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==Faculty==
* '''Heli Askola''', LLB, LLM (Turku, Finland) 2000, PhD (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) 2005, is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Monash University in Melbourne. Before joining Monash in 2008, she worked at Cardiff Law School in the UK and she has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities around the world. Her main areas of teaching and research interest are international human rights law, feminist legal theory, and EU law. Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
* '''Zenas Baer''', JD, graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BA in German literature and political science (1976) and from Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1980. Since 1980, he has been in the private practice of law in Hawley, Minnesota. He is licensed to practice in the United States Supreme Court, United States Claims Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota, Supreme Court of the State of North Dakota, US District Courts in Minnesota and North Dakota, and the White Earth Band of Chippewa Tribal Court. His practice is focused primarily on complex litigation and he is known to take on unusual cases generally fighting for the underdog. He has handled a number of circumcision cases and dealt extensively with the concept of informed consent as it relates to circumcision. Hawley, Minnesota, USA.
* '''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.
* '''Erika Dionisio''' is a graduating student in the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Padua. She was involved in a field qualitative research on genital modifications in the Venda region in South Africa, and she collected data on body image from South African students. Padua, Italy.
* '''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.
* '''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.
* '''Marilyn Fayre Milos''', RN, is the founder and director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers ([[NOCIRC]]) and coordinator of the International Symposia on Circumcision, Sexual Mutilations, and Genital Integrity. She is the co-editor of the symposia books, '''Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy''' (1997), '''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical Legal and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''' (1999), '''Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem''' (2001), '''Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society''' (2004), '''Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and Change''' (2006), '''Circumcision and Human Rights''' (Springer 2008), '''Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice''' (2010), editor of the NOCIRC Annual Newsletter, and the NOCIRC Fall Update. San Anselmo, California, USA.
==Symposium Organizers==