Whole Health Medicine Institute 2021 Faculty Listing
Bernie Siegel, MD
We are thrilled to have Bernie Siegel, MD on board. Dr. Siegel is one of the most known proponents of integrative and holistic approaches to healing. A retired general/pediatric surgeon he is now involved in humanizing medical care and medical education.
Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the ethical and spiritual issues our society and medical care grapple with today. He is a prolific author and active speaker, traveling around the world to address patient and caregiver groups
Howard Schubiner, MD
Howard Schubiner is an internal medicine physician and an expert in mind-body medicine. He is the director of the Mind Body Medicine Center at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan and a professor at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine.
He has authored more than 100 publications in scientific journals and books, and lectures regionally, nationally, and internationally. He was awarded a multi-million dollar grant by the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on an emotional expression intervention for individuals with fibromyalgia.
Dr. Schubiner is the author of three books: Unlearn Your Pain, Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression, and Hidden From View, written with Dr. Allan Abbass.
Euphrasia Nyaki, SEP (Efu)
Sister Euphrasia Nyaki, warmly known as Efu grew up in the village of Nganjoni - Marangu, in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Currently living in Brazil, she is a Faculty member for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and a valued member of Dr. Levine's SE Legacy Faculty with the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education, as well as co-creator of AFYA, a Holistic Healing Center in João Pessoa, Brazil.
Efu co-teaches Master Classes that enhance SE practitioner skills for specialization in many areas of trauma including Memory, Developmental, Attachment, Sexual, Shame, Addiction, Medical, Surgical, Syndromes, as well as exploring Efu’s expertise in the intersection of Trauma and Spirituality and Generational Trauma (our ancestors).
Prior to becoming an SEP, Efu trained and worked as a Mathematics and Science teacher at Chanjale Junior Seminary in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 1990 she left teaching and joined the Maryknoll Sisters Religious Community. Her first Mission was assigned to Brazil in 1993. Seven years later she co-created Afya, Holistic Healing center, an NGO that works with different modalities of holistic healing, including trauma healing. The word AFYA means healing in her native language, Swahili which is spoken in Eastern part of Africa.
Steve Sisgold
An author, speaker, trainer and executive coach. Steve has taught thousands how to use their innate body intelligence to create better health, prosperity and richer personal and business relationships. As a stress-management and peak performance expert, he is an acclaimed speaker, on and off-site trainer, and is a gifted personal coach.
He helps people reclaim their health, heal unhealthy relationship patterns, and grow on their spiritual path
Neha Sangwan, MD
Neha is the CEO, and founder of Intuitive Intelligence. A trained internal medicine physician, talented speaker, and sought after corporate communication expert. Her private practice and corporate consulting focuses on empowering individuals, organizational leaders, and their teams with the tools for clear, effective communication.
She regularly consults with organizations such as the American Heart Association, American Express, Kaiser Permanente, and Google.
Sara Gottfried, MD
The New York Times best-selling author of three compelling books, she is also the founder and CMO of the Gottfried Institute, where she has taught healthcare professionals methods focused on rebalancing hormones and advancing the health span of their clients using her proprietary and evidence-based 3-Step Gottfried Protocol™.
Previously, Dr. Gottfried has taught on the adjunct faculty at the University of California at San Francisco and Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Donna Eden
The Fundamentals of Energy Healing, Donna’s textbook on energy medicine is one of the original bibles of energy healing. A pioneer in the field of holistic healing she is among the world’s most sought-after, joyous, and authoritative spokespeople for energy medicine.
She has taught more than 50,000 people worldwide how to methodically and precisely direct energy for health and happiness, using methods akin to acupressure, therapeutic touch, and qigong.
Dawson Church, PhD
Dawson is an award-winning author whose best-selling book The Genie in Your Genes has been hailed by reviewers as a breakthrough in our understanding of the link between emotions and genetics. He founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to study and implement promising evidence-based psychological and medical techniques.
He shares how to apply the breakthroughs of energy psychology to health and athletic performance.
William Bengston, PhD
Asha Clinton, MSW, PhD
Dr. Clinton is the developer of Advanced Integrative Therapy, a new depth therapy that integrates the energetic removal of trauma with depth analytic understanding. Her presence is profoundly moving.
A former Princeton professor in full-time practice for 37 years, she trained in analytical psychology, expressive arts therapy, object relations, self-psychology, and Sufi and Buddhist practice, later integrating them all into AIT.
Anne Davin, PhD
Anne Davin, PhD, is a depth psychologist with 30 years of clinical and organizational psychology expertise. She is the past director of the nation’s largest comprehensive systems change project for the California State Department of Education. She also directed the Alcohol and other Drug Studies program for the University of California, Santa Barbara Extension, in addition to providing training and clinical supervision for university psychology programs, Marriage and Family Therapist interns, and volunteer crisis workers. Anne maintains a private counseling and coaching practice for local and international clients.
Richard Schwartz, PhD
A prolific writer and co-author, with Michael Nichols, of Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, the most widely used family therapy text in the United States, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems in response to clients’ descriptions of experiencing various parts–many extreme–within themselves.
