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* '''Amy Callan''', MS, holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from Manhattan College and received her MS degree in health services administration from Iona College. She worked for Hudson Health Plan, a non-profit Medicaid managed-care company in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she served as project manager and was responsible for the coordination, oversight, and implementation of projects related to nonprofit program design and strategy. Amy is currently the Business Operations Manager for [[Intact America]], an organization that envisions a world where children are protected from permanent bodily alteration inflicted on them, without their consent, in the name of culture, religion, profit, or parental preference. Tarrytown, New York, USA.
* '''[[Georganne Chapin]]''', JD, is the founding Executive Director of [[Intact America]] (IA), and the President and CEO of Hudson Health Plan and the Hudson Center for Health Equity and Quality – all not-for-profit organizations based in Tarrytown, NY. She holds a BA in anthropology from Barnard College, an MPhil in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University, and a JD from Pace University School of Law, where she has taught health law and bioethics. She is also a Board member of [[Attorneys for the Rights of the Child]]. As Executive Director of IA, Georganne has been quoted widely in the press, has been featured on many radio shows – local, national, and abroad – and has appeared on national television (MSNBC, NBC’s Today Show, and FOX News). Tarrytown, New York, USA.
* '''[[George C. Denniston| George Denniston]]''', MD, received his degree from Princeton University, his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health, is the founder of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] (D.O.C.), and the co-author of ''Doctors Re-Examine Circumcision''. He is co-editor of the proceedings of the International Symposia on Circumcision, Human Rights, and Genital Integrity, Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy; ''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''; ''Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem''; ''Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society''; ''Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy and Change; Circumcision and Human Rights''; and ''Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice''. He is Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington. Seattle, Washington, USA.
* '''Dean Edell''', MD, received his medical degree from Cornell University. He is known for his candid straight talk on radio and television, translating complicated medical information into concise, easy-to-understand reports, and for tackling topics that are obscure, unusual, and often controversial. As one of the first media doctors, he knows the dangers of distorted medical reporting. Dr. Edell sorts through the morass of research, distinguishing fact from fiction. He has been outspoken on the issue of [[circumcision]] and promoted genital integrity since 1982. San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''[[Christopher Fletcher]]''', MD, is a family physician in Santa Fe, NM, who graduated cum laude from Harvard College, has an MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and residency training in the University of Massachusetts Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program. He has been in public and private practice in New Mexico since 1981, is an assistant clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and has a long-term interest in circumcision issues, having not performed one since 1981 and having left his own sons intact. He takes pride in being a supporter of the nurses who founded Nurses for the Rights of the Child at St. Vincent Hospital. He has delivered over a thousand babies and with aggressive but supportive and caring education of parents was able to prevent all but 10 of the boys he delivered from being circumcised. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
* '''Pia Grassivaro Gallo''', PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Padua’s Psychology Faculty, and former teacher of Applied Biology, Human Genetics, and Anthropogenetics. Her research on the biology of current human populations has taken place in several developing countries, particularly Somalia (from 1972 to 1985). At the invitation of the Somali Ministry of Public Health (1981), she was invited to take part in a scientific mission to Somaliland. Since 1988, she has been responsible for the Padua Working Group on FGM, dealing with African immigrants in Italy. Since 2000, she has studied the expansive forms of the traditional interventions on female genitalia, carrying out field research in Central Africa (Uganda, Malawi, and Congo RDC). She was co-coordinator of the VIIIth International Symposium on Circumcision and Human Rights. Padua, Italy.
* '''Charles Geshekter''', PhD, Professor Emeritus of African history at California State University, Chico, earned his PhD in history from UCLA and received numerous grants for his African field research. His writings examine modern Somali history, techniques of documentary film making, and reappraising AIDS in Africa. Geshekter established the Somali Studies International Association and coordinated its first conference in Mogadishu (1980). In 1985, he produced a PBS documentary, “The Parching Winds of Somalia” for WQED-TV. During the UN intervention in Somalia (1992-95), Geshekter was news analyst for CBS National Radio Network, KRON-TV/San Francisco, and PBS. Geshek-ter coordinated the program for the 1989 Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science/Pacific Division. From 1991-95, he chaired its History of Science Section and served on its Executive Council. In 1995-96, he was Chief Policy Advisor on Education Finance for the California State Assembly. He has served as a consultant and researcher on African immigration issues for the Department of Justice. Geshekter was a member of the South African Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel (2000-03). Chico, California, USA.
