Bryn Mawr Communications Leadership

Joel Schlessinger MD, FAAD, FAACS is a Director, Advanced Skin Research Center at Advanced Skin Research Center; Board Member at filmstreams; and President at Skin Specialists PC and is based in Greater Omaha Area. He attended UAB School of Medicine between 1985 and 1988, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University between 1981 and 1983, and Washington University School of Medicine between 1989 and 1992.

Laura Straub is an Editor-in-Chief, CRST at Bryn Mawr Communications and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania. She has worked as Freelance writer at Clinical Laboratory Management Association; Assistant editor at SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; and Associate Editor at Diabetic Microvascular Complications Today. Laura attended Shippensburg University between 1999 and 2003.

Pete Christy is an Editor-in-Chief at Bryn Mawr Communications and Managing Editor at Bryn Mawr Communications and is based in Walled Lake, Michigan. He has worked as Managing Editor, Clinical Journals Division at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Editor at Lippincott; and Editor at SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.. Pete studied at AI duPont and University of Delaware between 1986 and 1990.

Stephen McChesney is a Chief Editor - News and eNews at Bryn Mawr Communications and is based in United States.

Dr. Trattler is a refractive, corneal, and cataract eye surgeon at the Center For Excellence in Eye Care, who lectures extensively across the US on improving visual outcomes with various eye surgeries and procedures. He is on the Volunteer Faculty at the Florida International University Wertheim College of Medicine, as well as the University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. In 2006, Dr. Trattler was recognized by his peers as one of the top 50 Cataract and Refractive Surgery Opinion Leaders in a survey conducted by the publication Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today. In 2016, Dr. Trattler was named by the publication, “The Ophthalmologist,” as one of the “Top 100 most influential people in the world of ophthalmology.” Dr. Trattler received his bachelor's degree with honors from Dartmouth College and his M.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he graduated in 1992 with a Distinction in Research.