In 2000, Richard Schwartz founded The Center for Self Leadership in Oak Park, Illinois. Dr. Schwartz is a featured speaker for many national psychotherapy organizations and a fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Gabor Mate, MD
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development. He helps recognize the unconscious dynamics that run people's lives and how to liberate themselves from them. He weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective.
Using Compassionate Inquiry, he unveils the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.
SARK
Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, known internationally as SARK, is a highly acclaimed author with over 17 published bestsellers, an artist, speaker and teacher with millions of books in print, along with a strong and continuing social media presence augmented by speaking engagements, seminars, and guest appearances. SARK’s purpose is to be a transformer, uplifter and laser beam of love, and she does that through her art, words, and spirit.
SARK wrote her first book at age 10, and inspires her audience from direct experience - prescriptive and reflective of her own life journey which is personal as well as universal
Larry Dossey, MD
Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, MHS, ABIHM
A graduate of Stanford University, Dr. Abrams received her Medical Degree at the University of California San Francisco and a Master’s degree in Holistic Health from UC Berkeley. She is board certified in Family medicine and Integrative Medicine.
In 2008 she opened the award-winning Santa Cruz Integrative Medicine Clinic. Dr. Abrams treats many of the world’s most influential people, from CEOs to billionaire entrepreneurs to Nobel Peace laureates.
Kelly Turner, PhD
She is a New York Times bestselling author of Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, now in 20 languages, which summarizes her research into the radical remission of cancer – when someone heals from cancer without Western medicine or after Western medicine has failed. Over the past decade, she has conducted research in 10 different countries and analyzed over 1,500 cases of radical remission.
She is also the founder of the Radical Remission Project website, which continues to collect new cases of Radical Remission and offers online courses, in-person workshops, and one-on-one health coaching.
Lissa Rankin, MD
Lissa is a New York Times bestselling author, a physician, speaker, and founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute, creator of The Daily Flame, and mystic. Passionate about what makes people optimally healthy and what predisposes them to illness, she discovered that connecting with your “Inner Pilot Light” is not only essential to optimal health, making your body ripe for miracles.
She is inspired by people brave enough to transmute adversity into spiritual growth, vulnerable enough to let their imperfections be witnessed, and courageous enough to keep their hearts open, even when those hearts are at risk of getting hurt.
Joan Borysenko, PhD
She is a world-renowned expert in the mind-body connection. Her work has been foundational in an international health-care revolution that recognizes the role of meaning and the spiritual dimensions of life as integral parts of health and healing.
A licensed psychologist with a doctorate in cell biology from Harvard Medical School, she synthesizes cutting-edge science with deep humanity.
Dr. Sue Morter
Dr. Morter is nationally published and has served on professional licensing boards, providing guidance to health care practitioners on integrative approaches to health care leadership. She is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council.
In addition to her private practice, Morter HealthCenter, she is founder and visionary of the Morter Institute, an organization committed to teaching individuals self-healing techniques and a new approach to life-based on Quantum Science
Tosha Silver
Tosha is the author of multiple bestselling books including Outrageous Openness - Letting the Divine Take the Lead. She graduated from Yale with a degree in English Literature but along the way fell madly in love with yogic philosophy. For the past 30 years she’s taught people around the world ways to align with Inner Love. She particularly enjoys finding fresh, funny ways to embrace the Divine, while avoiding conventional jargon and cliches at all costs.
Tosha loves how the sacred and mundane are truly One. Love Itself begins to lead when it is sincerely invited…by anyone.
Robert Augustus Masters, PhD
Dr. Augustus is an integral psychotherapist, relationship expert, and spiritual teacher whose work blends the psychological and physical with the spiritual, emphasizing embodiment, emotional literacy, and the development of relational maturity. He is the author of thirteen best-selling books, including Transformation through Intimacy and Spiritual Bypassing.
His ongoing passion is to fuel and support the living of a deeper life, one of love, integrity, compassion, and full-blooded awakening, a life of intimacy with all that we are.
Pamela Wible, MD
Dr. Wible is a family physician born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. She soon discovered why—to heal her patients she first had to heal her profession. Fed up with assembly-line medicine, Dr. Wible held town hall meetings where she invited citizens to design their own ideal clinic.
Open since 2005, her community clinic has inspired other to create similar clinics and hospitals nationwide.
James Maskell
James is the creator of Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference. He serves on the faculty of George Washington University’s Metabolic Medicine Institute and has lectured to doctors on three continents. James Maskell has spent the past decade sparking debate, shifting paradigms, and working to accelerate the evolution of medicine—starting with the doctors themselves.
He knows how to run a successful practice—and can give doctors the tools they need to do the same.
Mary Louder, MD
A graduate of Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Louder did her post-doctoral training in both a general osteopathic internship and family medicine residency in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Dr. Louder practices a holistic approach to healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle.
Kay Corpus, MD, PSC
Dr Corpus an Integrative & Functional Medicine Physician, a transformational teacher, spiritual companion, and yoga lover! She completed family medicine residency at Penn State Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA, the two-year Integrative Medicine fellowship with the renowned Andrew Weil, MD at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and functional medicine training with the Institute of Functional Medicine with Mark Hyman, MD.
