Panelists

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As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Linda Clark provides strategic counsel to Common Ground’s initiatives from a medical perspective.  A practicing physician and long-time advocate for health equity and population health, Dr. Clark brings to her position more than two...

Dr. Ted Louie graduated from Stony Brook Medical School in 1990, and did his internship and residency at University Hospital at Stony Brook. He completed his Infectious Disease fellowship at University of Maryland in 1996. Between 1996 and early 2019, he practiced...

Kaitlyn Koshak is a registered nurse in Rochester, NY who gets to live out her dream of caring for acutely ill patients in the prehospital setting everyday working full time for Mercy Flight Central and part time for Strong Memorial Hospital's Mobile Stroke Unit. When...

Sherry Schaefer is a licensed hair designer and salon owner.  After developing alopecia areata 23 years into her career, she opened Alternative Hair, a wig salon in Penfield, NY where she serves many local women with all types of hair loss.  She has recently expanded...

Thea Chassin is the founder, CEO, passionate voice, guiding spirit and educator of Bald Girls Do Lunch®. Bald since 1997, she is the first to acknowledge that an alopecia areata diagnosis takes a toll and offers a reserved seat on an emotional roller coaster. She...

Wendy Ruhland is known as a "cookieologist" in her community of Fairport, NY where she and her husband reside. She has been providing cookie trays for any and all occasions for 20 years with her side hustle Cookies in A Wink! When Wendy is not baking, she works part...

Dr. Danielle D. King is an assistant professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Rice University and the Principal Investigator of the WorKing Resilience Research Laboratory. Her research focuses on the topics of employee resilience, resources, identity,...

  Laura D. Baker, PhD is Professor of Internal Medicine, Neurology, and Public Health Sciences at Wake Forest School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Wake Forest Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is a national...