VerusMed provides clinical news briefs to physicians, health care professionals, and industry executives through therapeutic and industry segment-specific information services. With its concise, independent and objective editorial approach, VerusMed ensures that readers receive the most relevant therapeutic updates through a variety of media channels, including online, e-mail, fax, and RSS feeds.

With more than 150,000 readers, VerusMed is able to leverage its market connectivity to help companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, hospital and managed care industries to establish brands and build rapport with key audiences.

All VerusMed information services are produced by our highly experienced medical editors and writers, who tailor audience-specific information to provide insight about the latest trends, clinical trial results and other important medical information updates. VerusMed maintains an Editorial Advisory Board of leading physicians who serve as a resource to identify key medical trends, evaluate relevant topics of interest to their physician peers and review content.

MISSION
The name, VerusMed, has a rich associative meaning in the medical industry. It combines the Latin term, Verus, meaning "truth," and the abbreviation of the word medicine; together they translate into "truth in medicine," which mirrors our core values of providing relevant and objective medical information.

VerusMed, a member of the ConnectivHealth network, is based in Nashville, Tenn.

Scott McQuigg
Chief Executive Officer
ConnectivHealth

Scott McQuigg is the chief executive officer of ConnectivHealth. McQuigg partnered with Louisville-Ky.-based Chrysalis Ventures and Petra Capital Partners of Nashville, Tenn., in fall of 2005 to build a digital health media business. ConnectivHealth serves as the holding company for VerusMed, HealthTeacher, PeerClip and Discovery Hospital. McQuigg brings more than 20 years of health care information and media experience to ConnectivHealth.

Prior to joining ConnectivHealth, McQuigg was co-founder and CEO of Nashville-based HealthLeaders Inc, a leading health care business media and information company. During his tenure, HealthLeaders magazine won numerous industry awards for editorial and graphics excellence, including Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Additionally, HealthLeaders' research was widely recognized by industry and media for its metropolitan market analysis and health insurance data and analytics. During his tenure at HealthLeaders, McQuigg created an annual Top Leadership Teams recognition program to honor outstanding leadership teams at America's hospitals and health plans. McQuigg also raised venture and angel capital, and led the completion of four acquisitions and the subsequent sale of the business to Decision Resources, Waltham, Mass., in November 2004.

Before HealthLeaders, McQuigg gained experience with national media through his 10 years of service with American City Business Journals--the nation's largest publisher of local business news--as president and publisher of the Nashville Business Journal and as advertising director of the Tampa Bay Business Journal. McQuigg lives in Nashville with his wife of 18 years, Annie, and their two children.

June D. Manning
Editor-in-Chief
VerusMed

June D. Manning has served as the editor-in-chief at VerusMed since 2003 after originally joining the company in 2000 as a medical writer. She oversees the development and delivery of all VerusMed clinical news briefs. Manning leads a team of 10 medical editors and writers, and is responsible for achieving the company's goals for timeliness, objectivity and relevance. She works closely with VerusMed's editorial advisory board of leading physicians and serves as the company's primary editorial spokesperson. Manning is responsible for developing new content services and creating information business strategies to engage new physician users. Prior to joining VerusMed, Manning was a news reporter for Aberdeen News in South Dakota and the Arizona Republic in Phoenix. She received her BA in journalism from Arizona State University and is a member of the American Medical Writers Association and the Association of Health Care Journalists.

Paul Mattioli
Vice President of Sales
ConnectivHealth

Paul Mattioli is the vice president of sales for ConnectivHealth, leading the sales efforts for all ConnectivHealth brands, including VerusMed, HealthTeacher, PeerClip and Discovery Hospital.

Most recently, Mattioli served as vice president of sales for Nashville-based HealthLeaders-InterStudy, the managed care and health plan data company spin-off of HealthLeaders Inc., where he headed up sales for both the health plan intelligence product division and the media group whose products included HealthLeaders magazine and HealthLeaders.com. Prior to that, Mattioli served as director of health care marketing and strategy for Atlanta-based Morrison Management Specialists, where he completed multi-million dollar sales and marketing programs targeting the hospital C-suite and other key decision makers involved in outsourcing facility management and employee/payroll management.

With more than 15 years of management experience in sales and marketing, Mattioli’s career also includes advertising, syndicated data and live event sponsorship sales for leading integrated media companies. Prior to joining ConnectivHealth in 2006, Mattioli held sales and marketing leadership roles at Dallas-based Epsilon Interactive, Forbes.com, The Weather Channel's weather.com, and Ziff-Davis, where he helped launch ComputerShopper.com, a groundbreaking direct-to-consumer e-commerce engine.

Mattioli has been honored with many sales and marketing awards and recognitions. He holds a BA in both English and Communications from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., where he was a National Scholar Athlete, graduating Magna Cum Laude with honors. Mattioli, his wife and two daughters reside in Franklin, Tenn.

VerusMed helps physicians and health care professionals stay current with the latest medical research and news by providing a series of clinical news briefs that span multiple channels and specialty areas. Keeping in mind that our readers are inundated with masses of information, VerusMed's news briefs are formatted to cut down the time readers spend gathering news most relevant to them. VerusMed's unbiased selection and editorial process, plus swift delivery of content ensures that physicians and health care professionals receive a thorough yet concise overview of the latest and essential medical news and information.

VerusMed Therapeutic Update:

VerusMed's Therapeutic Updates offer practicing physicians a concise update of the latest clinical research and industry news in their specialty area. Segmented across multiple therapeutic and sub-therapeutic areas and delivered on weekly, biweekly or monthly schedules, our Therapeutic Updates provide readers with current and objectively presented topics from peer-reviewed research to the latest in FDA news.

VerusMed Conference Coverage:

VerusMed delivers timely news coverage from key medical conferences to physicians and health care professionals. VerusMed's experienced team of medical writers provide coverage that is informative and essential for readers who need to stay current on the groundbreaking research being conducted in their specialty area.

VerusMed Thought Leader Connect

Thought Leader Connect is a unique tool that caters to the special information needs of thought leaders in various medical specialty areas. The content focuses on groundbreaking and early-stage research that is critically important to thought leaders who are at the forefront of medical research. Thought Leader Connect is also a platform for peer discussion, serving as a forum for leaders in the medical community to exchange ideas and share opinions. The biweekly or monthly information service includes in-depth feature articles on clinical research and opinion pieces written by leading researchers as well as updates on industry and FDA news.

VerusMed.com

VerusMed.com is the one-stop destination for VerusMed readers to sign up for all of the VerusMed publications. In addition to offering the same content as our traditional print publications, the site offers exclusive online medical news and information and video coverage. VerusMed online members can keep pace with the most relevant medical news and information of the day by browsing our extensive article database, which is organized by therapeutic area. Readers can also access the top articles their peers are reading and sharing and search for articles on specific topics.

VerusMed is a member of ConnectivHealth, a network of powerful health information brands that enables the delivery, distribution, and organization of important health information for physicians, health care professionals, hospitals, and schools through customized channels. Each brand serves a critical information need in the marketplace with the single goal of improving health. Privately held, the ConnectivHealth network includes: VerusMed, HealthTeacher, PeerClip and Discovery Hospital, a partnership with Discovery Communications.