Ehren I. Ekhause

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Ehren

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Ekhause

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1225400252

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19582

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Rubiahna L. Vaughn

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Rubiahna

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Vaughn

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1235490202

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16524

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Audrey M. Uong

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Audrey

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Uong

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1518387323

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15425

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Dr. Uong's clinical focus has been in pediatrics.

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The care of hospitalized pediatric patients with asthma has been a main focus of research for Dr. Uong. She is also interested in researching the improvement of transitions of care in hospitalized pediatric patients.

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53070

Biography

<p>Audrey M. Uong, MD, is an Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine at Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Since joining the Montefiore team in 2019, her clinical focus has been in pediatrics.</p><p>In 2008, Dr. Uong received her Bachelor of Arts in Asian Languages and Civilizations from Amherst College. Her studies continued at New York Medical College, where she received her Doctor of Medicine in 2014. Following this, Dr. Uong continued her studies at Albert Einstein Medical College and received her Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods in 2019. She began her postgraduate training in 2014 with a 3-year internship and residency at Cohen Children&rsquo;s Medical Center. She then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine at CHAM in 2019.</p><p>The care of hospitalized pediatric patients with asthma has been a main focus of research for Dr. Uong. She is also interested in researching the improvement of transitions of care in hospitalized pediatric patients. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and review articles, and has been presented nationally.</p><p>In 2019, Dr. Uong received the CHAM Research Day Oral Presentation Award, given to her from faculty judges for receiving top scores. Dr. Uong is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Academic Pediatric Association.</p>

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Lisa B. Teh

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Lisa

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Teh

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1215243951

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16520

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Hina J. Talib

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Hina

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Talib

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1306005418

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12509

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<p>Dr. Hina J. Talib, a Brown University&nbsp;<em>summa cum laude</em>&nbsp;graduate, earned her&nbsp;<em>Bachelor of Science</em>&nbsp;in Neuroscience. She attended medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY where she served as vice-president of her class. She completed her Pediatrics Residency at New York Presbyterian- Weill Cornell and her Chief Residency in Pediatrics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.</p>
<p>Dr. Talib completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Adolescent Medicine in June 2013 at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore. Dr. Talib joined CHAM as Assistant Medical Director for the Michael I. Cohen, MD Adolescent Inpatient Floor where she serves as a teaching hospitalist and chaired the Quality Improvement Committee. In 2015, Dr. Talib was appointed as Associate Director of the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Training Program. In 2018, Dr. Talib was appointed Medical Director of the Adolescent Inpatient floor.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In addition to providing outpatient sub-specialty care at CHAM, Dr. Talib also cared for youth in foster care at the Children's Aid Society's Bronx Family Health Center. Dr. Talib offers Nexplanon dermal implants, as a method of long acting hormonal contraception, for teen pregnancy prevention at both sites. Her clinical interests include adolescent health, pediatric and adolescent gynecology, contraception, mental health, care of children in foster care, and care of the hospitalized adolescent.</p>
<p>Dr. Talib is board-certified in Pediatrics and in Adolescent Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and a member of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) and the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (NASPAG). She serves as Associate Editor of the <em>Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology</em>, the official journal of NASPAG, and as a co-chair of the NASPAG resident education committee. In addition, Dr. Talib is a recent past President of the Executive Board of the New York chapter of SAHM.</p>
<p>Dr Talib currently provies pediatric and adolescent medicine care at the Atria Institute.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Connect with Dr. Talib at her website drhinatalib.com or follow Dr. Talib at her instagram @teenhealthdoc.&nbsp;</p>

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Dr. Talib's clinical focus is adolescent health, pediatrics and adolescent gynecology, contraception, mental health, care of children in foster care and care of hospitalized adolescents.

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Dr. Talib has been studying the effects of Vitamin D deficiency in the adolescent age group since 2012. In 2013, she published a study on influences of partner and relationship factors in HIV testing in Bronx youth. Through her work on the CHAM HIV Testing Task Force, she is currently conducting a quality improvement intervention to increase HIV testing in hospitalized adolescents.

