MMRGlobal Names Health IT Insurance Executive Joseph Gonzalez and Leading Australian Physician and eHealth Innovator Dr. Joseph Grace to Advisory Boards


LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - May 7, 2014) - MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCQB: MMRF) ("MMR"), a leading provider of patented Personal Health Records (PHRs), MyEsafeDepositBox storage solutions, and MMRPro document management and imaging systems for healthcare professionals, today announced the appointments of Joseph Gonzalez to the MMR Board of Advisors and Dr. Joseph Gracé to the Company's Medical Board of Advisors. Mr. Gonzalez co-founded Secure EDI Health Group and has served as the primary consultant for initiatives with the nation's leading companies in the financial, healthcare, and clinical data verticals for over 15 years. He will assist the Company in forming strategic relationships with major Health Information Technology solution providers. Dr. Gracé will assist MMR with the Company's ongoing licensing and sales initiatives in Australia in advance of scheduled meetings with MMR executives and strategic partners later this summer.

Mr. Gonzalez has held leadership roles with industry driving organizations and associations. He currently holds the position of President for The Cooperative Exchange, www.cooperativeexchange.org, the recognized resource and representative association of the Healthcare IT Vendor and Clearinghouse industry. Previously, he served as Vice Chairman and Trustee of the Board of Directors to the National Dental EDI Council, and has chaired or co-chaired committees and workgroups within ASC X12, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), Center for Affordable Quality Healthcare's (CAQH) CORE initiative and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC). He has also been a featured speaker on 4010/5010 transaction transition, Innovations in Electronic Remittance, ICD-10 preparedness, and authored white papers on Clinical Data & Electronic Medical Record strategies and solutions.

Dr. Gracé is a respected medical practitioner in Sydney, Australia for more than 26 years. He is currently the Medical Director of the North Shore Medical Group, offering specialist medical services to patients from over 800 referring doctors. Clinics under his purview include North Shore Heart Clinic®, North Shore Vein Clinic® and North Shore Homecare Services.

Dr. Gracé's extensive medical experience has accorded him Fellowships with the Australasian College of Phlebology, the Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners, and the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. In parallel with his clinical practice, he founded the startup health IT company, Claydata, collaborating with major research institutes to create better e-health and EMR solutions. Amongst other achievements, Dr. Gracé has taken Claydata's innovative eHealth technologies to the NSW Trade & Investment's INNOVATE NSW Collaborative Solutions conference and developed a consortium partnership with the University of New South Wales' Asia-Pacific Ubiquitous Health Care Research Centre. Dr. Gracé will assist MMR in introducing both the MMR platform of patented Personal Health Record products and services and related intellectual property along with strategic partner 4medica's integrated EHR (iEHR®) platform to physicians, providers, information providers and government agencies in Australia.

Robert H. Lorsch, MMRGlobal Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "I am pleased to announce the addition of these two exceptional individuals to our advisory boards. Mr. Gonzalez's knowledge in health IT payer/provider solutions and services will be extremely valuable to MMR, while Dr. Gracé is both a gifted clinician and innovator in health IT. He is actively developing eHealth solutions in Australia and will be invaluable in demonstrating physician support to the use of Personal Health Records. He is also working with us on expanding MMR's licensing opportunities in Australia. He is as committed, as is MMR globally, to a mission of helping Australians benefit from effective eHealth technologies."

Members of the Company's Board of Advisors also include Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut and author; Titus Day, Managing Director, 6 Degrees Group; Hon. Richard A. Gephardt, 22nd Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and currently President and CEO, Gephardt Government Affairs; C. Rowland Hanson, Strategic Marketing Consultant, former executive with Microsoft and Neutrogena; Hon. Asa Hutchinson, former U.S. Congressman, First Under Secretary of Homeland Security and currently CEO and Founding Partner, Hutchinson Group, LLC; "Sugar" Ray Leonard, Professional Athlete and Entrepreneur; Fred Middleton, Managing Director, Sanderling Ventures; Dr. James L. Spigarelli, former CEO and President, Midwest Research Institute; and JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFI, Health Correspondent, Author and Nutritionist.

The Company's Medical Advisory Board also includes Michel Babajanian, M.D., FAC., Board-Certified Otolaryngologist and Head and Neck Surgeon; Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Innovation and Director of the Thyroid Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; David E. Bresler, PhD, LAc, Author, Consultant and President, Academy for Guided Imagery; Shekhar Challa, M.D., Board-Certified Gastroenterologist and Co-Founder and President, Kansas Medical Clinic; Jeremy Fine, M.D., Board-Certified in Internal Medicine; Theodore B. Goldstein, M.D., Board-Certified Orthopedic Surgeon and Co-Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Spine Center; William H. Goodman, M.D., Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, Academic Appointment at Dartmouth Medical School; Cara Natterson, M.D., Board-Certified Pediatrician, Author and Founder, Worry Proof Consulting; Lawrence D. Piro, M.D., Clinician, International Expert in Hematologic Malignancies, The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute; David Charles Rish, M.D., Board-Certified Dermatologist; and Prediman K. (PK) Shah, M.D., Shapell and Webb Chair in Clinical Cardiology, Professor of Medicine and Cardiology, and Director, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

About MMRGlobal
MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc., provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records ("PHRs") and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, retail pharmacies, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user's account. The Company's professional offering, MMRPro, is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients through an integrated patient portal. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId™/Specifid™ vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. visit www.mmrglobal.com. View demos and video tutorials of the Company's products and services at www.mmrtheater.com.

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