The movement is at http://www.EmbracingWomensHealth.com

BIOGRAPHIES OF EMBRACING WOMEN’S HEALTH LLUMINARI SPOKESPERSONS

• Elizabeth A. Browning

  Ms. Browning is founder and Chief Executive Officer of LLuminari, an innovative health education company co-founded with Susan Love, M.D., and Nancy Snyderman, M.D. Prior to founding LLuminari, Ms. Browning was president, DuPont Consumer Health, a division of DuPont’s Nutrition and Health strategic business unit. During her 20-year career with the DuPont Company, she held a variety of leadership positions and led the globalization of the Lycra brand and the company’s entry into e-business. Ms. Browning frequently lectures on global marketing and branding. She has worked with the Stanford Executive Education Program and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism/English from Indiana University and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware with her family.

• Marianne J. Legato, M.D., F.A.C.P.

  Dr. Legato is an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer, and specialist in women's health. She is the founder and director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University. The first collaboration between academic medicine and the private sector focused solely on gender-specific medicine—the science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and of how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender. Dr. Legato has spent her research career doing cardiovascular research on the structure and function of the cardiac cell, which is supported by the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Legato writes for the scientific and lay communities. She received her medical degree from the New York University College of Medicine, and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

• Alice D. Domar, Ph.D.

  Dr. Domar is a leader on women and stress, infertility, and self-nurture. An author, professor, and resource on women's health issues, Dr. Domar is a graduate of Concord Academy and Colby College. She is currently the director of the Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Boston IVF, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Domar is an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. She was selected in 2004 as a “Woman to Watch” by Lifetime Television.
  

• Byllye Y. Avery, B.A., M.Ed.

  A dreamer, visionary, and grassroots realist, Ms. Avery combines activism and social responsibility by developing a national forum for the exploration of health issues of African-American women. She is the founder of the Avery Institute for Social Change and the National Black Women's Health Project. Prior to her entry into the health care arena, Ms. Avery taught special education to emotionally disturbed students and consulted on learning disabilities in public schools and universities throughout the southeastern United States. She holds honorary degrees from Thomas Jefferson University, the State University at New York at Binghamton and Gettysburg College. In 2002, Lifetime Television honored Ms. Avery with their prestigious Trailblazer Award.

• Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D.

  Dr. Nelson is director of the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. Dr. Nelson’s international best-selling books Strong Women Stay Young; Strong Women Stay Slim; Strong Women, Strong Bones; Strong Women Eat Well; and Strong Women and Men Beat Arthritis have helped people learn how to stay younger, healthier, and stronger. Her research has revolutionized how people understand nutrition, strength training, aging, and health.
  

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