Her mission is to mentor patients through their path of healing so that they can embrace their true identity and health they deserve.
Bruce Cryer
Bruce has been called a renaissance man because of a four-decade career as a Singer, Actor, Dancer, Publisher, Author, Marketing Executive, CEO, Board member, Consultant, Mentor and Coach for Leaders in diverse fields. Bruce brings his expertise and passion for renaissance living and working to a select group of clients each year.
His diverse and fascinating background, leading successful companies and performing for large audiences, blends beautifully to create a powerful, culturally-rich, and results-driven approach.
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
Dr. Remen is a multiple New York Times bestselling authora and a Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine and the Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal. The Healer’s Art, her groundbreaking curriculum for medical students is now taught yearly in more than half of American medical schools and in medical schools in seven countries abroad.
She is a co-founder and medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, one of the first support groups for cancer patients in America, featured in the groundbreaking 1993 Bill Moyer’s PBS series Healing and the Mind.
Bruce Lipton, PhD
Dr. Lipton is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. He began his scientific career as a cell biologist. In 1982, Dr. Lipton began examining the principles of quantum physics and how they might be integrated into his understanding of the cell’s information processing systems. Dr. Lipton’s novel scientific approach transformed his personal life as well. His deepened understanding of cell biology highlighted the mechanisms by which the mind controls bodily functions, and implied the existence of an immortal spirit.
Dr. Lipton applied this science to his personal biology and discovered that his physical well-being improved, and the quality and character of his daily life was greatly enhanced.
Christine Gibson, MD
Dr. Gibson is a Family Medicine specialist physician, with an interest in Health Equity and in Medical Education. She works at a Community Health Centre serving low-income clients as well as with refugee populations. Her current framework is that of social innovation, taking a systems-level approach to change-making. In the health system, this means looking at a larger container that includes all healing modalities.
Cynthia Li, MD
Dr. Li graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and has practiced in settings as diverse as Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital, and St. Anthony’s Medical Clinic for the homeless. She also volunteered with Doctors Without Borders in rural China, focusing on HIV/AIDS care.
Currently, she has a private practice in integrative and functional medicine and serves as faculty for the Healer’s Art program at the University of California San Francisco Medical School.
Dr. Eric Pearl & Jillian Fleer
Dr. Eric Pearl ran a chiropractic practice in Los Angeles before discovering Reconnective Healing. One day, his patients began to report healings when he simply held his hands near them, without him physically touching them. So, he went in search of the universal wisdom behind what was happening.
Jillian Fleer is the Head of Insight and Development. In collaboration with Dr. Eric Pearl, she oversees the direction and vision for The Reconnection and The Reconnective Healing global community.
Dr. Shamini Jain
Dr. Jain is a psychologist, scientist, and social entrepreneur. She is the Founder and Director of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative, a collaborative accelerator that connects scientists, health practitioners, innovators, and social entrepreneurs to forward the science and practice of healing. Dr. Jain obtained her B.A. in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. degree from the SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, with a research focus in psychoneuroimmunology. Dr. Jain has published extensively in the areas of psychoneuroimmunology and well-being, integrative medicine, and healing.
Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, DHL
Dr. Walsh graduated from Australia’s Queensland University with degrees in psychology, physiology, neuroscience, and medicine. He is now at the University of California at Irvine where he is a professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology, as well as a professor in the religious studies program. Roger’s research and writings span several areas. These include the nature of psychological health and wellbeing, meditation and contemplative practices, religion and spirituality, wisdom and other virtues, integral studies, and the psychological roots of our current global crises.
Thomas Hübl
Thomas is a modern mystic, a spiritual teacher whose work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions with the discoveries of contemporary science, illuminating both with his profound understanding. Thomas’s teachings offer a unique approach for living as a mystic in the “marketplace” of human activity. His work combines somatic awareness practices, advanced meditative practices, a sophisticated analysis of cultural architecture, and transformational processes that address trauma and shadow issues.
His teachings aim to guide practitioners toward a deeper level of self-awareness—from an ego-centered worldview to a life of authentic expression, service, and alignment.
Shiloh Sophia
Shiloh has dedicated her life to the belief that self-expression is a basic human right and shares her message with thousands around the world. Through her paintings, poetry, and teachings she leads a global movement of revolutionary education focused in Intentional Creativity® serving tens of thousands of women for over 25 years.
Her work is offered in the Color of Woman Teacher Training, Motherboard Coaching and Red Thread Guide for those who are a part of the lineage. She co-founded MUSEA: Centers for Intentional Creativity® with locations around the world.
Lynne McTaggart
Lynne is one of the central voices in the new consciousness movement. She is the award-winning author of seven books including worldwide bestsellers The Field, The Intention Experiment, The Bond and her latest book The Power of Eight.
She is also the architect of the Intention Experiment, a worldwide global laboratory testing the power of thought to change the world. And also serves as Editorial Director of What Doctors Don’t Tell You, one of the world’s most highly praised health publications.
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