Synopsis of Professional Achievements

Ronald E. Wheeler, M.D.

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Medical Director of the Diagnostic Center for Disease™ located in Sarasota, Florida, featuring 3.0 T MRI-Spectroscopy, “the next greatest diagnostic test for prostate cancer”, according to Peter Scardino, M.D. from Memorial Sloan-Kettering; this technology helps men to avoid unnecessary prostate biopsies

Keynote Speaker at Confirma Corporation in Seattle, Washington (www.Confirma.com) associated with their launch of a Prostate related technology, Dynamic Contrast Enhancement (DCE) and its role in MRI-Spectroscopy Imaging – November 2007

Member of the American Urologic Association since 1985

Member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “Prostatitis Collaborative”

Internationally known Urologist invited to speak at the 1st National Men’s Health Conference sponsored by Penn State (May 21, 2004); Topic:  “Can Education and Awareness on Prostate Disease Alter the Death Rate from Prostate Cancer in the State of Florida?”

Practicing Urologist for more than 20 years with practice focus on male health related issues including Impotency and Prostate Diseases associated with BPH, Prostatitis, and Prostate Cancer

Post Graduate Urology Residency Training at LSU Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana

Member of the Esteemed Royal College of Alternative Medicine (RCAM)

Featured Speaker (Master’s Series at A4M (The Society of Anti-Aging) – Las Vegas, December, 2007 - Topic: Perils associated with Testosterone Replacement

Certified expert in High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU), a novel prostate cancer treatment, that is currently involved in Phase 3 trials at the FDA; this therapy is currently available in Canada, Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Bahamas

Medical Director of Prostate Cancer Prevention Foundation … speaking to better choices in health care through awareness and education

Runner-up in the “Physician Educator of the Year” award sponsored by AFUD (American Foundation of Urologic Disease)

Post Graduate 3T MRI Educational Symposia: Why and What You Need to Know About 3T MRI – Sponsored by General Electric (March, 2007)

Post Graduate MRI-S Physician Review Course Sponsored by UCSF – December, 2006

Principal Investigator in a “Neo-Adjuvant Study for Organ Confined Prostate Cancer”, sponsored in part by Schering Pharmaceuticals and accepted for presentation at the Western Section of the American Urology Association (AUA)
Owner of two Patents on Prostatitis Detection and Resolution; Prostatitis is a Precursor disease process known to evolve into Prostate Cancer (reference: American Association of Cancer Research; AACR)

Peenuts® is a branded prostatitis formula that has been patented in the USA, Canada and Europe and expects to be the featured formula in the ProCap Trial as we endeavor to prove that prostatitis resolution can prevent prostate cancer

Invited Speaker at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) in 1999 and 2000 discussing the topics of:  “Voiding Symptoms Predict Prostatitis, Not BPH” and “For the Prostate to be Healthy, Your PSA Must Be Less than One”

Featured Speaker at the Florida Osteopathic Sectional Meeting; Topic: “Anti-Aging Solutions to Prostate Health” 2002 as well as a featured speaker on the topic, “The Truth about Prostate Disease” - 2007

Featured Speaker at the American College of Advanced Medicine (ACAM), November 2002 & October 2008

Featured Speaker at Age Management Medicine Group (AMMG), November 2008

Featured Speaker at the Navigators – September 2008

Featured Speaker at the Cancer Control Society, September 2003 on “Prostatitis as a Cause of Prostate Cancer and why the PSA (blood test) Must be Less than One”

Patient advocate for “Prostate Health” and sponsor of “The Drive for Prostate Health”, a Motor Coach that offers Early Detection for Prostate Disease to businesses and individuals throughout the State of Florida and Nationally

Frequent Speaker at Prostate Cancer Support Meetings including Man to Man events throughout Florida, PAACT, and the State of New Mexico’s Prostate Cancer Survival Group

 Author of numerous Prostate related Articles including:  “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Prostatitis”, “PSA – A Barometer of Prostate Health or a License to Biopsy”, “Anti-Androgen Monotherapy is Our Signature Treatment for Prostate Cancer” at the Prostatitis and Prostate Cancer Center, and “Straight Talk on Impotency”

Participant Physician in a Vaccine Study (sponsor: Dendrion) for Hormone Refractive Prostate Cancer utilizing “Provenge”

Member of the Advisory Board For Several Health-Related Corporations and Foundations including: Sanofi-Aventis Oncology, Urology Times, PAACT, Prostate Awareness Foundation, Glaxo Smith Kline, Abbott, and Radiation Centers of America

Frequent Guest of Health Radio Broadcasts including:  The David Darbro Show, The Deborah Ray Show, Western Health Radio, Dr. Burton live in Philadelphia, Frank Tabino Show, Eva Herr’s Show from Atlanta and Public Health Radio

Featured Expert on a nationally acclaimed Radio Talk Show, “PJ and the Doc, Let’s Talk Prostate”; www.1490wwpr.com; Launched December 2007 until September 2008

Author of Research article, entitled, “Is it Necessary to Cure Prostate Cancer When it is Possible? Published in the Journal, “Clinical Interventions in Aging”, Volume 2, Number 1 – April 2007

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