North Hills Hospital

Jerome M. Kane, M.D. is a board certified neurologist with 23 years of experience in practice. Dr. Kane is currently 53 years old and is married with two children. He enjoys a round of golf whenever he is not catching up on rounds at the hospital. Dr. Kane attended Medical School at Tulane University in New Orleans and completed his residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas, TX. Dr. Kane also completed a Neurophysiology fellowship at the UT Health Science Center and is currently the director of the Rehabilitation Facility at North Hills Hospital.

David Juan, MD is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Endocrinology & Metabolism. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly on the faculty at Norwestern Medical School, Department of Medicine, and has also worked in the biopharmaceutical industry where he has been responsible for the development of drugs for treating hypertension, stroke, benign prostatic hypertrophy, erectile dysfunction, and osteoporosis. He has written extensively in the area of nutrition, endocrinology, pain relief, and rationale therapeutics.

Elizabeth S. Smoots, MD is a board certified family physician based in Seattle, Washington. A Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Dr. Smoots specializes in prevention and primary care medicine. She has over 20 years of experience in the medical field in private practice, health maintenance organizations, and various group-practice clinics around the Seattle area.

Marcin Chwistek, MD is a part of the pain management and supportive oncology care department at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pennysylvania. He received his medical degree at Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland. He completed an internship at L. Rydygier's Hospital in Krakow, followed by an additional internship and residency in internal medicine at Yale University-Bridgeport Hospital. Dr. Chwistek also completed fellowships at the University of Arizona in integrative medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Pain and Palliative Care. He is board certified in internal medicine, pain medicine, and hospice and palliative medicine, and specializes in cancer pain and supportive oncology.

Sharon Roseanne Thompson, MD, MPH is currently a fourth year resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA where she serves as chief resident for teaching. Her experience in education and curriculum planning spans over 10 years. She is currently an active member of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Education Committee as well as the Partners HealthCare Education Committee which oversees educational activities for five hospitals in the Boston area. Dr. Thompson received her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a master in public health from University of California at Berkeley, and her undergraduate degree from Vassar College.