Ralph Aarons, M.D., Ph.D. is Director of the Problem Based Learning Program, Tufts University School of Medicine.  He is board certified in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and was formerly the Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston and Associate Chief of the Division of Newborn Medicine.  He has served on the faculties of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Stanford Medical School, and since relocating to Boston in 1994 has been a member of the Department of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine.  He is actively involved in educational strategic planning activities of the Office of Educational Affairs of Tufts Medical School and was named a Tufts University CELT Faculty Fellow for 2008.
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Fredrick R. Abrams, M.D. is director of The Clinical Ethics Consultation Group, and consultant to the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care, the Quality Improvement Organization for the State of Colorado. In 2006 he received the Isaac Bell and John Hayes Award for Leadership In Medical Ethics and Professionalism from the Board of Trustees and Foundation of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Abrams graduated from Cornell University College of Medicine and practiced obstetrics and gynecology for 42 years. He is past Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He teaches at the University of Colorado School of Medicine; he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from its Ethics and Humanities program. Currently, he serves on the ethics committees of Rose Medical Center, the Donor Alliance, Denver Health Medical Center, the Colorado Pain Management Consortium and the Medical Advisory Board of Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood. He founded the Center for Applied Biomedical Ethics at Rose Medical Center, and was the first Executive Director of the Colorado Governor’s Commission on Life and the Law. Dr. Abrams has been involved in local, state and national organizations as well as research throughout his career. He has been instrumental in passing several key pieces of legislation, and has conducted over 1,500 workshops, lectures, and conferences for medical, nursing, legal, clergy, teachers and the public on ethical issues.

Dr. Abrams has written textbook chapters, casebooks, resource manuals and scores of articles and has appeared on national and local television and radio programs. His book, Doctors on the Edge (2006), is a collection of true stories about doctors and patients grappling with ethical dilemmas, exploring the theme, "Should doctors ever lie, betray a confidence or bend the law?"
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Lavinia Ambrose, RN, CLNC is a certified legal nurse consultant. As a nurse for more than 10 years, she has experience in a variety of nursing specialties including surgical, medical-surgical, emergency, pain management, endoscopy, and post-anesthesia recovery. She has also worked in quality management for managed care. Ms. Ambrose has managed multidisciplinary teams performing medical record reviews on a national level. She has managed a primary care physician credentialing site visit department for a quality management organization. As an independent legal nurse consultant, she provides services such as medical record analysis and research to attorneys handling personal injury, toxic tort, and product liability litigation. She is a member of the National Alliance of Legal Nurse Consultants and the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.
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James Ausman, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Neurosurgery at UCLA and former Chairman of the Departments of Neurosurgery at Henry Ford Hospital and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I also have my own Healthcare Consulting firm, Future Healthcare Strategies, and serve on the board of Directors of Somanetics Corporation, a biotechnology company.
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Diane Bauerle, R.H.I.A. graduated cum laude from the Health Information Management (HIM) program at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. She has worked at Exempla Healthcare since 1998 in the Health Information Management department and has been involved in the development of the legal electronic medical record and emerging issues related to release of information, identity fraud, record storage and retention. She oversees system-wide release of information policies and training, and has worked with medical records in a variety of settings including acute care, homecare and hospice, long term care and behavioral health.

She has participated in national and state health information management association activities. Most recently she has participated in exploring the development and consumer use of the personal health record (PHR) through the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Personal Health Record Practice Council.

She is the Colorado Coordinator for the PHR Community Education Campaign. She coordinates and trains community presenters to give the presentation entitled Your Personal Health Information, Why It’s Important, and How to Access, Manage and Protect It.

