Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH, is the Associate Dean for Pediatric Academic Affairs and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; and Director and Principal Investigator of IMPACT DC (Improving Pediatric Asthma Care in the District of Columbia), a care, research, and advocacy program focused on under-resourced and largely minority children with asthma.
You can learn more about Dr. Teach’s PCORI-funded project here.
Thomas Newell, 64, lives in Randolph, MA with his wife, Andrea, and retired from Verizon in 2015 after working for 34 years for the company. He has two sons, Terrell and Jerel. A nephew, Alex Newell, on Broadway, in the Musical “Once Upon This Island,” whose father passed away in 1999 from colon cancer.
Janet Newman, Ph.D. is a consultant and the author of Living in the Chemical Age. Her longtime interest in health and nutrition has led her to explore the damage that hidden environmental toxins can do and to discover ways to reduce or eliminate their impact. Janet has a Ph.D. in psychology and a master’s degree in social work. She is the mother of two active boys and enjoys organic gardening, writing, yoga, bike riding, and cooking healthy meals for her family.
Warren Farrell, Ph.D., is the author (with John Gray) of the just-released The Boy Crisis. He has written books published in 19 languages, including two best-sellers, Why Men Are the Way they Are and The Myth of Male Power. Dr. Farrell was chosen by The Financial Times of London as one of the world’s top 100 Thought Leaders. He chairs the Coalition to Create a White House Council on Boys and Men. He has two daughters, lives with his wife in Mill Valley, Ca., and virtually at http://www.warrenfarrell.com
Terry Brennan is a Father of two daughters, a CFO, and a Co-Founder of the international child advocacy organization, Leading Women for Shared Parenting (LW4SP). He writes frequently on better public policy and fatherlessness. You can connect with Terry on Twitter @Terry Brennan 211 and learn more about shared parenting laws, research and polling at http://www.lw4sp.org.
Dr. Daniel Minier is the author of Getting Older... It's Avoidable!. He is also a dermatologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, and a member of the Jury for the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. Daniel and his family live in Quebec, Canada.
James H. Rimmer, PhD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Lakeshore Foundation, is leading a PCORI-funded study testing the effectiveness of a home-based complementary and alternative exercise program delivered through telerehabilitation and comparing key health outcomes to the same program delivered in a clinical setting for patients with multiple sclerosis.