Medical Review Board
We are a team of passionate health bloggers dedicated to uncovering rarely discussed medical topics and presenting them in a clear, simple way—so you can understand and learn with ease.
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Toni Brayer, MD
Physician, Health Care CEO, Mentor, Writer, Board Director
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She serves on a number of boards of directors and has received many awards for her volunteer service after the Haiti earthquake, gulf coast hurricane Michael and the Katrina hurricane. Dr. Brayer recently returned from a medical mission in Rwanda. She has been named a “Best Doctor” for many years and was named “One of the most Influential women in business” by the San Francisco Business Times.
A well-known physician leader and speaker, Dr. Brayer and has written extensively about health care issues, medical economics, physician leadership, women’s health and leadership, social justice, public policy ad quality. She continues her medicine practice at The Institute for Health and Healing and is writing and consulting.
Roberta B. Carey, PhD
D(ABMM), CMQ/OE (ASQ)
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Dr. Roberta B. Carey is a consultant in clinical microbiology and laboratory quality management. She was the Director of the Laboratory Quality Management Program for the Infectious Diseases Laboratories at the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) and served as their CLIA Laboratory Director until she retired in 2016. She held the position of Branch Chief of Clinical and Environmental Microbiology at the CDC and Acting Director for the Division of Laboratory Systems. Before coming to CDC in 2004, Dr. Carey was the clinical laboratory director at Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL; and the Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago. She is a board-certified diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology and a Certified Manager of Quality/ Organizational Excellence. She earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in NYC and did a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical and public health microbiology at Temple University in Philadelphia.