Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of Health’s Office of Alternative Medicine and is a former member …
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Jeffrey Bland, PhD, FACN, CNS Dr Blands distinguished career in nutritional biochemistry has earned him international acclaim as educator, research professor, leader in the natural products industry, recognized expert in human nutrition and functional medicine, and visionary for the future of health care Dr Bland now serves as Chief Science Officer and President of MetaProteomics at Metagenics, Inc
David Brownstein, MD, is a family physician who utilizes the best of conventional and alternative therapies He is the Medical Director for the Center for Holistic Medicine in West Bloomfield, MI He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University School of Medicine He is Board-certified in Family Practice by the American Academy of Family Practitioners Dr Brownstein is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College for the Advancement in Medicine He is the father of two beautiful girls, Hailey and
Jessica and is a retired soccer coach Dr Brownstein has lectured internationally about his success using natural items Dr Brownstein has authored The Miracle of Natural Hormones 3rd Edition, Overcoming Thyroid Disorders, Overcoming Arthritis, Iodine; Why You Need It, Why You Cant Live Without It, The Guide to Healthy Eating, Salt Your Way to Health, and Drugs That Dont Work and Natural Therapies That Do
Monique Class MS, APRN, BC, is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner and a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Holistic Health at The Center for Womens Health In addition to inspiring men and women to implement the lifestyle changes that facilitate optimal wellness and graceful aging, Monique has a special interest in well woman and adolescent gynecology She received her degree as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and her post-masters as a Family Nurse Practitioner at the College of New Rochelle and her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from The University of Virginia In addition to her work at The
Center for Womens Health, Monique is an adjunct professor at The College of New Rochelle Graduate School of Nursing, a Clinical Instructor for Yale University Nurse Practitioner Program and a senior faculty member for The Center For Mind Body Medicine Washington DC and facilitates Mind-Body Skills Groups at their annual professional and advanced training programs Monique is also certified by the Psychosynthesis Institute in Imagery and is currently completing her training in Foundations in Herbal Medicine
David Jones, MD is the President and Director of Medical Education of The Institute for Functional Medicine, headquartered in Gig Harbor, Washington He has practiced as a family physician with emphasis in functional and integrative medicine for over 30 years He is a recognized expert in the areas of functional medicine, nutrition, lifestyle changes for optimal health, and managed care, as well as the daily professional functions consistent with the modern specialty of Family Practice
Dr Jones is the recipient of the 1997 Linus Pauling Award in Functional Medicine He is the Past President of PrimeCare, the Independent Physician Association of Southern Oregon IPASO representing the majority of physicians in the Southern Oregon area He has served as Chief of Staff at the Ashland Community Hospital and as President of the Southern Oregon Society of Preventive Medicine He is editor in chief of the Textbook of Functional Medicine
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James S Gordon, MD, is the Founder and Director of the Center for Mind -Body Medicine in Washington, DC and is a Clinical Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine Dr Gordon recently served as Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy He also served as the first Chair of the Program Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Healths Office of Alternative Medicine and is a former member
of the Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the NIH Dr Gordon has devoted 30 years to the exploration and practice of mind-body medicine A Harvard Medical School graduate, he was for ten years a research psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health There he developed the first national program for runaway and homeless youth, edited the first comprehensive studies of alternative and holistic medicine, directed the Special Study on Alternative Services for President Carters Commission on Mental Health, and created a nationwide preceptorship program for medical students In the years since then, Dr Gordon has created ground-breaking programs of comprehensive mind-body healing for physicians, medical students and other health professionals; for people with cancer, depression and other chronic illnesses; and for traumatized children and families, and those who serve them, in Bosnia and Kosovo Dr Gordon integrates relaxation therapies, hypnosis,
meditation, acupuncture, nutrition, herbalism, musculoskeletal manipulation, dance, yoga and physical exercise in his own practice of medicine and psychiatry Dr Gordons two most recent books are Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies and Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies both Perseus Books In addition, Dr Gordon has written or edited nine other books, including the award-winning Health for the Whole Person, and more than 120 articles in professional journals and general magazines and newspapers, among them the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatry, The American Family Physician, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and The New York Times He helped develop and write the educational materials to supplement the public television series Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers Dr Gordons work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN,
CBS Sunday Morning, FOX News and National Public Radio, as well as in The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, People, American Medical News, Clinical Psychiatry News, Town and Country, Hippocrates, Psychology Today, Vegetarian Times, Natural Health, Health and Prevention Bethany Hays, MD, FACOG is a practicing obstetrician gynecologist with a career-long passion to find the best possible forms of healing and to incorporate them into her practice Recently that dream has come to a new level of realization in the opening of True North, A Center for Health and Healing in Falmouth, Maine This unique integrative practice has been created by a group of practitioners of conventional and complementary modalities after nearly four years of dreaming and planning Using circle process, a non-hierarchical business and collaboration model, the belief in the importance of reverent participatory relationships, True North is a model for health care in a changing environment The addition of functional