She is the Colorado Health Information Management Association (CHIMA) co-liaison to the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaborative and she has participated in the CORHIO Policy Workgroup. She serves on the CHIMA Board and was recognized as the 2007 Distinguished Member.
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Karlo Berger, A.B.T., L.M.T. is founder of the Integrative Medicine Alliance, which since 1999 has built bridges between conventional and alternative healthcare. He has extensive experience helping individuals find high-quality holistic and integrative healthcare and identifying appropriate therapies for specific illnesses. He has written for the Natural Standard medical information service, and his holistic therapies advice column, Ask Karlo, appears monthly in Boston’s Natural Awakenings magazine.

A cum laude graduate of Brown University, he has worked in the fields of integrative healthcare, community development, education, international security, and the environment. His employers have included the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, Public Voice International and Saferworld in England, and the UN Earth Summit in Geneva. In addition, he is a licensed massage therapist and practices shiatsu therapy at Harvard University Health Services.
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Cynthea Blake, M.D., Ph.D. is a neurologist with specialization in multiple sclerosis and movement disorders. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Maryland in College Park and her M.D. from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. Following medical school, she completed an internship in internal medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Washington, DC, then a residency in neurology and a fellowship in movement disorders at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dr Blake specialized in treatment of Parkinson’s disease while at The Movement Disorders Center and multiple sclerosis while at the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center (RMMSC), at Swedish Hospital in Englewood, CO, where she worked as an associate neurologist and investigator for clinical drug trials. At Blake Neurology in Englewood, CO, she provided neurological diagnostic, treatment, and consultation services and served as principal investigator of multiple sclerosis clinical drug trials. She has also conducted studies at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland and at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. She was a member of the HealthONE Alliance Institutional Review Board, for HealthONE system facilities in the Denver metropolitan area, 1998-2006.

Dr Blake is CEO of Blake Neurology in Denver, CO, specializing in medical and clinical research consulting, and Vice President of the Multiple Sclerosis Alliance in Denver, CO, a nonprofit organization for multiple sclerosis (MS) advocacy, education, and research.

Dr Blake’s research has included studies of mitochondrial respiratory chain function in Parkinson’s disease, the characterization of substrate- and inhibitor-specificity of monoamine oxidase, and clinical drug trials in multiple sclerosis [the EVIDENCE trial (Serono) and the Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (SPMS) and BEYOND trials (Berlex)]. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters. Her work has been published in Neurology, Movement Disorders, Journal of Neuroscience, American Journal of Psychiatry, Science, and Biochemical Pharmacology, among others.
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Paolo Bolognese, M.D. is a native of Torino, Italy, Paolo A. Bolognese, M.D., graduated cum laude from the Medical School of the University of Turin. In 1990, he completed his neurosurgical training at the same university under the guidance of Professor Victor A. Fasano, an international leader in the field of high-tech applied to neurosurgery.

During this time, Dr. Bolognese became the leading worldwide expert in the field of laser Doppler flowmetry applied to neurosurgery and the top European figure in the field of neurosurgical intraoperative ultrasound. Upon the death of his former mentor, in 1992 he accepted the invitation of Dr. Thomas H. Milhorat to transfer his laser Doppler research to the United States and to be retrained under Dr. Milhorat at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn.1n addition to his U.S. neurosurgical training, Dr. Bolognese became the first trainee of the Fellowship in the Surgical Management of Chiari I Malformation and Related Disorders under Dr. Milhorat.

In August 2001, Dr. Bolognese joined Dr. Milhorat at the Departments of Neurosurgery at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center and as Associate Director of the Chiari Institute.
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Catherine G. Boon, M.D. is a board certified pediatrician who has been providing individualized primary care for pediatric patients since 1998. She obtained her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and completed her residency training at the University of Florida. She is interested in preventive care, helping children and families understand how to maintain and regain their health, and researching evidence-based treatments for complex pediatric conditions.
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Brian Bouch, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He was board certified in Emergency Medicine from 1984-2004; currently he is certified in Medical Acupuncture. He has been in practice for over 30 years and specializes in treating people with complex medical conditions. For the last seventeen years he has combined alternative therapies with conventional medical care in a multi-specialty, integrative health center in northern California. Dr. Bouch supervises practitioners of acupuncture, nutritional counseling and supplementation, osteopathic manipulative medicine, traditional Chinese and western herbal medicine, massage and bodywork.

