“Next Top Doc” quiz winner to receive the ReachMD $5000.00 Educational Scholarship

Aug 29 2009

ReachMD LLC and ReachMD XM Radio 160, a leading multi-media provider of advanced healthcare education and information, teamed with Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Chief Medical Editor of NBC News, and on staff in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, to present the winner of “ReachMD’s Next Top Doc” quiz show with the ReachMD $5000.00 Educational Scholarship. Dr. Snyderman will also interview the winner, Dan Henderson, on the challenges of the competition, the future of medicine, and the importance of staying connected to a clinical audience such as ReachMD.

ReachMD’s “Next Top Doc” game show featured medical students from across the country in an on-air tournament style competition that has been broadcast on ReachMD’s XM Satellite Radio Channel 160, over the last 15 weeks.

In the final round of the Next Top Doc competition, Dan Henderson bested his competition, Nina Resetkova, a 3rd year medical student and MBA candidate from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine to become ReachMD’s Next Top Doc winner. The entire series, including the National Championship Round, can be heard/downloaded at www.ReachMD.com and will be rebroadcast on the channel during the fall of 2009.

The programming and physician-led editorial team at ReachMD developed the concept for the ‘college bowl’ style quiz show and built the content for the show in support of the company’s mission to deliver world class medical education, information and communication to busy medical professionals. The contest questions covered a broad array of the demanding medical school curriculum and latest medical advances. ReachMD’s Medical and Scientific Consultant, Dr. Danny Petrasek, MD, PhD, a member of the clinical faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine, and the author of numerous research and review articles, served as the “Next Top Doc’s” host, while the studio audience is comprised of medical students and professionals. Next Top Doc was produced in cooperation with AMSA, American Medical Student Association.

“Our company is dedicated to providing the highest quality medical content to medical professionals and to helping medical professionals stay informed and educated. The “Next Top Doc” programming series has been a fantastic way to add an element of entertainment to the education process,” said Gary Epstein, CEO of ReachMD. Epstein further added, “Partnering with the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) on the development and production of Next Top Doc allowed us to showcase just how impressive these young medical students are at the many medical colleges across the country. We are delighted to award the Dan Henderson the title of Next Top Doc, and the ReachMD $5000.00 Educational Scholarship to enhance his education.”

“I am thrilled to be named ReachMD’s ‘Next Top Doc.’ The competition was exhilarating and I was privileged to have been chosen as a participant,” says Henderson. “Throughout the contest I witnessed the passion and intellect of my peers across the country. It was an honor to compete with them.” Henderson is spending this year as an AMSA Health Justice Fellow at the AMSA headquarters in Washington, DC.