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Jean Marmoreo, 61,
is a family physician and co-founder of Edward Street Medical Associates,
a downtown Toronto clinic of 12 doctors serving 30,000 patients.
She is affiliated with Sunnybrook and Women's Health Sciences Centre
and is a Lecturer in the Family Practice Department of the University
of Toronto School of Medicine. In addition, she provides expert opinion
on cases that come before the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Graduating from MacMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario with a
degree in nursing in 1964, Jean Marmoreo became Head Nurse at the
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto. She then decided to pursue
a career in medicine and, in 1974, graduated with the highest marks
in her class in clinical practice from the University of Toronto
School of Medicine, the largest medical school in North America.
A specialist in mid-life medicine, Jean Marmoreo writes a bi-weekly
column on women for The Globe and Mail, which grew out of a similar
column for The National Post. The popularity of her column has led
to her writing a book, The New Middle Ages: Women in Midlife, which
was published by Prentice Hall in April, 2002.
In addition, she is frequently called on to speak to women, either
as a media commentator or directly to women’s audiences. For
the last four years, she has delivered the annual lecture in hormone
replacement therapy to the Women's Health Matters Conference in Toronto,
and in addition, she speaks frequently to business and professional
associations.
Jean Marmoreo is an avid runner and hiker; she has run the New York
Marathon four times and after running the Marine Corps Marathon in
Washington in 2001, she formed a group of 100 Canadian women called
JeansMarines (www.jeansmarines.com) who finished the same marathon "upright
and smiling" in 2002. In that race, Jean placed first among
women 60-64, and was the first Canadian to do so in the 27 year history
of the Marine Corps Marathon. This year, JeansMarines grew to 200
women, with plans for 500 JeansMarines to run the Marine Corps Marathon
in 2004.
Jean and her husband have also trekked 1,000 miles of the Appalachian
Trail; climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa; and recently returned from
trekking to Mt. Everest Base Camp in Nepal.
She is married to Toronto writer, Bob Ramsay (www.ramsaywrites.com),
and has three children: Lara 30, Jean Paul 27, and MaryBeth 21.
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