Daniel Weber is an advisor to the Global Consortium of Oncology and Chinese Medicine (Beijing and Bethesda, MD), he is the Vice-chair of oncology at the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies and visiting Professor at Tianjin University. Daniel is on the Board of Directors of the Cancer Treatment Campaign in the Republic of South Africa and a 40-year practitioner of Oriental Medicine. He has a MSc from UTS (Australia) and a PhD from Shanghai University where he completed the first English language database on Chinese herbs and formulas in 1992. He is the author of 5 other books on cancer and botanical medicine as well as a number of peer-reviewed articles on oncology. He has completed research on triple negative breast cancer and Chinese botanicals and will complete his DSc in integrative oncology at CSU (Australia) in 2015. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Integrative Medicine (Shanghai) and is a PhD candidate supervisor at a number of US schools of Oriental Medicine and director and principal of the Association for Integrative Oncology and Chinese Medicine. He lives and works in Sydney, where he is the Managing Director of Panaxea International.

Integrative oncology; Botanical medicine; The general field of complementary & alternative medicine.

Edward Frederick Block IV PhD. In 1969 he started work on my PhD at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. There he worked as a TA for 20 hrs a week and worked at the Hallmark Cards factory in Lawrence for 40 hours a week. I also started a scrap paper collection (computer punch cards mostly) in order to raise money for the KU student chapter of Zero Population Growth. Upon graduation, he was 1 of 60 new PhDs with a NSF post-Doc Fellowship in the country that year (1974). However, he took work at the Department of Industrial & Scientific Research at Mt. Albert in Auckland, New Zealand for 3 years. In 1979 he became the Director for the Aspen Center for Clinical Hypnosis. In 1981 he started the Rocky Mountain Smelting & Refining Corporation in Boulder, CO. In 1983 he helped start the Pacific College of Naturopathy in Monte Rio, CA. The State of California closed us down after 3 years then he moved to Honolulu, HI and began working in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. He was also a Visiting Scientist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and worked in the laboratory of Dr. Bruce Morton. He also worked in the Labs of Dr. Bruce McConnel and Dr. Sophia Kathariou. In 1998 in Moved to Boernie, TX to be near my Father whom was dying. He taught at several nearby Jounior Colleges until his death. In 2003 he entered the American College of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, Houston, TX. Upon Graduation he moved to Hendersonville, NC in order to be near my Mother whom was now living with my Sister in Weaverville, NC. He opened and operated an Acupuncture clinic in Hendersonville and then Asheville, NC. In 2009 he retired in order to take care of my Mother 24/7 at my Sister's property in Weaverville, NC. He is still at this task. In 1995, he started www.diamondhead.net in Honolulu, HI. In 2009 he started the www.journalinformationalmedicine.org in Weaverville, NC. My research interest is the human body-field and the role it plays in the inception, growth, development, maturation & health of the human body.

Harvey B Milkman PhD is Professor, Department of Psychology, Metropolitan State University of Denver. He received his baccalaureate from City College of New York and his doctorate from Michigan State University. In 1985-86 he was recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Lectureship award at the National University of Malaysia. From September 1992  June 2002, he was Director of Project Self-Discovery: Artistic Alternatives for At-Risk Youth, a national demonstration model funded by The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. He has authored numerous articles, chapters and books on causes, consequences, prevention and treatment choices for substance abuse, behavioral addictions, and criminal conduct.

Developing  cognitive-behavioral alternatives to substance abuse and criminal conduct.

Yoga, meditation and stress management; Brain, mind and consciousness research based on eastern and western wisdom; Alternative and mind body medicine based research on mental and psychosomatic illnesses.

