Sharon Giddings is a registered nurse with a BS in nursing from Michigan State University. She also received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia. Her work has appeared nationally and internationally in newspapers, magazines, on the web, and in other printed media. She has been a managing editor of a global monthly clinical trials magazine and a contributing editor and editorial judge for a nationally circulated radiology and imaging trade magazine. She has written for various publications throughout the National Institutes of Health and has reported on health care reform issues from the U.S. Capitol.
Alan I. Hecht, D.C., is a practicing chiropractor in New York. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biology at Farmingdale State College, the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, and Adjunct Professor of Allied Health Sciences at Nassau Community College. He teaches courses in medical microbiology, anatomy and physiology, comparative anatomy, human physiology, human nutrition, and embryology. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology at Hofstra University where he teaches medical microbiology at the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies and is the course coordinator for Graduate Anatomy and Physiology for Medical Physics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
His current research interest is natural antibacterial substances effective against Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus mutans. Dr. Hecht received his BS in biology–pre-medical studies from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. He received his MS in Basic Medical Sciences from New York University School of Medicine. He also received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from New York Chiropractic College in Brookville, New York. Dr. Hecht was the recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching from the State University of New York.