ReachMD XM 157 to Broadcast Presidential Healthcare Forum, Featuring Exclusive One-On-One Interviews With Top Healthcare Advisers for Obama and McCain Campaigns

ReachMD XM 157 to Broadcast Presidential Healthcare Forum, Featuring Exclusive One-On-One Interviews With Top Healthcare Advisers for Obama and McCain Campaigns

CHICAGO, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ReachMD(TM) announced today it will broadcast a special series of exclusive one-on-one interviews airing over two weeks with the top healthcare advisers to the presidential campaigns of Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.

The interviews feature Gail Wilensky, PhD., top healthcare adviser to Senator John McCain. Dr. Wilensky is a healthcare economist and senior fellow for Project HOPE, an international health education foundation. Also featured is David Cutler, M.D., senior healthcare adviser to Senator Barack Obama. Dr. Cutler is a healthcare economist and the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University.

The interviews are conducted by ReachMD host John Armstrong, M.D., who is a former colonel with the U.S. Army Medical Corps and currently serves as an attending surgeon at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. ReachMD polled its physician host-contributors who submitted pertinent questions particularly relevant to their work as clinicians, researchers, and policymakers.

In announcing this timely programming, Gary Epstein, CEO of ReachMD, said, "Our listener audience of medical professionals is keenly interested in how the differing policies and viewpoints of the presidential candidates will affect their patients, their practices, and their research -- and the U.S. healthcare delivery system as a whole."

ReachMD provides healthcare professionals access to medical communication, information and education through its multi-media platform of on-air radio broadcasts on XM Satellite Radio Channel 157 and online through live streaming and on-demand downloadable podcasts at http://www.reachmd.com/

About ReachMD XM 157:

ReachMD(TM) is a revolutionary new communication, information and education platform designed to engage busy, practicing clinicians and medical professionals every day. ReachMD broadcasts 24/7 over the XM satellite network as the first and only national radio station designed specifically for medical professionals. Their original programming includes interviews with world-renowned physicians covering professional topics within clinical medicine, treatment, research, executive management, government policies, technology and global health issues, among others. Visit ReachMD on XM Channel 157 or at http://www.reachmd.com/

Source: ReachMD

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