Dr. Michelle Elisburg, a member of the Hadassah Physicians Council and the Hadassah Writers’ Circle, is a pediatrician at a community health center in Louisville, KY. She majored in religion at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. She attended medical school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and earned a Master’s in Public Health in Maternal and Child Health. She completed her Pediatric Residency in Manhasset, NY. Dr. Elisburg’s interests include breastfeeding, vaccines and immigrant child health. Dr. Elisburg is a five-generation Hadassah member, starting with her great-grandmother. After participating with Hadassah Central States Region, she rechartered the Louisville Hadassah Chapter and has been president ever since. In 2010 she went on a Hadassah Young Women’s mission to Israel. She attended the 100th Hadassah convention in Israel after traveling with the Physician’s Council for a pre-convention tour. Dr. Elisburg lives outside Louisville, KY in southern Indiana with her husband, two daughters and a grumpy rescue dog who just celebrated his Bark Mitzvah.