David Spiegel, MD
Renowned Psychiatrist and Expert in Hypnosis
Co-Author of Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis
Director of Stanford Center on Stress and Health
Known for Breast Cancer Research
Professor in the School of Medicine,
Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
· Keynote: Trance-formation: Hypnosis in Medicine
Dr. David Spiegel is
the Jack, Lulu & Sam Willson Professor
in the
School of Medicine, Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral
Sciences, Director of the Center on Stress
and Health, and Medical
Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University
School
of Medicine, where he has been a member of the academic faculty since
1975. He
has been selected to be a member of the Institute of Medicine. He is Past President of the American College
of Psychiatrists, and is Past President of the Society for Clinical and
Experimental Hypnosis. He has published
ten books, 368 scientific journal articles, and 158 book chapters on
hypnosis,
psychosocial oncology, stress physiology, trauma, and psychotherapy. His research has been supported by the
National Institute of Mental Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National
Institute on Aging, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
the Fetzer Institute, the Dana Foundation
for Brain Sciences,
and the Nathan S. Cummings Foundation, among others.
He is winner of 22 awards, including the 2004
Judd Marmor Award from the American
Psychiatric
Association for biopsychosocial research
and the Hilgard Award from the
International Society of
Hypnosis. His research on cancer
patients was featured in Bill Moyers' Emmy award-winning PBS series, Healing
and the Mind, and on the Jane
Pauley Show and Good Morning America.
Jim
O. Hill, PhD
Co-Founder of National
Weight Control Registry
Co-Founder of America on the Move
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Executive Director of Anschutz Health and Wellness Center
Director of the Center for Human Nutrition
Director of Colorado Nutrition Obesity Research Center – University of
Colorado
School of Medicine
·
Keynote:
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
James O. Hill, Ph.D. is the Founding Executive Director of the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He also holds the Anschutz Endowed Chair in Health and Wellness. He is Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of New Hampshire in Physiological Psychology. He served as Chair of the first World Health Organization Consultation on Obesity in 1997. He was President of The Obesity Society (TOS) 1997-8 and President of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) 2008-9. He was a member of the NIH Expert Panel on Obesity that developed first U.S guidelines for the treatment and prevention of obesity. Dr. Hill has published more than 500 scientific articles and book chapters. Many of these focus on the importance of healthy eating and physical activity in weight management. He is the recipient of the 2007 TOPS award and the 2012 George Bray Founders Award from TOS. He has received the Centrum Center, McCollum and Kritchevsky awards from the ASN. He is the 2012 Atwater Lecturer for the US Department of Agriculture. Dr. Hill is a cofounder of the National Weight Control Registry, a registry of individuals who have been successful in maintenance of a reduced body weight. He is co-founder of America on the Move, a national weight gain prevention initiative that aims to inspire Americans to make small changes in how much they eat and how much they move to prevent weight gain. He is the author of the Step Diet Book, published in June 2004. He lectures widely throughout the world on obesity, health and wellness. His current work focuses on developing science-based strategies to reduce obesity rates.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD
World’s Leading Researcher of Flow and Positive Psychology
Author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal
Experience
Noted for Happiness and Creativity Studies
Widely Published and Cited
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management – Claremont
Graduate
University
· Keynote: Implications of Flow Experience for Well-Being and Health
One of the world’s
leading authorities on the psychology of creativity, Dr. Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi is the C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of
Psychology
at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of
Management
at Claremont Graduate University and Director of the Quality of Life
Research
Center. He is also emeritus professor of human development at the
University of Chicago, where he chaired the Department of
Psychology.
A former resident
scholar at the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, resident fellow at
the
Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto,
and senior
Fullbright Fellow in Brazil and New
Zealand, Dr.
