Health & Wellness
Leading authorities impacting our nation today
Health,
Wellness & Fitness Life Balance Motivation Emotional Intelligence
Author, Television Personality and Human Behavior Expert Keith Ablow, M.D., is a New York Times bestselling author, Fox News Psychiatry Correspondent, contributing editor for Good Housekeeping and Men's Fitness, and repeat Oprah guest. He has earned the title, "America's Psychiatrist" by helping millions of people take control of their lives by understanding the patterns they've developed that are firmly rooted in the past.
Medical doctor;
Clown;
Performer;
Social Activist;
Founder and Director of the Gesundheit Institute,
a holistic medical community that has provided free medical care to thousands of patients since it began in 1971;
Author of Gesundheit! & House Calls;
Mov
Medicine For Fun, Not Funds · Health and Humor · The Joy of Caring · Passion and Persistance · The Joy Workshop
An expert nutritionist and famous herbalist,
hatha yoga instructor,
founder of womb yoga,
Ari ankh ka instructor and Khemetic Priestess,
she is also founder and Director of the Global Sacred Woman Village Centre.
Holistic Health Practitioner, Speaker Queen Afua, a holistic health practitioner, is the author of Heal Thyself and Sacred Woman.
International Fitness presenter and Choreographer
Healthy Living for Latinos
Author of Effective Solutions to This Very Real Problem: Women and Fatigue
Dr. Atkinson is an award-winning medical journalist and savvy consumer health news
EXPERTISE: Personal Health Matters, the Savvy Health Care Consumer, and Health Care Reform
Health/Stress Management Health/Wellness Health/Weight,
Smoking,
Drug Control Health/Staying Young & Living Longer Education/Eliminating School Dropout Education/Learning Skills,
Memory Inspiration/Self
Dr. Barrios, a Clinical psychologist, expert in stress management, preventing school dropout, and rnind-body health, is best known as the inventor of the Stress Control Biofeedback Card
Medical journalist and author of seven popular books, including the bestselling Jane Brody's Good Food Book. Currently serves as the personal health columnist for The New York Times.
HIV/AIDS Education
Ken provides leadership for the global mobilization of resources and programs to address the growing world-wide pandemic of HIV/AIDS.
Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the ride. Christine Cashen delivers a fast–paced,
hilarious program with useful content that makes her a sought after speaker worldwide.
Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling
The Power of Intention Discover the spirit of intention in this exhilarating presentation.
Known affectionately as the "father of motivation" by his fans, this bestselling author is a leading inspirational speaker in the field of spiritual growth & personal development
The Duchess of York
The Dutchess of York and Advocate for women and children and philanthropist
As one of the country's leading experts on nutrition and natural healing,
Joel Fuhrman,
M.D. has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows including:Good Morning America,
CNN,
Good Day NY,
TV Food Network,
CNBC,
and many more.
Thousands of Dr. Fuhrman’s patients have made recoveries from diseases such as: diabetes, high blood pressure, angina, high cholesterol, headaches, obesity, asthma, allergies and fibromyalgia. Instead of continuing to take drugs to control their symptoms, these individuals no longer have a need to take medications and have earned back excellent health.
Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston is a physician and former Assistant Surgeon General of the United States and recently retired Associate Administrator for the Bureau of Primary Health Care
co-author of the book Prime Time
Co-authored with Oprah Winfrey,
Make the Connection: Ten Steps To A Better Body -- And A Better Life
Topics: health, fitness, weight loss, and motivation
Award winning singer and actress
Topics: Cancer Speakers,
Life Balance,
Spouse Programs,
Motivation,
Parenting,
Youth Issues
Parent & Child: Getting Through to Each Other
Giving Your Children an "Unfair Advantage" in the 21st Century Making Sense of Your Children's Behavior
Dubbed "Dr. Dad" by the Associated Press, Dr. Kutner is a contributing editor to Parenting magazine who provides insights and perspective into the changing challenges faced by both parents and children
One of America’s Most Recognized and Trusted TV Personalities
An award-winning television journalist, best-selling author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and mother of seven, Joan Lunden defines “today’s working mother.” Lunden has been a constant and reassuring presence in American homes for over 25 years,
travel from California
Health Care speaker and bestselling author
Author: The Deep End of the Ocean
Speaking topics: Empowerment Entertainment Success
Sports psychologist,
personal and organizational development consultant,
and teacher of yoga,
tai chi and meditation
Programs: .Through observation of an experience, we can change the result of the experience

.Meditation helps us to open ourselves to these experiences as they are-not as we want them to be-to understand the cause of the experience, and to then make changes.
Sample Program: Reversing Heart Disease,
Eat More,
Weigh Less,
and Love & Survival.