Dr. Cornelis Peters (Ayurvedacharya) studied Ayurveda in Trivandrum, Kerala, South India. Cornelis is the director of Europa Ayurveda Centrum in the Netherlands and an international authority on the efficacy of medicinal herbs on biological systems. He is actively involved in the promotion of Ayurveda in primary health care in Europe. The strong calls due to high costs for a renewal of primary health care create an ideal opportunity to revisit the place of traditional medicine, to take a positive look at its many contributions to health care that is equitable, accessible, affordable, and people-centred. The two systems of Traditional and Western medicine need not clash. Within the context of primary health care, they can blend together in a beneficial harmony, using the best features of each system, and compensating for certain weaknesses in each. He is engaged in scientific research into the effectiveness of traditional Ayurvedic medicines together with knowledge institutes, SME's and hospitals in Europe. His aim is to promote Ayurveda in Primary Health Care in Europe. Current project involves a collaboration between Wageningen University with a research on a traditional Ayurveda herbal preparation as a treatment for Diabetes Mellitus type 2 and the second project with the University of Utrecht on the reduction of antibiotics by using Ayurveda herbs with antimicrobial properties. His intention is to integrate traditional/Western medicine with ancient Indian medicine and well-tried systems of healing from different cultures.

 Ayurveda; Natural Healing; Visual art.

William A Courson was founding director and principal instructor of the New Jersey Institute of Ayurveda, in Montclair, New Jersey (USA) and is currently Dean of Academic Affairs and Development and a faculty member at the Sai Ayurvedic College of Miami, Florida. He is also Dean of Students and on the faculty of the Bodhananda Vedic Institute - BVI School of Ayurveda in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has been a lifelong student and of and writer on the themes of traditional healing, alternative and complementary medicine, and eastern and western philosophies. His special research interests include ethnobotany, pharmacognosy and ayurvedic higher education. His undergraduate education was obtained at Monmouth University (New Jersey, USA) and the State University of New York at Albany. He earned a Diploma in Ayurvedic Science from the New Jersey Institute of Ayurveda and a Bachelor of Vedic Studies (Ayurveda) degree from the Sai Ayurvedic College of Miami. He is a professional member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, the International Society for Ayurveda & Health, and was active on the former organization's educational standards advisory subcommittee and is presently serving on the Association’s panel of subject area experts engaged the drafting of the Association’s certification examinations to be in place by 2016. He was recently named to the Council on Ayurvedic Credentialing. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Ayurveda Journal of Health. He makes his home in Montclair, New Jersey (USA) where he is active in a number of civic and charitable organizations.

Ethnobotany; Pharmacognosy and Development of higher and professional educational strategies  in Ayurveda and other modalities of Complementary; Alternative and Traditional Medicine.

Michael J Gonzalez is Professor at the Nutrition Program, School of Public Health in the Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico and Adjunct faculty at the University of Western States. He earned a Bachelor Degree in Biology and Chemistry (Catholic University), a Masters in Cellular Biology and Biophysics (Nova University), and another Masters in Nutrition and Public Health (University of PR Med Sciences Campus). He has a Doctorate in Nutritional Medicine (John F. Kennedy University). He also has a Doctorate in Health Sciences (Lafayette University), and another Doctorate in Nutritional Biochemistry and Cancer Biology (Michigan State University). He completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Geriatrics at the School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico. He is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and has authored over 150 scientific publications. He has serve as a member on more than 15 scientific journal Editorial Boards, such as Biomedicina, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, and Alternative Medicine Reviews. He has served as consultant for several companies, he has been responsible for designing formulations of nutritional supplements and pharmaceutical products. He has also been a consultant for The Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning (now Riordan Clinic), in Wichita, Kansas. He has obtained several research awards for his work on Nutrition and Cancer. He is currently Co- Director of RECNAC II project, and Research Director of the InBioMed Project Initiative. Dr. Gonzalez also serves as a nutrition consultant to the Puerto Rican Basketball National Team and is part of the Medical Commission of the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation. He is in a part time clinical practice with Dr. Miguel J Berdiel in Ponce, PR. In December 2013, he was exalted as Distinguished Ponceño in Medicine. In November 2014 he was selected as a member as the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico and to the Iberoamerican Academy of Sciences and Culture.