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Selected Publications

<p><strong>Talib HJ,</strong> Coupey SM. Excessive Uterine Bleeding. <em>Adolesc Med</em> 2012; 23:53-72</p>
<p><strong>Talib HJ</strong>, Alderman EM.Gynecologic and Reproductive Health Concerns of Adolescents Using Selected Psychotropic Medications. <em>J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol </em>2013; 26(1):7-15</p>
<p><strong>Talib HJ,</strong> Silver EJ, Coupey SM, Bauman LJ. The influence of individual, partner, and relationship factors in HIV testing in adolescents. <em>AIDS Patient Care STDs</em> 2013; 27(11): 637-4</p>
<p><strong>Talib HJ</strong>, Ponnapakkam T, Gensure R, Cohen HW, Coupey SM. Treatment of vitamin D deficiency in predominantly Hispanic and black adolescents: a randomized clinical trial. <em>J Pediatr</em> 2016; 170:266-72. PMID: 26707619</p>
<p><strong>Talib HJ</strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">,</span> Silver EJ, Alderman EM. Challenges to adolescent confidentiality in a children&rsquo;s hospital. <em>Hosp Pediatr</em> 2016; 6(8):490-5. PMID: 27461762</p>
<p>Fleming N, Aimes-Oeschlager A, Browner-Elhanan KJ, Kaul P, <strong>Talib HJ</strong>, Wheeler C, Loveless M. Resident Education Curriculum in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology: The Short Curriculum. <em>J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol </em>2014; 27(2):117-20</p>
<p><strong>Talib HJ</strong>, Karjane N, Teelin K, Abraham M, Holt S, Chelvakumar G, Dumont T, Huguelet PS, Connor L, Wheeler C, Fleming N. Resident education curriculum in pediatric and adolescent gynecology: the short curriculum 2.0. <em>J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol</em>&nbsp;2018; 31(2):71-76</p>
<p>Bhalakia AM, <strong>Talib HJ</strong>, Choi J, Watnick D, Bochner R, Futterman D, Gross E. Acceptance of routine HIV testing by hospitalized adolescents and young adults. <em>Hospital Pediatr</em> 2018; 8(4):187-193. PMID:29599198</p>

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<p>Hina J. Talib, MD, is Director of the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program and an Attending Physician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore. Dr. Talib is also an Associate&nbsp;Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her clinical focus is adolescent health, pediatrics and adolescent gynecology, contraception, mental health, care of children in foster care and care of hospitalized adolescents. She joined the Montefiore team in 2013.</p><p>Dr. Talib received her Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience in 2001 from Brown University. In 2006, she received her Doctor of Medicine from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. In 2009, Dr. Talib completed a residency in pediatrics at New York Presbyterian Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children&rsquo;s Health &ndash; Weill Cornell Medical Center. She became Chief Resident in Pediatrics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that same year. Dr. Talib went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at CHAM in 2013.</p><p>Dr. Talib has been studying the effects of Vitamin D deficiency in the adolescent age group since 2012. In 2013, she published a study on influences of partner and relationship factors in HIV testing in Bronx youth. Through her work on the CHAM HIV Testing Task Force, she is currently conducting a quality improvement intervention to increase HIV testing in hospitalized adolescents. Her work has been published numerous times in peer reviewed journals, review articles, and books and has been presented at national meetings.</p><p>In 2014, Dr. Talib won Best Platform Presentation for her work, &ldquo;Randomized Clinical Trial of Two High-dose vs. Low-dose Treatment Regimens for Vitamin D Deficiency in Minority Adolescents Living in a Northeast City&rdquo; at Pediatric Research Day at CHAM.</p><p>Dr. Talib is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section in Adolescent Health.</p>

