Dr Dennis Gottfried is an internist in private practice in CT, an asst professor at UCONN Med School, and host of a weekly medical news program viewed in about 100,000 homes. He received his training at the UCONN Medical School and interned at UC Irvine. He then worked in the ER at Martin Luther King County Hospital in California, did his medical residency at he Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and served in the US Public Health Service in Arizona before going into private practice. He is married and has 4 children. He blogs on health care issues on the Huffington Post.