Doctor González and Dr. Jorge Miranda-Massari, founders of InBioMed, are leaders in the development of non-toxic chemotherapy treatments for cancer. The findings of their work with Intravenous Vitamin C as an anti-cancer agent, published in 2002, were confirmed by the NIH in 2005. They published the first Phase-I clinical study utilizing Intravenous Vitamin C for treatment of terminal cancer patients in 2005, and also published in 2005 the most comprehensive review on Vitamin C and Cancer, as a follow-up on the work of two times Nobel Laureate, Dr. Linus C. Pauling. They have brought many new concepts into the scientific field, such as the Bioenergetic theory of carcinogenesis, the systemic saturation phenomenon of intravenous vitamin C, the metabolic correction concept for disease treatment and prevention.

Books: Doctors Gonzalez, Miranda-Massari and Saul’s book “I Have Cancer What Should I do: The Orthomolecular Guide to Cancer Management” provides evidence based recommendations for an integrative approach for those dealing with cancer and seeking to improve quality of life and survival.

The book “New Insights on Vitamin C and Cancer”  presents the current evidence on the use of Vitamin C in Cancer therapy.

Physiological Biochemistry; Metabolic Correction; Orthomolecular Medicine; Alternative Medicine

Dr Jeffrey A Ruterbusch is a retired United States Naval Physician who specializes in "Sports and Exercise Preventive Medicine". Prior to attending medical school, He was a Naval Aerospace Physiologist where he was an exercise physiologist specializing in exercise science as it pertained to increasing pilots and aircrew man tolerance to G-induced loss-of-consciousness in tactical jet aircraft. He attended medical school on the United States Health Professions Scholarship Program and then did his Internal Medicine internship at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. After serving several operational medicine tours with the United States Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan and the United States Navy as a Naval Flight Surgeon in Pensacola and Jacksonville, Florida, he attended the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University where he was the Chief Resident in the SEPM program. The last twelve years of his naval career were spent as a sports medicine physician where he practiced primarily physical medicine and rehabilitation. it was during his years as a sports medicine physician that he developed his passion for sports nutrition and orthomolecular/functional medicine. Since his retirement from the military over three years ago he has pursued other post-graduate certifications/credentials in sports and general nutrition, age-management medicine, and physiological regulating medicine. He has acquired Associate Professor status at Central Michigan University, College of Graduate Studies, where he has taught graduate courses in health-services administration. He has also served on a number of special advisory boards for sports supplement companies, strength and fitness associations, and has edited nutrition books for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. He is a certified functional medicine practitioner, a certified nutrition specialist, and a Diplomate of the American Clinical Board of Nutrition. He has been the Chief Medical Officer at the Clover Medical Center in Al Jabrya, Kuwait in charge of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Metabolic/Nutritional Medicine. Over the past two years he has been the Medical Director of two Rehabilitation and Wellness Clinics in Jacksonville, and Tallahassee, Florida.

Proactive preventive medicine; Orthomolecular/Functional medicine; Sports nutrition; age-management medicine; physiological regulating medicine.

Eugene R. Zampieron is a licensed Naturopathic physician (N.D.) and 1990 alumni of Bastyr University of Natural Health Sciences. He is a Registered and certified Professional Member of the American Herbalist Guild RH(AHG). He was on the elite founding advisory board that helped firmly establish the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine as the first accredited naturopathic medical college on the US Eastern seaboard. He is currently the senior-most faculty member at the institution. He teaches and has taught many courses including botanical medicine, phyto-pharmacognosy, botanical pharmacy, urology, geriatrics, rheumatology, and history of natural medicine. His clinical emphasis and expertise is in holistic rheumatology, and he sees patients both in a private practice in Woodbury, CT and at the UBridgeport Naturopathic clinic (www.UBclinics.org). He presents at international symposiums and webinars frequently in the fields of Holistic Rheumatology, Botanical medicine and Pharmacognosy and Tropical Ethnobotany. He is a botanical formulations inventor, designing herbal products for arthritis and other maladies, and acting as spokesman for companies internationally. His radio and TV career has spanned over 30 years, and he is currently heard regularly on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.org, WPKN FM Bridgeport, and WUSB FM Stony Brook. He is an international lecturer who teaches with an encyclopedic knowledge of natural medicine. He has co-authored hundreds of articles, magazine columns, as well as several books, including The Natural Medicine Chest, , the book ARTHRITIS: The Alternative Medicine, Definitive Guide (1^st AND 2^nd editions) and was a contributing author/photographer for Cycles of Life, herbs and energy techniques for the stages of a women’s life and a textbook of antianging medicine. He is also leads ethnobotanical tours through the NEW YORK Botanical Garden, Chinatown, NYC, and is group leader of www.EcoToursforCures.com, a critically acclaimed business leading adventure and ecologically based Ecotours and specialty travel groups into the rainforests of Jamaica, WI to study with native herbalists and shaman. Ecotours for Cures (facebookecotoursforcuresjamaica) was featured in AIR JAMAICA’sin Flight magazine.

