Deborah Shlian is a board certified family practitioner with more than three decades of clinical and management experience serving Kaiser Permanente and UCLA. Deborah is a healthcare consultant and author of numerous nonfiction articles and books as well as six award winning medical mystery/thrillers, three co-authored with her husband, Joel. Her most recent inspiring book, Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Leaders in STEM, profiles 29 women scientists who defied the odds to become leaders in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics). Deborah proactively lifts up and sponsors women in healthcare management.