The Eleventh Annual Hetero Poz Cruise Retreat
October 26 – November 2, 2008

Our Hostesses

Meet Professional Organizer Sharon Wagner Braiteh

Sharon began her professional organizing business in 1999.

Sharon is experienced in Special Education and has an extensive background in volunteer work for non profits. Her experience with the Enviromental Protection Agency's Tools for Schools Indoor Air Quality as a School Health Coordinator for SBISD and Mothers for Clean Air serves her well. Drawing on her experience as a Legal Assistant and an Administrative Assistant, Sharon understands the value of good organizing from the client's point of view. She honed her time management, paper organizing, and problem solving skills in the business world -- and now shares these talents with her private clients.

Sharon operates according to a simple philosophy -- let's get started now!

Sharon's greatest organizing strength is her ability to make lasting organizational changes for her clients. She excels in helping people work through problems that have seemed insurmountable in the past, guiding them toward solutions they might not have considered before.

In her own words -- "It's not where you start in life, it's where you finish"

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"I have known Sharon Wagner Braiteh for about seven years. In the time that I have known her, one of the most impressive things I have found about her, is that she has incredible organizing capabilities. Her home is one of the most delightfully clean and organized homes I have ever seen."
- Patricia Hardaway

"I met Sharon through the Tools For Schools Indoor Air Quality program in the Spring Branch ISD. She visited our school to carry out a walk through in classrooms and, later came to speak to our faculty on "decluttering". We have already implimented some of her suggestions. She is dedicated and passionate about her work to improve indoor air quality. She has been a valuable resource and I look forward to working with her during the upcoming school year."
- Chris Friesen, RN

 

Dr. Michael Wohlfeiler- Featured Speaker

Dr. Michael Wohlfeiler is Medical Director of Special Immunology Services at Mercy Hospital in Miami, Florida. He began his professional career as an attorney after graduating from the University of Arizona College of Law. While in law school he received a scholarship to serve six months as a Staff Assistant with a subcommittee of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee while continuing his studies at Georgetown University Law School. After a brief and unhappy career as an attorney, he entered medical school at Rush Medical College in Chicago where he graduated Salutatorian in 1987. He completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine at the University of Miami. He began working with HIV/AIDS patients in 1988 when he became the study physician for the University of Miami's Biopsychosocial AIDS Project. After completing his residency training, he entered private practice with a focus on the care of persons with HIV/AIDS. In addition, he became involved in developing a new model of hospice care for terminally ill AIDS patients and served for 8 years as the Medical Director of a large AIDS hospice program. Dr. Wohlfeiler is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is credentialed as an HIV Specialist by The American Board of HIV Medicine.

Dr. Wohlfeiler is a consulting member of Miami-Dade County's Ryan White Medical Care Subcommittee. He recently completed his term as Chair of the Florida Academy of HIV Medicine and is a member of the national Board of Directors for the American Academy of HIV Medicine. He has authored 2 chapters in books about end-of-life care for persons with AIDS and has published various peer-reviewed research articles and monographs. Dr. Wohlfeiler speaks locally, nationally, and internationally on issues related to HIV/AIDS and end-of-life care. He is involved extensively in HIV/AIDS clinical research trials. He serves as a Community Preceptor for medical students and residents attending the University of Miami. In 2002, the Ronald McDonald Foundation chose him as one of Miami's "Twelve Good Men". He has been selected three times for inclusion in the book The Best Doctors in America and has recently been appointed to the International Board of Directors of Amigos de las Americas, a youth-oriented non-profit organization that sends volunteers to Central and South America where they engage in a variety of developmental projects.

 


Nelson Vergel- Featured Speaker

Nelson Vergel is a former chemical engineer from Venezuela, is a 22 year HIV survivor who has become one of the leading treatment advocates and speakers in the US. He is the co-author of the book Built to Survive, the founder of the Body Positive Wellness Clinic in Houston, and the moderator of pozhealth, the discuss list, with the largest membership on the Internet. Nelson has lectured extensively in the past 15 years and will be coming on the cruise to talk about how to stay healthy and fit while living with HIV. For more information, visit www.nelsonvergel.com and www.medibolics.com

 

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