Phytotherapy; Pharmacognosy; Botanical Medicine; Herbal Medicine; Ethno-Botany

Virender Sodhi ND, MD (Ayurved) was born in Himachal Pradesh, India. From an early age, Dr.Sodhi knew that he would be a physician and would go to village Ayurvedic doctor feigning illness to procure remedies that he could take home and put in to his “ doctor’s kit”. This passion lead him to receive a MD degree in Ayurvedic medicine from Dayanand Ayurvedic College in Jalandher, Punjab, India. In 1988 he graduated from Bastyr University with an ND degree, becoming first Ayurvedic ND in United States. He is a member of AANP, WANP, A4M, NAMA, NIMA and AAPNA. He finished writing a book on Ayurvedic medicine and attending to patients from all over the world at the Ayurvedic & Naturopathic Medical Clinic in Bellevue, Washington. He is also founder and CEO of Ayush Herbs, INC.

Joseph J Collins RN, ND is a Naturopathic Physician (N.D) and 1993 alumni of National College of Naturopathic Medicine. He is also a Registered Nurse (R.N), and remains licensed as an RN since 1984. Prior to that, he was a Licensed Practical Nurse from 1979. By merging both mainstream and CAM (Complementary & Alternative Medicine) he lectures extensively at regional and international conferences and webinars to support allopathic physicians, pharmacists and Nurse Practitioners in their transformation into integrative healthcare practitioners. He has served as Adjunct Faculty at University of Iowa College of Pharmacy from 2010 to 2013. He pioneered a number of breakthroughs in diagnostic medicine. In 1993 he started measuring salivary and testosterone levels in women in hi practice. In 1995 he discovered profound variation in hormonal patterns of menopause aged women, ultimately leading to his writing on Menopause Types^®. In 1995 he began writing algorithms that compared objective lab results with subjective patient symptoms for correlation analysis between symptoms and lab tests, which are now used in smart commentary for highly personalized healthcare.In 1996 he made testosterone assessment routine in that lab that recruited him, and in 1997 he developed and introduced molar Progesterone to Estradiol (P:E) ratio analysis to diagnostic medicine. These changes were quickly adopted by other saliva labs. He has been published twice in the International Journal of Compounding Pharmacy. Clinically he pioneered highly individualized phytotherapeutics approaches to modulating specific hormone function with specific phytotherapeutic agents. He created the phrase PhytoCrine^™ to describe how the phenomenon of how phytotherapeutic agents mimic endocrine/paracrine/autocrine cellular signaling. His work on variations in menopause was published as the book: What’s Your Menopause Type? In 2000, and republished as: Discover Your Menopause Type in 2002. Rejecting the “one-size-fits-all” model that had affects both mainstream and CAM healthcare, he develop a number of Hormone Specific™ Formulations, phytotherapeutic agents that are used internationally. He is scheduled to speak at the A5M in Melbourne, Australia in August, 2015, where he will present more of his work on phytotherapeutic management of endocrine disorders. He also shares much of his clinical research, including a number of webinars through Your Hormones, Inc.

Phytotherapeutics;Pharmacognosy; Botanical/Herbal Medicine; Endocrinology;Cellular Signaling; Perimenopause/Menopause/Postmenopause; PMS/PMDD; PCOS/PCO-Like Syndrome; Thyroid Disease;Andropause; Prostate Health; Adrenal Dysfunction; Generalized Adaptation Syndrome; Systemic Inflammation Disorders; Inflammatory Markers.

