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'''Todd Wider''' is an [[United States|American]] [[plastic surgeon]] and Emmy Award winning [[film]] producer based in [[New York]], who is active in [[Documentary film|documentary]] filmmaking. He graduated from [[Ward Melville High School]] in 1982, [[Princeton University]] in 1986, and [[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons|Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons]] in 1990. As a surgeon, he was active in helping the passage of the Women's Health and Cancer Act of 1998, federal legislation signed into law by President [[Bill Clinton]], mandating insurance coverage for [[breast cancer]] reconstruction. He also was a volunteer surgeon for Victims Services, an organization providing surgery to victims of abuse, and was a volunteer surgeon at [[Ground Zero]] after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] in New York City.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34305,00.html FOXNews.com - False Hope Temporarily Buoys Rescuers at World Trade Center - U.S. & World<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
'''Todd Wider''' is an [[United States|American]] [[plastic surgeon]] and Emmy Award winning [[film]] producer based in [[New York]], who is active in [[Documentary film|documentary]] filmmaking. He graduated from [[Ward Melville High School]] in 1982, [[Princeton University]] in 1986, and [[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons|Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons]] in 1990. As a surgeon, he was active in helping the passage of the Women's Health and Cancer Act of 1998, federal legislation signed into law by President [[Bill Clinton]], mandating insurance coverage for [[breast cancer]] reconstruction. He also was a volunteer surgeon for Victims Services, an organization providing surgery to victims of abuse, and was a volunteer surgeon at [[Ground Zero]] after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] in New York City.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34305,00.html FOXNews.com - False Hope Temporarily Buoys Rescuers at World Trade Center - U.S. & World<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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Todd Wider was disciplined by the New York State Department of Health Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) on April 06, 2005. The action taken against Dr. Wider was censure and reprimand with probation for three years and a $10,000 fine. The misconduct described was as "the physician did not contest the charge of failing to maintain accurate patient records." The OPMC lifted the probation on April 5, 2007, after the successful completion of two years of probation when Todd Wider petitioned for early termination of his probation. <ref>[http://w3.health.state.ny.us/opmc/factions.nsf/58220a7f9eeaafab85256b180058c032/94a71077c691447d85256de70064e0a3?OpenDocument New York State Department of Health Professional Medical Conduct and Physician Discipline]</ref> |
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Revision as of 12:35, 19 November 2009
Todd Wider is an American plastic surgeon and Emmy Award winning film producer based in New York, who is active in documentary filmmaking. He graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1982, Princeton University in 1986, and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1990. As a surgeon, he was active in helping the passage of the Women's Health and Cancer Act of 1998, federal legislation signed into law by President Bill Clinton, mandating insurance coverage for breast cancer reconstruction. He also was a volunteer surgeon for Victims Services, an organization providing surgery to victims of abuse, and was a volunteer surgeon at Ground Zero after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City.[1]
Films
As a film producer, Wider has produced, with his brother Jedd, Beyond Conviction (2006), a documentary about restorative justice in the Pennsylvania prison system that premiered on MSNBC, was featured on Oprah, and won a number of awards. Wider also produced What Would Jesus Buy? (2007), a Morgan Spurlock film about consumerism in the United States that focuses on the performance artist Billy Talen. He is also an executive producer of Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), a documentary about prisoner abuse directed by Alex Gibney that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary of 2008. Taxi to the Dark Side also won an Emmy for Best Documentary of 2008. Wider also produced the The Untyings (2006), a film about exorcism in Romania and A Dream in Doubt (2006), directed by Tami Yeager, a documentary about intolerance in the wake of the September 11 attacks that focuses on a Sikh family in Arizona. In addition, he produced Kicking It (2007), a documentary about the Homeless World Cup, an international tournament for the homeless football league, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, and features Colin Farrell and the music of U2. He also produced A Time to Stir, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival and concerns the Columbia University 1968 student uprisings.
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