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Lisa H. Shulman

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Lisa

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Shulman

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<p>Lisa Shulman, M.D., is a leading developmental pediatrician who specializes in diagnosing and treating children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other developmental and learning disabilities.</p>
<p>Dr. Shulman serves as the director of Infant Toddler Services at Montefiore&rsquo;s Children&rsquo;s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC), which provides family-based diagnostic assessment and treatment services for young children who have or are suspected of having developmental delays. She also directs CERC&rsquo;s RELATE program, which offers evaluation and treatment for young children with autism and ASD.</p>
<p>Her research interests include early identification of autism, healthcare disparity in autism diagnosis and management, and the use of complementary and alternative medicine in treating autism.</p>
<p>Dr. Shulman recently led a study that characterized the residual learning and cognitive needs of school-aged children whose early ASD diagnosis resolved. The study showed that most children who outgrow their autism diagnosis still struggle with emotional, behavioral or leaning difficulties later in life.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;">Dr. Shulman is a developmental pediatrician and a neurodevelopmental pediatrician with special expertise in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and learning disabilities. Her research interests include early identification of autism, evidence-based treatments, healthcare disparities in autism diagnosis and management, and complementary and alternative medicine usage in autism.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;">Dr. Shulman is the Interim Director of the Children&rsquo;s Evaluation &amp; Rehabilitation Center (CERC) at the Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore. She is the Director of Autism Services at the program which follows over 2,000 children with autism from early childhood through adulthood and provides appropriate medical and educational services in a &ldquo;one-stop shopping&rdquo; model. She is also the Director of the Infant Preschool Team which provides diagnostic assessment of young children who have or are suspected of having developmental delays. She is the Director of the nationally funded Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) training program at the center. Dr. Shulman is on the Autism Executive Committee of the Council on Children with Disabilities of the National American Academy of Pediatrics. She is the Centers for Disease Control Act Early Ambassador Emeritus to New York state.&nbsp;</p>

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Early identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), long-term management and treatment of ASD, diagnostic clarification of developmental and behavioral issues manifesting in infants and toddlers, early intervention, idiopathic toe-walking

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Practice Emphasis: Developmental pediatrics consultation; multidisciplinary diagnostic evaluation, treatment and medical management of young children with developmental delay and/or behavioral issues; particular expertise in the early diagnosis of ASD

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<p>Lisa Heidi Shulman, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Since joining the Montefiore team, her clinical focus has been on the early identification and long-term management of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as well as improving access to care for our community, identification and management of early motor delays and toe walking gait. </p><p>In 1983, Dr. Shulman received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics/Psychology at Brown University. She then attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where she received her Doctor of Medicine in 1987. Dr. Shulman began her postgraduate training in 1987 with a 3-year internship and residency in Pediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center. In 1992, she completed a clinical fellowship in Pediatric Neurodevelopment at the Rose F. Kennedy Center, Children&rsquo;s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</p><p>Aligning with her clinical interests, her research also focuses on other aspects of ASD, including early diagnosis, developmental outcomes in children with an early diagnosis, comorbid medical and developmental problems, parental stress and complementary and alternative medicine usage in ASD. Dr. Shulman is involved in numerous projects involving ASD, including one that began in 2019 that aims to identify the causes of ASD by carrying out genetic testing, phenotyping, and demographic profiles on the parents of children with ASD. Her work has been shared nationally at presentations and lectures and has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, books, review articles and abstracts. She is a featured contributor for Einstein&rsquo;s blog, the Doctor&rsquo;s Tablet (<a href="https://blogs.einsteinmed.edu/">https://blogs.einsteinmed.edu/</a&gt;) and has produced popular videos demonstrating baby milestones (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZSjm0drIGM">https://www.youtube.com/wa… 2008 to 2019, Dr. Shulman has been named one of &ldquo;<em>New York&rsquo;s Super Doctors: Best Physicians as Chosen by Their Peers</em>.&rdquo; She served as the Centers for Disease Control Act Early Ambassador to New York State from 2016-2019. Dr. Shulman is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics as well as Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She sits on the National Autism Subcommittee of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is a member of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, and the International Society for Autism Research.</p>

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Scott H. Shaffer

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Scott

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Shaffer

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<p><span>Scott Shaffer, MD is assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consult/Liaison Service at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, and is the deputy training director of the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and his fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>Dr. Shaffer is a board member of the New York Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also chair of the Advisory Council for the Gold Humanism Honor Society and is a member of the Arnold P Gold Foundation Board of Trustees.&nbsp;</p>

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Dr. Shaffer&rsquo;s clinical focus is around the evaluation and treatment of somatic symptom disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and medical education. His research focus is on somatic symptom disorders and medical education.

