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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 from 11am – 1:30pm
OUR FEATURED SPEAKER: Karen M. Becker, Ph.D, President Indigo Bay Ventures LLC
Karen Becker is the founder and president of IndigoBay Ventures, LLC and currently a member of the Board of Directors at Congressional Bank and the Managing Director at Samson Venture Partners.
Samson Venture Partners is a Life Science Investment Fund leveraging the most experienced clinical, regulatory and FDA compliance experts to identify investment opportunities with discrete and distinctive advantages in comparison to competitive technologies.
Dr. Becker has more than 20 years of experience providing strategic scientific and FDA regulatory consulting services to clients developing innovative healthcare products. Dr. Becker is the editor of the textbook “Clinical Trial of Medical Devices: Principles and Case Studies” and has written extensively on the regulation of FDA products. Dr. Becker received a BS in Biological Chemistry (University of Maryland, College Park) and a PhD in Pharmacology (University of North Carolina, School of Medicine). She is an adjunct Professor at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business.
Featured Non-Profit: Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA), http://www.jssa.org.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
OUR FEATURED SPEAKER: Dr. Pamela Peeke, Founder Peeke Performance Center for Healthy Living
Dr. Pamela Peeke is an internationally renowned physician, scientist and expert in the fields of nutrition, metabolism, stress and fitness. Dr. Peeke is a Pew Foundation Scholar in Nutrition and Metabolism, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland and Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Teaming with the Surgeon General Dr. Peeke has created the Surgeon General Walks for a Healthy and Fit Nation. She is a member of the Maryland Governor’s Council on Fitness, national spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine’s Exercise is Medicine global campaign, and advisor to the First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign. Dr. Peeke is a featured physician leader in the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine “Changing Face of Medicine” exhibit. She has been named one of America’s top physicians by the Consumer’s Research Council of America.
Dr Peeke is Chief Lifestyle expert for WebMD’s 50 million members. As Chief Medical Correspondent for nutrition and fitness for Discovery Health TV, she is featured in the award winning National Body Challenge series, as well as her Could You Survive? miniseries. Dr. Peeke is the New York Times bestselling author of Fight Fat after Forty, Body for Life for Women, and Fit to Live. Dr. Peeke is a regular in-studio medical commentator for the national networks including CNN’s American Morning, the Today show and Fox & Friends. She is a monthly columnist and contributing editor for numerous national magazines – including Prevention, O Magazine, Fitness, and More Magazine – in addition to being a member of Oprah Winfrey’s “O Team” of nationally recognized medical experts.
Dr. Peeke is founder of the Bethesda based Peeke Performance™ Center for Healthy Living. Dr. Peeke created the Peeke Week Retreats where she provides her Peeke Performers with the opportunity to mentally and physically challenge themselves in magnificent outdoor destinations including the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim hikes, Zion and Bryce National Parks. Triathlete, marathoner and mountaineer, Dr. Peeke is known as the “doc who walks the talk”.
Featured Non-Profit: Manna, Inc.
June 28, 2012
OUR FEATURED SPEAKER: Louise Ackerbom
Featured Non-Profit: Women’s Business Center of Rockville
September 27, 2012
OUR FEATURED SPEAKER: Ellyn McKay
Featured Non-Profit: Hospice Caring, Inc.
November 15, 2012
OUR FEATURED SPEAKER: Sandra A. Crowe, Author, “Since Strangling Isn’t an Option…”
Sandra Crowe, is a speaker, consultant, and author of Since Strangling Isn’t an Option…. (Perigee,’99) Since 1986, she has been using her people, public speaking, and communications skills to present quality training programs to numerous federal, corporate, and association based organizations.
Her purpose is to create awareness of ineffective behaviors and to provide methodologies and action steps to offset them while redirecting behavior toward more uplifting interactions between people. She presents on topics such as dealing with difficult people, stress, leadership, team, and coaching issues. Some of her past clients include The Executive Office of the President, Social Security Administration, NIH, FBI, Dept. of Agriculture, Marriott, Sony Corp., Environmental Protection Agency, Southland Corp, Citicorp, The Discovery Channel, Sears, SAIC, PBGC, National Association of Female Executives, National Speakers Association, Union Labor Life Insurance, FBI, NASA and Depts.of Army &Navy.
She founded a communications/networking specialty company called “Powerlunch” which has been written up in both, The Washington Post and The New York Times as well as the book Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work. In addition, she has hosted her own television show called “Stress Busters” which was broadcast weekly on Washington, D.C. Cable Television and has been featured on the TV shows “To Tell the Truth” and the CBS morning news.
Ms. Crowe holds a B.A. Degree with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in International Studies and an M.A. in Applied Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She is a certified MBTI(Myers Briggs Type Indicator) practitioner and a certified ontological coach from The Newfield Group as well as a Professionally Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation. A former guest instructor at Montgomery College, she has also been an active member of the Federal Training Officers’ Conference, and the National Capital Speaker’s Association.
Featured Non-Profit: Rock & Roll for Children Foundation
