000 in annual revenue.

Mr. Klein graduated in 1993 from Roosevelt University in Chicago with a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science.
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Lorrie Elliott
Associate Medical Director
As Associate Medical Director for Trio Health and the Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Dr. Elliot is responsible for leading and managing clinical operations. Prior to coming to Northwestern and Trio Health, Dr. Elliott practiced internal medicine at the University of Chicago for 10 years where she most recently held the title of Associate Professor of Medicine.

She has been a consultant since 2002 to ABC World News Medical Coverage. Dr. Elliot earned her B.S. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with high honors and with distinction, and her M.D. at Rush Medical College where she was awarded the Janet M. Glasgow Award of the American Medical Women’s Association, presented to the female student graduating first in class.

She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago. She is board certified in internal medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Her special interests include preventive health, motivation and exercise and women’s health.
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Robert Hurwitz
Chairman Board of Directors
Robert Hurwitz is the Co-Founder, Founding Chairman, and former Co-CEO of Office Max, Inc., which he grew to a national chain. He also founded Professional Housewares Distributors, Inc. in 1979, which has become one of the nation's largest housewares distributors.

In addition to his current role as founding owner and Principal of The Coral Company, a real estate development, construction, and management firm, he sits on the board of two other private companies in the health care services and wellness space. He has also been actively involved in the financing and operations of over 30 companies.
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