The
Deaf Health Fair 2008 is pleased to welcome our Deaf and Hard of Hearing presenters - Several presenters will be coming to Michigan for this special event. As presenters are confirmed we will be adding their information below - keep coming back here to see who will be at the Deaf Health Fair!
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posted Sep 11, 2008 8:06 AM by Dave Coyne
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updated Sep 11, 2008 8:19 AM
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Dr. Amit Batra was raised in New Jersey. After graduating from Brown
University with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, he attended the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and received a Doctorate in Dental Surgery.
After finishing his studies in Ann Arbor, he completed one year of residency at
the University of Rochester’s Eastman Dental Center. There, he gained more
clinical and research experience and received a certificate in Advanced Training
in General Dentistry. He worked as an associate for several years in New Jersey
and Michigan before starting his practice in Clinton Township, Michigan. He is a
member of the American Dental Association, Michigan Dental Association, and the
Macomb Dental Society. Dr Batra is also on the staff at St. Joe’s Mercy Hospital
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posted Aug 5, 2008 7:23 AM by Dave Coyne
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updated Aug 5, 2008 2:07 PM
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| HELEN FAITH (Shiemke) JONES: MA, NIC-Advanced, a
native of Northern Michigan received her BA from Madonna University
(1984) in Sign Language Studies. Nationally certified in 1987 she worked in
education, theatre and did community based interpreting in the greater Detroit area. In 1989
moved to Ohio
and in 1992 established a 24 hour for profit referral and consultant service on
Deafness. After 5 years of service she stepped down and out of the field of
interpreting to coordinate a statewide substance abuse (SA) program for Deaf
and Hard of Hearing people in Michigan.
She served as Chair of The Michigan Coalition’s Committee on SA. She earned her
MA in Organizational Management from Spring
Arbor University
(2004). In 2006 Jones reentered the interpreting arena, received her
NIC-Advanced and now works part time for Sorenson Communications. On a personal
note Helen married an old college friend and “AbracaDEAFra- the magic began!
She and her magician husband, “The Great Bobini” performs internationally
bringing the joy of magic to young and old. They boast an adopted son, a
beautiful daughter-in-law, and three grandsons.
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posted Jul 31, 2008 10:06 AM by Dave Coyne
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updated Aug 5, 2008 2:07 PM
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| Susan González is a
community activist, an educator and now an attorney. Susan attended University
of California-Davis, California State University-San Francisco, New College of
California School of Law, and Golden Gate University School of Law LLM Program. A SF/Bay Area native, Susan began her
community activism with a variety of grassroots organizations committed to
HIV/AIDS education, communication access, equality and animal rights. During her time with Deaf AIDS Center, Susan
along with other board members created Deaf Communities Together, Incorporated
with the goal of providing fiscal agency for other community
organizations. Today Susan devotes her
energies and attention to access and equality, international disability policy
making, domestic violence/sexual assault, human and animal rights.
An educator for 13 years, Susan discovered her passion for advocacy and
legal rights. It was a natural
transition from being a Deaf teacher of the Deaf to being a Deaf attorney of
the Deaf community. In February 2007,
Susan passed the California Bar Examination and June 2007 received her license
to practice law. She hopes to one day
create a one stop legal center for the communities. Her interests lie with family law, domestic
violence law, estate planning, immigration queer and elder law and animal rights. Her commitments include the Deaf,
Queer and the Latino/Hispanic communities.
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posted Jul 28, 2008 8:40 AM by Dave Coyne
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updated Aug 5, 2008 2:08 PM
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Mel Whalen is a Deaf clinical psychology doctoral fellow in her 4th
year of training at Eastern Michigan University. She works primarily with Deaf clients, doing
both testing and individual, group or family therapy. Mel attended Smith College, in Northampton,
Massachusetts for her undergraduate degree, majoring in sociology, and
graduated magna cum laude. She also
spent her junior year abroad in England, studying British Sign Language, Deaf
Culture, and sociolinguistics. Upon
graduation, she left to spend a year in Australia on a Fulbright fellowship,
earning her master’s degree in Sign Linguistics. Mel is fluent in American Sign Language as
well as British and Australian sign languages.