Dean Ornish, MD's Program is the first to offer documented proof that heart disease can be halted, or even reversed, simply by changing your lifestyle. Participants lose weight while eating more, reduce or discontinue medications, and diminish their chest pain; they feel more energetic, happy and calm.
Internationally acclamimed author: Dr. Rosenfeld's Guide to Alternative Medicine
Fox News "House Call" Host and prominent Physician
International Best-seller and acclaimed speaker
Dr. Bernie S. Siegel is a retired surgeon, a respected teacher and a tireless advocate of the healing potential within each of us. He is the author of Love, Medicine and Miracles; and Peace, Love and Healing.
Julie Silver,
MD is a physician and breast cancer survivor who specializes in rehabilitation medicine with a focus on physical recovery.
Cancer Awareness Programs author of You Can Heal Yourself, After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger: This is one you need...
Women's Health Aclaimed Speaker
International best-selling author, "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom"
Future of Health Technology
Ms. Bushko founded Future of Health Technology Institute in 1996 and has since chaired eleven Future of Health Technology Summits at MIT.
Renata Bushko is Chair of the Future of Health Technology Institute, a health technology think-tank dedicated to defining the health technology agenda for the 21st century.
Director,
Healthcare Practice and Health Policy Internet Business Solutions Group CISCO
Ms. Dare works with major customers to transform their organizations through intelligently applied advanced technologies and business process innovations.
Chief Health Strategy Officer Microsoft HSG Professor of Emergency Medicine,
Georgetown University
Dr. Feied was a co-founder of the Informatics Section of the American College of Emergency Medicine and a founding chief editor of the E-Medicine online textbook. He was the first emergency physician in the United States to hold a position as Director of Informatics, and first to head an institute of medical informatics.
Associate Director,
John Hopkins Urban Health Institute President Elect of International Society for Urban Health.
Dr. Gibbons’ is an Urban Health expert and informatician who works primarily in the area of Consumer Health informatics where he focuses on using Health Information and Communications Technologies to improve urban healthcare disparities. His work is forming the foundation of the emerging field of populomics which represents the fusion of the population sciences, medicine and informatics. Prior to coming to the Urban Health Institute, Dr. Gibbons was a Senior Policy Fellow at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Living Legos
Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, has recently been named one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Young Innovators of 2007 for his inventive tissue engineering research.
Professor of Surgery Chairman of the Board,
International Virtual e-Hospital University of Arizona
Rifat Latifi, MD, is a Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (www.surgery.arizona.edu), and Director of Southern Arizona Telemedicine and Telepresence Program (SATT) at the University Medical Center, Tucson Arizona. He is also the Associate Director of Arizona Telemedicine Program where he leads Telesurgery and International Affairs for this program (www.telemedicine.arizona.edu)
Director,
The Caregiver Initiative Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company
Nancy Lewin graduated from Haverford College and received her MBA in Marketing and Strategic Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Johnson & Johnson in 1991 and has held positions of increasing responsibility in brand management and strategic marketing, overseeing brands such as Children's TYLENOL(R) and MOTRIN(R)
International Business Group Healhtcare,
SISCO
Kaveh Safavi is vice president and global lead of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Healthcare Practice. Cisco IBSG is the global strategic consulting arm of Cisco. The Healthcare Practice helps leaders in the healthcare and life sciences industries transform the way that their organizations design and deliver health and care to customers.
Health Care Futurists
Former Director,
Congressional Budget Office. Fellow,
Council on Foreign Relations. Fellow,
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Preeminent authority on public policy; expert on the economy, globalization and the economics of entrepreneurship.
Ed O’Connor is a dynamic,
provocative speaker who brings innovative approaches to practical health care solutions. His work in guiding organizations move from old,
isolated agendas to passionate,
collaborative futures is groundbreaking and critical to the
James M. Rippe,
M.D.,
is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School with post graduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital.
James M. Rippe, M.D., is a best-selling author, world-renowned cardiologist, and founder of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute. Known as the father of the modern American walking movement, Dr. Rippe's research organization has published hundreds of studies that form the scientific basis for high-performance health.
Senior Economist,
National Center for Policy Analysis and Author
An unapologetic advocate of free enterprise and privatization, Barry Asmus is recognized as a revolutionary thinker who delivers his ideas in an energy-filled entertaining presentation.
Jeffrey C. (Jeff) Bauer,
Ph.D.,
is a nationally recognized health futurist and medical economist. He is a Chicago-based partner in the management consulting practice of ACS Healthcare Solutions ( Dearborn ,
MI ),
a leading provider of outsourcing,
In his numerous publications and presentations, he forecasts the future of health care and describes practical, creative approaches to improving the delivery system.
