Dr. Kristin Kelly-Pieper is the pulmonary director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders program at Cohen Children’s Medical Center.  After graduating the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she continued her training at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Children’s Hospital of New York, and the Sleep Disorders Institute of New York Medical College. She is board certified in Pediatrics, Sleep Medicine and Pediatric Pulmonology. She is an assistant professor at Hofstra University Medical School.  Her clinical practice includes the full spectrum of pediatric sleep disorders from sleep disordered breathing to insomnia to restless leg syndrome. She also interprets polysomnograms on children who undergo sleep studies from newborns up to young adults and is actively involved in quality improvement projects for the pediatric sleep laboratory.

Dr. Lauren Macaluso is a board certified pediatrician and lactation consultant with a breastfeeding medicine private practice. She provides specialized medical care for breastfeeding mothers and their children. She is proud to have a medical practice where a mother can get her and her baby's breastfeeding needs met in one place. She attended Cornell University for her undergraduate studies and was an All Ivy field hockey player. She received her medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and completed her pediatric residency at Children's National Medical Center of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her special interest in breastfeeding started after nursing her own two children while working part-time with medical students and residents in the newborn nursery. She identified a need for breastfeeding focused care and started her practice in 2006. Dr. Macaluso is a fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Pediatrics New York Chapter 2 Co- Breastfeeding Coordinator.  She is a partner in Allied Physicians Group, the largest private medical partnership in the New York Metropolitan area.

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Nini Munoz, originally from Barranquilla, Colombia, obtained her PhD in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 2014. She completed her BS from Cornell as well. She currently works as the fabrication, design, and process integration lead engineer of inertial navigation systems for Garmin International in Goleta CA. Prior to working in the aviation sector, she worked extensively on the design of vacuum systems and materials characterization for semiconductor processing. She specialized in the design of sensors for electrochemical detection and neural interfaces, culminating with her graphene sensor work interfacing with the enteric nervous system of mice. When not working, Nini enjoys spending her time producing bilingual STEM content for the science communication community, taking long walks with her husband, sewing, and playing with her dog, Kona.

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Nini Munoz, originally from Barranquilla, Colombia, obtained her PhD in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 2014. She completed her BS from Cornell as well. She currently works as the fabrication, design, and process integration lead engineer of inertial navigation systems for Garmin International in Goleta CA. Prior to working in the aviation sector, she worked extensively on the design of vacuum systems and materials characterization for semiconductor processing. She specialized in the design of sensors for electrochemical detection and neural interfaces, culminating with her graphene sensor work interfacing with the enteric nervous system of mice. When not working, Nini enjoys spending her time producing bilingual STEM content for the science communication community, taking long walks with her husband, sewing, and playing with her dog, Kona.

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Anna Sherman is a RegisteredPsychotherapist, Maternal Mental Health Practitioner and Clinical Supervisor in Toronto. She works with individuals, couples and families, as well as supervises qualifying therapists in their training. She helps her clients to heal and overcome trauma, fears and emotional blocks in their lives and relationships by building skills and tools to help them help themselves! Anna loves working with new mama's and helping women to live empowered, authentic and intentional lives.
Anna holds a Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and is specially trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), The Gottman Method, Maternal Mental Health, Family Systems Theory, Mindfulness Meditation and Psychodynamic Therapy.
Anna can be found at www.annashermanrp.com and on instagram @anna_sherman_psychotherapist
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Anna Sherman is a Registered Psychotherapist, Maternal Mental Health Practitioner and Clinical Supervisor in Toronto. She works with individuals, couples and families, as well as supervises qualifying therapists in their training. She helps her clients to heal and overcome trauma, fears and emotional blocks in their lives and relationships by building skills and tools to help them help themselves! Anna loves working with new mama's and helping women to live empowered, authentic and intentional lives.

Anna holds a Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and is specially trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), The Gottman Method, Maternal Mental Health, Family Systems Theory, Mindfulness Meditation and Psychodynamic Therapy.

Anna can be found at www.annashermanrp.com and on instagram @anna_sherman_psychotherapist

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Dr. Karkare is the director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, designated as a level 4 center by the NAEC (National Association of Epilepsy Centers). She is board certified in Epilepsy, Child Neurology and Pediatrics. She completed her training from Children’s Hospital of Michigan, University of Michigan and New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Before joining Northwell, Dr. Karkare was the director of pediatric epilepsy surgery program at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, KY where she successfully established a pediatric surgical program and streamlined complex diagnostic testing that was previously not available in the region. She served on the professional advisory committee of Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana and continues to serve on the advisory board of EPICLI (exceptional partners in care Long Island). Dr. Karkare is the principal co-investigator on HEP-3 ( Human Epilepsy Project-3) trial. She has authored book chapters and has multiple publications and presentations pertaining to pediatric epilepsy. As an assistant professor at Hofstra University Medical School and the program director for Child Neurology residency, Dr. Karkare takes avid interest in teaching and training future child neurologists.
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Dr. Karkare is the director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, designated as a level 4 center by the NAEC (National Association of Epilepsy Centers). She is board certified in Epilepsy, Child Neurology and Pediatrics. She completed her training from Children’s Hospital of Michigan, University of Michigan and New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Before joining Northwell, Dr. Karkare was the director of pediatric epilepsy surgery program at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, KY where she successfully established a pediatric surgical program and streamlined complex diagnostic testing that was previously not available in the region. She served on the professional advisory committee of Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana and continues to serve on the advisory board of EPICLI (exceptional partners in care Long Island). Dr. Karkare is the principal co-investigator on HEP-3 ( Human Epilepsy Project-3) trial. She has authored book chapters and has multiple publications and presentations pertaining to pediatric epilepsy. As an assistant professor at Hofstra University Medical School and the program director for Child Neurology residency, Dr. Karkare takes avid interest in teaching and training future child neurologists.

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Avigail Gimpel is a mom and educator who is the author of Hyper Healing: The Empowered Parent’s Complete Guide to raising a healthy child with ADHD symptoms. Avigail received her BA from Touro college and completed her graduate studies at Touro college graduate school for Special Education in Manhattan, New York. She taught in Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway from 1995 to 1998, where she developed an intervention program for student struggling with ADHD symptoms, after which she married and made aliyah.
In Israel she earned advanced degrees in teaching reading to children with Dyslexia and cognitive education for children with ADHD symptoms.
After returning  to Israel, she immersed herself in studying and developing treatment options for ADHD for her own kids and many struggling students. She collaborated with her father-in-law, Dr. Amnon Gimpel (psychiatrist and neurologist), and developed a parent training program. She then developed a teachers training program and now teaches in Hertzog college as well as lectures in Israeli schools and to parent groups all over Israel. She works in private practice, training parents to become ADHD coaches to their children and spouses to learn a new love language to communicate with respect.
She has recently published her first book “Hyper Healing,” based on many years of research and practice both as a mother of a good number of kids diagnosed with ADHD, as well as a classroom teacher of children struggling with ADHD symptoms.
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