Campbell was born of an American father and a Swiss mother in Beirut, Lebanon. He graduated from a Swiss preparatory school at age 14, first in his class. He completed college in 3 years and then graduated from medical school. He trained at the Orlando Regional Medical Center in Florida and at the Medical College of Georgia before moving to Houston, Texas, where he was the medical director of the Medical Center for Immune and Toxic Disorders for over 20 years. He has held various leadership positions in hospitals in Houston. He served on the admissions committee for the University of Texas Medical School and as a volunteer faculty member. He founded the St. John Vianney Clinic for the indigent 27 years ago. He has served as president or vice-president of a number of medical organizations, both national and international. He has also been editor-in-chief, co-editor, associate editor and on the editorial board of several medical journals. He is currently the editor-in-chief of two peer reviewed and indexed medical journals. He has received awards from many organizations, both medical and consumer, national and international. He is fluent in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hungarian and English. He has been on several television shows, including 20/20, the Montel Williams Show, 24 Hour Investigative News and has been interviewed by NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates throughout the United States as well as television programs in Canada and Mexico. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and medical textbook chapters.

Ian Feguson Hamilton has been teaching and in homeopathic practice since 1989 with successful practices in all parts of the UK. He was editor of The Homeopathfor nearly 5 years and is the Founder of the Art and Homeopathy Group. www.artandhomeopathy.org He has worked and studied with internationally renowned and successful homeopathic thinkers and practitioners and published work by many of them. He is well known as a book reviewer for homeopathy journals and is invited to speak at international conferences. His work with a variety of patients and working with members of his group has shown that, in addition to the accepted methods of case taking and anamnesis, the focus on the patients’ artistic expression reveals the altered states of actions, sensations, emotions, behaviors and feelings as evidence of disease. This is based on the notion that most case taking produces what he refers to as the Archetypal state. This is often the basis of a partially curative prescription. The truly curative prescription arises from the deep hidden language of expression - their passion - which the patient often unknowingly conceals.

Miasms and palaeo anthropology; Art and Homeopathy

Robert C Angus Naturopathic Physician, has over 40 years of experience in Healthcare, of which the last 35 have been in complementary/alternative medicine clinic settings. In addition to being a Board Certified Naturopathic Physician, he is also a Registered Cardiovascular Technologist, Registered Cardiology Technologist, Licensed Respiratory Therapist, Pulmonary Technologist, Certified Colon Hydrotherapist and has a Bachelor of Science Degree is in Nutrition. His Biography is listed in issues of Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Men of Achievement-International Biographical Centre-Cambridge, England, Dictionary of International Biography and he is a Fellow of the International Biographical Association.

Natural Healthcare and Preventive Medicine; Chelation Therapy (since 1978); Colon Hydrotherapy; Vascular Diagnostics; Radiology; Cardiology Studies; Hearing Conservation/ Audiometric Testing; Nutrition and Diet Counseling; Microscopic Blood Analysis; Health and Medical Risk Assessment and Herbology

Gary J Neuger PhD received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Texas in 1984. He completed his internship training in clinical psychology/neuropsychology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Following his internship, he served for two years as an Active Duty Army Psychologist at Evans Army Hospital, Fort Carson, Colorado. Following his Honorable Discharge from The US Army in 1986, he entered private practice as a licensed psychologist in Colorado Springs, Colorado and has maintained his practice there ever since. He has specialties in Clinical Hypnosis, EMDR, and Cognitive Behavioral Techniques. He is a Fellow of The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and former Associate Editor of The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. He uses a combination of Hypnosis and EMDR to more rapidly access and resolve trauma than is typical through traditional psychotherapy. He uses this combination of therapeutic techniques to facilitate rehabilitation from auto accidents and chronic medical conditions. He also treats a wide range of presenting difficulties including anxiety, depression, addictions, acute and chronic pain, smoking, weight loss, pseudo-seizures, sports and business performance enhancement.

