Meet Our Physician Review Board

At OrganizedWisdom Health we are on a mission to help people find the most useful resources for any particular health topic. We also want to cut out the clutter, the index spam, and duplicative health content that is confusing people.

Our standards are extremely high, and we pay great attention to quality. In fact, OrganizedWisdom is the only search service on the Web that provides physician-guided search. And we take this very seriously.

OrganizedWisdom's Physician Review Board is responsible for training, educating and guiding all our Guides. In addition, we take great care in hiring people who have extensive health backgrounds, personal experience with health issues, or who may have served as caregivers, health advocates or health professionals.

This helps us ensure that each of our WisdomCards reflect current, reliable medical knowledge, as well as provide multiple perspectives, rather than just one. Each member of our Physician Review Board are board-certified and come from a variety of specialties, enabling OrganizedWisdom to draw on a wide range of expertise.

Remember, OrganizedWisdom does NOT provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.

If you have any comments or questions please email us at feedback <at> organizedwisdom.com.

Howard Krein, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Krein is the Chief Medical Officer of OrganizedWisdom Health. He is also Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and a founding partner and co-director of Jefferson's Facial Aesthetic and Reconstructive Center. He is part of an exclusive group of physicians with two doctorates, receiving his M.D. from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Krein completed internships in both Emergency Medicine and General Surgery, a residency in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and a Fellowship in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Medical College of Virginia in Richmond Virginia. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's degree in Neuroscience from Rutgers University. Howard can be contacted at hkrein@organizedwisdom.com.

Areas of Specialty: Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Head and Neck Oncology, Microsurgery, Cosmetic Surgery

Scott Pearlman, M.D.

Dr. Pearlman is the Director of the OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team. He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is a practicing Emergency Physician. After receiving his Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Rutgers College, Dr. Pearlman earned his M.D. at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He completed a combined residency training program at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE and is board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. In addition, Dr. Pearlman is a certified hypnotist with an interest in Integrative Medicine, smoking cessation and pain management. He can be reached at spearlman@organizedwisdom.com.

Areas of Specialty: Emergency medicine, hypnosis, integrative medicine, pain management

Lawrence Koss, M.D.

After graduating from College at the University of Wisconsin with a BS in Zoology, Dr. Koss attended SUNY Upstate Medical School in New York, where he continues to live and practice medicine. As a Board-certified family doctor, he has provided comprehensive medical care in a large multi-specialty practice for the last 10 years. Dr. Koss has spent countless hours on patient education at health talks, health fairs, and on patient education committees. He has received multiple awards in medical education and community service.

Areas of Specialty: Family medicine, patient education, immunizations, diabetes, first aid, hypertension, mental health, headaches, family planning

Ryan Anderson, M.D.

Dr. Anderson is an ophthalmologist and eye surgeon with significant research and community-service experience. He holds a bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology from Brigham Young University and an M.D. from Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. He interned at Tucson Hospitals and served as a resident in Ophthalmology at Drexel University. He is certified by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Academy of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He lives and practices in Arizona.

Areas of Specialty: Eye conditions, eye surgery, diabetes, physical fitness

Our Quality Standards

These are the standards we use with every WisdomCard. It's the job of the Physician Review Board to make sure our expert health guides and editors have the training, tools and knowledge they need to create great WisdomCards that meet these standards:

• Free of "spam" and filler.
• Content is valuable to the patient seeking information.
• Content is well organized and written.
• Content is accurate and clear.
• Icons used to denote particularly good sites or sites where a little extra caution is in order.
• Links present a clear and thorough picture of the topic.
• Links are of high quality, properly noting their sources, qualifications and dates.
• Transparency: the source/author/point of view is clear for any site or resource that makes claims relating to the benefits/performance of a specific treatment, commercial product or service.
• WisdomCard links to sites/resources that clearly identify sponsors, including the identities of commercial and non-commercial organizations that have contributed funding, services or material for the site.
• All of the links on the WisdomCard are useful/helpful and the WisdomCard as a whole is useful/helpful/comprehensive.

Join the Physician Review Board

We are interested in adding a few Web-savvy physicians to our board. If you are interested in learning more, visit the Guide Program page and apply online.