* '''[[David Gisselquist]]''', PhD, received his degree in economics from Yale University, with experience in anthropology and rural development. He has published more than 20 medical journal articles on HIV in Africa and India. His history of unsafe health care and HIV, ''Points to Consider: Responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa, Asia,and the Caribbean'', is available from Adonis & Abbey, London, and also for free download on-line at: http://sites.google.com/site/davidgisselquist/pointstoconsider. He has traveled and worked in Africa and Asia and has assisted field research on HIV in India and Kenya. He co-edited a collection of country studies on injection practices, ''Pilot-Testing the WHO Tools to Assess and Evaluate Injection Practices'' (WHO, 2003), and has spoken at WHO and at international AIDS conferences. He is an independent researcher and consultant. Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
* '''[[Leonard B. Glick]]''', MD, PhD, received his medical degree from the University of Maryland and his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, and the author of ''Abraham’s Heirs: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe'', “Religion and Genocide,”in I.A. Charny 5(ed.), ''The Widening Circle of Genocide'' (1994), and ''Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America'' (2005). New Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
* '''[[Frederick M. Hodges]]''', D Phil (Oxon), is a medical historian, the co-author of ''What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Circumcision: Untold Facts on America’s Most Widely Performed—and Most Unnecessary—Surgery'' (Warner Books 2002), and co-editor of the proceedings of the International Symposia on Circumcision, ''Human Rights, and Genital Integrity, Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy; Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''; ''Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem''; ''Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society''; ''Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy and Change''; ''Circumcision and Human Rights; Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice''. Berkeley, California, USA.
* '''[[David J. Llewellyn]]''', JD, a graduate of the University of Virginia, is a trial lawyer with the firm of Johnson & Ward in Atlanta, Georgia, who has fifteen years’ experience litigating wrongful circumcision, circumcision damage, and related cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States and Canada with regard to the problem of neonatal male circumcision. A majority of his practice consists of genital injury litigation. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
* '''[[James Loewen]]''' is a photographer, videographer, and intactivist. Since 1993, his work has been increasingly focused on ending the genital mutilation of infants and children. His videotaped interviews can be seen at Bonobo3D on Youtube. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
* '''[[Gillian Longley]]''', RN, BSN, MSS, the mother of two grown intact sons, is a registered nurse with 11 years experience in newborn nursery and neonatal intensive care. For the last five years, she has been co-coordinator of NOCIRC of Colorado. Her recent master’s degree research was a content analysis of how parent circumcision handouts present the alternative of not circumcising. Boulder, Colorado, USA.
* '''[[Paul Mason]]''', JD, was appointed Commissioner for Children for the Australian State of Tasmanian in 2007. The Commissioner is a State appointment independent of the elected government of the day and responsible for advising government about all matters concerning the health, welfare, development, education of children and their protection from all forms of abuse and neglect. His other primary function is to raise public awareness about these matters. Before that, he had three decades’ experience working in all areas of family law, including complex parenting and child protection cases, both as a solicitor and barrister across Australia. He is deeply committed to the human rights of children and a strong believer in their capacity to make valuable contributions to all decisions affecting their welfare and development. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
* '''Linda Massie''', BSc, PGDip, is currently the director of NOCIRC of Northern Ireland, a voluntary charity that she established following the attempted suicide of her eldest son due to circumcision trauma. In 2009, Linda was awarded funding from UnLtd, the foundation for Social Entrepreneurs and she is developing an educational outreach project for counsellors and psychologists in Northern Ireland on the emotional consequences associated with genital surgeries on children. Linda is currently a member of Business and Professional Women UK, Ltd., which has co-funded this presentation. Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
* '''Elizabeth Reis''', PhD, is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and History at the University of Oregon. She is the author of ''Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and ''Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England''(Cornell, 1997). She received her PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley. Eugene, Oregon, USA.
* '''[[Mark D. Reiss]]''', MD, a retired radiologist, graduated in the first class of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, is an active member of a Conservative synagogue, originator of Celebrants of Brit Shalom, and the Executive Vice President of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] (D.O.C.). San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''Hatem Kamal Saied''', BSc, Graduate Diploma, MSc Science, physics and IT, Alexandria University, is the founder of the first Arabic online society opposing MGM. Alexandria, Egypt.
* '''Dolores Sangiuliano''', RN, an active member of NOCIRC of Colorado, has been an intactivist for 24 years and a registered nurse for 20 years. She works primarily with psychiatric and detox populations. She is a devoted mother of five, and is currently working on a baccalaureate in nursing with the intention of infiltrating academia and the nursing profession with the genital integrity message. Boulder, Colorado, USA.
* '''[[David Smith]]''' was educated at St. Joseph’s College, Market Drayton, and he qualified in business studies at Underwood College. He worked for Re-Solv, a solvent abuse charity, and is currently General Manager of NORM-UK, a charity dedicated to giving men a choice. He created and now edits NORM NEWS, the organization’s magazine for members and concerned individuals. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.
* '''Michelle R. Storms''', MD, is an Assistant Director and the Research Director for the Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program in Marquette, Michigan. She is an assistant clinical professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. After graduating from Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Dr. Storms completed her Family Medicine residency training at St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While a resident physician, she developed an aversion to neonatal circumcision, which led her to challenge the status quo by refusing to perform circumcision post-residency. For ten years, she has provided support to the resident physicians in her program who are conscientious objectors to circumcision. Dr. Storms has published on the topic of circumcision individually and in collaboration with Robert Van Howe, MD. Marquette, Michigan, USA.