Over the past three decades, Robert O Young has been widely recognized as one of the top research scientists in the world in nutritional microbiology. Throughout his career, his research has been focused at the cellular level having a specialty in cellular nutrition, he has devoted his life to researching the true causes of "disease," subsequently developing The New Biology™ to help people balance their life. In 1994, he discovered the reality of biological transformation of red blood cells into bacteria and bacteria to red blood cells. He has documented several such transformations. His research findings have been published in several noted journals, including The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. (Sympathetic Resonance Technology, Scientific Foundations and Summary of Biologic and Clinical Studies, Dec. 2002, Vol. 8, No. 6: 835-842). He is the author of numerous articles (Herbal Nutrition 1988) and author and co-author of many books including: Herbal Nutritional Medications (1988), One Sickness, One Disease, One Treatment (1992), Sick and Tired (Woodland Publishing, 1995), Back to the House of Health (Woodland Publishing, 1999), The pH Miracle (Warner Books, 2002), The pH Miracle for Diabetes, (Warner Books,2003), Back to the House of Health 2, (Woodland Books, 2003), The pH Miracle for Weight Loss (Warner Books, 2004), The pH Miracle revised and updated book 2 (Hachett Books 2010), The Cure for Type I and Type II Diabetes (Hikari Media 2013), Reverse Cancer Now (Hikari Media, 2014), The pH Miracle for Cancer (Hachett Books 2015) and The pH Miracle for Heart Disease. He has currently sold over 5 million pH Miracle books in 191 countries and his books are translated in 29 different languages.

Aileen Chanis an Assistant Professor of the Nethersole School of Nursing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she has been since 1997. She received her Ph.D. in Social Medicine from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her teaching and administrative experience includes positions as Instructor, Lecturer, Professional Consultant, Clinical Practice Coordinator and Assistant Programme Coordinator for the Master of Nursing Science Programme, at the Nethersole School of Nursing, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Her research interest centers on using Tai chi & Qigong as an intervention in improving thephysiological and psychosocial functional health in people with chronic illnesses. She has conducted studies using Tai chi Qigong on people with chronic illnesses, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cognitive impairment, and sleep disturbances. Current studies include an extension of Tai chi & Qigong studies on people with cardiovascular risk factors and the older adults.

Chronic illnesses; Community care and rehabilitative care; Public health; Tai chi; Qigong

J G Moellendorf attended the University of Wisconsin-Superior where he majored in Physics and Mathematics, with an art photography minor. While attending the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis he assisted in research on ribosomal proteins. He graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa with high honors in 1983. He received his Doctorate in Naturopathy from Trinity School of Natural Health in 1996. In 2001, he received Chiropractic’s most prestigious award, the honorary Legion of Chiropractic Philosophers degree, for his thesis “The Workings of Innate Intelligence in Obsessive/Compulsive and Addictive Behaviors.” This research paper explored current research into the astounding success of Chiropractic for the care of drug addictions and obsessive/compulsive disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, alcoholism, and compulsive gambling. The paper was published in Philosophic Contemplations Vol. 2 in 2002. The International Chiropractors Association Council on Chiropractic Philosophy requested him to present the topic Innate Intelligence and Chiropractic in the Care of Obsessive/Compulsive and Addictive Behaviors at their 2003 Kansas City Conference on Philosophical Chiropractic Standards. The Council invited him to their 2005 conference in Fort Worth to present Low Level Laser Therapy-Is It Chiropractic? In 2012, He wrote his first book, Healthcare’s Best Kept Secret, illustrating how health can be improved through Chiropractic care, without the use of drugs and surgery. He participated in the 2016 release of Hearts & Minds of America’s Leading Chiropractors: World Class Practitioners Share Their Stories and Insights.

