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SPEAKER PROFILES - CME Program
Go Back to Mediterranean: Sept 19 - Oct 1, 2005 Cardiology 2005

Dr. Anil Gupta (Traditional Medicine)
Dr. Gupta is Staff Cardiologist at the Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga. He completed his MD at Dalhousie Medical School in 1996, his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Western Ontario in 1999 and his Cardiology Training in 2001, also at the University if Western Ontario, where he was a Chief Medical Resident and Chief Cardiology Resident.

Dr. Gupta has been a Council member on the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS). He is currently the Chair of Continuing Medical Education for the Division of Cardiology at William Osler and for the Greater Toronto Area Community Cardiologists (GTACC) and currently serves on the Continuing Professional Development Committee of the CCS and the Canadian Hypertension Society Guidelines Implementation Committee (CHEP). He is on the primary Panel for the recent CCS Fitness to Drive/Fly Consensus Document and the upcoming Peripheral Artery Disease Consensus Document.

Dr. Antoni Gual (Complementary Medicine & Physician's Health)
Head of the Alcohol Unit. Hospital Clínic. Barcelona
Alcohol Consultant. Program on Substance Abuse. Health Department. Catalonia

Dr. Gual was trained as a general practitioner and a specialist in Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Since 1980 he has been working in the addictions field. Head of the Alcohol Unit at the University of Barcelona Clinic Hospital since 1996, he has conducted clinical and epidemiological research in the alcohol field, and has also been involved in pre-grade and post-grade training. Since 1995 he has been leading the WHO Collaborative Study on Alcohol and Primary Health at the Health Department of Catalonia and is actually co-leading the PHEPA project (Integrating Health Promotion Activities into daily clinical work), financed by the EU. In 1991, Dr. Gual received the Queen Sofia Award for his research in the addictions field, and from 1996 to 2004 he has been the President of the Spanish Scientific Society on Alcohol and Alcoholism. Senior Consultant since 1998 at the Impaired Physicians Program of the Medical Council of Barcelona, he has also been actively involved since 1996 in the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

Dr. Pilar Lusilla (Complementary Medicine & Physician's Health)
Head of the Inpatient Unit. Integral Care Program for Sick Physicians. Galatea Foundation. Medical Council of Barcelona
Dr. Lusilla is a general practitioner at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where she also obtained the Doctoral Extraordinary Award in 1994 for her thesis on rating scales for anxiety and depression. She is trained as a specialist in Psychiatry at the Clinic University Hospital in Zaragoza, and since 1995, she has been working in the mental health field. Dr. Lusilla has been chief of the Inpatient Unit at the Impaired Physicians Program of the Medical Council of Barcelona since 2000. She has carried out clinical and epidemiological research in mental health on general population and specifically on impaired physicians, and has also been involved in post-grade training on burn out in health care professionals. She is an active member of the European Psychiatry Association and member since 1999 of the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

Peter Everett (Practice Management)
Peter is Vice President Planning and Business Development for PPI Financial Group in Toronto. A tax lawyer, he graduated from Bishop's University in 1974 and McGill University Law School in 1977 and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Law Society of British Columbia, the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Tax Foundation and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. His practice is restricted to taxation, corporate reorganizations and insurance related matters. Peter's professional training and development includes the In-Depth Tax Course and Income Tax Practice courses offered by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the income tax practice course offered by the University of Western Ontario Law School. He is a frequent conference speaker and author for the legal, accounting and insurance community.

Gregory Hilderman (Wealth Management)
Greg has been a partner in G2 Financial for the past 12 years and practicing comprehensive financial planning for the past 23. He is a Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant and has spent the past 15 years specializing in retirement, tax and estate planning. Greg has been instrumental in reshaping how numerous physician groups are compensated, with a focus on improving their current and future lifestyle. Some of the groups he has worked with include Neo-Natologists, Radiologists, Thoracic Surgeons, Neurologists and the Oncologists of Alberta and British Columbia.

Dr. Zarko Vrbica (Local Content)
Dr. Vrbica is Head of the Pulmonology department, Internal ward, at Dubrovnik General Hospital in Croatia. He graduated from Medical School at the University of Belgrade, in 1988, and recently obtained his Masters' Degree in Biomedicine from the University of Zagreb Medical School. He is a member of the Croatian medical association and has lectured at 5 expert congresses, including one abroad.