He was the first Medical Director of Commonweal, an alternative medical research center focusing on cancer care, and Medical Director of Onebody, Inc, a company that brought complementary and alternative benefits to health insurance companies. He developed an alternative medicine internet site. He is an associate clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, teaching medical acupuncture to physicians. Since 2002, Dr. Bouch has provided consultation services for people challenged with life threatening and other severe illnesses through personalized medical literature searches, advocacy and referrals for care to both conventional and alternative medicine providers, nationwide.
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Guy Lone Eagle Shamanic Educator / Warrior / Healer and farmer, Eagle has studied the ways of Earth since early childhood. After years of training and leading transformational process combined with Indigenous ceremonies, Eagle continues to con-temporize ancient wisdom for the Renewal of Nature's Ways. Currently Eagle lives in the Durango, Colorado USA area.
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Sandra L. Gardner, R.N., M.S., C.N.S., P.N.P. is an internationally recognized consultant on perinatal/neonatal/pediatric topics including legal issues, reproductive and perinatal grief and loss, children’s grief work, perinatal/neonatal program development and evaluation, neonatal/infant growth and development, physiologic care of the neonate, breastfeeding and lactation counseling.

In1978, she won the Gerald Hencmann Award from The March of Dimes for “outstanding service in the improvement of care to mothers and babies in Colorado.” She has worked in neonatal/perinatal care since 1967 as a clinician, practitioner, teacher, author, and consultant. Her publications include numerous articles, pamphlets, chapters, and book reviews. She is co-editor with Gerald B. Merenstein, M.D., of Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care, 6th edition, 2006. Both the initial Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care (1985) and the 5th edition (2002) were winners of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. She co-edited (with Mary Hagedorn) Legal Aspects of Maternal Child Nursing Practice, 1997. She is on the editorial board of Neonatal Network, and the Pre & Perinatal Psychology Journal. She is an active member of the Colorado Nurses Association/American Nurses Association, the National Association of Neonatal Nurses and The Academy of Neonatal Nursing. She is a founding member of the Colorado Perinatal Care Council, a state advisory council to the Governor and the State Health Department on perinatal/neonatal health care issues.
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Alan Gilbert, Ph.D. is the John Evans Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver.
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Abraham (Abe) Grinberg, M.D. is a pediatrician and neonatologist with over 20 years of experience. He was born and raised in México City, and obtained his MD from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México in 1971. Abe also worked as a volunteer while in medical school and provided social services to several rural villages in the States of México, Hidalgo and Tlaxcala.

Abe accomplished his residence in pediatrics at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, and his fellowship in neonatology at the University of Texas in Houston. He is board certified in pediatrics and neonatology and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Abe has also a Master’s degree in public health and has taught undergraduate and graduate students at the Department of Community Health in the College of Human Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado.

Abe enjoys sharing his knowledge and cultural understanding of different populations in relation to medical and social problems. He is committed to helping health providers understand and be culturally sensitive to their Hispanic patients. He has developed customizable courses in medical Spanish that are tailored to different medical specialties and needs.

Abe is the founder of “Inglespañol™”, he knows that “knowledge is power” and believes in helping health care providers and consumers address language barriers and cultural gaps. This approach fosters a dynamic patient-doctor relationship that is conductive to improved medical outcomes for patients and is beneficial to companies seeking to help employees return to work quickly with minimal cost. 