Csikszentmihalyi holds honorary doctor of science degrees from Colorado
College, Stevens Institute of Technology, and from Lake Forest College;
and a
doctor of fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of
Design. He is
a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The American
Academy of
Political and Social Science, the American Psychological Society, the
National
Academy of Education, and the National Academy of Leisure Studies and a
foreign
member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Serving on the
editorial boards of numerous professional journals, he has been a
consultant to
business, government organizations, educational associations, and
cultural
institutions and given invited lectures throughout the world. In
addition
to the hugely influential Flow: The
Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990), he is the author of
thirteen other
books translated into different 23 languages, and some
245 research
articles. His latest book is Good
Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning, published by
Viking
Press in 2003.
Marianne
Z. Wamboldt, MD, RYT
The Leslie and
William Vollbracht Family Chair in Stress
and Anxiety
Disorders
Professor – Department of Psychiatry,
Medical Director of Stress and Anxiety Disorders Program – Children’s
Hospital
Dr. Marianne Wamboldt is a tenured Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Additionally, she is a Registered Yoga Teacher, and a practitioner of yoga for over 40 years. Her career has focused on understanding the interaction of genetics, family dynamics, and individual beliefs that lead to anxiety and depression in adolescents. She has led or collaborated on numerous research grants involving adolescents with asthma, anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder, including studying the use of yoga for adolescents with symptoms of depression, anxiety and/or pain. After ten years as Chair of Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Childrens Hospital Colorado, she is now focusing her time on clinical interventions and research for youth with anxiety and depression.
Victor
Sierpina, MD
University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor
WD & Laura Nell Nicholson Family Professor in Integrative Medicine
–
University of Texas Medical Branch,
Department of Family Medicine
Board Certified in Family and Holistic Medicine
Areas of Expertise and Interest include: Complementary and Integrative
Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Spirituality in Healthcare,
Nutritional Medicine, Mind-Body
Medicine, Medical Acupuncture, CAM Curriculum Development, Web-Based
Learning, Medical Informatics
· Lecture: Healthy Gut and Key Concepts
Dr. Victor S.
Sierpina, MD, is Professor of Family Medicine with tenure at the
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
in Galveston, Texas. He
is the W.D. and Laura Nell Nicholson Family Professor of Integrative
Medicine. He graduated from the
University of Illinois Abraham Lincoln School of
Medicine as a James Scholar in Independent Study and completed Family
Practice
Residency at MacNeal Memorial Hospital in
suburban
Chicago. Since medical school he has integrated holistic
medicine,
alternative therapies, and wellness promotion in primary care. He
has
been recognized for the past four years as one of the Best Doctors in
the USA
in Family Medicine.
Scott Shannon, MD
President of American Board
of Integrative Holistic Medicine (2011-2013)
cIMc 2013 Course Director
Author of Mental Health for the Whole
Child
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of
Colorado School
of Medicine
Founder and Holistic Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist, Wholeness Center
Scott
Shannon, MD, ABIHM,
has been instrumental in the creation of a holistic and integrative
perspective
in psychiatry for well over a decade. Norton will release his third
book - a
guide for professionals, Mental Health
for the Whole Child in 2013. Scott is the current President of the
American
Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine. In 2010 he founded the
country’s
largest and most comprehensive integrative mental health clinic,
Wholeness
Center in Fort Collins. An Assistant Clinical Professor at the
University of
Colorado-Children’s Hospital in Denver, Scott spends much of his time
teaching
health care professionals around the world.
Nanette
Santoro, MD
Professor E. Stewart Taylor Chair of Ob/Gyn – University of Colorado School of Medicine
·
Lecture: Creams, Gels, Pills and Patches: How to Manage Hot Flashes – Overview
·
Workshop:
Creams, Gels, Pills and Patches
Dr.
Nanette Santoro has been an active
clinician and researcher in Reproductive Endocrinology since 1986.
Prior to
becoming Chair of the Department of Ob/Gyn
at the
University of Colorado, she directed the Division of Reproductive
Endocrinology
at 2 medical schools: New Jersey Medical School and the Albert Einstein
College
of Medicine, both of which provided full-service care for women with
reproductive problems of all kinds. At New Jersey Medical School, Dr.
