The purpose of the CardioReady Medical Advisory Board is to provide guidance and information concerning medical studies, advancements in technology, trends in health care, legislation, and events for consideration by the CRCC Board of Directors in advancing the mission and objectives of the CardioReady initiative.

Richard N. Edie, M.D., Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board
Dr. Edie is a nationally renowned cardiothoracic surgeon. Most recently, he served as a Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Edie was formerly on the staffs of Columbia Presbyterian and Babies Hospital in New York City and the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia.

Dr. Edie received his M.D. from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1965, completed surgical residencies at Roosevelt and Columbia Presbyterian Hospitals in New York City, and subsequently practiced for 30 years. He is a member of the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the New York Thoracic Surgical Society and the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery.

Jack P. Carey, M.D.
Originally from Villanova, Pennsylvania, Dr. Carey graduated from St. Joseph’s University and received his M.D. from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. After completing a surgical internship at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, he trained in Neurosurgery at the University of Oklahoma. He was Board certified in Neurological Surgery in 1978.

Dr. Carey practiced Neurosurgery in Hagerstown Maryland and Chambersburg Pennsylvania from 1976 until 1999. He is a member of the American Association of Neurosurgeons, the Congress of Neurosurgeons, and the North American Spine Society. Currently retired from active practice, he resides with his wife in Bonita Springs, Florida.

Thomas F. Claffey, M.D. FACP
Dr. Claffey graduated from Boston College and the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He completed residences in Internal Medicine at Hartford Hospital and the University of Iowa, followed by a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Iowa. He is Board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

In 1975 Dr. Claffey entered private practice in Portland, Maine, where he continues to live and work. He is the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Maine Medical Center in Portland and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine on the faculty at the University of Vermont, where he oversees teaching of residents, medical students and fellows in Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Claffey is also president of Intermed, a 60 physician multi-specialty medical group in Portland. He serves as medical director of New England Life Care, a home infusion therapy provider, and medical director and Board member of Nova Health, an independent practice association in Maine.

Raffaele Corbisiero, M.D.
Dr. Corbisiero is the Director of Electromechanical Therapy Institute and Section Chief, Electrophysiology and Pacing for Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ. He served his residency at Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, where he subsequently completed specialty training in Cardiology/Electrophysiology, as well as Baystate Medical Center/Western Campus of Tufts University, Springfield MA.

Dr. Corbisiero is Board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.  His special interests include, expanding indications for device therapy, pacemakers, defibrillators, resynchronization therapy, heart failure therapy, and complex ablation

Jerome M. Cotler, M.D., FAAOS, FACS, American Orthopaedic Association
Vice-Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University from 1987 until 1995, Dr. Jerome Cotler is currently the Dr. Everett J. and Marian Gordon Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. Internationally known clinician and basic scientist, Dr. Cotler has been extremely active in the field of Spinal Cord Injury and Rehabilitation.

Dr. Cotler is a member of and has held leadership positions with several prestigious organizations and societies. He was Vice President of the American Orthopaedic Association, President of the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Society, Secretary and later Chairman of the Board of Councilors of the Academy, Secretary-Treasurer and then President of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, a Trustee and Secretary-Treasurer of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, and President of the Jefferson Medical Alumni Association.

Dr. Cotler is the author or coauthor of over 150 publications and is the recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Garland Award for Excellence in resident education.

James H. Gault, M.D.
Dr. Gault graduated from Cornell University Medical College and trained in Internal Medicine at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center in New York City. After completing his cardiology training at the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, he joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, as Director, Cardiovascular Diagnosis Laboratories. He subsequently moved to the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine where he served as Professor of Medicine and Radiology and Chief of the Cardiology Division.

In 1974, Dr. Gault left academic medicine to establish the cardiac program at the Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 2000 he moved to Okatie, South Carolina and currently works part time in the cardiology division of the South Coast Medical Group in Savannah, Georgia.

Among other distinctions, Dr. Gault has serves as Governor of the American College of Cardiology and President of the College’s Pennsylvania Chapter, and has been listed in “Best Doctors in America”.

JJ Keyser MD, MBA, FACS
Dr. Keyser graduated from Princeton University and received his M.D. from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1965. He completed his Internship and general surgical training in 1973 at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. This training was interrupted by two years in the United States Naval Reserve, where Dr. Keyser served as the ship’s surgeon on the USS Bennington CVS-20 on Yankee Station and at North Island Naval Air Station, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

Following general surgery training, Dr. Keyser completed two years of plastic surgery training at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, then a six month fellowship in hand surgery at Roosevelt Hospital with renowned Drs. Littler and Eaton. He shared an office with Dr. Littler for a year before joining the Peer Group for Plastic Surgery in New Jersey, where he worked for 30 years with a group of five plastic surgeons in their private practice and surgical center.

Dr. Keyser has made 24 volunteer surgical trips to South America, and Asia, including Indonesia, Viet Nam, China, Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia and Bhutan. Most of these trips were made in conjunction with Interplast, for whom he served on the Board of Directors and led significant fund raising efforts. In 1998 he earned his MBA from the Columbia Business School EMBA program. He served for ten years as Chairman of the Division of Plastic Surgery at Morristown Memorial Hospital, has chaired several committees for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and was President of the Peer Foundation.

Michael J. Terlizzi, M.D.
Dr. Terlizzi graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1970 and the Loyola University of Chicago School of Medicine in 1974. He performed his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Dermatology at the Albany Medical Center of Albany Medical College in New York. Certified by the American Board of Dermatology and the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery. He is also a member of the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Terlizzi serves on the clinical faculty of the Tufts University School of Medicine and is in private practice in Andover, Massachusetts.