Abe has lived in Denver for over 20 years and enjoys traveling, swimming, long walks and ethnic food.
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Annette Guerin, R.N., B.A., B.S.N., C.R.R.N. has degrees in Psychology and Nursing and is certified as a CRRN (Certified Registered Rehabilitation Nurse.) Over the last 10 years she has worked in the areas of medical record and site review, assessing compliance with established quality standards, and has performed legal record reviews. She has worked in acute care, rehabilitation, and long-term care, providing care management and discharge planning intervention. She has also developed a fluent knowledge of health care funding as it relates to specific medical needs and is instrumental in facilitating insurance appeals resulting in overturning adverse decisions regarding coverage.
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Philip S. Guzelian, M.D. is Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology (retired) at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. He received his M.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was an intern at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, a Clinical Associate at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, a U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Fellow in Liver Disease at Yale University, and a Liver Research Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Guzelian board-certified in Internal Medicine and has been elected to membership in the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, the Society of Toxicology, and the Association of American Physicians. He has served on the editorial boards of many scientific publications and on national committees of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Council on Science and Health, the International Life Sciences Institute, the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council of the NIH, the TLV Committee of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), and the Society of Toxicology. He has authored or co-authored over 200 abstracts, peer-reviewed articles, or book chapters in the area of toxicology with a major emphasis on the effects of chemicals on the liver. He received the 1984-1989 Burroughs Wellcome Toxicology Scholar Award given through the Society of Toxicology.
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Sally J. Hartshorn, R.N., B.S.N,, B.S. M.H.A. has degrees in Environmental Design, Nursing, and Health Care Administration, and has worked many areas including long term care, youth corrections, and adult medicine. Before relocating to Colorado in 1993, she worked at Children’s Hospital in Boston. In addition, she has worked in hospital planning, hospital architecture and labor relations, consulted on medical malpractice issues, was owner of Hartshorn Holistic Health Fairs and created, directed, and trained nurses in a behavior management program in a large corporation.

Ms. Hartshorn has been committed to studying alternative healing modalities for the body, mind and spirit since she was a young woman. In the 1970s, she studied with Guru Amrit Desai (founder of Kripalu Yoga) and has studied Buddhism since the 1980s. She is currently a Board Member of the Lapis Buddha Center – a clinic for Tibetan Medicine in the United States. She has had a therapeutic touch practice and currently counsels patients on lifestyle issues, health and aging.
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Donn Hayes, L.Ac. was one of the earliest acupuncturists in the State of Colorado, and was instrumental in the establishment of the current Acupuncture law and the Formation of the Acupuncture Association of Colorado. Donn was trained in acupuncture and herbal medicine in Taiwan and Vancouver B.C. in a traditional apprenticeship style, and as a result is a staunch advocate of Classical Chinese Medicine. Donn believes that this Classical style acts as an effective compliment to Western medical approaches. Donn has been practicing in Colorado in excess of 30 years.
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Evaleen Jones, M.D. is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco Family Practice Residency. She has been on the clinical faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine since 1996. Dr. Jones is an active member of the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC), which is comprised of faculty and educators dedicated to international health education. Dr. Jones’ commitment to the underserved stems from growing up in rural New Jersey and spending her college years in the impoverished Appalachian region.

Dr. Jones began her work in international health taking trips to Ecuador as a medical student. In 1992, she founded Child Family Health International to promote better global health conditions. CFHI now works with 145 global partners (NGO's, physicians and academic institutions), providing over $1 million of supplies and grants for health projects and sending 600 medical students abroad each year. She travels extensively to support the organization's growth and development and strengthen sustainable healthcare for underserved communities worldwide. In addition to her mainstream interests, Dr. Jones supports complementary, alternative and energy medicine.
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Adam Kay is a Ph.D. candidate in Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge (UK). He has received scholarships, grants, and awards in several areas, including creative writing and anthropological research in Tibet. For nearly a decade, he has worked as a freelance editor for a wide range of material, from professional psychological papers to original screenplays. He has published articles on shamanism and the meaning of dreams.
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Jeffrey Kirkwood earned a Master’s degree in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. He received a number of grants for research on international human rights and was a Graduate Research Assistant at the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago where he co-authored a chapter in Practices at Work to Build Participation in the Arts. He also wrote the introductory essay to Haunted by Combat: Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among U.S. War Veterans and “Between Being and Otherwise: Lévinas, Lacunae, and the Threat of Totality” for an edited volume on notions of threat in French cultural studies.
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Elmer Koneman, M.D. is Professor Emeritus in the department of Pathology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He was also the Senior Vice President of Education and Programs for the American Society of Clinical Pathologist, the Executive Director of the Colorado Association for Continuing Medical Laboratory Education, and a professor of pathology at the University of Illinois School of Medicine and the Northwestern School of Medicine in Evanston, Illinois. Among his more than 150 publications he has coauthored “Koneman’s Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology”, now in its 6th Edition, used in schools of medical laboratory science and in clinical microbiology laboratories nationwide and in many foreign countries.

