Director - Krenie Stowe, M.D., J.D.
I received my BA from Yale University in 1981 and my M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1985. I received my J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1990. I completed my pediatric internship at Bellevue and University Hospitals in 1986 in New York and my pediatric residency at Montefiore Medical Center's Residency Programs in Social Medicine in 1992. Following that, I spent 2 years practicing medicine on a remote Native American territory in North Dakota. In 1994, I came to Tomball, Texas, where my mother, Dr. Maria Frontis Stowe, and I co-founded a non-profit health care facility, the Frontis Project, Inc. For over 10 years, with only 5-6 staff, the Frontis Project provided health care and social and support services to over 11,000 children and their families in 8 Texas counties. No one was ever denied care because they could not pay for it. Since resigning my position as Medical Director of the Frontis Project in December 2004, I have written and published a book about my experiences in medicine, "A Doctor's Story: A Personal Journey & A Call for Reform". I have also been involved in the support and creation of democratic, self-directed educational alternatives for children. We are now in the process of starting a learning community called The Real School a.k.a. Dragon Valley. It is a student centered, consensus based model that supports learning free of coercion and control. As of April 2006, I am also practicing in a more traditional medical setting, Maternal and Family Clinic, 27854 IH 45 North, Conroe, 77385; 281-419-1599. I am a board-eligible pediatrician and a licensed physician in the state of Texas since 1994. I remain a member of the New York Bar.

Consultant - Maria Frontis Stowe, M.D.
She received her B.A. from Columbia University in 1972 and her M.D. from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1977. Prior to medical school, she worked for the City of New York for 7 years as a youth worker and program planner in urban ghettos focusing on at-risk adolescents such as drug addicts and pregnant teens. While in medical school, she worked in areas of abject poverty in rural Mexico and also arranged to do clinical rotations at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The contrast proved truly educational. Following medical school, she worked extensively in the field of obstetrics and gynecology in Mexico and opened a maternal and family health care clinic in Juarez. After leaving Mexico in 1980, she worked as a family therapist for 12 years. In 1994, she co-founded the Frontis Project, as described above, and functioned as its Executive Director for 11 years. Dr. Maria Frontis Stowe has extensive experience in the areas of psychotherapy, addictive behaviors, sexuality, breastfeeding, and family planning. She is passionately interested in the evolutionary history and psychology of sexuality and reproduction and their effect on reproductive decision-making. She plans to write and further develop theories on these and related topics. She is currently working on an autobiography. Dr. Marie Frontis Stowe is not licensed to practice medicine in Texas and functions purely as a consultant for H.E.A.L.

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