The Inside Scoop from Tech and Medical Experts on Improving Students’ Behavior and Mood

About the Presenters

Frank Clegg spent his 40-year career in the technology industry until his retirement as President of Microsoft Canada, and formerly as Vice President of Microsoft’s Central U.S. and Canada Region. Following his retirement, and in response to learning from experts worldwide on the biological effects of radio-frequency radiation emitted by all wireless technologies, Frank co-founded Canadians for Safe Technology (C4ST), a national coalition dedicated to education and policy advocacy on how to use wireless devices more safely.

Frank serves on the board of the Environmental Health Trust, a non-profit which champions the identification of emerging environmental hazards and formulates preventative solutions. He was instrumental in the development of online tools to enable law enforcement to track and prevent child exploitation, leading to the creation of The Kids’ Internet Safety Alliance (KINSA), which provided a proactive response to the negative aspects of the internet that harm young people.

Sharon Goldberg, MD, is an integrative medicine physician based in Santa Fe, NM, and board certified in Internal Medicine since 2000. With 20+ years of experience in chronic disease management and prevention, she blends conventional medicine with root-cause approaches that address nutrition and environmental factors. Dr. Goldberg is Associate Professor of Medicine, Community Faculty at the University of New Mexico and previously held academic roles at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Miami. She earned her MD from Tel Aviv University and completed her residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC.

For the past decade, she has focused on treating complex patients using integrative methods. A leading expert on literacy of electromagnetic fields (EMF) in healthcare, she served as Course Director for the EMF Medical Conference 2021, sits on the Advisory Board of the Building Biology Institute, and is an editorial board member of Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine.

J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D., is the Founder and Director of Think:Kids in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. An award-winning psychologist, Dr. Ablon is Associate Professor and the Thomas G. Stemberg Endowed Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of three books, Changeable (featured by the Next Big Idea Club), The School Discipline Fix, and Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach.

Dr. Ablon received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and completed his training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. One of the world’s top-rated thought leaders and keynote speakers, Dr. Ablon teaches educators, parents, clinicians, managers, and leaders on a very different approach to understanding and addressing challenging behavior of all types and in all people. Dr. Ablon has helped hundreds of organizations throughout the world implement his Collaborative Problem Solving approach.

Mary Anne Tierney, RN, MPH, is the Executive Director of Safe Tech NC, a non-profit sharing how to use technology more safely, and focused on supporting school officials, healthcare professionals, and parents to create safer environments for children. She is certified as an Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist with the Building Biology Institute, and runs Blue Ridge EMF Solutions, a consulting firm providing assessments and mitigation of electromagnetic fields (EMF’s), based in Western NC. Mary Anne served for many years as a psychiatric nurse and manager of public health programs to improve children’s wellbeing. She is currently in training as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is an ambassador with the Phone-Free School Movement and ScreenStrong.