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Dr. Joe Sherman is  a board-certified pediatrician with over 30 years of clinical practice experience in a variety of settings both in the US and abroad. He has served in leadership roles in private practice, community-based clinics, and academic medicine and currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington.

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 www.joeshermanmd.com
Solidarity Bridge
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

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Dr. Richard Harris is a board-certified Internal Medicine Physician, Pharmacist, and Host of the Strive For Great Health Podcast who specializes in lifestyle medicine, personalized medicine through nutrigenomics and micronutrient testing, and health coaching. Dr. Harris is also an experienced life science consultant who has helped several startups navigate the healthcare market, especially from a holistic perspective. A true entrepreneur, Dr. Harris is the co-founder of New Spectrum Educational Consultants (an educational consulting company that helps students achieve success through resilience and social-emotional learning), CMO of Nimbus Healthcare, and Co-Founder of Forty Acres Fund.

Dr. Harris also enjoys sports, traveling, philanthropy, church, podcasting, and keto donuts.

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Strive for Great Health Podcast
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Dr. Ravi Komatireddy is the founder of Motiv Health - a persuasion-driven, mindset-first, precision behavior change platform harnessing the power of AI to augment health coaches. Having completed his medical school training at Dartmouth University and Internal Medicine training at UCSD, Dr. Komatireddy went on to complete a Fellowship in Digital Medicine at The Scripps Translational Science Institute/West Health. As an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSD, he has conducted research on the effects of microgravity on physiological monitoring systems with NASA and remains actively involved with continuing human suborbital flight research.

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Motivhealth.io
Idea Land Podcast

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Dr. Landers graduated from Auburn University, in Auburn, Alabama, with BS degrees in Biology and Chemistry. At Auburn, she was elected to Mortar Board, the National Women’s Honorary. In 1977, she received her MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, South Carolina. There she was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the National Medical Honorary. After graduation from medical school, she completed a pediatrics residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School hospitals in Dallas, Texas, in 1980. She completed her neonatology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine hospitals, in Houston, Texas, in 1983. 

Dr. Landers practiced academic neonatology for fourteen years and served on the faculty of two medical schools – Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, in Little Rock. In this role, she conducted clinical research, published twenty-three peer-reviewed papers, and taught medical students, residents, and fellows. While caring for patients in private practice, she served as a speaker for the Texas Department of State Health Services from 1997 to 1998. She was Medical Director of the Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin, from 2000 to 2004, and served on the milk bank’s board of directors from 2006 to 2009.

Even though she practiced full-time, Dr. Landers continued to publish papers and work for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She was an expert in breastfeeding medicine and became a Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (FABM) in 2002. She served as a physician educator at AAP and ABM national meetings for a decade. She served on the Executive Committee of the Section on Breastfeeding in the AAP from 2008 until 2014. In that capacity, she contributed to AAP policy statements and clinical guidelines, and wrote four more peer-reviewed publications and a book chapter. In 2008, she was recognized by Pediatrix Medical Group with a national award for “Outstanding Accomplishments in Quality Improvement.”

Together with her husband, Dr. Phillip Berry, she raised three children, one son and two daughters, each to young adulthood. David, thirty-six, is a cinematographer, living and working in Los Angeles, CA; he is married to Alissa. Anne, thirty-four, is a pediatric intensive care unit nurse at Dell Children’s Medical Center, in Austin, TX; she is married to Joe. Laura, thirty, lives and works in Austin, Tx.

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SusanLandersMD.com
So Many Babies

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Dr. Kevin Mailo is an emergency physician based out of Edmonton, Alberta. Dr. Mailo cares deeply about the long-term wellness of the medical profession and wants to see physicians and their families succeed personally and financially.

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Costa Mujeres, Mexico Conference (Dec. 27th 2021 - Jan. 3rd 2022)
Ryan Holiday's Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life

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Dr. Sharon Mclaughlin is board certified in plastic surgery. She started her entrepreneurial journey selling skin care. Over the years she created a scar line as well as a lingerie line. Dr McLaughlin is the founder of the Female Physician Entrepreneurs Facebook Group, which is a supportive group that brings women physicians together to network and grow. She has also created a wellness program which offers a whole body approach to weight loss. The program consists of nutrition, mindset and self care. There is a guided meditation, recipe books and meal plans as well as resources to make weight loss as simple as possible without struggling. Dr McLaughlin helps others to create websites and courses so that they can amplify their voice and build multiple streams of incomes. She sits on a leadership board and is a beta tester for a digital software company. She has built multiple streams of income through courses, affiliate marketing and most recently, passive real estate syndication investing.

