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Topic: How to Overcome Your Biggest Personal Obstacle to Success
Dr. Lawrence D. Lampert is a developmental optometrist and one of a select number of people in his field with a fellowship in developmental vision and vision training. He sees patients from around the world for consultations and evaluations. He treats children who are experiencing problems in school due to visual learning disabilities as well as professional and amateur athletes who want to improve their overall level of performance through vision training. He also treats brain-injury patients, people experiencing visual complications from excessive time in front of computers and more.
Using vision training techniques, Dr. Lampert has worked with players from the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Miami Dolphins, Japanese Baseball League, PGA and LPGA golfers, USTA tennis players and world-class international athletes during the 1996 Olympics.
Dr. Lampert has been featured on The Golf Channel, NBC Sports, Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, Sportsvision Magazine, Wall Street Journal, as well as other national and local TV and Radio shows.
Author THE PROS EDGE: VISION TRAINING FOR GOLF
Spokesperson for Transitions Optical. Official Eyewear of the PGA Tour
Chief of Vision Rehabilitation at Whitehall Boca
Medical Staff at Pinecrest Rehabilitaion Hospital and Delray Community Hospital
Board of Directors of Future Visions Youth Development
Advisory Board of The Parenting Place Agency
Steering Committee of The Healthy Sight Institute
Past member of Palm Beach County School Board Health Advisory Committee
Past Southeast Regional Clinical Seminar Chairman for the Optometric Extension Program
Past columnist for the Boca Raton News and Boca Kidz Magazine
Topic: Colo-Rectal Health and Screening
Dr. Ghanta was born in India and immigrated to New Jersey at a young age. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology at The University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and then entered St. George’s University School of Medicine and obtained her medical degree in 2002.
Dr. Ghanta then completed a general surgery residency at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ in 2007. Her interest in colon & rectal surgery lead her to pursue further specialty training and she spent an additional year completing a colon & rectal surgery fellowship at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL in 2008. After fellowship she moved to the West Coast and joined the Association of South Bay Surgeons in 2008.
Dr. Ghanta is currently board certified in both General and Colon & Rectal Surgery and is a member of several medical societies, including:
• American Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
• Association of Women Surgeons, and
• Fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
After a very successful private practice near Los Angeles for five years, Dr. Ghanta moved back to the East Coast with her husband and two young children to be closer to family. She is now on staff at Broward Health Medical Center, Broward Health Imperial Point, and Broward Health North and hopes to make a positive difference in the medical needs of South Florida residents.
Topic: How to Overcome Your Biggest Personal Obstacle to Success
Marni Spencer-Devlin is the founder and former President and CFO of ocdm marketing, which she built from the ground up and turned into a multi-million dollar company with seventy employees. For twenty years she was on top, then she got sick and in 2008 she was given only a year to live.
She wrote her first book, Crawling Into The Light where she shared her secret: As a child she had been molested and raped. She had been a heroin addict, a prostitute, homeless and in prison before her rise to power. While writing her story, Marni made a mind-blowing realization. Throughout her entire life everything had always turned out for the best even, and especially when, she thought she had reached her end. What if this was not the end either? Would she be able to commute her own death sentence?
She began studying holistic healing methodologies, yoga and meditation and – this will shock you! She did not die! Instead she wrote another book, The Iceberg Principles – the Truth about the Universe and Your place it.
Today she writes, mentors and speaks about the importance of authenticity in business and personal development.
Topic: Services Available to Low-Income Seniors
Chris has over 30 years in the long term care arena. In her current position as Executive Director at MonarchCare, she oversees the services to a very diverse client population from children to seniors to those with mental illness or with a disability. Providing social services and direction for those in need has been her career focus.
Previously she served as Community Relations and Marketing Representative for Covenant Village in Plantation as well as in various positions from Regional Customer Service Director, Executive Director, Administrator and Marketing and Admissions Director for HCR Manor Care, Senior Care Coalition, Safe Harbor Alzheimer’s Assisted Living and Manor Care Health Services respectively. Chris has applied her considerable skills and knowledge to the marketing of these organizations, serving as the leading voice for them in outreach to their communities through workshops and speaking engagements. At the same time, she developed policies, procedures and programs at these agencies; hired, trained and supervised personnel; and managed budgets and marketing plans.
Chris has a Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in Human Services. She has a number of current professional affiliations including the Plantation Rotary, Impact Broward as a Trustee, and is a Past Board President; TRIAD Seniors and Law Enforcement; Broward Coalition on Aging, Past President; Elder Services Resource Network, Past Board President. Her past affiliations include Alzheimer’s Association S.E. Florida Chapter, Board President: Broward County Guardianship Association; Florida Health Care Social Workers Association; Florida Assisted Living Coalition; and South Florida Discharge Planners Association. She has taught CCD at her church for over 25 years to both elementary and high school age students.
Topic: 2014-2015 ESRN Board Swearing in Ceremony and Keynote Speaker
April 23, 2014
H. Murray Todd, MD
Medical Director Neurological Institute and Memory Disorder Center
Broward Health North
Topic: Alzheimer's and Dementia: The Latest Research
Topic: Erectile dysfunction and STD in the elderly
Board certified in Family and Geriatric Medicine, Dr. Marcelo has a heart for seniors. She is a clinical instructor in geriatrics at NOVA, FSU and UCF. In August of 2012, she accepted a position working for Life Care Physician Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to serving the medical needs of individuals living in nursing homes, including Life Care Center at Inverrary located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She also serves as medical director of The Bridges at Inverarry, an ALF. As part of the Life Care Physician Services team, Dr. Marcelo works alongside the nurses, dieticians, therapists and the executive director to provide professional care to each of her patients. She is the only full time on-site geriatrician at a SNF in Broward County. Previously, she worked as a concierge physician for The Medical Concierge and Florida Hospital Centra Care in Orlando.
Dr. Marcelo graduated from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine with her doctor of osteopathy degree. She completed her residency in family medicine at Florida Hospital East Orlando in June 2011 and her geriatric fellowship in June 2012.
Dr. Marcelo is an active member of AMDA, representing Florida as a delegate. She is also a member of several osteopathic organizations including AOA, FOMA and BCOMA.
When she is not taking care of patients, Dr. Marcelo enjoys traveling, exercising, movie-watching, and the theater. She also enjoys volunteering at events sponsored by Junior League Association of Greater Ft. Lauderdale.