Dr. Koneman’s work as an educator and researcher has earned him distinguished service awards from the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, Colorado Society of Clinical Pathologists, and Colorado Association for Continuing Medical Laboratory Education. Recently, he developed a self-instructional computer-based guide to clinical laboratory bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology called “GermWare,” as well as the programs “Mycology in a Box” and “Parasitology in a Box.” He and his colleagues at the Mayo Clinic have also had their proposal for an “Atlas on Laboratory Mycology” accepted by the College of American Pathologists. In addition, he is awaiting approval for a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In his creative life Dr. Koneman wrote the play “Koch” about Robert Koch, who discovered the tubercle bacillus in 1882. Production of the play is set to be expanded by the University of Colorado, Denver and is being considered as part of the upcoming PBS documentary The White Plague.
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Richard D. Lamm is Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver, and the former three-term Governor of Colorado. (1975-1987) He is both a lawyer (Berkeley, 1961) and a Certified Public Accountant. He joined the faculty of the University of Denver in 1969 and has, except for his years as Governor, been associated with the University ever since.

Lamm was selected as one of Time Magazine's "200 Young Leaders of America" in 1974, and won the Christian Science Monitor "Peace 2020" essay in 1985. In 1992, he was honored by the Denver Post and Historic Denver, Inc. as one of the "Colorado 100" - people who made significant contributions to Colorado and made lasting impressions on the state's history. He was Chairman of the Pew Health Professions Commission and a public member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Lamm has appeared on virtually every national news program, including Buchanan & Press (MSNBC), Larry King Live and Inside Politics (CNN), Today (NBC), Meet the Press (NBC), ABC's Good Morning America, Lehrer NewsHour (PBS), and CBS's Face the Nation. His editorials have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune, as well as in a number of academic and medical journals. While Governor, Lamm wrote or co-authored six books: A California Conspiracy, with Arnold Grossman (St. Martin's Press, 1988); Megatraumas: America in the Year 2000 (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985), The Immigration Time Bomb: The Fragmenting of America, with Gary Imhoff (Dutton and Company, 1985), 1988, with Arnie Grossman (St. Martin's Press, 1985), Pioneers & Politicians, with Duane A. Smith (Pruett Publishing Company, 1984) and The Angry West, with Michael McCarthy (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982).

His latest books are Two Wands, One Nation (2006), and The Brave New World of Health Care (2004), both published by Fulcrum Publishing under its imprint, Speaker's Corner Books.

Lamm has always been in the forefront of political change. As a first year legislator, he drafted and succeeded in passing the nation's first liberalized abortion law. He was an early leader of the environmental movement, and was President of the First National Conference on Population and The Environment. Reacting to the high cost of campaigning, he walked the state in his campaign for Governor of Colorado. Lamm was elected to three terms as Colorado's top elected official, and in serving as Governor from January 1975 and retiring in January 1987, he was the longest-serving Governor in Colorado's history to that date.
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Betty Lehman became the Executive Director of the Autism Society of Colorado (ASC) after serving as a volunteer for 12 years. She is a parent of a child with autism and very passionate about the mission of the organization.

