Jane Aronson

Born in Brooklyn, Dr. Jane Aronson grew up on Long Island, attended Hunter College in New York City, and taught school for 10 years. She later became a physician, graduating from the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey in 1986. Dr. Aronson is in private practice in New York City as director of International Pediatric Health Services, which devotes itself to children adopted from abroad and domestically. She is clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. As an adoption medicine specialist, she has evaluated some 4,000 children adopted from abroad and has traveled to orphanages in Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, China, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Latin America. Since 1997, she has provided medical and developmental services through her not-for-profit foundation, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO). Awards received by Dr. Aronson include the Congressional Angels in Adoption Award, Elle magazine's Uncommon Women award, and the World of Children Humanitarian Award. She has two sons through adoption and lives with her family in Maplewood, N.J.