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Marijan Attaran, M.D. is section head of pediatric and adolescent gynecology at the Cleveland Clinic and an assistant professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Ohio State University. She attended NEOCOM medical school and trained as an OB/GYN at Akron City Hospital in Ohio. Attaran’s specialties include infertility, in vitro fertilization, reproductive endocrinology and infertility and pediatric and adolescent gynecology.

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Georgette Constantinou, Ph.D. is the administrative director of pediatric psychiatry, child neurology and developmental/behavioral pediatrics for the Psychiatry/Psychology Department at Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from The Ohio State University and serves as associate professor of psychology at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy. Under her leadership, Akron Children’s established the Pediatric Intake Response Center, a 24-hour mental health triage service, and psychology programs in the NeuroDevelopmental Center. She advocates for abused and neglected children and has received local and national attention for her expertise in child and adolescent bullying.

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Kathleen Franco, M.D. is Associate Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and past Director of Residency Training in Psychiatry, and past Director of Medical Student Training in Psychiatry. She is board-certified in psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. She earned her M.D. degree from the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo where she also completed her training in psychiatry. Among her many honors she is noted as Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association and she’s listed in “Best Doctors in America."

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Nneka Holder, M.D. practices in the Adolescent Medicine Department at Akron Children's Hospital in Akron, Ohio and serves as an assistant professor of pediatrics for Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy. She received her M.D. from Harvard Medical College in Boston and trained in pediatrics and adolescent medicine at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

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Ellen Kempf, M.D. is the director of the Oak Adoptive Health Center at Akron Children's Hospital in Akron, Ohio and is a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy. She received her M.D. from the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Kempf is a parent of three adopted children and has traveled to orphanages in China, Guatemala, Haiti,and Ghana to learn more about the international adoptive process.

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Jacqueline Kiefel, Ph.D. is a neuropsychologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology with a specialization in neuropsychology from City University of New York. Kiefel then completed her training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Her areas of interest include pediatric brain injury and cognitive functioning in spina bifida and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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Soo Kim, M.D. is a staff physician in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, a registered physician in vascular interpretation (RPVI) and an award-winning researcher, receiving the 2007 American College of Cardiology Young Investigator Award. She attended medical school at Duke University and trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has also edited and co-authored several books related to the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral vascular disease.

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Lisa Kobrynski, M.D. is an associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and practices pediatric allergy and immunology at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She earned her M.D. from McGill University School of Medicine in Canada and did her allergy and immunology training at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia at University of Pennsylvania. Recently, Dr. Kobrynski received her master’s of public health from Emory University.

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Courtenay Moore, M.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and is a joint staff member at the Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute and the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Moore received the American Foundation for Urologic Disease Research Scholarship from 2005 to 2007 while training at the Cleveland Clinic. Her interests include pelvic organ prolepses, incontinence, voiding dysfunction and female sexual dysfunction.

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Holly Pederson, M.D. is on staff in the Department of General Surgery, the Breast Center, and the Center for Specialized Women’s Health at the Cleveland Clinic. She received her M.D. from the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. Her specialty interests are breast diagnostics, high risk and survivorship care and cancer genetics.

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Christine Poblete-Lopez, M.D. is the assistant program director in the Department of Dermatology at the Cleveland Clinic. She attended medical school at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and trained in the Philippines at the Skin and Cancer Foundation. Her medical interests are Mohs micrographic surgery and cutaneous oncology, dermatologic surgery, cosmetic dermatology and laser surgery.

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Maria Ramundo, M.D. is the director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program at Akron Children's Hospital in Akron, Ohio and teaches as an associate professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy. She received her M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Ramundo also was a contributing writer for more than 10 publications, including "Patterns in Childhood Sports Injury" and "From Curriculum to Practice: Implementation of Child Abuse Curriculum."

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Rebecca R. Reamy, M.D. is a pediatric emergency physician in the Atlanta area, practicing at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Gwinnett Medical Center and Piedmont Fayette Hospital. She earned her M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas where she also trained in pediatric emergency medicine. Dr. Reamy has served as an assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina’s Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine.

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Alice Rim, M.D. is vice chairman of the Imaging Institute as well as the section head of breast imaging in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the Cleveland Clinic. She attended the Medical College of Ohio and interned at the University of Pittsburgh. Her specialties include interventional breast imaging, breast MRI and high-risk screening for breast cancer.

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Elisa Ross, M.D. is a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. After earning her M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School, she trained at University Hospitals of Cleveland in obstetrics and gynecology. She has received several awards including OB/GYN Professor of the Year and CCF Campus from the Ohio State University Medicine Department of OB/GYN.

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Barbara Olasov Rothbaum, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences and director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory University School of Medicine. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Georgia. Rothbaum, author of numerous scientific papers, has also published four books on the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and edited two others on anxiety. She is also a pioneer in the application of virtual reality to the treatment of psychological disorders.

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Ellen Mayer Sabik, M.D. is a staff cardiologist at the Cleveland clinic. She earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School and trained at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1999, she was elected to Cornell’s President’s Council of Cornell Women for her high level of success and leadership in medicine, and her medical interests include echocardiography, valvular heart disease and the study of the blood disorder methemoglobinemia.

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Andrea Sikon, M.D. is the clinical director and director of primary care for women’s health at the Cleveland Clinic. She received her M.D. from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and did her training in internal medicine at Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh. Her specialties are osteoporosis, menopause and women’s health, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and quality care improvement. She is listed in “Best Doctors in America.”

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Grace Smith, M.D. is the director of the Heart Center Boardman and associate director of the Arrhythmia Center at Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio. She earned her M.D. at The University of Michigan School of Medicine and is board-certified in pediatric cardiology. She completed residencies and fellowships in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology and pediatric electrophysiology at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

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Holly L. Thacker, M.D. is nationally known for her leadership in Women’s Health. She is the Director of the Center for Specialized Women’s Health at the Cleveland Clinic with special interests in menopause and related medical problems, osteoporosis, hormone therapy, breast cancer risk assessment, menstrual disorders, female sexual dysfunction and interdisciplinary women’s health. She is the founder of one of the ﬁrst Women’s Health Fellowship programs in the United States, located at the Cleveland Clinic. She is also the author of several articles, book chapters and books including “Women’s Health: Your Body, Your Hormones, Your Choices” and her newest book, “Cleveland Clinic Guide to Menopause.”

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Nanette K. Wenger, M.D. is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital, and a Consultant to the Emory Heart and Vascular Center. Dr. Wenger is a graduate of Hunter College (summa cum laude) and the Harvard Medical School. She had her residency training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology fellowship at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and additional Fellowship in Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Among many other awards, she received the James E. Bruce Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians, for Distinguished Contributions in Preventive Medicine, and was named Physician of the Year by the American Heart Association. She is listed in "Best Doctors in America."

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Dina Zeckhausen, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized, award-winning clinical psychologist specializing in eating disorders, body image and other women’s issues. She received her doctorate in clinical-community psychology from the University of South Carolina. In 1996, Dr. Zeckhausen founded the Eating Disorders Information Network (EDIN), a program dedicated to the prevention of eating disorders. She currently practices clinical psychology and directs EDIN in Atlanta.

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Joanne Zhu, M.D. graduated from Shandong University in China with a major in Microbiology. She came to the United States and earned a masters degree in Molecular Biology at the University of South Florida and then worked in cancer research at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. In 2002, she received her M.D. degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and completed her internal medicine training at UNC. She currently practices at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta.

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