Since 1970, ASC has served as an advocate for those who have autism and the systems that support them at the local, state and national levels. Located in metro Denver, ASC provides information and referral services, advances legislation through the Colorado legislature to increase funding for treatment and support of autism, and heightens community awareness of the need for supports and services. In 2007, ASC received a Super Hero award from Families and Allies Working Together for their work with self-advocates and inclusion.

ASC has spearheaded and supported more than 11 legislative initiatives that have become Colorado law over the past decade.

The mission of the Autism Society of Colorado is to promote the quality of life for people with autism spectrum disorders and their families. The website is www.autismcolorado.org.

Betty was previously a children’s health care advocate and currently serves on the Colorado Consumer Insurance Council, the Advisory Council to Family Voices Colorado, the Jewish Disability Network, and is a 2005 Bighorn Leadership fellow from their healthcare program and a graduate of Partners in Leadership. Betty is the 2007 recipient of the Child Health and Welfare Award from the Colorado Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics for her service to Colorado’s children and families. Betty received the 2007 Everyday Heroine - CPA’s Who Make a Difference award from the Colorado Society of CPA’s.

Betty’s son, Eli, is now 18 years old and together they have interfaced and survived through nearly every type of service system in Colorado.
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Chris McKinnon, M.P.A. is a senior project director for the Western Governors' Association. A Denver native, McKinnon has been with the Western Governors’ Association since its formation in 1984. He received his BA from San Diego State University in 1978 (three minor major - political science, business management, and economics) and his MPA from University of Colorado in 1984. Mr. McKinnon’s portfolio at WGA include health, education, technology policy issues. Mr. McKinnon was the project director for the first pilot project in the U.S. using smartcards as a portable health record.
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Jennifer Miller, M.D. is a Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude graduate of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Dr. Miller has ten years experience as a private practice internist in Denver, and over two years experience in multi-faceted physician competency assessment and remediation.

During Dr. Miller’s private practice tenure, her responsibilities included: both inpatient and outpatient medical care; teaching and supervisory responsibilities for nurse practitioners, medical residents and medical students; and the business responsibilities of co-managing a private practice.

After leaving clinical practice, Dr. Miller assumed the position of Associate Medical Director of Education Services at CPEP, The Center for Personalized Education for Physicians, in Denver. As AMD of Education, Dr. Miller addressed the variables of physician motivation, learning preferences and clinical application of knowledge to develop, implement and monitor individualized Education Plans for physician patients. Additionally, Dr. Miller was responsible for providing evaluation and feedback to physician patients in CPEP Documentation Seminars.

