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.
Steven KH Aung,
MD, PhD, OMD, FAAFP, is a geriatric and family physician
and a traditional Chinese medical (TCM) practitioner and
teacher. He seeks to blend Eastern, Western and natural
medicine in his medical clinic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
At the University of Alberta, Dr. Aung is an associate clinical
professor in the Departments of Medicine and Family Medicine
and adjunct professor of Extension.
Dr. Aung founded the Certificate Program in Medical Acupuncture
at the University of Alberta in 1991, and he is the program’s
chief instructor, examiner and curriculum consultant. He
is also a medical acupuncture consultant for the University
of Alberta Hospitals, the Cross Cancer Institute and the
Caritas Health Group (Edmonton General Site, Misericordia
Community Health Centre, Grey Nuns Community Health Centre)
as well as the Glen Sather University of Alberta Sports
Medicine Centre and the Edmonton Oilers Hockey Team. He
is an active, founding member of the Acupuncture Committee,
Province of Alberta.
Dr. Aung is a founding member and current president of the
World Natural Medicine Foundation, the Canadian Medical
Acupuncture Society and the International Buddhist Friends
Association. He is an associate clinical professor, Division
of Surgical Sciences (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery),
New York University College of Dentistry, David B Kriser
Dental Center—and he holds visiting professor appointments
at the Beijing University of TCM and Research Institute,
Capital University of Medical Sciences (Beijing), Heilongjiang
University of TCM (Harbin, China), Showa University School
of Medicine (Tokyo), California Institute for Human Science
(Encinitas, California) and Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology. He is also a vice-president and standing council
member of the World Academic Society of Medical Qi Gong,
Beijing.
Dr. Aung has been a World Health Organization advisor on
acupuncture nomenclature and cancer pain control, and he
currently serves as a WHO advisor in the standardization
of acupuncture (indications, training and safety). Dr. Aung,
who is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians,
the American College of Acupuncture the Australian Medical
Acupuncture College and the International College of Acupuncture
and Electro-Therapeutics, was awarded a Professional Excellency
from the Academie Diplomatique de la Paix in 1986. He was
awarded the Alberta Order of Excellence (Office of the Lieutenant-Governor
of the Province of Alberta) in 2002 and the Queen Elizabeth
II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003. Dr Aung is the founder
and president of the World Congresses of Medical Acupuncture
and Natural Medicine (Beijing 1987, Beijing, 1991, Edmonton
1995 and Edmonton 2000). In 2005 he was inducted into the
Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosicrucian International
Humanitarian Award as well as recipient of a Physician of
the Century Award, and he is also a recipient of the Order
of Canada 2006.
Dr. Steven KH Aung is the author of several articles and
books on various aspects of TCM as well as Chinese calligraphy
and painting. His primary interest is the integration of
TCM and Western biomedicine within the context of a more
natural and compassionate approach to primary health care
for all concerned.
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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.
Adam
is a gifted distant energy healer and best-selling author
of three books about his work. His techniques are described
in his first book, DreamHealer- His name is Adam
and specific tools to increase our own healing abilities
are given in DreamHealer 2-Guide to Self-Empowerment.
An interactive DVD has just been released which brings this
method to life entitled, DreamHealer: Visualizations
for Self-Empowerment. A third book was released in
Canada by Penguin Books in March 2006 entitled, The
Path of the DreamHealer. Adam combines his First Nations
background and experiences healing amongst indigenous people
and others with his channeled insights about the science
behind healing.
In his books and workshops he explains how our minds, through
intention, directly affect our immune systems. We each can
develop skills to direct energy in re-establishing health,
as we seek to achieve a higher level of consciousness. The
academic theories of quantum physics come to life with his
accounts of his direct experience of the interconnectedness
we all share.
Adam uses energy healing in a unique way to merge the auras
of all participants with healing intentions. Then he uses
holographic views to energetically affect through intention
those present. His full-day workshop contains two group
treatments. Adam’s workshops are participatory. Through
the use of visualizations he empowers individuals to use
their own healing abilities.
Adam brings a diverse yet youthful perspective to health
and well-being. Endorsements of Adam’s work have been
received from many people including Astronaut Edgar Mitchell,
rock star Ronnie Hawkins and Qigong Grandmaster Dr. Effie
Chow. Dr. Mitchell has been Adam’s science mentor
since their meeting four years ago. Ronnie Hawkins provides
an interesting account of Adam helping him to heal from
terminal pancreatic cancer, as told in the book, DreamHealer.
In 2002, Adam had the honor of being presented with the
“Young Visionary Award” at the World Qigong
Congress. His website is full of testimonials from hundreds
of people from all walks of life. His message is simple,
yet his journey is one which ultimately affects us all.
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