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Biographies
Carol Livoti, MD
Carol was born and raised in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, where her father practiced medicine from the ground floor of their brownstone. She graduated Cornell University in 1964, and New York Medical College in 1968. After interning at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, she did her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital, and Flower Fifth Avenue in New York. She also studied for three months at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.
Carol was an assistant professor at New York Medical College from '73 -'76 and participated in the PAAM (Pregnant and Addicted Mothers) project as the obstetrical advisor. She began her private practice in 1976 and has continued to the present. Carol has privileges at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan and is one of the few remaining obstetricians who can still deliver breach babies and twins vaginally. Married to Richard David Topp, they have one daughter, Elizabeth.
Carol and Liz have worked on two books together and written women's health columns for Playgirl and Shape magazines, where Carol serves on the Editorial Advisory Board.
Liz Topp
Liz graduated from Harvard College in the fall of '99, where she wrote for Let's Go travel guides, which took her to Australia and Scotland. In between, she also traveled to New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and China. Her next stop was Austin, TX, where she worked for a software company, a content manager for a short-lived Website, a cocktail waitress, and remarkably unsuccessful screenwriter. After a year and a half, Liz returned to New York to pursue her writing career.
Liz is currently making a feature documentary about the G Spot and other aspects of female sexuality called "Searching for G" . She has guest lectured on sex education at local high schools and universities around the country. Liz will start an MFA at Columbia University in the Fall of 2008, where she will write a memoir about hitchhiking through Africa.