Speakers Bios

Bobbye Brooks is co-founder and CEO of Media 4 Women Enterprises, Inc., a California corporation uniquely designed to promote businesses and organizations through strategic marketing and media development. Bobbye also co-founded Daily Disciples Ministries, a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization that teaches, trains and partners with other women’s groups to empower women for positive change. Bobbye is Chairman of Cornerstone Managing Partners, a San Diego-based commercial construction and real estate development company, she co-founded with her husband in 1998. After a successful career in executive healthcare management, Bobbye completed an Executive MBA specializing in entrepreneurial “startup” ventures. With years of leadership and management experience, Bobbye has applied her training and education, along with a personal desire to help others, to launch several fast growing companies positioned for success, including Media Enterprises and Everything4Women. Along with overseeing these businesses, Bobbye is also an author, speaker, radio host and a frequent guest on television interviews. She is also co-host of the Internet television program “Real Issues-Real Answers,” a show that reaches a global audience each week addressing relevant topics affecting our daily lives. Bobbye lives in San Diego, California with her husband, Tom.

Tonilee Adamson is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Media 4 Women Enterprises, Inc. Tonilee brings spunk and style to a boardroom while delivering Internet marketing tools to help accelerate businesses to their potential. Tonilee also co-founded Daily Disciples Ministries, a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization that teaches, trains and partners with other women’s groups to empower women for positive change. With a professional career in health care as an Intensive Care Unit Nurse, with an emphasis in Administration and Information Technology, Tonilee knows how to reach the heart of people.  She is now inspiring and empowering women to pursue their life dreams both professionally and personally by teaching, mentoring, and supporting them throughout the process.  Tonilee has authored and co-authored over 20 books and studies, is a favored public speaker, radio host and a frequent guest on television interviews.   Tonilee co-hosts an Internet television program called Real Issues - Real Answers with a power packed line up of other great speakers on topics addressing everyday life challenges in the workplace and at home.  She reaches her audience through practical lessons and genuine delivery. Tonilee lives in San Diego, California with her husband, Rob, and has 3 children in college and high school.

Pat Brown has been a weather anchor on local television newscasts and a member of the morning team at KyXy radio. Over the years, Pat traveled from the rainforests of Australia to the Alps of Austria. Closer to home, she scuba dived with sharks and flew supersonic in a Navy F-14 fighter jet, earning five Emmy Awards along the way. Prior to San Diego, Pat co-hosted "PM Magazine" at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, Minn. and at WDTN-TV in Dayton, Ohio. Before breaking into television, Pat worked at The Washington Post while earning her degree in Communications from American University in Washington, D.C. She is also a credentialed teacher and taught fifth grade in Solana Beach. In the San Diego community, Pat is a trustee emeritus of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, serves on the Alzheimer's Association Board of Trustees, and the Burn Institute Advisory Board. She has been honored with the Leadership Award by National University and named "Health Hero" by Combined Health Agencies for her volunteer work with MS and the Alzheimer's Association. Pat has airtime that has nothing to do with television; she has soloed a single-engine airplane, piloted a blimp and a sail plane, run off a cliff in a hang glider, ridden in hot air balloons and helicopters, and endured aerobics in an open-cockpit bi-plane. Don't forget sky-diving. In her free time, Pat loves reading, traveling, cooking, photography and exploring history.

Cynthia A. Stuenkel, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and an attending physician for the University's Endocrinology and Metabolism Service. She established one of the first menopause clinics in the US. She is interested in hormones and heart disease in women and preventive strategies for postmenopausal health. She has lectured both nationally and internationally at women's health symposia on postmenopausal women and hormone therapy, cardiovascular disease prevention, osteoporosis prevention and treatment, and breast cancer prevention. A founding member of the North American Menopause Society and in her second term on the NAMS Board of Trustees, Dr. Stuenkel currently serves as the Immediate Past-President of NAMS. She also serves on the Editorial Boards of Menopause and was a member of the Advisory Panels that prepared the NAMS 2007, 2008, and 2010 Hormone Therapy Position Statements. She is a member of the Endocrine Society's Hormone Foundation Women's Health Task Force. She authored several sections of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Statement on Hormone Therapy published in 2004 and serves on the Editorial Board of their consumer publication, Pause. Dr. Stuenkel has been an investigator in clinical trials of menopausal women's health, including the Heart and Estrogen/Progestrin Replacement Study (HERS), Raloxifene Use for the Heart (RUTH), and Long-Term Interventions on Fractures With Tibolone (LIFT). She has also authored or coauthored a number of reviews, invited papers, and book chapters and appeared in local, national, and international media to discuss women's health. She has recently participated in several Medscape products and served as a WebMD Expert for Menopause. A board-certified internist and endocrinoligist, Dr. Stuenkel received her medical degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago and completed her internship and residency at the University of Chicago. She as a clinical research fellow at Harvard Medical School in the Endocrine Hypertension Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and completed a research fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of California, San Diego. In 2001, Dr. Stuenkel was named the American Heart Association's First Women's Legacy Award Honoree to recognize her efforts to promote cardiovascular health in women. In 2004, she received the North American Menopause Society's Education Excellence Award. In 2010, she was selected as The Charter 100 Woman of the Year for the San Diego Chapter.

Deanna Ramsay, was blessed to have been born into an incredible family. Her father Paul Rischer is a pastor and her mother Carol is an author, conference speaker and professional pianist. Her 2 older sisters Melanie Bernard and Cheryl Shields are both extremely musical and the family had released its first record before Deanna was even born. She began singing publicly at the ripe old age of 2. It was at that age that she sang 3 solos accompanied by a full piece orchestrain in front of 2000 people. By age 6 she had begun her recording career. She began singing on the first 3 albums in the G.T. and the Halo Express series and over the next 15 years went on to record on over 25 childrens albums including Bullfrogs and Butterflies and Music Machine. When Deanna was 11 her family recorded the album The Rischer Family Undivided which took them touring throughout the U.S. and Canada. Today Deanna's still leads worship and gives concerts at churches and conferences all over. When Deanna entered High School she began recording jingles on CDRom programs for the Reader Rabbit series by The Learning Company. After graduation Deanna went on to attend and earn her degree in Music Education from Azusa Pacific University. During her time there Deanna went on several music tours across the U.S. and Canada with the school and recorded on numerous albums with the APU choirs as the featured soloist and Lead Soprano for the University Choir and Orchestra. It was in the spring of 1997 as Deanna was finishing her freshman year that she met an amazing young man named Jon Ramsay. She and Jon began dating and singing together and were married 3 years later. Deanna now has released 4 CDs, 2 solo CDs and 2 with her husband Jon. Deanna and Jon have 2 children and live in San Diego, CA. To find out more about Deanna, visit her website.