medicine to her practice has added a new dimension and new excitement for Dr Hays as well as a passion for the biochemistry she tried so hard to forget after the first year of medical school She now claims to actually know the steroid pathway
Stephen Hoption Cann BSc, received is Bsc in human biology from the University of Victoria, Canada From that same University I obtained my PhD studying the relationship between nutrition, immunology and cancer I completed my postdoctoral studies at the University of British Columbia in epidemiology I am presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia My research interests include potential roles for iodine in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, cancer and infectious diseases A secondary research interest is investigation of the role of the febrile immune response in the spontaneous regression of cancer and during infectious disease
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Philip S Eichling, MTh, MD, MPH, is originally hails from the Chicago area Following a liberal arts education, he attended the University of Chicago Divinity School where he received a masters degree in theology with an emphasis on social ethics He continued his studies at New York University Medical School and the Harvard School of Public health, simultaneously receiving his MD and MPH degrees before starting internal medicine training at Boston City Hospital The Public Health Service brought him to Arizona 32 years ago Since then he has had general internal medicine practices in Arizona and rural Oregon as well as an international medicine practice in India In 1988 he settled in Tucson where he became Medical Director at Canyon Ranch Resort He has been practicing and teaching preventive medicine at Canyon Ranch and the University of Arizona Medical School since that time His interest in preventive medicine brought him into the study of sleep medicine 12 years ago
and it has been his passion ever since He currently directs the Executive Health Program at Canyon Ranch where he has a sleep lab and sleep medicine practice He also practices sleep medicine and is involved with research at the Sleep Disorders Center at the University of Arizona This year he has opened a private sleep medicine practice in Tucson that is affiliated with a sleep research facility Dr Eichling is board certified in Internal Medicine, Family Practice and Sleep Medicine He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
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Robert J Hedaya, MD FAPA, is an active member of the endocrine society, a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and board certified by the American Boards of Psychiatry and Neurology, Adolescent Psychiatry, and Clinical Psychopharmacology Dr Hedaya has been a consultant to the NIMH, and is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, where he was voted Outstanding Teacher of the Year on multiple occasions He is the author
of two books: Understanding Biological Psychiatry, and the Antidepressant Survival Program
Jay Lombard, DO is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology at Cornell Medical School and Director of the Brain Behavior Center in Pomona, NY He specializes in Behavioral Neurology including Alzheimers and other dementias, autism, Aspergers syndrome and ADHD His research involves brain imaging and neuropsychopharmacology Dr Lombard has published several books including The Brain Wellness Plan Kensington Press and Balance Your Brain Wiley, as well as numerous articles on topics related to brain health Recently, Dr Lombard was the medical consultant in the film, Manchurian Candidate, starring Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep
Dr John C Lowe has BA and MA degrees in psychology from the University of West Florida, and a BS in human biology and a DC degree from the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic He is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management and is Director of Research of the
Fibromyalgia Research Foundation He is the author of The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia, Your Guide to Metabolic Health, and has published 150 scientific papers He is Editor-in-Chief of the Thyroid Science and is a member of the Medical Board of Thyroid-United Kingdom and the Review Board of Medical Science Monitor
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Michael Lumpkin, PhD is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine He studies the mechanisms by which stress disrupts neuroendocrine systems, thereby producing chronic diseases Dr Lumpkin lectures nationally and internationally on neuroendocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology PNI and mind-body medicine He serves on Boards of Directors o f medical organizations, has authored 175 publications, and received over 30 academic awards, honors, and visiting professorships
Sonia J Lupien PhD, is the Director of the Centre for Studies on Human Stress at the Douglas Hospital-McGill
University and is an associate professor at the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology- Neurosurgery at McGill She is also the Associate Director of the Centre for Studies on Aging at McGill University Her field of research concerns the effects of stress hormones on the human brain, with a particular emphasis on learning and memory across the lifespan
Dr Thomas OBryan is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the National College of Chiropractic He is a Diplomate of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners, a Diplomate of the Clinical Nutrition Board of the American Chiropractic Association, and a Certified Clinical Nutritionist with the International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists He is a Certified Applied Kinesiologist He is a Certified Practitioner in Functional Biomechanics from the Motion Palpation Institute He is a member of the Institute of Functional Medicine, the International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists, the American