Chiropractic; Osteopathy; Neurology; Naturopathy; Homeopathy; ADD/ADHD; Stroke; Traumatic brain injury; Parkinson’s; Alzheimer’s; Dementia; Low Level Laser Therapy (cold laser); Complementary and Alternative Health Care

Wilson’s background in health care includes 30 years of experience in the practice of acupuncture and Asian medicine in addition to business and organization management, grant writing and fundraising to promote and sustain integrative health centers and educational programs. She earned her PhD at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. Her background in research is directed toward integrative medicine, acupuncture and herbal medicine with a focus on mixed methods approach. In addition to her PhD, She holds a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM). Her capstone research project focused on her work at the UCSF CCRC: a randomized, double blind study of the safety and effect of a Chinese herbal cream in the treatment of anal dysplasia. She continues to participate in investigating the use of topically applied herbal medicine as a treatment for HPV-related cancer at the UCSF Dysplasia Center, SF, CA. An international leader in the field of Asian medicine, she sat on the Governance Committee for the American Public Health Association (APHA) from 2007- 2012, served as a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on International Education Standards for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) 2010- 2012. She continues to serves as an Executive Committee Member for the World Federation of Acupuncture- Moxibustion Societies (WFAS). He has specialized expertise in higher education accreditation. She is the past Chair of the Accreditation Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM). His professional, research and educational background includes many years of building of bridges between complementary and alternative health practices and Western health care.

Bing Yuan graduated from the Department of Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in 1983. He worked at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and he is the director of the Hong Kong Modern Chinese Medicine Research &Development Center Limited. He has expertise working and research experience in TCM, modern medicine, Chinese pharmaceutical production, complexity science, computer software design, etc. In 2008, he was approved by the Hong Kong Government to move to Hong Kong under the Hong Kong Quality Migrant Admission plan. He then setup the Hong Kong Modern Chinese Medicine Research &Development Center Limited and engaged in TCM theory research, Chinese pharmaceutical production, health food and health care equipment development, as well as TCM clinical consultation. For decades, he has been committed to promote the transformation of modern medicine model and modernization of TCM by means of modern scientific advanced concepts, methods and technologies. He has published medicine methodological works such as, An Introduction to Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Holistic Medicine - Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Theory. In recent years, he articles were published in the international and domestic first-class medical journals covering precision medicine, status medicine, body constitutional medicine, and holistic medicine. His unique insight has got extensive attention in medical communities at home and abroad. Yuan is a famous Chinese medicine practitioner of Hong Kong. He got good reputation with unique treatments for tumor, aspects, liver disease, allergic diseases, epidemic diseases, gynecology and dermatology diseases. He is the vice chairman of the oncology professional committee of Hong Kong Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association.

Comparative study of TCM and modern medicine; Complexity scientific methods and techniques application for modern medicine and TCM; Research of integrated Chinese and Western precision medicine; Research of natural medicine and treatments for cancer, liver disease, allergic diseases, gynecological diseases and acute infection diseases; TCM medical equipment and intelligent medical devices development; Research of artificial intelligence and big data technological application for TCM

Dr M. Christopher McGrath an experienced clinician, academic, educator and policy developer Dr McGrath began his career graduating as an osteopath in London UK, prior to embracing further postgraduate University study and research in biomechanics, occupational health practice and anatomy.

Published widely, he has also been an Expert member of the New Zealand national ACC Acute Low Back Pain Guidelines Group and member of the University Programme Accreditation Team for the Australia and NZ Osteopathic Council. He was instrumental both in the development and accreditation of the first tertiary osteopathic program in New Zealand at Unitec in Auckland and closely involved in the process of statutory registration for osteopaths in New Zealand.

A Senior Editor for the Australasian Medical Journal and a member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine and The Journal of Health Design, Dr McGrath maintains longstanding membership of the Australia and NZ Association of Clinical Anatomists, NZ Pain Society and Friends of Science in Medicine.

Currently in clinical osteopathic practice in Mosgiel near Dunedin, and at Gore Hospital, he also engages in part-time contract teaching for the Department of Anatomy, University of Otago. His current research interests lie in the application of evidence–based practice in musculoskeletal healthcare, sacroiliac joint morphology, and more recently, considering the social implication of the developing area of personalized medicine in a regulatory health environment of policy-based evidence.

Dr McGrath remains open to new challenges and ways in which to utilize and express his broad clinical, academic and administrative experience.

