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Presenters at Transgender 2009
| Christine Alegria Dr. Christine Aramburu Alegra is a nurse and a social psychologist. She is on the faculty in the Orvis School of Nursing at the University of Nevada at Reno.
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Mariette Pathy Allen Mariette Pathy Allen is a professional photographer, writer and speaker on, and on behalf of, the TG community for 30 years. She is the author of "Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them" and "The Gender Frontier" which won a 2004 Lambda Literary Award. Mariette is the staff photographer and a frequent contributor to IFGE's Transgender Tapestry magazine since the mid '80s. Her photographs make a significant contribution to Leslie Feinberg's "Transgender Warriors", and illustrate Riki Anne Wilchin's "Read My Lips". Her photographs are exhibited widely in the USA and abroad.
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| Dr. Michele Angello Dr. Michele Angello works with gender variant youth and adults. She offers individual, group and family therapy, as well as corporate education and training on a variety of issues of sexuality and has presented internationally on her work with trans-youth and working with children of transitioning parents. She facilitates several monthly support groups for transgender adults, youth and parents. Dr. Angello is often called on to speak as an expert on transgender issues to universities, corporations and the media. She has appeared on Larry King Live, the Tyra Banks Show, and various documentaries.
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Stephanie Battaglino Stephanie Battaglino is a Communications Director at New York Life Insurance Company located in Sleepy Hollow, New York. She successfully transitioned on the job in October of 2005 and is the first transgendered person to do so in the 163-year history of the company. Stephanie's career spans over 25 years in marketing, marketing communications and related fields. In the corporate workplace she has been quite active spearheading the formation of NYLPride, the first ever LGBT employee network group in the history of the company in May of 2007. She is also active in the metro New York chapter of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates; the pre-eminent national organization devoted to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the workplace.
Stephanie holds the position of Secretary on the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) and is the Chair of the organization's endowment fund the Winslow Street Fund.
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Helen Boyd Helen Boyd is the author of My Husband Betty (2004) and She's Not the Man I Married (2007). Her blog (en)gender can be found at www.myhusbandbetty.com and the Trans Group Blog she started, can be found at http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com. She is currently teaching at Lawrence University.
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| Jan Brown Jan is a married hetero CD from NYS who cofounded her local support group, Mid-Hudson Transgender Association (MHVTA) nine years ago in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State. Jan likes to help others and enjoys golf, computers, reading and being Jan.
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Dr. Jennifer Burnett Dr. Burnett is a contributing member of the following organizations: Asst. Professor Clinical Medicine UCSF-Fresno. Faculty, Fresno Family Practice Residency Program. Fellow American Academy of Family Practice. Member- WPATH/HBIGDA, IFGE. Practicing Physician, Family Practice with Obstetrics & Transgender Medicine. In addition Dr. Burnett has also done multiple short-term Overseas Medical Missions all over the world.
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| Diane Canter Diane Canter is the owner /operator of Classic Design Jewelers, Classic Plus Size Jewelry and has recently added a new website, Ring Guards Plus. We have been in business on the internet since 2001 and are a top rated store on Yahoo! We have been a regular vendor at the Transgender conventions and have made many friends, who we look forward to seeing in the spring. We will be happy to help anyone if you need help with your selections. Just email or call us to set up a time for your consultation. Hope to see you at the Spring convention!
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Dr. Richard Docter Richard Docter, PhD is the author of Transvestites and Transsexuals. (1988) Plenum Press. He has also written biographies of Virginia Prince and Christine Jorgensen and published research on the assessment of gender identity and other dimensions of transgender behavior. Docter is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and is a Fellow (Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.
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| Dr. Sidney Ecker Dr. Sidney Ecker is a former Clinical Professor of Urology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC and Chief of Urology at the DC VA Medical Center, where he has cared for Transgender patients. He is the former Medical Writer for Transgender Forum, Renaissance Community News, and Transgender Education Association, where he has written over 50 medical articles as Cerise Richards, M.D. His presentation will be part of a Symposium, "The Neurobiological Evidence for Transgenderism," to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in May 2009.
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Lady Ellen Lady Ellen is the Owner and Operator of the only fully service Male to Female Transformation and Fantasy Photo Studio in New Jersey. Lady Ellen has been a teacher for 15 years and is now using her skills to teach feminine arts to the cross-dressing and transgendered community. During the last two years she has presented workshops to transgendered groups in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia. www.XdressNJ.com
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Michelle Farrell Michelle Farrell has a career that combines fifteen years of experience in a wide range of businesses pertinent to the film and tv industries.
She has been a guest speaker at colleges, teaches filmmaking & cinematography, has soundly established herself in the independent movie business and is proud owner of Absolute Independent Pictures. (www.absoluteindependentpictures.com)Michelle has been DP for 12 full-features, gaffed for DPs such as Miroslaw Baszak(Dawn of the Dead & 300 fame), key gripped for BET and worked for Sony, Fox, A&E, NBC and a host of others. Michelle has found home.