Santoro
directed one of the nation’s first oocyte donation programs. She is the
author
of over 120 scientific publications and two books.
Dr.
Santoro’s major research interests
include the reproductive endocrinology of premature, peri-,
and postmenopause, infertility, and the
physiology of
gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion. She has been involved with
numerous
industry- and government-supported clinical trials, including the Study
of
Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN),
the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study
(KEEPS), and the
Reproductive Physiology of Ovarian Failure, and is a co-editor of the Textbook
of Perimenopausal Gynecology and the
upcoming
textbook Amenorrhea: A Clinician’s Guide.
Dr.
Santoro’s laboratory has specialized in
the development and measurement of urinary metabolites of reproductive
hormones. In this way, field studies can be performed that allow for
daily
hormone assessments without the inconvenience of blood drawing. Urine
sampling
has been used to characterize the irregular hormone and bleeding
patterns seen
during puberty and across the transition into menopause. In
collaboration with
Dr. Lubna Pal, Dr. Santoro has recently
assessed the
daily urinary hormonal profiles of women in their 30’s who have
diminished
ovarian reserve (DOR), a fertility problem in which the egg supply in
the ovary
is prematurely low. Such women are at risk for early menopause, but
prior to
their menopause they go through a variable period of time when they
have
somewhat regular menstrual cycles, yet a lower chance of pregnancy
compared to
other women their age without this condition. This is an important
clinical
finding because such women may be at high risk for occult bone loss and
may not
have their bone density checked for many years.
Turning to another problem, the Santoro lab has recently been awarded a Project in the Center for Reproductive Biology’s Specialized Centers Program for Research in Reproduction (U54) Program Grant from the NIH. This project will follow up on intriguing findings from past work examining how obesity affects the reproductive axis in women. Initial studies found evidence for suppression of hypothalamic or pituitary function in obesity that is not due to known feedback mechanisms. Current studies will tease out the site of the defect and help clarify the relationship between fertility and body mass.
Mary
Rondeau, ND, RH (AHG)
Naturopathic Doctor and
Registered Herbalist – Wholeness Center
Dr.
Mary
Rondeau graduated with a doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from
Southwest
College of Naturopathic Medicine and a Registered Herbalist through
American
Herbalist Guild.
She
is a
faculty member at Nutrition Therapy Institute in Denver, CO and
Colorado School
of Clinical Herbalism in Boulder, CO. In addition, she developed and teach a series of educational courses which
focuses on
dietary intervention for managing specific disease conditions. She is
on the
Board of Directors for Global Natural Health Alliance which is a
non-profit
organization that helps develop healthcare resources for impoverished
communities.
Following
Dr. Mary Rondeau’s medical school
training,
internship in Tempe, Arizona, and specialty training in Salt Lake City,
Utah,
she continued her education in the southern region of India. Upon
returning to
her hometown of Fort Collins, she was able to leverage this specialty
training
and use the tools to practice a unique medical approach by combining
the best
of alternative and conventional medicine.
She
currently works as part of the collaborative team at Wholeness Center
which
focuses on integrative mental health. In
addition to mental health, she has a special interest in environmental
and food
allergies/intolerances, digestive disorders, asthma, women’s health and
pre-pregnancy health.
Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACPM
President of American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Founder and President of Health Type
Board Member of American College of Preventive Medicine
Assistant Professor – University of California at Davis
Dr.
Liana Lianov is the current President
of the American College of Lifestyle
Medicine (ACLM)
and the General Preventive Medicine/Public Health Regent on the board
of
the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM).
She
chairs the Lifestyle Medicine Task Force of ACPM
and serves as Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the
University
of California Davis. Her company HealthTypeTM
offers consulting
services and innovative interventions, including mobile technologies,
to
support sustainable health behavior changes.
