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Iván Drufovka, Ph.D. President, Bilingual Media Company. Doctorate degree in Spanish linguistics and Latin American Literature. Extensive experience in teaching Spanish linguistics at the College / University level in the USA, and Colombia. Also an experienced film/video/web producer, director, writer and Spanish translator in the area of health and medical related media.

Rolando D.H. Morelli, Ph.D. Doctorate degree in Spanish American and Caribbean Literature. Extensive experience in teaching Spanish Language and Spanish American Literatures at the College/University evel. Dr. Morelli is currently a faculty member at the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at La Salle University, in Philadelphia. Also a creative writer he has published extensively. As an associate of Bilingual Media Company, he has for the past 8 years served as writer, editor and Spanish translator.

Claudia M. Lee, M.F.A. English Writing and translation, City University of New York. Translator and editor for Vintage Books, Ballantine Books, Avon Books, and Knopft in New York; Groundwood Books in Toronto, Canada, and Tuttle Books in Boston. Translation of the hardcover book, The Food of Miami and the children books: Barrilete, The Race of Toad, Deer and The Night the Moon Fell and edited Our Bodies, Ourselves, for Seven Stories. El mandadero de agua y otros poemas, Colection of Latin American Poetry, Grandbooks, Toronto. Mrs. Lee has edited many fiction and non-fiction books and translated many book covers. She has been working as the chief editor for Bilingual Media Company for the past four years.

Bernardo A Merizalde, M.D. Born in White Plains, New York he was raised and educated in Colombia, South America; graduated from the Universidad del Rosario’s medical school in 1980; completed specialty training in Hahnemann University, Philadelphia in 1987. He became Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology in 1988 and in Adolescent Psychiatry in 1994. He has practiced General Medicine and Psychiatry both in private and public settings, and has been a consultant to local marketing research companies for the pharmaceutical industry for several years.

Maria Claudia Pérez, M.D. Dr. Pérez received her degree in Medicine and Surgery from Javeriana University Medical School in Bogotá, Colombia in 1986. Dr. Perez completed her residency at Universidad Autónoma of México in México City in 1990. Upon graduation, Dr. Pérez came to the United States to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. This fellowship led to a postdoctoral degree in Repro-ductive Biology. Dr. Pérez has been actively involved in Research and Development in the areas of reproduction and infertility at a major pharmaceutical company.