Lies in the application of evidence-based practice in musculoskeletal healthcare; sacroiliac joint morphology and more recently; considering the social implication of the developing area of personalized medicine in a regulatory health environment of policy-based evidence

The president of the CanadianCollege of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) since 2004, Bob Bernhardt, BSc, BEd, MEd, LLM, PhD, has a broad background encompassing post-secondary education, international education, administrative law and medical education.  Dr. Bernhardt’s previous roles in a variety of educational institutions have included faculty, dean, director of planning, director of strategic planning, vice-president and that wonderful title of the 90s, “corporate change leader”.  He has also served as director of education for the Law Society of Upper Canada, where he was responsible for Ontario’s bar admission process, continuing legal education and lawyer specialist certification.

Dr. Bernhardt has an academic background spanning science, information systems, education, administrative law and leadership in higher education. He has led the creation of new post-secondary education departments overseas, consulted on teacher education programs in the Middle East, and served as the president of the international Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges (AANMC).  He serves on the Board of Learning for a Sustainable Future, a charity dedicated to promoting sustainability through improved education across Canada.  He has published research articles in several leading medical journals.

In his current role at CCNM he is responsible for ensuring the delivery of high quality naturopathic medical education and clinical care, advancing the conduct and dissemination of groundbreaking research, and promoting the College’s reputation, both nationally and internationally.  Dr. Bernhardt believes that future health care must focus on genuine partnerships between the patient and the provider, and he sees this as a key to lowering the ever-rising costs associated with our current model of treating illness.

Jennifer Brett is the founding director of the UB Acupuncture Institute. She graduated in 1987 from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine and graduated in 1988 from the Tri-State College of Acupuncture. She is currently the chair of two Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (CCAOM) Committees (CCAOM Distance Learning Committee and CCAOM Research Committee) and a member of the ACCAHC (Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care) Clinical Working Group.

Safety Issues in Chinese Medicine

Meditation; Mindfulness and Observing thoughts in mind.

Ruth Q Wolever, PhD is an Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with secondary appointments in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the School of Nursing. Ruth also serves as the Director of Vanderbilt Health Coaching through the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She is an integrative health coach and a clinical health psychologist with 22 years of experience designing, implementing, and evaluating behavior change programs for medical patients and those at risk for chronic disease. Ruth studies mindfulness-based approaches to self-regulation and lifestyle change (particularly stress and eating behaviors, binge eating, weight loss and weight loss maintenance), as well as health coaching and other innovative treatments for medication adherence, insomnia, tinnitus, and other stress-related disorders.  As Chief Science Officer for eMindful, she is also invested in disseminating evidence-based mindfulness programs throughout healthcare. In addition, she is an internationally recognized expert on Health and Wellness Coaching, one of the elected leaders of the National Consortium for Credentialing Health and Wellness Coaches (ncchwc.org), and the elected President of the International Consortium for Health and Wellness Coaching, a non-profit organization that has launched the first national certification exam for health and wellness coaching in partnership with the National Board of Medical Examiners in the United States. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Ruth was the Founding Research Director for Duke Integrative Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke School of Medicine.

·         Use of mind-body techniques and health coaching to implement sustainable behavior change;

·         Mindfulness-based approaches to regulate eating, manage weight and change health behavior

·         Use of group approaches to modify behavior and interpersonal experience

Steven Gurgevich is a psychologist specializing in Mind-Body Medicine. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine, and Director of The Mind-Body Clinic within Dr. Andrew Weil’s Arizona Center of Integrative Medicine. He continues his forty-one years of private practice at Behavioral Medicine, Ltd, in Tucson, Arizona. He is a Fellow, Approved Consultant, and faculty of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Other memberships include: the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, The International Society of Hypnosis, the American Psychological Association, the Arizona Psychological Association and other professional societies. He is author of the Sounds True publications: The Self-Hypnosis Home Study Course, Relax Rx, Relieve Anxiety with Medical Hypnosis, The Self-Hypnosis Diet (audio), The Self-Hypnosis Diet (book, co-author Joy Gurgevich), and Heal Yourself with Medical Hypnosis (co-author Andrew Weil, MD). He is also the author of over 60 titles of medical hypnosis applications published by Tranceformation Works’ Healing with Hypnosis Series, numerous textbook chapters and professional papers about medical hypnosis; and author of Hypnosis House Call (book and DVD), Sterling Ethos Publishing, NY, 2011.