The Academy for
Guided Imagery
and its co-sponsoring organizations
present:
IMAGERY,
SUGGESTION, AND
MIND/BODY MEDICINE
AGI’s
First International
Webcast
Conference
Course Chairman
David E. Bresler, PhD, LAc
David Bresler is the
President and Co-Founder, Academy for Guided Imagery,
and Executive Director of The Bresler Center in Los
Angeles. He is the former Founder and Executive
Director of the UCLA Pain Control Unit and Associate
Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Medicine; Former
White House Commissioner on Complementary and
Alternative Medicine Policy; Author of
Free
Yourself From Pain, Break Your Smoking
Habit With Guided Imagery, and numerous other
books, workbooks, articles, and scientific
publications. T
Conference Faculty
Jeanne Achterberg, PhD
Jeanne Achterberg is a
Professor of Psychology at SaybrookInstitute, a
research consultant and a board member of many
foundations. She also provides training in the use of
mind/body therapies for health care professionals in
Europe, Japan, Argentina, and to refugees in Kosova
and Macedonia. She has authored over 100 papers and
five books, including Imagery in
Healing, Woman as
Healer and Rituals of
Healing. Lightning at the
Gate, the story of her
personal healing journey, was published in 2001. She
is currently Senior editor for the Journal of
Alternative and Complementary Medicine'.
Daniel
J. Benor, MD, ABHM
Daniel J. Benor s a
wholistic psychotherapist who includes a variety of
bodymind approaches, spiritual awareness, and healing
in the practice of what he calls "WHEE: Wholistic
Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT." He is a Founding
Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine,
Editor of the International Journal of Healing, author
of Healing Research, Volumes I-III, Founder of the
Council for Healing and Doctor-Healer Networks.
Hyla
Cass, MD
Hyla Cass is
a board-certified psychiatrist who combines imagery and
nutritional medicine in her practice, writings, lectures,
and media appearances. She is a former Assistant Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine,
Associate Editor of Total Health magazine, and author of
numerous articles and books, including Natural
Highs, 8 Weeks to Vibrant
Health,
and Supplement Your
Prescription. For more information, please
visit www.drcass.com.
Effie
Poy Yew Chow, PhD, RN, LAc
Effie Poy Yew Chow was
appointed to the White House Commission on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and was
the recipient of the “Visionary of the Year 1997,”
“The Humanitarian of the Year 1999,” and “The
Visionary of the Decade 2000” Awards. Dr. Chow has
been working to integrate Traditional Chinese Medicine
with Western Medicine for over 40 years. Toward this
goal, she founded the East West Academy of Healing
Arts (EWAHA) in 1973 and in 1988, an arm of that
organization, The EWAHA Qigong Institute, was
established to promote research in medical
Qigong.
Gavin
de Becker
Gavin de Becker is the
bestselling author of The Gift of
Fear, which spent four months
on the NY Times Bestseller List and has been published
in 13 languages. He and his work have appeared on the
Oprah Winfrey and Larry King shows numerous times, on
the pages of Time and Newsweek, and been endorsed by
every major women’s magazine. Mr. de Becker was twice
appointed to the President's Advisory Board at the
U.S. Department of Justice. He is a Senior Fellow at
the UCLA School of Public Affairs, and a Senior
Advisor to the Rand Corporation.
James
Ellroy
James Ellroy
is one of the world's best-selling crime writers and
essayists, known for his unique "telegraphic" writing
style, which omits words other writers would consider
necessary, and often features just sentence fragments. The
author of LA Confidential
and
The Black
Dahlia,
he struggled with alcohol and drugs early in his career,
but was able to achieve long-term sobriety by creating a
powerful inner vision of a satisfying drug free life. He
will share his thoughts and experiences about addiction and
addictive behaviors.
Lyn
Freeman, PhD
Lyn Freeman is a
specialist, researcher, and consultant of mind-body
medicine as treatment for chronic disease. She is the
founder and President of Mind Matters Research, an
Alaskan-based research center specializing in
interventions for late-term and long-term effects of
cancer and its treatments. Lyn recently completed a
National Cancer Institute-funded research study of an
imagery program she created for breast cancer
survivors. The imagery program, entitled "Envision the
Rhythms of Life" produced statistically and clinically
significant outcomes. Lyn has authored academic
textbooks, chapters and medical manuals on the
evidence, benefits and limitations of complementary
and alternative medicine. Her most recent academic
text is Mosby’s Complementary
and Alternative Medicine: A Research Based
Approach(3rd ed) (2008). She is a
Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School,
San Francisco. More information is available on her
website www.compmedalaska.com
James
S. Gordon, MD
James S. Gordon is the
Founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body
Medicine in Washington, DC, a Clinical Professor at
Georgetown University Medical School and former
Chairman of the White House Commission on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. He is
the author of Manifesto for a New
Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer
Care, and the
soon-to-be-released Unstuck: Your
Guide to the Seven Stage Journey out of
Depression. (Penguin, April 2008).
