Committee Members

Chia-Lin Lin is a traditional Chinese physician who currently practices at the Renai Branch of the Taipei city hospital, where she completed her medical training after earning her degree at the Post-baccalaureate School of Chinese Medicine, Tzu-Chi university. Dr. Lin specializes in all forms acupuncture, management of osteoarthritis and tendinopathy and management of patients with metabolic syndrome. Dr. Lin is particularly adept at facial acupuncture, for which she received intensive training and is certified by the Taiwan facial acupuncture society. Facial acupuncture can be applied to patients with various neurological facial disorders including Bell’s palsy, post stroke facial asymmetry, trigeminal neuropathy and other similar diseases for symptom relief. Dr. Lin often collaborates with numerous neurologists, whom regularly refer patients following resolution of acute neurological episodes for long term symptom relief. Dr. Lin has also cooperated with neurologists to treat numerous patients seeking her advice due to nerve injury following acupuncture at various clinics. Dr. Lin’s numerous encounters with such patients prompted her to investigate and identify the most vulnerable patients, which resulted in this study.

Tatiana Zdyb, Ph.D., M.A., C. Psych is a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario and the British Psychological Society. She earned a Ph.D. in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences from the University of Western Ontario, and completed all pre-dissertation course work and comprehensive exams in the Psy.D. program at Adler University, where she also completed a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology.

She is the founder of the Zdyb Centre for Health Promotion (2017), MindSetting (2020) and Audacity Health (2022).

She has worked in various clinical settings including the Student Development Centre at the University of Western Ontario, community-based private practices, and St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital. Additionally, she acted as an external examiner in the graduate studies department of the University of Peshawar, worked as a medical consultant for Equitable Life of Canada, was the Vice Chair of the Mental Health Impact Council at the Middlesex-London United Way, Adjunct Faculty member in the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University. She currently teaches in the Psychology Department at King’s University College at Western University and provides psychotherapy through Zdyb Centre for Health Promotion and Audacity Health.

Dr Madalina Petre began her long medical career in 2000 as a specialist in internal medicine and from 2010 also practiced as a gastroenterologist. Since 2013 she has been studying a variety of alternative medical therapies such as essential oils, Bach remedies, hypnotherapy, and meditation, and in 2019 she became an Eden Energy Medicine certified practitioner. Since then she has integrated all her medical knowledge as a combination of alternative and conventional medicine in her practice and since 2022 in a prolific online and offline educational activity under the name of preventive medicine.

Dr. Amanda has 22 years of significant experience in basic and clinical research in health care. She had the opportunity to work with KOL (Key Opinion Leaders) from multiple therapeutic areas (immunology, infectious diseases, cardiology, oncology). 2 years of international expertise in a multi-centric project, knowledge in Regulatory process (CEP/CONEP). Skills in interpreting, analyzing, and presenting scientific data, implementing and managing national and international multi-center research projects. From the great experience in the scientific area, it was possible to work in several different sectors of healthcare, where she had the opportunity to collaborate with a great team from different programs that gives me flexibility to work in multidisciplinary areas. She is currently a researcher and teacher collaborator and works in her acupuncture and integrative practices office. She has great skill with interpersonal relationships. She loves teaching, studying, encouraging, and positively influencing people, enabling her to establish lasting professional partnerships.

Msc.Pharm. Nguyen Thi Hong Van currently holds the position of Deputy General Director in charge of Regulatory and Research Collaboration at Sao Thai Duong Joint Stock Company. After graduating as a pharmacist from Hanoi University of Pharmacy, she went on to study for two master’s degrees in Pharmacognosy and Traditional Medicine, at Hanoi University of Pharmacy and majored in Pharmacochemistry – Quality Assurance of Healthcare Product, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.

After graduating and returning to Vietnam, she started working in Sao Thai Duong JSC. to continue her passion for developing products from Vietnamese medicinal herbs. With her contribution, hundreds of products have been successfully researched and registered in Vietnam and foreign. She contributed to bringing good quality products from Vietnamese medicinal herbs to serve domestic and international people. Among those research projects is the Sunkovir project, Sunkovir is a product that has been conducted in 3 clinical studies according to GCP guidelines in the Covid-19 pandemic. Three articles were published in Pubmed. Sunkovir is licensed as an herbal medicine for the treatment of influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory viruses in Vietnam and is interested by many international partners.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36751127/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36357349/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35695687/

Dr. Jay Goodbinder, ND, DCDABCI, stands as the proprietor and leading clinician at The Epigenetics Healing Center in Kansas City, MO. Here, he has guided countless individuals from across the globe in overcoming autoimmune and life-altering illnesses. Dr. Goodbinder’s expertise is the culmination of four years of intensive post-doctoral training in functional medicine, endocrinology, immunology, biochemistry, physiology, and epigenetics. Notably, he is a bestselling author, celebrated for his book “Defending Your Life.” Dr. Goodbinder has graced prestigious platforms including appearances on CNN alongside luminaries such as Dr. Oz and Dr. Drew, engagements at the Harvard Faculty Club alongside Suzanne Somers, as well as presentations at the NASDAQ and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Professor Schoenthaler has been teaching for 51 years. He has worked with 14 professors in the school of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley; produced his third clinical trial on nutrition and felonies, published in 2021, in Crime and Delinquency; and is available for free on-line at times. He has met two US presidents, received an Award for being the Outstanding Research Scientist of 2,002 for his publications on nutrition and crime, and has been married for 54 years. His father and grandfather were nutritionally oriented physicians that caused is interest in nutrition. Another ancestor was The Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, which spurred his interest in criminology causing him to put the two fields together.

