Position:
Owner at Dr. Miriam Shipp
Industry:
Health, Wellness and Fitness
Work:
Dr. Miriam Shipp
- Berkeley, California since Oct 2005
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Owner
Education:
University of California, San Francisco - School of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)
University of California, Berkeley
Masters of Public Health
Interests:
1) Working Internationally, especially in Haiti in the Tuberculosis unit at Port Au Prince University/General Hospital with Tikai organization, headed up by Dr. Megan Coffee, physician and humanitarian extraordinaire. (Read about her work in: Farewell to Fred Vodoo, a book by Amy Welenz; 2)
Working in Haiti with Haiti Emergency Relief/Haiti Action, headed up by the amazing Pierre
Labosierre and the equally amazing Walter Riley, with the amazing Reodad Doll "on the ground.";
3) Backpacking in the Sierra mountains in remote off-trail areas with many rugged friends who run circles around me;
4) Teaching therapeutic yoga to yoga teachers in the Bay Area with Niroga Institute, headed up by Bidyut Bose, PhD. ;
5) Visiting and working in Oaxaca, Mexico, where mother Maurine Shipp lived for 18 years, and where there are many contacts, including Paola Sesia, the most hard working and intelligent medical anthropologist I've ever met.