Chiropractic Association, the International Academy of Preventive Medicine and numerous other professional organizations Dr OBryan is a practicing graduate of the Institute For Functional Medicines hallmark program Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice Using the tools of Applied Kinesiology, Laboratory and Functional Medicine, Dr OBryan assists patients in reclaiming their health with an emphasis on diet and nutrition This provides a motivating and successful game plan for patients who previously suffered from debilitating symptoms, high risk for disease and frustrating medical problems Dr OBryan has been a visiting Instructor at Northeastern Illinois University where he taught Applied Nutrition For Health and Performance He is a Visiting Instructor at the National University of Life Sciences He is the Vice-President of the Illinois Chapter of the International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists He is listed in Whos Who In International Medicine and the
International Directory of Distinguished Leadership For Excellence in Education He is a triathalete and a second-degree black belt in Aikido Awarded Chiropractor of The Year 1988 in Chicago, Dr OBryan is the Past President of the Chicago Chiropractic Society and a past Director of the Illinois Chiropractic Society
David Quig, PhD, MS, BS, received his Masters degree in Human Nutrition from Virginia Tech, his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of Illinois He was then a PostDoctoral Fellow at Cornell University for five years, prior to serving as a Senior Cardiovascular Pharmacologist with a major pharmaceutical company for seven years For the past 26 years, he has performed and published research pertaining to nutrition and chronic diseases He regularly gives presentations at international and national biomedical conferences Dr Quig is currently Vice President, Scientific Support for Doctors Data, Inc where he conducts studies pertaining to the effects of heavy metal
and chemical toxicity on nutrition and metabolism and advises medical practitioners about the interpretation of laboratory test results and treatment options for their patients
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Pamela W Smith, MD, MPH, spent her first twenty years of practice as an emergency room physician with the Detroit Medical Center She is diplomat of the Board of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Physicians and is an internationally known speaker and author on the subject of wellness, anti-aging, and functional medicine She is currently the owner and director of The Center For Healthy Living and Longevity with 30 locations nationwide She is a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Physicians and is a board examiner Dr Smith is also the Director of The Anti-Aging and Functional Medicine Fellowship She is also the author of the best selling books, HRT: The Answers and Vitamins: Hype or Hope? Her new book 100 Pearls For Healthy Living is scheduled to be published
later this year
Jill Stansbury, ND is a naturopathic physician who has practiced in SW Washington for nearly 20 years specializing in womens health, mental health, and chronic disease She holds undergraduate degrees in Medical Illustration and Medical Assisting and graduated with honors in both programs Dr Stansbury also chairs the Botanical Medicine Program at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine and teaches the core botanical curriculae, a position she has held for over 15 years In addition to her medical practice and teaching position, Dr Stansbury also writes and serves as a medical editor for numerous professional journals and lay publications, plus teaches natural products chemistry and herbal medicine around the country She is the mother of two teenage children, and her hobbies include art, music, gardening, camping, international travel and studying quantum and metaphysics
Martha Stark, MD, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute,
is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts Dr Stark is Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Teaching/Supervising Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis She also serves on the Faculty in the Department of Continuing Education at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School, is Adjunct Faculty at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies at the Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, and teaches in the continuing education programs at both the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and the Smith College School for Social work Dr Stark is the author of three books on psychoanalytic theory and technique: Working with Resistance, A Primer on Working with Resistance, and Modes of Therapeutic Action all of which have earned top rating of 5 stars on Amazoncom When Modes of Therapeutic Action was released, it was selected by her publisher as Book of the Year and Dr Stark was
named their Author of the Year Dr Stark also serves on the Board of Directors of both the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the Environmental Health Research Foundation and the Medical Advisory Board for the Housekeeping Channel Dr Stark was the designer for a beautiful, environmentally safe, chemical fee kitchen that was featured in the Sunday Boston Globe magazine in 2005
James L Wilson, DC, ND, PhD, obtained his PhD in human nutrition from the University of Arizona, with research in cellular immunology As one of the original founders of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, now the largest naturopathic college in the world, he has long been an innovator in natural medicine Throughout his 30 year career as a clinician, educator and dietary supplement formulator, Dr Wilson has grounded his work in science and drawn on his experiences with individual patients to create a clearer understanding of the underlying causes and effective treatments of various complex
health conditions He is acknowledged as an expert on alternative medicine, especially in the areas of stress and adrenal function, and is a respected and sought after speaker in the medical and public communities in the United States and abroad His popular book Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome has been received enthusiastically by physicians and the public alike Dr Wilson currently serves as President of Future Formulations, LLC and is on the Advisory Board of the American Chiropractic Association Council on Nutrition
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