In addition to her clinical and educational experience, Dr. Miller is a cancer survivor. During her recent experience as a patient, Dr. Miller quickly realized the advantages she had (as someone who possessed medical knowledge) in navigating the increasingly complex healthcare system. She has interests in health maintenance; integrative medicine; and cancer survivorship, specifically the role of exercise in improving quality of life for cancer patients/survivors, and in bridging the gap between oncology and primary care after active cancer treatment.
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Cynthia Norrgran, M. D. is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden Colorado. She teaches Biology, Biophysics, and Engineering Design. She retired from private practice as a neurosurgeon in 2004. She has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Minnesota. She did post graduate work in biology, and biochemical research, at the University of Nevada, Reno. She went to medical school at the University of Nevada, Reno where she received her M. D. She did her internship in general surgery at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. She did her residency in neurosurgery at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is board certified in neurosurgery.
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Daniel Perlman, M.D. is an Internist and infectious disease specialist in Denver, Colorado. He trained at the University of Colorado, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. He also has a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Minnesota. He has been on the clinical faculty of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Division of Infectious Diseases since 1987. He is involved in local, state and national organizations in his specialty and is interested in helping families focus on interventions in diagnosis, therapy and level of care issues in persons with complex medical problems.
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Sonia Rapaport, M.D. is a family physician who provides patient-focused primary care in a holistic, integrative practice in Chapel Hill, NC. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed her residency in Family Practice at the University of Pittsburgh’s St. Margaret Memorial Hospital. While at Virginia, Dr. Rapaport founded Alternatives: Perspectives in Medicine, an organization whose goal was to learn about the possibilities and limitations of complementary and alternative therapies. But it was not until her two youngest children were diagnosed with Familial Dysautonomia (FD), a neuroprogressive genetic disorder, that she realized the limitations of conventional medicine and began to expand her training to include complementary medicine. She studied homeopathy at the Devon School for Homeopathy, kinesiology, nutrition, mind-body and herbal medicine, and in 2000, became a Reiki Master. It is through a realistic appraisal of all available therapeutic options that the best approach for maximal health can be arrived at. In 2001, she became the founding President for Familial Dysautonomia Hope Foundation, and currently serves as its VP for Research and Treasurer. She has lectured widely on nutrition and on FD, at the NIH, hospitals, and for parent support groups. She has served as team doctor for several soccer teams and was the Medical Consultant for Catawba County Department of Health. In 2007, Dr. Rapaport completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Spalding University and writes about medicine and life. The daughter of Chilean immigrants, Dr. Rapaport also speaks Spanish.
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Cristy Geno Rasmussen, M.P.H. is currently a doctoral candidate in the Health and Behavioral Sciences Program at the University of Colorado. She has worked in research for the past 9 years and has extensive experience in grant writing, manuscript preparation and public health consulting. A member of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Ms. Rasmussen’s primary interests are in the behavioral sciences, chronic disease prevention, health disparities, maternal and child health, medical ethics and health literacy.
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Ron S. Rosen, O.M.D. (deceased) was the founder of Colorado Healthcare Associates. He opened his private practice in 1971 and was the first acupuncturist registered in Colorado (in 1990). He graduated from the Post Graduate Institute of Oriental Medicine and the international Acupuncture Institute, and completed residencies in Hong Kong and China. He was a diplomat of the International Acupuncture Society, a Fellow of the National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental medicine (FNAAOM) and a Fellow for Life of the Acupuncture Association of Colorado. He was past president of the Acupuncture Association of Colorado, a founding member of the National Sports Acupuncture Association, and a permanent member of the International Acupuncture Society.
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Jerry Rubin, M.D. is a board certified pediatrician who has devoted his professional career to attaining the most individualized and integrative healing possible for his young patients. He graduated from the University of Utah Medical School in 1977 and completed his residency at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Rubin has studied holistic medicine extensively and he consistently approaches health care from a perspective that combines evidence-based medicine, western technology and the individual child’s essential growth, development and healing.

His book, Naturally Healthy Kids (2007) is a handbook that blends mainstream and complementary/alternative pediatric medicine.
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Connie Sanchez, N.D. is a licensed Naturopathic Physician. She graduated cum laude from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a B.S. in Biology and received her doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. With over twenty years experience in the field of nutrition and fitness, Dr. Sanchez is a popular lecturer on thyroid and autoimmune disorders and is currently writing a book entitled “Natural Solutions for Healing Thyroid Disorders.” In 2004 she co-hosted the popular radio show, ‘The Wellness Forum’ and is the former Director of Nutrition for Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers, a natural food and supplement chain with regional locations throughout the Southwest. Dr. Sanchez is in private practice at The Center for Health in Lakewood, CO., and specializes in Naturopathic Endocrinology and Autoimmune Disease.
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David Silver, M.D., M.P.H. graduated from Cornell University and the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, and has practiced Emergency Medicine in the Denver metro area for 26 years. He was a founder of one of Colorado’s first holistic health centers, Wellspring, Partners in Health. David is an assistant clinical professor at the University of Colorado Medical School, and teaches public health at the CU Boulder campus. He currently serves on the Clinical Bio-medical Advisory Committee at Boulder Community Hospital.

