I want you to know that your story is inspirational: returning to school as an adult with several children, going to medical school as a single mother, becoming a board certified pediatrician, raising four healthy successful children, and then leaving/choosing a new path as a medical entrepreneur devoted to preventive medicine, meanwhile being involved in your community,  finding time to serve this community.  Your recent award was well deserved!  Your thoughts and views deserve to be heard. You are a role model to women - and men - with a dream, who do it their way, despite the obstacles and all the time making others better.  One of my favorite memories in Columbia is of you teaching the other students at Stephens on the blackboard at lunchtime.  Your life has been like this, quietly serving others with little fuss and a great deal of determination. - and I gather you have passed this on to your children, two of whom are now entering medical professions. As your former professor and your current friend, I am proud of you. Sincerely, Carol Greenspan, PhD