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| Rev. Karla Fleshman Rev. Karla Fleshman is the founding Pastor of Imago Dei MCC (www.imagodeimcc.org); and a member of MCC Transgender Ministries. In 2007 she organized the first Religion & Transgender retreat in the Philadelphia area; and is a member of the Yes! Coalition.
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| Lynda Frank Past Member on the National Board of Directors of Tri-Ess.(Ten years+); Past Regional Director Tri-Ess Northeast; Chi Delta Mu chapter of Tri-Ess, Treasurer for 3 terms and President for 10 Years; Co-Founder of Signa Nu Ru Chapter of Tri-Ess; Chairperson 1996 Tri-Ess National Convention/NYC; Co-Chairperson 2002 Tri-Ess National Convention/NJ; Founding member of the Greater New York Gender Alliance; Staff member of the NYC Stonewall 25 parade; Founder and Director of Northern New Jersey Gender Hotline referral service since 1984; Co-Director and Founder of Moonlight in Manhattan; Member of the Steering/Planning committee for the formation of IFGE & alternate board member
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| Marty Greenblatt Marty Greenblatt is the general manager/owner of Eldorado Hair Replacement Center, Baltimore, Maryland since 1968. Marty has appeared on WBAL-TV11, WMAR-TV2, WBFF-TV45, Discovery Health Channel, Baltimore Magazine, WCBM-1090 am radio. He is Past President of Transitions International, a 60 member group of international hair replacement centers catering to men and women suffering from all types of hair loss. Marty serves regularly as a guest speaker at various beauty schools and trade shows.
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Dr. Reinhardt Heuer Reinhardt J. Heuer is a Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Temple University and Senior Researcher at A.I.E.V.R, He also has worked with the transgendered community since 1972.
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Alison Laing Alison Laing has been an active participant and leader in the Transgendered community since her coming out in 1986 at Fantasia Fair. She is a past Executive Director of International Foundation for Gender Education, (IFGE) the major non-profit Transgender organization that serves the TG community. She was Secretary to the Board of Directors 1998 to 2004 and is Co-Chair of IFGE Conventions. She has been active in IFGE since 1987. Alison was awarded the IFGE Trinity, and later, along with her S.O. Dottie, the Virginia Prince award for Outstanding Service to the community. Alison was the Director of the 1994,1995, 1998 and 2000 Fantasia Fairs as well as the chair of the sponsoring organization, the Outreach Institute of Gender Studies from 1993 through 1995. She has received the Fantasia Fair Ms Congeniality and Ms Fantasia Awards as well as the OIGS Outreach Award, She continues to support Fantasia Fair as a member of the Staff.
Alison is a founding member and past Managing Director, Treasurer and Outreach Co-Chairperson for the Renaissance Education Association. Alison has served on the boards of AEGIS , Gender- PAC and the Rikki Swin Institute Advisory Board.
Alison has a B.S. and M.S. from an eastern engineering university and an M.S. in Management from an Ivy League University; served two years in the Armed Services as an Officer and has over 30 years in high technology beginning in R&D and moving on into management and marketing.
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| Dottie Laing Dottie Laing has been married to and supportive of a transgendered person for over 50 years. She has not only assisted her partner, Alison Laing, in her various leadership roles, she has taken on her own leadership roles such as Director of Fantasia Fair, Fund Raising Chair for IFGE as well as leading workshops and special SO activities at conferences. She has recieved the IFGE Trinity and Virginia Prine awards as well as the Fantasia Fair Award of Merit.
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| Dr. Sherman Leis Sherman N. Leis, D.O., F.A.C.O.S. is Professor and Chairman of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Residency Program Director in Plastic Surgery at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Leis is also Director and Chief Surgeon of the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery. The Center represents a team of more than thirty professionals who have expertise in servicing the surgical and non-surgical needs of transgender individuals. It is one of the few comprehensive centers of its type in the United States. Dr. Leis is a founding member of the SCOS Section of Plastic Surgery.
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Mona Rae Mason Mona Rae Mason has been working on The Transgender Project, an NIH funded study of male to female transgender communities in NYC for the past 5 years. She sits on the Bd. of Directors of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, is a participating member of the Transgender Health Initiative of NY. She is a past speaker at two IFGE conferences and is co-author of two journal papers (awaiting publication). Ms. Mason has presented several TG diversity programs and is currently working with the NYPD Police Academy rewriting the Academy recruit's diversity trainings on transgender.