Director - Graduate Programs in Health Administration Director - Center for Health Administration,
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Ph.D.(Health Administration and Planning)The Pennsylvania State University LL.B. (Law) LaSalle Ext. University M.B.A. (Health Administration) The George Washington University B.A. (Business – Sociology) Simpson College
Dr. Lorraine Day reversed her severe,
advanced cancer by rebuilding her immune system by natural therapies,
so her body could heal itself.
As a physician who developed cancer herself, Dr. Lorraine Day was well aware that physicians are more afraid of cancer than patients are, because doctors KNOW that chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are NOT the answer to cancer.
CNBC Contributor Founder,
Democracy for America Chairman,
Democratic National Committee,
2005-2009 Architect of the “50-State Strategy” 2004 Candidate for the Democratic Nomination for President Governor of Vermont,
1991-2003
William Dwyer,
Health Care Strategist,
serves as an Executive Advisor,
to several health care related organizations and participates on the Board of Directors of several prominent American Health Care Organizations and Health Care Systems.
As an acknowledged speaker/ strategist in this field, Bill is frequently sought after as a speaker for national and local Leadership Board Retreats, and has conducted hundreds of these presentations over the past decade, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Emily Friedman is an independent writer,
lecturer,
and health policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago. She is contributing editor of Hospitals & Health Networks and contributing writer for the Journal of the American Medical Association,
Health Progres
A prolific public speaker, she addresses audiences ranging from state legislatures to pharmaceutical professionals to community groups to hospital and health system leaders and health care associations. She has also lectured at many universities, including Harvard, Princeton , the University of California - Berkeley , the University of California - San Diego , Ohio State, Yale, and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill . In 1987-88 she was Rockefeller Fellow in Ethics at Dartmouth College .
Nationally respected independent health care journalist
Mark has been a writer, editor, researcher and public speaker in health care for over 17 years. He writes regularly for Healthcare Informatics, Healthcare Financial Management, the Journal of AHIMA, Behavioral Healthcare, Biotechnology Healthcare, AuntMinnie.com, and other prominent publications in health care.
Managed Care Executive Education
Managed Care Strategy Development Managed Care Transaction Support Physician Group Research and Valuation Services Physician Group Operations Management
Dr. John Kenagy says his 30-year experience as a physician,
health system executive and researcher taught him health care is frustratingly difficult to manage because it is not a “traditional business.”
For example, a single community hospital, typically, has more products and services, more change and more unpredictability than many multi-billion dollar global corporations. In this environment, traditional business methods are ineffective: too slow, cumbersome and expensive.
Dr. Kongstvedt is a well known and highly regarded independent national authority on the health care industry with particular expertise in health insurance and managed health care.
Dr. Mason is Managing Partner of SKM Enterprises,
LLC. He has been part of thought leadership in the healthcare industry for over 25 years.
During his years of change management, Dr. Mason has provided strategic advice to over 400 hospital and health system clients in 40 states, including many of the perennial top 100 hospitals.
Former LT. Governor of New York,
President,
Defend Your Health Care,
Chairman,
Committee to Reduce Infectious Deaths
Patient Advocate
John J. Nance,
JD has been a dynamic and deeply dedicated member of the medical community for nearly two decades. A world-class speaker,
consultant and best selling author,
John brings a rich diversity of professional training and background to the quest
His new book, Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care (Second River Healthcare Press 2008), is reinventing the cultural foundations of healthcare and bringing clarity to the decade-long patient safety and quality care debate. His book is also the American College of Healthcare Executives' 2009 Book of the Year Award-winner.
David Nash is the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor and Chairman of the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
Internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement, his publications have appeared in more than 100 articles in major journals.
He previously founded and managed one of the largest technology companies in the insurance sector,
and was CEO of a NASDAQ listed healthcare services company.
Jake is a leader in customer/patient service excellence and loyalty,
strategy and service development,
cultural transformation,
process improvement,
the physical architecture of service and leadership development around the theme of service excellence.
Michael Taylor,
Managing Partner;
A West Point graduate,
Mike began his healthcare career at Geisinger Medical Center after 11 years of active duty in the Army.
Mr. Valentine is president of The Camden Group. With more than 25 years of health care consulting experience,
he has considerable expertise in the areas of strategic planning,
business transactions,
mergers,
hospital-medical group relationships,
and finan
He is a nationally recognized author and speaker on health care issues. Mr. Valentine is often quoted in Modern Healthcare, Managed Care Outlook, Los Angeles Times, and Health Care Leaders, as well as other publications. Mr. Valentine is frequently invited to present his assessment of the industry trends and its future outlook.
HIV/AIDS Speakers
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Dr. Urban is a leader in developing innovations in the treatment of HIV/AIDS
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine Section on Infectious Diseases Attending Physician UW HIV Care Program, University of Wisconsin Medical School
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