Jane Aronson

Jane Aronson
Born November 10, 1951
Brooklyn, New York
Education University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine
Hunter College

Medical career

Profession Founder and CEO Worldwide Orphans Foundation
Field International Pediatric Health Services
Institutions

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Columbia Presbyterian
Winthrop-University Hospital

Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University

Jane Aronson, D.O. (born November 10, 1951, Brooklyn, New York)[1] is a physician, with expertise in pediatric infectious diseases and adoption medicine.[2]

Life and career

Jane Aronson grew up on Long Island, New York. After graduating from Hunter College in New York City, she was a school teacher for ten years. She became a physician after earning her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1986.[3] She completed several residencies, including a pediatric residency and chief residency in New Jersey, and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Columbia Presbyterian/Babies Hospital in New York City.[3] From 1992 to 2000, she was the Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Director of the International Adoption Medical Consultation Services in Mineola, New York.[4]

In July 2000, Dr. Aronson went into private practice as Director of International Pediatric Health Services in New York City. She is Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and has evaluated over 4,000 children adopted from abroad as an adoption medicine specialist. She has traveled to orphanages in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China, Ethiopia, Romania, Russia, Vietnam, and throughout Latin America.[5]

Worldwide Orphans Foundation

Jane Aronson at the WWO Academy in Ethiopia with family and community members.

In 1997, Aronson founded Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO).[6] WWO's mission is to transform the lives of orphaned children and it accomplishes this through programs that address the medical and developmental conditions of children living in orphanages abroad. WWO was the first NGO to provide HIV+ orphans in Ethiopia and Vietnam with ARVs and has a medical mentoring program that ensures follow up treatment. WWO's major programs are in Bulgaria (Early Intervention Programs), Ethiopia (Family Health Clinic with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the WWO Academy, an elementary school for orphans and community children, and summer camp), and in Vietnam (Early Intervention, Camp, and soon, integrated services as a USAID/NPI grantee).[7]

WWO Ranger Program

WWO Ranger programs include the Orphan Rangers, which has been likened to a Peace Corps for orphanages, Global Arts Rangers, which brings in-country and US artists to provide workshops, teacher training, and integrated arts curricula, and Service Rangers, through which families and teens can work at an orphanage to complete a project identified by the orphanage itself. Since 1997, WWO Rangers have worked in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, India, Ecuador, Vietnam, China, Serbia, Montenegro, and Ethiopia.[8]

Published Work

Original, peer-reviewed articles

Case reports

Review, chapters and editorials

Abstracts

Honors & Awards

References

  1. "Aronson, Jane". Current Biography Yearbook 2011. Ipswich, MA: H.W. Wilson. 2011. pp. 22–25. ISBN 9780824211219.
  2. "Dr. Jane E. Aronson, DO". Health Grades, Inc. 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Jane E. Aronson, D.O.". Morgan Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
  4. Cynthia Magriel Wetzler (22 August 1999). "Helping the Adoption of Russian Children". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  5. Jane Aronson (2009-02-19). "About Dr. Aronson - CV". www.orphandoctor.com. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
  6. "Dr. Jane Aronson". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  7. Jim Luce (2009-02-08). ""Orphan Doctor" Dedicated to Tomorrow's Thought Leaders". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  8. "Bulgaria". Worldwide Orphans Foundation. 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  9. "Hunter College Hall of Fame Alumni Award". OrphanDoctor.com.
  10. "Glamour Woman of the Year Award". Glamour.
  11. "Azerbaijan Society of American Humanitarian Award". OrphanDoctor.com.
  12. "World of Children Humanitarian Award". World of Children Award.

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