Conference Faculty
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Conference Faculty
Ian Coulter, Ph.D. Professor, UCLA School of Dentistry; Health Consultant at RAND Corporation; Chair, Policy for Integrative Medicine, Samueli Institute of Information Biology
Peter Fisher, MD Personal Homeopath to the Queen; Clinical Director of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and editor of Homeopathic Journal
Dr Peter Fisher is Clinical Director and Director of Research at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, London, England, Europe’s largest centre for integrative medicine. He is also Homeopathic Physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
He chaired the World Health Organization’s working group on homeopathy and is a member of WHO’s Expert Advisory Panel on Traditional and Complementary Medicine. He is Editor-in-Chief of Homeopathy, published by Elsevier, the only journal dedicated to homeopathy indexed in Medline (www.sciencedirect.com/homp). He is also Clinical Lead of the UK’s National Library for Health’s on-line Complementary and Alternative Medicine Specialist Library, the UK National Health Service’s official knowledge website for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (www.library.nhs.uk/cam), and of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Library and Information Service (CAMLIS, www.cam.nhs.uk). He was awarded the Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal of the Polish Academy of Medicine in 2007.
A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, he is accredited as a specialist in both homeopathy and rheumatology. He has published many papers on research in homeopathy and other forms of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Peter Fisher’s interest in Complementary Medicine was triggered by a visit to China during the Cultural Revolution while still a medical student at Cambridge University. He focused on homeopathy while a junior doctor on call at The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital.
Monica Greco, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Fellow of the Alexander Von Humboldt Stiftung.
Dr Monica Greco has a long standing research interest in the implications of dualist or ‘bifurcated’ thought for medicine and for social-scientific approaches to medicine. Theoretically, this interest has led her to engage with aspects of the history and philosophy of science and medicine, and with questions relating to historical epistemology, constructionism, and process ontology . Empirically, her work analyses how dualism has been problematised in medicine in the context of a number of historical and contemporary examples: her doctoral work focused on psychosomatic medicine; more recent work focuses on medical humanities/narrative medicine. She is particularly interested in the notions of social, political and/or moral progress implicit in these practices, and in how their proponents articulate their relation to the status quo.
Monica Greco is the author of Illness As a Work of Thought: A Foucauldian Perspective on Psychosomatics (Routledge, 1998); co-editor of The Body: A Reader (with Mariam Fraser, 2005 Routledge) and of The Emotions: A Social Science Reader(with Paul Stenner, 2008 Routledge). Her article-length publications include:
(2005) On the vitality of vitalism. In Theory Culture & Society, 22(1): 15-27; and
(2009) On the art of life: a vitalist reading of medical humanities. In J. Latimer and S. Schillmeier (eds) Un/Knowing bodies. Oxford: Blackwell.
Amala Guha, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Program Director of Complementary and Alternative Supportive Care at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Bio: Dr. Guha is an assistant Professor of Medicine and Immunology & the founding Director of Complementary and Alternative Supportive Care at The University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She is the founding president of the International Society for Ayurveda & Health (ISAH) and the Editor-in-Chief of ELEMENTS.
Dr. Guha’s NIH Supported fellowship training in transplantation and cancer immunology, public health and her training in Ayurvedic medicine brings a unique blend of understanding in the fieldof integrative, Complementary and Alternative medicine. She holds a doctoral degree in Immunology, MPH from UCONN School of Medicine and Ayurvedic certifications from Ayurvedic Medical School, Dr. Guha is internationally recognized for her contributions and expertise in immunology and Ayurveda in academic medicine. She is a fellow of the Leukemia Society of America.
Katrin Kaeufer, Ph.D. Research Director, Presencing Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Koch, D.C. DPHCS Professor, Life University, Marietta Georgia
William Morris, Ph.D.(C), LAC President, Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin
Joseph Pizzorno, ND. Past President Bastyr University and author of Textbook of Natural Medicine
Molly Roberts, M.D., M.S. Co-Director of LightHearted Medicine; Member, Board of Trustees for the American Holistic Medical Association; Physician, Author, Speaker, Tucson AZ
Molly M. Roberts, MD, MS is a Psychotherapist as well as being a triply Board-Certified Physician in Family Medicine, Nutritional Medicine and Holistic Medicine. She obtained her Master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling & Vocational Evaluation from the University of Arizona, with further Ph.D. work in Rehabilitation Psychology. Dr. Roberts obtained her medical degree and completed a Family Practice residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Her published books include Blackwell Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fast Facts for Medical Practice and The Individual Optimal Nutrition Handbook. She has additional certification in both Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine and Shamanic Breathwork and is ordained as an Interfaith Minister. For many years, Dr. Roberts was a Holistic Physician at the famed Canyon Ranch Health Resort, and she has given talks nationally and internationally on multiple Holistic Medicine topics. She specializes in Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine, Nutritional/Functional Medicine, Women’s Health, Health in Emotions, Relationships and Sexuality, and Conflict Resolution in families and organizations.
Robert Scott, D.C., MS, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs, Life University, Marietta Georgia
Yvonne Villanueva-Russell, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Texas A&M-Commerce
