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* '''[[Christopher Fletcher]]''', {{MD}}, is a family physician in Santa Fe, NM, who graduated cum laude from Harvard College, has an {{MD}} from the {{UNI|University of Texas Southwestern Medical|UTSW}} School in Dallas, and residency training in the {{UNI|University of Massachusetts|UMass}} 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 {{UNI|University of New Mexico|UNM}} 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, {{USSC|NM}}, USA.
* '''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]''', {{PhD}}, Associate Professor of Anthropology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}’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.
* '''[[John V. Geisheker]]''', {{JD}}, a native of New Zealand, is the Executive Director of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]], an international non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington. As Director of D.O.C., he appears at medical and childbirth conventions, as well as educational institutions, presenting on the medical science and bioethics of merely cultural, non-therapeutic infant genital surgeries. He is the author of numerous publications on the subject. A law professor by education, he has been a litigator, law lecturer, arbitrator, and mediator, specializing in medical disputes for 27 years. Most recently, he and D.O.C. successfully defended Misha Boldt, a 14-year-old facing an involuntary religious conversion, including non-therapeutic circumcision, a cause that was eventually appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Geisheker is proud that, in the 1960s, his native [[New Zealand]] fully abandoned medicalized infant circumcision as unethical and unnecessary. Seattle, {{USSC|WA}}, USA.
* '''Antonio Iaria''', is former director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome and has been responsible for the Transcultural Psychiatric Group, which also works in Rome. He has worked in Somalia for several years at the Faculty of Medicine of the {{UNI|Somali National University|SNU}}. He was co-founder, with Professor [[Pia Grassivaro Gallo|Grassivaro Gallo]], of the Padua Working Group on FGM, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. Padua, Italy.
* '''Charles Geshekter''', {{PhD}}, Professor Emeritus of African history at {{UNI|California State University|CSU}}, 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, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
: ''Frederick M. Hodges''
* Genital Stretching Among the Venda Ethnic Group in South Africa
: ''Erika Dionisio'', ''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]'', ''[[Franco Viviani]]''
* Women from Timan Adde (Merka‑Somalia) Pray to Allah in Order to be Freed from Pharaonic Circumcision/[[Infibulation]]
: ''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]'' and Prof. ''Maria Chiara Turrini''
* Possession Ritual and Somalian Pharaonic Circumcision Culture
: ''Steffania Gazzea'', ''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]'', ''Antonio Iaria''
* Female Genital Mutilation and the Amelioration of Complex Trauma through Relational Attunement
: ''Patricia D. Raya''
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