* '''Moisés Tractenberg''', MD, received his Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1955 and his degree in medicine from the Faculdade de Medicina de Pôrto Alegre, Universidade do Rio Grand do Sul in 1959. He did his psychoanalytic training at the Asociación Psicoanalítica, Argentina in Buenos Aires from 1960-1965. Dr. Tractenberg is an Associate Member of Asoción Psicoanalítica, Argentina, Full Member and Training Analyst of Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina, Full Member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, London, and, upon his return to Brazil in 1976, Full Member and Training Analyst at Sociedade Psichoanalítica do Rio de Janeiro from 1976 to 1996. He is a Full Member and Training Analyst at Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise do Rio de Janeiro since 1982, and the founder and editor of Journal of Psychoanalysis of Rio de Janeiro from 1989 to 1992. He is the author of Psychoanalysis of Circumcision (five editions), Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts in the XXIth Century, Curative Factors in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Chronicles for the Midia, and Abraham, Sarah and Hagar. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
* '''John W. Travis''', MD, MPH, specialized in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins University, founded the first wellness center in the US (1975), co-authored several books, includ- ing including the ''Wellness Workbook'' (Random House/Ten Speed Press, 1981, 1988, 2004), and developed the Wellness Inventory, used by corporations, hospitals, spas, and wellness coaches in many countries around the world. In 1999, along with Marilyn Milos and 11 other experts, he co-founded the Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children (aTLC.org), dedicated to ending normative abuse. He now promotes ''full-spectrum wellness'', which embraces body, mind, emotions, and spirit, encompassing our entire lifespan and connecting all aspects of our environment—including infants, children, adults, community, and planet. He is an adjunct professor at both the California Institute for Integral Studies and the Master of Wellness program at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia. Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia.
* '''Maria Chiara Turrini''', PhD, is a researcher in applied geology (Engineering Geology) at Ferrara University. Thanks to her experience, she, along with friends and students, has helped create a volunteer association, ''Water for Life''. Headquartered in Ferrara since its founding in 2002, the association has worked in Somalia in close collaboration with the Homonymous Association of Trento. The associations are working together with a Somali community in Ayuub village, near the town of Merka, on projects of agriculture, education, and empowerment of women. Ferrara, Italy.
* '''[[Robert S. Van Howe]]''', MD, MS, graduated from Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine, completed a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and received a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is a Clinical Professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and a full-time pediatrician for Bell Memorial Hospital in Ishpeming, Michigan. Dr. Van Howe has researched and published extensively on neonatal circumcision. He has lectured worldwide and provided expert testimony in court cases involving circumcision. His goal is to provide an evidence-based and scientific appraisal of the medical literature on this topic. He is considered a leading expert on neonatal circumcision, which led to his being a consultant for the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Marquette, Michigan, USA.
* '''Franco Viviani''', PhD, a physical anthropologist, is professor of anthropology applied to psychology at the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Padua. He has been involved with studies about FGM and, as the director of NOCIRC of Italy, on studies about male circumcision. He has published scientific papers and articles on these topics and has presented some of his research in the popular media.
* '''David Wilton''', JD, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and his law degree from the South Texas College of Law. He has a long-standing interest in issues of body integrity and HIV/AIDS. He blogs at Male Circumcision and HIV (www.circumcisionandhiv.com) while maintaining a full-time law practice specializing in criminal defense. His primary interests, outside of nurturing a debate on the controversial measure of removing sexual tissue to reduce the spread of HIV, are in the areas of criminal justice, languages, and journalism. San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''[[Hugh Young]]''', BSc, is a retired broadcaster and editor with a science background. He has published two dictionaries, of Solomon Islands Pijin and New Zealand Maori place name pronunciation (oral, now online at ngaingoa.notlong.com). He has presented three papers at genital integrity symposia, on the rise and fall of circumcision in New Zealand (with Ken McGrath), on circumcision as a memeplex, and on the foreskin and circumcision in popular media, subsequently published. For more than 11 years he has maintained the Intactivism Pages, www.circumstitions.com, a pro-intact website. Pukerua Bay, New Zealand.
== Proceedings ==
: ''Miriam Pollack''
* Defying the Enlightenment: Jewish Ethnicity and Ethnic Circumcision
: ''[[Leonard B. Glick]]''
* Policy Discussion: Presenting Our Position to Jewish Americans
: ''Leonard B. Glick'' and ''Mark D. Reiss''
: ''B. Maurene White''
* Status Report from Intact America
: ''[[Georganne Chapin]]''
* Genital Autonomy: A New Approach
: ''[[David Smith]]''
The proceedings are published in ''[https://www.amazon.com/Genital-Cutting-Protecting-Religious-Infringements/dp/9400764065/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Genital+Cutting%3A+Protecting+Children+from+Medical%2C+Cultural%2C+and+Religious+Infringements&qid=1579351583&s=books&sr=1-1 Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements]'', edited by George C. Denniston, Frederick M. Hodges, and Marilyn Fayre Milos, Springer, 2013.