Dr. A. Maria Hester (Dr. Maria) is an internal medicine specialist with over ten years of experience in direct patient care and patient advocacy/education. Dr. Hester received her M.D. degree from the University of Tennessee in Memphis in 1992. She has a special interest in preventive medicine and empowering people to optimize their health and their health care. Author of two consumer health books, Dr. Maria has an extensive background in educating the public, including serving as president of a local American Heart Association branch, conducting numerous community health workshops, and acting as a spokesperson for a breast cancer awareness campaign.

Her strength lies in her ability to communicate complex medical topics in language that anyone can understand. She recently launched an online ´patient school´ to provide visitors with a tremendous base of knowledge in one site. The Private School section provides practical exercises and effective tools to empower her visitors to become savvy health care consumers while they save time and money. The site´s URL is http://patientschool.net.

Dr. Maria is a Christian physician who loves helping people. She enjoys tennis, sewing, and working on do-it-yourself jobs around the home (though her husband is not quite as enthusiastic about this particular hobby as she is).

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