Dr Adams was born just outside of New York City and grew up in Southern Connecticut. She decided to become a doctor after watching the doctors treat her brother for malaria. Following her family’s footsteps, she attended Williams College in the Berkshires. After college, she attended medical school at Tufts in Boston where she had the opportunity to learn under Dr Rashba, a pediatrician in Reading, and fell in love with pediatrics.  

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Dr. Awkal was born in New Jersey, but spent most of her childhood growing up overseas, which gave her an appreciation for the beauty of diversity and the collective human spirit. She returned to the United States for undergraduate studies at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she majored in Neuroscience and Behavior. 

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Dr. Chien grew up in northeast Pennsylvania.  She earned her undergraduate degree in biology from Georgetown University.  During her college years she worked in a genetics lab at Georgetown University Hospital.  Not sure whether she wanted to study genetics or medicine, she moved to Philadelphia after graduation and took a job as a genetics research assistant at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

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Dr. Condon was born and raised in the Boston area. Therefore, she comes by her silly accent honestly. She moved to Western Mass to go to college and fell in love with the area. She returned to her Boston roots for Medical School but the beauty of Western Mass pulled her back for her pediatric training.

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Dr. Gottsegen grew up in New York and Philadelphia, but learned to love New England hiking in the forests and mountains of New Hampshire and Maine.  During college, he spent summers working as a wilderness counselor at overnight camps for inner city children in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.   In college he double majored in English and Biology, concentrating on environmental sciences. 

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Meagan was born and raised in Torrington, CT before moving to the greater Springfield area to attend college at Bay Path in Longmeadow. While there, she earned a B.A. in Liberal Studies and Science. Initially on a track to attend pharmacy school, she swerved at the last minute and applied to nursing school instead. This was her best decision ever!

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Dr. Kates was born and raised in the New York City area, but fell in love with Western MA while pursuing her undergraduate degree in the Berkshires. She headed back to New York for her medical training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. She then stayed on to become Chief Resident in a social pediatrics program devoted to primary care and community health. 

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Though not a native New Englander, Dr. Lemme has quickly made his home here in Western Mass.  Proud to have grown up in the U.S. Air Force, he spent his early years living on various military bases.  After living in Japan for several years, Dr. Lemme’s family settled outside of San Antonio, TX, where he spent the rest of his childhood.  

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Dr. Mugford grew up in the south, in a town just outside of New Orleans, Louisiana.  Having always wanted to explore the northeast, she moved to Boston where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Boston College.  Following college, she moved back to New Orleans to attend the Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Medicine.  

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Dr. Norton was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He received his undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University and his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of California in San Francisco, and was in practice in Marin County, California for several years before moving to the Pioneer Valley. 

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Dr. Petrosky was born in Brooklyn, NY but moved to the Philippines at the age of four where she lived until she was nine years old.  Her family returned to the United States when martial law was declared in the Philippines and her family settled in Massachusetts.  She majored in Biology at Mount Holyoke College and graduated magna cum laude in 1985. 

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Dr. Robbins took a circuitous path to HPA and feels very fortunate to now call the Pioneer Valley, and HPA, her home. She was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio and went to college in North Carolina, where she studied Biomedical and Electrical Engineering. She worked for a few years as an engineer doing medical imaging before she moved west to start medical school in San Francisco.

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Dr. Rounds is a proud Pioneer Valley native.  After graduating from Northampton High, she moved on to the University of Virginia, where she earned B.A.’s in both Spanish and biology with a minor in Chemistry.  After college, Dr. Rounds spent a year living and working as a CNA in Austin, Texas.  She returned home to Massachusetts to attend UMass Medical School in Worcester,..

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Dr. Velasco grew up in the small central Massachusetts town of Oakham.  She grew to love the Pioneer Valley as a UMass undergrad, where she earned a B.S. in Exercise Science, played flute in the Minuteman Marching Band, and delved into a variety of volunteer roles to explore her interest in medicine.  After college she spent four years working as a cancer research technician, first at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute then at Duke University Medical Center.  

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Dr. Wondriska is a native New Englander who worked as an archeologist in Morocco after college before entering the world of medicine, trading the study of the past for the people of the present.  She has been caring for patients in the greater Springfield area as a general pediatrician for a number of years, coming to HPA from Riverbend Medical Group.  She has also been a teacher for medical and physician assistant students, a preceptor for pediatric residents and always works to teach, and to learn from, patients and families.

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