Tom Burke, MD: What Primary Care Providers Should Know About Gynecologic Malignancies.

Tom Burke has been practicing obstetrics and gynecology at the Alaska Native Medical Center since 1994. He is board certified in obstetrics, gynecology and family medicine. He has also been serving on the board for the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics course since 1999. He has recently been recognized for his contributions to gyn oncology with the Living our Values Award from ANMC.

Amy Elder, ANP: Healthy Women, Healthy Lifestyles.

Amy Elder was born and raised in Colorado. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley in 1982. She has been a childbirth educator, a preceptor for nursing students during clinical rotations and special emphasis rotations, and has also served as a preceptor for nurse practitioner students. Inpatient experience has included ICU, ER, pediatrics, but mostly Labor and Delivery. After 14 years in Labor and Delivery, Amy received her National Certification in Women's Health from Planned Parenthood in 1996. Amy has lived in Alaska since 1999. She is married and has 3 children ages 20, 18, and 15.

George Gilson, MD FACOG FAAFP: The Obstetrics-Internal Medicine Interface...Growth is Change.

George J. Gilson is the on-staff Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. He has completed residencies in Family Medicine, and in Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine, at the University of New Mexico. He has served in the Indian Health Service in Pawnee, OK, and Chinle, AZ, and in the National Health Service Corps in rural northern NM, and on the US-Mexico border in Brownsville, TX. He has extensive international rural experience and has served as an Ob-Gyn consultant for both MotherCare/USA and Johns Hopkins in Guatemala, Honduras, and Bolivia. He has worked extensively with Mayan indigenous people in Guatemala and recently completed a sabbatical year working in that country with traditional birth attendants. For the 12 years prior to moving to Alaska, he was at the University of New Mexico where he was an Associate Professor of Ob-Gyn, medical student clerkship director, and medical director of Labor and Delivery. He is author of the IHS web page, "The Perinatologist's Corner".

Carolee Kuka Hindin, BS: Motivational Interviewing...The Practical Application.

Carolee Kuka Hindin is the Intake Coordinator at Southcentral Foundation Dena A Coy Addiction and Mental Health Treatment Program. She has worked in the field of addictions for the past 17 years providing specialized services in assessment and treatment of addictive disorders among pregnant and parenting women.

Pam Miller, MS: Body of Evidence: Reproductive Health and the Environment.

Pam Miller is founder and director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT). ACAT is an organization that focuses on environmental health and justice issues. As a biologist, she brings 25 years of research, education, and advocacy experience to her present work. From 1990-1997, she was researcher/campaign coordinator for Greenpeace, Alaska, working on ocean ecology, oil and gas, toxics, and climate change issues. Prior to coming to Alaska, she served as Ocean Issues Technical Coordinator for the Washington Department of Ecology and Director of a marine science education center at Nisqually Reach in southern Puget Sound. She received the 1991 Governors Award for Environmental Excellence in Washington State. She received the Alaska Conservation Foundation's Olaus Murie Award in recognition of her "long-term outstanding professional contributions to the conservation movement in Alaska." She holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Wittenberg University and a master's degree in environmental science from Miami University. She serves as Principal Investigator for research projects funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Environmental Protection Agency.

Andrea Wang, MD: Protecting the Pelvic Floor through Pregnancy and Beyond.

Andrea Wang recently relocated to Alaska from New York City, where she had a faculty practice in Urogynecology at Columbia University. After a year at ANMC as a generalist ob/gyn, she is starting a urogynecology practice here in Anchorage. She spends her personal time off the grid in Talkeetna.