Dr. David Suzuki, PhD, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.

David has received consistently high acclaim for his 30 years of award-winning work in broadcasting, explaining the complexities of science in a compelling, easily understood way. He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, The Nature of Things.

His eight part series, A Planet for the Taking won an award from the United Nations. His eight-part PBS series The Secret of Life was praised internationally, as was his five-part series The Brain for the Discovery Channel. For CBC Radio he founded the long running radio series, Quirks and Quarks and has presented two influential documentary series on the environment, From Naked Ape to Superspecies and It's a Matter of Survival.

An internationally respected geneticist, David was a full Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. He is professor emeritus with UBC's Sustainable Development Research Institute. From 1969 to 1972 he was the recipient of the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship Award for the "Outstanding Canadian Research Scientist Under the Age of 35".

He has received numerous awards including the Roger Tory Peterson Award from Harvard University. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada, and a member of the Order of British Columbia. He has received 18 honorary doctorates - 12 from Canada, four from the United States and two from Australia. First Nations people have honoured him with six names, formal adoption by two tribes, and made him an honorary member of the Dehcho First Nations.

The author of 43 books, David Suzuki is recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology.


Dr. C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD is a neurosurgeon, trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, after medical school at Duke University. He has taught at Harvard, Western Reserve, U. of Wisconsin, U. of Minnesota, and Forest Institute of Professional Psychology.
In 1978, Dr. Shealy was instrumental in creating The American Holistic Medical Association, which continues to emphasize the spiritual component of healing. He was the founding president of AHMA for its first two years.

In 1973, recognizing the need to incorporate spirituality into medical practice, he founded, with Reverend Henry Rucker, The Science of Mind Church of Chicago, which became the International Science of Mind Church for Spiritual Healing, and which created Holos University Graduate Seminary. Dr. Shealy is President of Holos University Graduate Seminary, which offers doctoral programs in Spiritual Healing and Energy Medicine.

Dr. Shealy introduced the concepts of Dorsal Column Stimulation and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS), both now used world-wide. In 1971 he founded the first comprehensive, holistic clinic for management of pain and stress management. The Shealy Institute became the most successful and most cost-effective pain clinic in the U.S, with 85% success in over 30,000 patients. The Shealy protocols for management of depression, migraine, fibromyalgia and back pain are increasingly being integrated into hospitals and individual practices.

Dr. Shealy has studied the physiological effects of over a dozen talented healers. He has demonstrated in over 116 patients that competent healers can change the computerized electroencephalogram, or brain map, from a distance and they can enhance DHEA and beta endorphin production.

His current research emphasizes the potential for using spiritual energetics in rejuvenating the body’s production of DHEA and Calcitonin, in reducing free radicals and in reversing DNA damage, to enhance health and longevity.

Dr. Shealy holds 10 patents for innovative discoveries, has published over 300 articles and 23 books, the latest of which are Life Beyond 100—Secrets of the Fountain of Youth and Soul Medicine. His free e-newsletter is available at www.normshealy.com. Holos University information is
at www.hugs-edu.org.

 



Dr. Candace Pert, PhD, is an internationally recognized pharmacologist who has published over 250 scientific articles on peptides and their receptors and the role of these neuropeptides in the immune system. Dr. Pert received her Ph.D. in pharmacology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, served as Chief of the Section on Brain Biochemistry of the Clinical Neuroscience Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), held a Research Professorship in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, and is currently the Scientific Director of RAPID Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

In the mid-1980’s, while researching the function of classical immune cell receptors, such as CD4, in brain, Dr. Pert, with her collaborator Dr. Michael Ruff, developed the first of a new class of treatments for HIV/AIDS, the viral entry inhibitor Peptide T. This non-toxic experimental therapeutic blocks the virus from binding to its cellular chemokine receptor CCR5 and infecting the cell. Recent human studies show that Peptide T substantially reduces HIV in the blood and the treatment resistant, persistently infected cellular reservoirs which do not respond to current therapies.

Dr. Pert holds a number of patents for modified peptides in the treatment of psoriasis, Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, stroke and head trauma. One of these, peptide T, is currently undergoing research, in the United States, for the treatment of AIDS and neuroAIDS. More information about Peptide T can be found at http://www.tinm.org/.

Also, at the NIH and in the private sector, Dr. Candace Pert's over 25 years interest and research into neuropeptide receptors in the brain and later, the immune system provided a biochemical basis for interdependent communication between mind and body and contributed to the emergence of the field of psychoneuroimmunology. She has an international reputation in the field of neuropeptide and receptor pharmacology and has also lectured worldwide on these and other subjects, including her theories on emotions and mindbody communication. Dr. Pert appeared in the feature film What the Bleep Do We Know!?? and Bill Moyer's TV program Healing and the Mind. She is the author of the book Molecules of Emotion: The Scientific Basis Behind Mind-Body Medicine (Scribner, 1997), Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d (Hay House, 2006), and the musical guided imagery CD Psychosomatic Wellness: Healing your Body-Mind.

Visit Candace's web site at www.CandacePert.com.


Warren Bell, MD is a family physician and President of Medical Staff, and Active Staff member at the Shuswap Lake General Hospital.

He is currently President of the Association of Complementary and Integrative Physicians of BC, and Past Founding President, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE).

For more information on the ACIPBC, visit www.acpbc.org.