In her free time, she enjoys reading, traveling and spending time with
her family and dogs.
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posted Jul 28, 2008 8:01 AM by Dave Coyne
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updated Dec 17, 2008 7:53 AM
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Sandria Graham is a deaf dietitian currently
working towards becoming a Registered Dietitian. Her primary focus is on
dietary lifestyles to help prevent disease and uses an approach to holistic
health in terms of balancing mind, body, and spirit. Her areas of expertise include
overweight-obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol-heart disease,
gastrointestinal, osteoporosis, menopause, food allergy, and general nutrition.
Application of her work includes one-on-one counseling in office or with house-calls
(visits at home), presentations, workshop, small group classes, healthy
shopping tours and dining out experiences. She has given approximately 20 live presentations
to the deaf community in Michigan for
schoolchildren to senior citizen, and has used videophone with PowerPoint
presentations for deaf adults in Iowa and deaf
senior citizens in Texas.
Ms. Graham is fluent in American Sign Language and has been Deaf since birth.
She completed the accredited
dietetic internship program at the Hurley
Medical Center
last November 2007. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Dietetics with a minor in chemistry and biology from Madonna University. She is a member of the
American Dietetic Association and Michigan Dietetic Association. Her personal interests and pursuits
include camping, travel, healthy cooking, exercise, sewing, and was an organic
gardener for 20 years.
 Please view more information from Sandria Graham's Summer Tips: Nutrition Tips, Beverage Tips, Super Snacks and Picnic Safety
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posted Jun 12, 2008 6:10 PM by Dave Coyne
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updated Aug 5, 2008 2:08 PM
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Dr. Atcherson is an academic and clinical audiologist
with long-standing childhood hearing loss caused by large vestibular aqueduct
syndrome. He is a long-time hearing aid
user, a more recent cochlear implant user, and is no stranger to assistive
technology and American Sign Language.
Dr. Atcherson received his Ph.D. from the University of Memphis
and he is currently employed by the University
of Arkansas at Little
Rock/University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences. He has given over
30 presentations around the country on hearing related topics, and is the
co-author of a guidebook “Demystifying Hearing Assistance Technology: A Guide
for Service Providers and Consumers.” Last but not least, Dr. Atcherson
currently serves as the President of the Association of Medical Professionals
with Hearing Losses. Dr. Atcherson is
fluent in American Sign Language.
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posted Jun 12, 2008 6:09 PM by Dave Coyne
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updated Aug 5, 2008 2:09 PM
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Dr. McKee is a deaf physician who specializes in family
medicine. For the past 4 years, he has
worked at Folsom Family Medicine which is affiliated with Lifetime Health located
at Rochester, New York.
At Folsom Family, we see ~800 deaf patients and their families in
addition to hearing individuals. Folsom
is currently the second largest deaf medical practice in the country. Dr. McKee graduated from University of
Florida College of Medicine with Honors.
For his family medicine residency training, he went to University of
South Carolina/Palmetto Health Alliance.
At this time, he is currently obtaining his Masters of Public Health
through University
of Rochester’ Preventive
Cardiology Fellowship program. He
currently assists the National Center for Deaf Health Research which is a Center of Disease Control
funded Preventive
Research Center. This is a program that is currently surveying
deaf individuals to learn more about the health trends and needs in the deaf
community. His medical interests include
nutrition and health disparities among the disabled groups. His personal interests include outdoor
activities especially hiking and kayaking.
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posted Jun 12, 2008 5:56 PM by Dave Coyne
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updated Aug 5, 2008 2:09 PM
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Cristine Saunders is a Nationally Certified
Massage Therapist as well as an RID certified ASL interpreter. She has been signing since the age of five
and working as a certified interpreter since 1991. She has been working as a massage therapist
since 2002. Her practice primarily
focuses on neuromuscular therapy, to help with pain management but she keeps up
to date on studies relating to nutrition, exercise, neuropsychological and
neuromuscular therapies and how those things relate to overall health and stress
management. She has given presentations on stress management at the University
of Michigan’s Interpreter Services Department.
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