Zhenhuan Liu professor of pediatrics, Pediatric acupuncturist Ph.D.tutor. He has been engaged in pediatric clinical and child rehabilitation for 40 years. Led the rehabilitation team to treat more than 40,000 cases of children with intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, and autism from China and more than 20 countries, More than 26800 children with deformities returned to school and society and became self-sufficient. The rehabilitation effect ranks at the international advanced level. Vice-chairman of Rehabilitation professional committee children with cerebral palsy, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. Visiting Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in recent 10 years. He is most famous pediatric neurological and rehabilitation specialists in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in China. He has edited 10 books. He has published 268 papers in international and Chinese medical journals.

For over 45 years, Dr.Ladislau Rosenberg activated in research, education, and practice of various fields of integrative medicine, being recognized specialist in apitherapy, aromatherapy, phytotherapy, and homeopathy.

Dr.Ladislau Rosenberg was Associate Professor at two important universities in Romania, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Targu Mures and the University “Lucian Blaga” of Sibiu. He is the author of 4 books about the role of natural therapies in medicine and numerous scientific papers (82), published in Romania and abroad.

Over time, he collaborated on various international projects in research, education, and culture, under the auspices of UNESCO, the World Bank, the European Union, the Organisation of World Heritage Cities, etc. Now, being an expert in the history of pharmacy and an honorary member of the Romanian Society for the History of Pharmacy and of the Romanian Society for Apitherapy, Phytotherapy, and Aromatherapy, he coordinates health education projects, which promotes various natural therapies and their role in preventing and treating diseases.

Dr. Christina Winkler completed diploma in Gestalt-therapy at the Institute of Gestalt Therapy of the Pyrenees and Languedoc and was granted after she completed studies in Linguistics and Psychology. She hold an ECP (European certificate of psychotherapy) and ECGT (European Certificate of Gestalt-Therapy) holder and was a member of different professional organizations. Christina regularly give presentations at different conferences.

She hold diplomas in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the National Federation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, of which she is a member. Hospital workshops at the Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing have expanded herknowledge and enriched her clinical experience. For several years, she have been learning the healing methods of Mister Sun, a world famous master of medical Qi Gong.

Christina Winkler was born in Germany, but she have lived in France for many years. She take a special interest in the psychological well-being of expatriates and have extensive experience in counseling those who feel out of place and lost in a new environment. She also work as a translator and conduct therapy sessions in French, English, and German according to the needs of each client.

Dr. Simkin is a board-certified Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist who is certified in Functional Medicine by the Institute of Functional Medicine, and in Complementary and Integrative Medicine by the American Board of Integrative Medicine. She is also certified in Neurofeedback by BCIA. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Emory Medical School where she teaches Functional Medicine. She has served as Co-Chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Committee on Complementary and Integrative Medicine for 10 years. Prior to that, she served as Co-Chair of the AACAP Addiction Committee. She is a Distinguished Fellow for AACAP. She represented AACAP as Co-Chair for the ASAM Revision of Patient Placement Criteria for Treatment of Adolescent Substance-Related Disorders and represented AACAP at the Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy for Adolescent Substance Abuse at NIDA. She also served as the Liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Substance Abuse.

She co-edited 2 textbooks on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric (CAP) Disorders for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. She is well known for her expertise in the Gut-Brain Axis and has written several chapters and articles on the subject. She and her Co-Chair, Gene Arnold, are Co-Editing 2 more textbooks on Complementary and Integrative Medicine/Functional Medicine (CIM/FM) in CAP Disorders and are establishing Clinical Updates in CIM/FM for AACAP. She has spoken internationally and nationally on CIM topics in the area of TBI, PTSD, gut-brain axis, autism, meditation, ADHD, refractory depression, and mood disorders and authored over 30 articles or chapters. She was a co-editor for the Adolescent Section of the ASAM textbook.

She has served as faculty at Dartmouth, LSU, USA, Florida State medical schools, and served as residency director at USA. She received the most outstanding faculty teaching award at LSU, USA, and Emory.

Dr. Mahadevan Seetharaman is a Duke Integrative Healthcare Leader and an Ayurvedic Health and Nutrition consultant who graduated from the AADP-Accredited Ayurvedic Nutrition Study Program. He is also certified as a Yoga Teacher by Yoga Alliance International.

Besides holding a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, he has done post-doctoral research at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Foundation. During those years, he also pursued a Master’s in Science & Technology Entrepreneurship at the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management.

In 2005, Dr. M joined a startup as part of the senior management team and helped grow the company to over 650 people globally where he currently serves as an Executive Vice President. In addition to entrepreneurship, he is interested in sustainable grassroots development activities, and served as the President of the Minnesota chapter of the Association for India’s Development (AID), a non-profit.

Dr. M spend 4 years in India on sabbatical as the CEO and Managing Director of the Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (I-AIM) and Professor & Dean, School of Health Sciences, Transdisciplinary University (TDU). Apart from advising and mentoring various clinical and research faculty, he served as a member of the University Board of Management, Scientific Advisory Board, Academic Council, Graduate Committee and Institutional Ethics Committee. Dr. M has also recently helped Isha Foundation set up an Integrative Healthcare Centre in India.