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Emma Miller, D.Div., created the Gentle Touch® Parent-Child Program in 1993. She is an international trainer, program consultant, speaker, and author of articles in professional, parenting, and massage publications. She holds certifications as an Infant/Toddler/Family Specialist, Infant Massage Instructor, Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training Instructor, and in Pre- and Perinatal Massage, and is an Interfaith Minister. Her goal is to promote the self-efficacy of the child, nurturing parenting, strong family life, and a responsive system of care. Thus her focus is on partnering with vulnerable populations, prenatal and infant mental health, and family-centered practices.

Andrea Russon Gravatt, M.D., F.A.A.P., received her degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and completed her residency at Duke University Medical Center. Since 1982, she has been a pediatrician in private practice in Asheville, N.C. She is a national speaker, and author of articles in medical journals, parenting magazines, two children's books, and an audiotape. Specializing in child abuse prevention, child safety, and injury prevention, she is the founder and medical director of the Western N.C. Regional Child Abuse Center. She has been awarded numerous honors for her medical, child advocacy, and community service efforts.

Olson Huff, M.D., F.A.A.P., retired pediatrician in Asheville, N.C.

Saul M. Schanberg, M.D., Ph.D., received his degrees at Yale University. Since 1967, he has been in research at Duke University Medical Center, and since, 1984, has been Professor of Pharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. His work in the neurosciences has been recognized through honors, awards and grants. Participating with numerous national organizations, he has devoted his recent years to the study of touch. The advances he has made in this field have been widely published in a spectrum of medical journals. He is recognized as a leading authority in infant massage.

William Lord Coleman, M.D., received his degree from the University of New Mexico, and completed his internship and residency at Duke Medical Center, N.C., and a fellowship in behavioral- developmental and general pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital. A former faculty member at Harvard Medical School, he is currently a pediatrician and the Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Development and Learning at the University of N.C. School of Medicine. He is the chair of the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is a member of the Executive Council of the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. He is a national lecturer, author of numerous scholarly works, and a researcher.

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