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Dr. Christine McGinn Dr. McGinn is a plastic surgeon whose formal training was tailored specifically to transgender surgery in addition to all aspects of both General and Plastic Surgery. Since her own transition in 2000, she has been an activist and speaker on many aspects of gender variant issues. She is frequently called upon by television on print media as an expert in her field and was most recently interviewed by PBS to comment on transgenderism as a diagnosis in the upcoming DSMV. She is the founder of Papillon Gender Wellness Center; a comprehensive gender support center that includes many professional services in addition to Plastic Surgery. Dr McGinn is on staff on two hospitals in the Philadelphia area and is often called upon by Universities and Medical Schools to help train students and faculty about transgender medicine. Her focus is not only on providing plastic and reconstructive surgery, but also to promote the importance of a holistic approach to the care of gender variant individuals to include preventive medicine, research, community outreach, primary care and therapeutic support systems. Of special interest to Dr McGinn are long-term outcomes to gender confirmation surgery and contra- hormone therapy as they relate to improved quality of life and sexual health for gender variant individuals. www.DrChristineMcGinn.com
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Dr. Toby Meltzer Dr. Toby Meltzer graduated from LSU Medical School in 1983. Is board certified in both General and Plastic Surgery. Is an active member of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. He began at Oregon Health Sciences University in 1990 and opened his private practice in 1996. Moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1993. He has privileges at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn, Shea and Greenbaum. At approximately 200 Genital Roconstruction Surgery (GRS) cases per year, he performs MTF and FTM GRS, Facial Feminization, Body contouring, Cosmetic Procedures, and revision work.
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Dr. Maureen Osborne Dr. Maureen Osborne is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Malvern, PA. Trained in Contextual Family Therapy, she has worked with transgender clients and their families for the past 16 years. A member of WPATH, she is a frequent presenter at national and international gender conferences, and currently writes a monthly column for the online newsletter TGForum called "Checking in with Osbo's Bridge Club". She is also an adjunct therapist with Dr. Christine McGinn's Papillon Gender Wellness Center in Doylestown, PA.
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Dr. Douglas Ousterhout Dr. Douglas Ousterhout is a full professor at the University of California, San Francisco. He was educated at the university of Michigan, Stanford University and Paris France, where he did a fellowship with Dr. Paul Tessier. He specializes in craniofacial, maxillofacial, and plastic surgery in San Francisco. He has pioneered techniques and procedures in the feminization of the male face, authoring texts, journal articles and other publications on that and other subjects. He is Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and holds memberships in 18 medical societies world wide.
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| Sara Pagano Sara Pagano is the original co-creator of Waves Studio in Olympia, WA, which is a 5Rhythms dance studio. She now lives and teaches on Maui, and travels throughout the Unites States leading 5Rhythms dance workshops. You can go to www.waves-studio.com for more info on her dance work. Sara feels proud and lucky to be transsexual.
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| Chris Paige Chris Paige of Philadelphia, PA, is the founder of TransFaith On-line (www.transfaithonline.org) and believes that gender variant folks have many spiritual gifts and insights to offer a world that depends entirely too much on binary categories. Chris is coordinator of the Interfaith Working Group and a member of the YES! Coalition.
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Dr. Sandra Samons Dr. Samons is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work (MSW) and of the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (Ph.D.). She is licensed in Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, is an AASECT Certified Diplomate of Sex Therapy and a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. (WPATH). She has specialized in gender identity issues since 1992. She is the author of the book: When The Opposite Sex Isn't, and several articles related to transgender.
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| Rina Schroeder Rina Schroeder is the owner of Rina Chicago, a cozy state-of-the-art healing spa which offers the latest in non-invasive facial, anti-aging and wellness therapies, including specialized paramedical treatments to help you heal faster and better after cosmetic surgery and liposuction. Her passion for wellness, holistic healing and beauty evolved from her intensive residential studies of Yoga and ancient healing arts. Rina is a Paramedical Esthetician, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Lymphedema Therapist, and skin care industry educator, specializing in facial toning and lymphatic drainage.
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Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel is Chief of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Boston Medical Center and holds academic appointments in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery and Plastic Surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine. His practice specializes in Facial Feminization Surgery. He sees head and neck surgery and facial cosmetic surgery patients at Boston Medical Center in Boston's historic and vibrant South End.
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| Dr. James Thomas James Thomas is a laryngologist specializing in voice disorders with a particular interest/focus in surgeries that alter the speaking pitch. He has developed the procedure of Feminization Laryngoplasty over the past five years and practices in Portland, Oregon. For more information please see http://www.voicedoctor.net/physician/cv.html
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| Dana Walker Dayna Walker has worked in the field of Human Resources for the past 14 years. Dayna has presented several workshops and seminars relating to Human Diversity and Transgendered in the workplace for numerous companies and organizations including, the Department of Defense, CASA and Humana. Dayna is the founder of Systems 81 Consulting, which is a full service human resources consulting firm and is an advocate and resource for those wishing to transition in the workplace or gain employment. Dayna also works with many companies that wish to enhance and further their diversity programs.
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Dr. Mark Zukowski Mark Zukowski, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a Northwestern-trained Board Certified Plastic Surgeon who practices on the North Shore of Chicago. He performs the full range of face and body feminization procedures as well as micrograft hair transplantation in order to create a full and naturally feminine hairline. Dr. Zukowski specializes in new state-of-the-art technology such as endoscopic minimal scar techniques, suspension neck contouring, high speed burring for bone sculpting and tracheal shaving, and large volume fat-grafting for buttock enhancement in order to provide safe, individualized, cost-effective, and high-quality results that he guarantees. He served in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of Commander at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, and was in charge of the busiest plastic surgery department of any military in the world. He is the author of over 30 articles and book chapters with an international reputation in cosmetic plastic surgery. For more information about his practice, go to www.facesculptor.com.
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