It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of my longtime friend and colleague Robert A. Donin, MPA to serve as the Chairman of our Industry Advisory Board.A native Californian, Mr. Donin holds a Bachelor of Health Science (BHS), Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington, and Master of Public Administration (MPA) from USC, Los Angeles, , California with main area of concentration in Health Services Administration.
Robert currently serves as President, TRI-PAC Health and Wellness Advocacy founded by Prof. V. Dorodny as a part of Clinton Gore Health Strategy in 1993 with focus on Patient-Physician and Legislative Advocacy and expansion of patient choice. TRI-PAC has been invited, asked, and provided input and testimony at local, state, national, and global level.
Through TRI-PAC, Mr. Donin serves as the Chairman, Guangzhou Medical Exchange Program and Director, Los Angeles Guangzhou Sister City Association. The Sister City will celebrate its 30 year anniversary in 2011.
Mr. Robert Donin is an Insurance Agent by trade specializing in health insurance and travel and international health insurance. He is a Member, local, state, and national health underwriters association. Have also been to Sacramento and Washington, D.C as a part of a delegation to communicate with state and national legislators and their staff on health reform and health insurance reform.
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Similarly, we are pleased by Dr. Paul W. Wallace decision to join the Advisory Board for TeleMed Partners.
Paul W. Wallace, M.D., M.P.A., has overseen the operation of Wallace of Beverly Hills, Inc. since 1993. A native of Los Angeles, Dr. Wallace attended Harvard Medical School and did his internship in General Surgery, with graduate training in Dermatology and a fellowship in Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery at the Charles Drew/M. L. King, Jr. Medical Center in Los Angeles. For the past decade he has been an attending physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and is the Clinical Director at San Mateo Medical Center. Dr. Wallace is a member of the U.S. Army Reserve and specializes in Military Trauma and wound ballistics.Dr. Wallace has 21 years of ringside medicine (boxing) experience. He is currently the Chairman, World Boxing Council Medical Advisory Board; Chairman, WBC Muy Thai Medical Advisory Board; Chief ringside physician, California; Vice-President and current Board member, American Association of Professional Ringside Physicians; former USA Boxing Physician Instructor at the United States Olympic Center and lead physician of multiple U.S. National Teams; Medical Director and technical advisor for “The Contender” (seasons 1 and 2) on NBC and ESPN.
Dr. Wallace also works as a consultant and technical advisor to Paramount, Disney, Universal, Sony, Warner Bros. and DreamWorks movie studios on how to create various skin presentations (burns, trauma, gunshot wounds and make-up design). In 1991, he started the nationally acclaimed “Second Chance Tattoo Removal Program”, a scar-free removal procedure for all skin types.
Dr. Wallace utilizes “cutting edge” procedures and is knowledgeable in a wide array of techniques incorporating tele-medicine to address issue in health and safety, medical and cosmetic problems. He has lectured to elected officials, athletic directors, physicians, trainers, coaches and healthcare providers nationally and throughout North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
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Attorney Michael P. Calof has been in private practice in Los Angeles since 1978 and his practice incorporates all facets of Employment Law. He has litigated civil employment cases in both State and Federal Court. He is admitted to practice in all courts of the State of California, The U.S. District Court, Central District, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Calof was formerly with the City Attorneys Office from 1973 through 1978 where he was assigned as co-counsel advising the Police and Fire Pension Department and the City Employees Retirement Department, as well as their respective Boards in regard to service and disability retirement matters.
As part of his civil practice, Mr. Calof has litigated issues related to employee rights to medical coverage, Cobra Rights, and Long and Short Term Disability Benefits for employees in the public and private sector as well as U.S. government sector.
Mr. Calof recently successfully settled a U.S. Whistle Blower claim on behalf of his client against a large hospital chain for alleged Medicare violations. This successful settlement for six million dollars was pursuant to provisions of the Qui Tam Act.
