Dr. Robert Fontaine is the Senior Advisor for the Field Epidemiology Training Program Branch at CDC. He returned to CDC headquarters in 2012 from Beijing China where he had been the Expert Advisor to the Chinese Field Epidemiology Training Program (CFETP) of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention since 2004. During this period he has developed over 160 epidemiologists throughout China including a central team of 5 who manage all operations of the CFETP. Major investigations done under Dr. Fontaine's tenure have included, pneumonic plague, a long-standing problem of unexplained sudden death, a nationwide paraplegia outbreak from contaminated drugs, and widespread critical and fatal influenza and hand foot and mouth disease from inappropriate use of corticosteroids. Government of China presented Dr. Fontaine with the highest award presented to foreign experts, the Friendship Award. Dr. Fontaine began his career in public health at CDC as an EIS officer in 1973. He took a preventive medicine residency in Colorado and then was stationed to the CDCs Central American Research Station in El Salvador where he worked on malaria surveillance and epidemiology. He spent 7 years with the Division of Parasitic Diseases until 1987 when he became the resident advisor to the Saudi Arabian FETP. In 1998 he moved to Jordan to develop the Jordanian FETP. In 2000 he joined the Division of International Health until he was poster to China. Dr. Fontaine is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, in Entomology (BS) and Medicine (MD). He also has a MSc in Parasitology from the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He has published 45 scientific papers and 2 book chapters. Besides his dedication to field epidemiology, surveillance, and public health; he still maintains his interest in entomology, parasitic diseases, and vector-borne diseases.

As the Founder and Director of Teaching Empathy Inc., David Levine has been teaching, inspiring, and motivating teachers to re-discover the joy they once felt when they entered the teaching profession. The daily stressors that teachers feel and the frustration they live with many days of the school year will not change unless they take action to change how they respond to the new reality of school reform. It is imperative for all educators (teachers, administrators and support personnel), to embrace the potential to teach pro-social skills while building a classroom community where bullying is minimized within the systems changes being implemented. Educators do not want or need a new curriculum or complicated program, but instead are looking for a new consciousness of how to create caring and compassionate schools. It is time to return to the passion teachers once felt when they went into the educational field by reframing what they do every day (making a difference in the lives of their students), and how they do it (by creating caring and compassionate classrooms and schools). David ‘s work on teaching empathy as a bully prevention strategy has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, and WABC news in New York City. David’s books include Teaching Empathy, Building Classroom Communities and The School of Belonging Plan Book. His recordings include Dance of a Child's Dreams (Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner), and the Bully Tapes. After teaching elementary and middle school, he served as chief trainer for the U.S. Department of Education’s Northeast Regional Center for Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Today, David designs, facilitates, and presents workshops and professional development experiences nationally to teachers, administrators, and students.

Sacred is a Soulcare therapist, being a trained Interfaith Minister, Drama Therapist, and African Psychologist. Through her company, Kuumba Health LLC, Sacred developed 'Soulcare." Here she offers holistic soulcare coaching and transformational leadership soulcare retreats in her private practice. She helps people over time to shift their experiences of illness into reclaimed joy, embodied sacred sensuality, and wellness, using research backed therapeutic art, her radiant magnetic presence, and affirming rituals. Soulcare reaches deeper into areas as an asset to western medicine. Through individual and group counseling, wedding offication, creative projects, retreats, and train the trainer staff development. She is a medium for enhancing your quality of life. She's happy to share through speaking engagements how her clinical practice backed by research, has been proven to be effective, support short term pain management, increase focus, and give your inner child room to dream up a healthier you. Personally and professionally she fosters the soulcare in your healthcare.

I worked as a registered nurse for over 30 years in many areas of nursing, but found I like teaching the best. I enjoy helping people protect themselves as they interact with the healthcare system. I've written articles on the advocacy topic, been a guest on radio shows, spoken to groups and I'm working on a series to help people advocate for themselves and others. I created a local health focused radio show 8 years ago and only recently stop broadcasting it. Some of the shows will appear on my BlogTalkRadio show. I have been privileged to meet many experts in the world of healthcare and wellness. You will benefit from all I have learned over the years as you are give the tools and resources to become educated empowered consumers of healthcare services.