Health Symposium Speakers

Rochelle L. Shoretz
Founder and Executive Director, Sharsheret

Rochelle Shoretz, founder and Executive Director of Sharsheret (www.sharsheret.org), is a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young Women. A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia Law School, she served as a law clerk in 1999 to United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In November 2001, while undergoing chemotherapy treatment, Ms. Shoretz founded Sharsheret, a national cancer organization that has served more than 45,000 young women and families facing breast cancer and ovarian cancer, with an expertise in Jewish families at increased risk of certain hereditary cancers.

Since the organization’s founding, Sharsheret has launched 12 national programs that include support for women and families, and education for communities and health care professionals. Sharsheret’s programs and services are open to all women and men, without regard to age, race, religion, or nationality. For its critical services, Sharsheret was awarded the New York State Innovation in Breast Cancer Research Award and two grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop and enhance culturally relevant programming for young Jewish breast cancer survivors.

For her pioneering efforts, Ms. Shoretz, a two-time breast cancer survivor currently living with advanced breast cancer, was named a Yoplait Champion in the Fight Against Breast Cancer. She is a Board member of First Descents, a national organization that provides outdoor adventure for cancer survivors. The mother of two, Ms. Shoretz has appeared as a resource on The Today Show, national news programs, and in more than 100 media outlets across the country. Follow her on Twitter @rshoretz and the organization @sharsheret.

Michele Scheck, DO

Michele Scheck, DO is a family practice physician who embraces functional medicine with each of her patients. Dr. Scheck graduated from Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2000 and is licensed by The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. After eleven years of practicing traditional family medicine, Dr. Scheck went in search of a more complete way to treat her patients and her family. It is this search that led her to continue training In Functional Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Through a Functional Medicine approach, Dr. Scheck partners with her patients to uncover the underlying cause of disease rather than suppressing the symptoms. Dr. Scheck also believes wholeheartedly in a preventive medicine model. She is committed to educating this community on the benefits of a well-balanced healthy lifestyle.