With a growing interest in the health problems of the world’s poor, he completed his masters in public health degree (MPH) through Loma Linda University. He has worked as a technical advisor for health projects in Vietnam, Guatemala, West Bank/Gaza, India, Kenya and Uganda.

David believes that one's “attitude” is perhaps the most important asset contributing to a person’s sense of well-being in wealthy countries like the US. Despite the fact that illness and accidents are always part of life, true healing is always just around the corner for those open to its discovery.
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Theodore H. Stathos, M.D. founded Rocky Mountain Pediatric Gastroenterology in 1993. Dr. Stathos is a native of California, and attended Creighton University and the University of Nebraska Medical College in Omaha, Nebraska, graduation in 1988. He completed his pediatric residency training at the University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals, followed by post doctoral fellowship training in Houston, Texas, at the Baylor College of Medicine in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition. Dr. Stathos' areas of expertise includes invasive and therapeutic endoscopy and is one of the only pediatric gastroenterologists in the Rocky Mountain region that can perform pediatric biliary endoscopy (ERCP). He has been listed as one of the "Best Doctors in America" since 1999.
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Richard L. Stieg, M.D., M.H.S. is board certified in Neurology and in Pain Medicine. He also holds a certificate as an addictionologist from the American Association of Addiction Medicine. He has been a clinician in the United States Air Force, hospital-based practice (Boulder Memorial Hospital and the Pain Evaluation and Treatment Center, University of Pittsburgh) and in private practice. He currently practices at the LoDo Pain and Headache Clinic and is Medical Director of Centennial Rehabilitation Associates, in Aurora, Colorado. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Pain Society, and the National Pain Foundation, is a Past President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, and has served on the editorial staff of several professional journals, including the Clinical Journal of Pain; Disability; Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation. Currently, Dr. Stieg is Editor in Chief of NationalPainFoundation.org, a website that provides free information about pain. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Rochester and his Master's Degree in Healthcare Systems from the University of Denver.
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Gregory Summers is the sole proprietor of Insurance Providers, Inc. His objective is to assist people with complex medical conditions in obtaining reliable health insurance.
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Matthew Roy Grayson Taylor, MD, PhD is a board-certified internist and clinical geneticist at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. His academic and clnical appointments include: Director of Clinical Medical Genetics, Assistant Science Advisor to the Adult Medical Genetics Program, Director of the Adult Medical Genetics Clinic, Junior Faculty Scholar at the CU-Cardiovascular Institute, Faculty Member of the Human Medical Genetics Program, Co-Director of the Colorado Lysosomal Disorders Program, and Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Taylor received his MD degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles. At the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, he completed residencies in internal medicine and medical genetics and a chief medical residency. In 2005, he earned a PhD in Clinical Science from the Clinical Science Program of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, with a thesis titled “Genetic Analysis of Dilated Cardiomyopathy.” His scientific research interests include: hereditary cardiomyopathies, lysosomal storage disorders, polycystic kidney disease, pharmacogenetics, and genetic causes of adult mental retardation. Dr. Taylor has received numerous professional honors and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the American College of Human Genetics, the American Society of Human Genetics, the Mountain States Regional Genetics Network, and the Surfers Medical Association. In addition, he is widely published and serves as manuscript reviewer for 8 medical journals. He has also delivered a number of scientific presentations.
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Gary VanderArk, M.D. trained in Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty at UCHSC in 1970 and began the Neurosurgery Service at DHMC. He returned from private practice in South Denver in 2003 to assume the role of Director of the Residency Program. After steering the Residency through the process to increase the resident complement to double its previous capacity, he stepped down as Director. He remains on the faculty as a consultant to for special projects. His clinical interests include Neuro-Otology, Health Care Policy, Doctors Without Borders, and Services to the Medically Underserved.
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