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Guest Speaker: Dr. Jane Aronson

Founder and CEO of Worldwide Orphans Foundation Dr. Jane Aronson will be at Words on Wednesday, June 9 at 7:30 pm.  Her talk is entitled What Every Child Needs: Creating Lives of Meaning for the World's Most Vulnerable Citizens.  Don't miss it!

 

Dr. Aronson is a board certified general pediatrician and pediatric infectious diseases specialist, and has been a practicing adoption medicine specialist for the past 12 years. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and the director of International Pediatric Health Services (IPH), which she opened in 2000. Since founding WWO in 1997, Dr. Aronson has visited orphanages in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Latin America. Dr. Aronson and her partner Diana have three children: Hilary, (adopted domestically), Desalegn, (adopted from Ethiopia) and Ben, (adopted from Viet Nam).

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