You can reach her at [email protected].

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Wellness Website
Female Physician Entrepreneurs Facebook Group
Female Physician Entrepreneurs Podcast
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As an Emergency Physician, Dr. Leah Houston previously worked in Emergency Departments all over the country for almost 10 years. During that time, she observed firsthand the harm this current system does to both physicians and patients. These experiences afforded her a deep understanding of the problems that plague the United States healthcare system, barriers we face to correction, and the importance of a decentralized solution. Having been a part of the blockchain and distributed ledger technology community since 2012, Dr. Houston is now a nationally requested speaker and author on the topic of self-sovereign identity in healthcare.

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Dr. Peter Antevy, innovator of the Handtevy Pediatric Resuscitation System, is a nationally recognized lecturer and expert in the field of pre-hospital pediatrics. He is extremely passionate about improving both adult and pediatric pre-hospital care and evaluating and improving upon currently accepted medical practice.  Dr. Antevy received his medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1999 and then continued on to complete his pediatric training at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. He then achieved a subspecialty degree in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh before returning back to Florida where he has been a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital since 2005. Dr. Antevy also currently serves as the EMS Medical Director for Davie Fire-Rescue, Coral Springs Fire Department, Southwest Ranches Fire Rescue and American Ambulance, and is the Associate Medical Director for Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, Miramar Fire Rescue and Seminole Tribe Fire Rescue. Peter currently serves as the President of the Greater Broward EMS Medical Directors’ Association, an organization whose providers serve the 1.5 million residents of Broward County, Florida. For his efforts, Dr. Antevy was awarded the prestigious Raymond H. Alexander EMS Medical Director of the Year Award in 2014. He also was honored as one of the 2015 Top Ten Innovators in EMS by JEMS.

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Handtevy - Pediatric Emergency Standards
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Dr. Alexandra Myers, D.O.,  practices family and sports medicine. Dr. Myers completed a family practice residency at Downey Regional Medical Center in Downey, California and a sports medicine fellowship at San Diego Sports Medicine and Family Health Center where she presently works. She completed osteopathic medical school at Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. During osteopathic medical school Dr. Myers did an Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. She also earned a Master’s of Science in Health Professions Education.

Prior to attending osteopathic medical school Dr. Myers double majored in Biology and Spanish at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. While at Cornell College, Dr. Myers played Division III soccer and softball.

Dr. Myers is very active in the sports community of San Diego. She serves as the director of the Women’s Athletic Medicine Clinic at San Diego State University. At SDSU she is in charge of the care for the Women’s Basketball, Women’s Water Polo, and Women’s Crew teams. Additionally she serves as the Team Physician for Santa Fe Christian High School Football.

Along with her colleagues Dr. Myers covers a variety of events throughout San Diego including the San Diego Half Marathon and the Susan G. Komen 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk.

Dr. Myers is active in many professional societies. She is currently Vice-President of the San Diego Osteopathic Medical Association and serves on the Board of Directors of the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California.

In her free time Dr. Myers leads an active lifestyle. She plays soccer, surfs, jogs, standup paddle boards, cycles, and skis on a regular basis.

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Dr. Alexandra Myers' Website

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Dr. James “Jim” DuCanto, M.D. is an Anesthesiologist in private practice for the past 24 years in Wisconsin who is, for lack of a better description, obsessed with airway management innovation and teaching.

His recent innovations include the SALAD technique and Simulation System for airway decontamination from Nasco, the SSCOR DuCanto Suction Catheter, a large bore hyper curved rigid suction catheter from SSCOR, Inc., and the SEADUC, the first fully manual suction unit capable of performing the SALAD Technique from EM Innovations.

Jim ran the Anesthesiology clerkship for medical students and residents at the Advocate-Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2004 to 2020, and has recently accepted the position of Medical Director of the Mid-State Technical College’s EMS Program in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. His attitude toward work life balance is simple - “Balance is achieved when you take self-care seriously, and you do everything you can at work to learn and improve yourself.”  

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