Jane Aronson | |
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Born | November 10, 1951 |
Education | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Osteopathic Medicine Hunter College |
Occupation | Osteopathic physician |
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 an osteopathic physician, with expertise in pediatric infectious diseases and adoption medicine.[2]
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]
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 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]