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<p>Samuels A, Tuvia T, Patterson D, Briklin O, <strong>Shaffer S</strong>, Walker A.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31267759/">Characteristics of Conversion Disorder in an Urban Academic Children's Medical Center.&nbsp;</a>Clin Pediatr (Phila).&nbsp;2019 Jul 3; [Epub ahead of print]&nbsp;PubMed PMID: 31267759.</p>
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<p>Denysenko L, Sica N, Penders T, Philbrick K, Walker A, <strong>Shaffer S, </strong>Zimbrean P, Freudenreich O, Rex N, Carroll B, Francis A. Catatonia in the medically ill: Etiology, Diagnosis, and treatment. The Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Evidence-based Medicine Subcommittee Monograph. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry 2018:30(2), 140-155.</p>
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<p><strong>Shaffer S</strong>., Fuentes J. On or off the &ldquo;Spectrum&rdquo;? The complexity of screening and diagnosing autism &nbsp;spectrum disorder (ASD). JAACAP Connect. Volume 1 Issue 2, Fall 2014.</p>
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<p>Philip NS, <strong>Shaffer S</strong>, Banik D, Johnson B: Supportive Psychotherapy- a Crash Course for Medical Students. Academic Psychiatry 2010: 34:1, 57-60.</p>

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Biography

<p>Scott Shaffer, MD, is Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service and Deputy Director of Training, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also an Assistant Professor at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
</p><p>After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from Rutgers University in 2003, Dr. Shaffer continued his education at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 2006. He earned his first residency in General Psychiatry from Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2010 and his second residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the New York University School of Medicine in 2012.
</p><p>Dr. Shaffer&rsquo;s clinical focus is around the evaluation and treatment of somatic symptom disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and medical education. His research focus is on somatic symptom disorders and medical education.
</p><p>Dr. Shaffer is board certified and involved in a number of committees. He is Chair of the Nominating Committee and on the Advisory Council for the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Along with being a Board Member for the New York Council of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry he is also Co-Chair of their Medical Student Subcommittee. At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Shaffer serves as a co-chair for the Committee on Admissions, and is a member of the Clinical Skills Assessment Subcommittee, and the Child Psychiatry Executive Training Committee.
</p><p>He is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Council of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Gold Humanism Honor Society.
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Theresa M. Serra

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Theresa

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Serra

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1609164078

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14280

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Pediatric Medicine

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<p class="MsoNormal">Theresa Serra, MD, joined the CHAM hospitalist division in 2014 after working as a pediatric hospitalist at New York Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital. Her interests include clinical research and medical education. She has conducted an IRB approved retrospective chart review examining readmission rates in pediatric patients diagnosed with osteomyelitis. Dr. Serra is currently developing a medical Spanish curriculum for faculty members in order to improve communication between patients, families and providers. Along with Courtney McNamara, MD, Dr. Serra is a co-leader of a multidisciplinary committee dedicated to standardizing and improving quality of care for patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of failure to thrive. Dr. Serra is also working on an initiative to identify vaccine delinquency in the inpatient setting through the use of SMART reports.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Serra is also collaborating with Lindsey Douglas, MD, MSCR, in an IRB approved quality improvement (QI) project to improve transition-of-care communication between hospitalists and primary care providers and to facilitate the establishment of medical homes. Dr. Serra is also a member of a subcommittee that leads monthly journal clubs/case conferences for pediatric hospitalists.</p>

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Merryl A. Schechtman

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Merryl

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Schechtman

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1013073956

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Shawn K. Samuel

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Shawn

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Samuel

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1649366204

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11069

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