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Tricia Mueller DO MSCP DACLM

Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician & Menopause Society Certified Practitioner | true. Women’s Health

Blandford Nature Center legacy

Stacy Stout previously served as the inaugural Director of Family-Centered Philanthropy at the Steelcase Foundation, spent over seven years as the City of Grand Rapids’ inaugural Director of Equity and Engagement, and is deeply involved with the local community in a number of ways. We caught up with Stout as she recently became the new President and CEO of Blandford Nature Center .

Readers’ Choice Awards

Our lives wouldn’t be what they are without the stellar local establishments found around every corner of West Michigan, from the newly founded to the well-established and everything in between. Those local staples are what the West Michigan Woman Readers' Choice Awards are all about.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Did you know? According to the National Museum of the American Indian, it's estimated that in the 130 years followinag first European contact, Native America lost 95% of its population, along with a disruption of tradition and enormous loss of land.

Van Andel Institute

Kelsey Carpenter, Ph.D. completed her doctorate in integrated biomedical sciences at Rush University in Chicago, Illinois, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Grainger Lab at Van Andel Institute's Department of Cell Biology. It's here that Dr. Carpenter studies the origins of blood cancers by focusing on how blood cells develop.

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