She is also coordinator for the Health and
Wellness Special Interest Group of the Association of Psychological
Type
International. Dr.
Lianov’s previous roles include Vice
President of Clinical Operations at Berkeley HeartLab--
where she directed a national cardiovascular disease and lifestyle
management
program, Director of
the Healthy
Lifestyles Division at the American Medical Association, Chief Medical
Officer
for Quality at the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, and
chief of the California Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program and
women’s
cancer screening programs at the California Department of Health
Services. She
is board certified in both preventive medicine/public health and
internal
medicine and has completed a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship.
Sara
Lazar, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Instructor in Psychology – Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
· Lecture: Meditation and Neuroplasticity
Sara W. Lazar, PhD is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals. She is a Board member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and is a contributing author to Meditation and Psychotherapy (Guilford Press). She has been practicing yoga and mindfulness meditation since 1994. Her research has been covered by numerous news outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, Time Magazine, CNN, ABC Evening News, National Public Radio, WebMD, and the Huffington Post, and is featured in an information kiosk at the Boston Museum of Science. More information can be found at http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~lazar/
Blythe
LaGasse, PhD, MT-BC
Neurologic Music Therapist
Assistant Professor of Music Therapy – Colorado State University
Dr. Blythe LaGasse is Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Music Therapy at Colorado State University. She has been a music therapist for over 11 years, working with populations including medical, mental health, and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. LaGasse holds degrees from the University of Kansas (Ph.D. with Music Therapy and Communication Neuroscience emphasis), Colorado State University (M.M. in Music, Music Therapy), and University of Kansas (B.M. in Music Therapy). Additionally, she holds Certification in Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) and is a trainer for the NMT Academy. With a strong background in communication neuroscience, her research interests include the use of music to improve communication and cognitive skills in children with developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. At CSU, Dr. LaGasse teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in Music Therapy and Directs the Music Therapy Distance Learning Program. Dr. LaGasse has contributed to several texts including Music, Health and Wellbeing: Therapy Education, and Communication (2012), Developments in Music Therapy Practice: Case Study Perspectives (2011), An Introduction to Music Therapy: Theory and Practice (2008) and Introduction to Approaches in Music Therapy (2004).
Kathleen
Jones, MA
Wellness Mentor, Analyst, Hummingbird
Coaching – Humana
Kathleen Jones, MA, is the founder of Embody
Change and has over 20 years of experience in coaching clients toward
improved
health and well-being. A Wellness Coach Mentor with Hummingbird
Coaching (at
Humana), she holds certifications in Intrinsic Coaching®, Motivational
Interviewing, Wellness 360 Coaching, and has completed a certification
course
through the Harvard Institute of Lifestyle Medicine. Areas of expertise
include
behavior change theory and practice, the mind/body connection, and life
balance
and well-being. In 2011-2012, Kathleen served as the Managing
Editor of Lifestyle
Medicine in Action, the monthly online publication of the American
College
of Lifestyle Medicine.
For over twenty years, Kathleen served as
faculty at the Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program where she
taught
lifestyle medicine, spirituality in medicine, and worked with resident
physicians and patients in all areas of wellness. Along with her
residency
colleagues, she established the Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at the Family
Medicine Center.
As a certified yoga instructor, she teaches a
centering style of yoga and has taught mindfulness classes through
Miramont
Lifestyle Medicine.
Bethann
Bierer, PhD, RYT
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Lecturer – Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Denver
Senior Yoga Instructor
Dr. Bethann Bierer is a licensed
clinical psychologist. She received her PhD in Child Clinical
Psychology from University of Denver and is currently a lecturer at the
Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Denver and at
the Department of Psychology at Metro State University of Denver. As a
private practitioner, she specializes in outpatient mindfulness-based
psychotherapy and the evaluation of children, adolescents, and adults.
She is also a senior yoga instructor and meditation teacher and
conducts workshops on yoga, mindfulness and positive psychology at
national and international conferences.