Peter
Guber
Peter Guber is the
Chairman/CEO of the Mandalay Entertainment Group,
which specializes in motion pictures, television,
sports entertainment and new media. Over his forty
year career, the films Guber personally produced have
earned more than $3 billion worldwide and more than 50
Academy Award nominations, including the Best Picture
Oscar for Rain Man. He is a nationally recognized
speaker, and can be seen every Sunday morning on AMC,
as co-host of Shootout
currently in
its fifth season and shown in over eighty countries
and on SIRIUS Satellite Radio. Guber is a full
professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and
Television and has been a member of the faculty for
over 30 years.
Dennis
Jaffe, PhD
Dennis Jaffe is a founding
partner of Relative Solutions, and professor at
Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco. He is an
advisor to families about family business, wealth and
philanthropy. He received his BA degree in Philosophy,
MA in Management, and Ph.D. in sociology, all from
Yale University, and is a licensed psychologist.
Dieter Kallinke, MD, Dipl.Psych.
Dieter Kallinke holds
doctorates in both Medicine and Clinical Psychology.
Dr. Kallinke has served as a consultant to the
University of Heidelberg Pain Control Unit, has
supervised the training of post-doctoral
psychotherapists utilizing a combination of
conventional therapies and complementary and
alternative approaches. He has lectured and written
extensively about psychotherapeutic applications for
pain medicine. Because of his own health challenges,
he has experienced many of these approaches
personally.
Paula
King, PhD
Paula King is
a licensed psychologist and certified sports consultant who
utilizes Interactive Guided Imagerysm to enable
clients to use the power of their inner wisdom to support
the understanding and development of the skills necessary
to accomplish their performance enhancement goals. Athletes
are singularly impressed with the power and effectiveness
of working with their own "inner coach.”
Stanley
Krippner, PhD
Staney Krippner is the
Alan Watts Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate
School and Research Center, San Francisco, CA. In
2002, the American Psychological Association gave him
its Award for Distinguished Contributions to the
International Advancement of Psychology; the
International Association for the Study of Dreams gave
him its Lifetime Achievement Award in
2006.
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD
Lewis Mehl-Madrona is
currently Associate Professor of Family Medicine and
Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan in
Saskatoon. He is the author of Coyote Medicine,
Coyote Healing, Coyote Wisdom, and Narrative
Medicine. He is American Board
certified in his specialties and also holds a Ph.D. in
clinical psychology and a Master's in Philosophy in
Qualitative (Narrative) Methodologies. His current
interests are in traditional cultural healing and
healers.
Emmett
Miller, MD
Emmett Miller is
internationally acknowledged as one of the architects
of holistic, mind/body medicine. He has spent more
than 35 years helping people access and activate their
innate wisdom to gain control of their minds, bodies,
and behavior and ultimately improve their health. His
mission now is to extend individual healing to society
and the planet as a whole using the social networking
afforded by the Internet. He has authored five books,
and his latest CDs are entitled Healing Our
Planet and Awakening the Leader
Within. Dr. Miller has also
created a virtual online university at
www.drmiller.com.
.
Helmut
Milz, MD
Helmut Milz holds
specialty degrees in Psychosomatic Medicine, General
Medicine and Psychotherapy. He has more than 30 years
of experience in different psychosomatic therapies and
education and is also honorary professor of Public
Health at the University of Bremen. He is a former
inhouse consultant to the WHO, co-authered the Ottawa
Charter for Health Promotion, lectures internationally
and wrote various books on integrative medicine,
health promotion and body oriented issues. He works in
private practice and resides in Germany.
Jean-Luc
Mommaerts, MD,MSc
Jean-Luc Mommaerts has
been a doctor of medicine since 1986 and a master in
Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence since
1997 with a university degree in Hypnosis. Having had
a medical practice for eight years, he has become very
much aware of the fact that modern people's health
needs point to the immense strength of the
subconscious that can best be attained by the use of
autosuggestion. After years of practice, he spent 4
years developing a medical decision support system for
Kluwer Editorial. Since 1997, he has developed the
autosuggestion ideas into 37 books, 169 AURELIS CDs,
AurelisOnLine and workshops.
Dean
Ornish, MD
Dean Ornish is the
founder, president, and director of the non-profit
Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito,
California, where he holds the Safeway Chair. He is
Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco. He is the author of five
best-selling books, including New York Times’
bestsellers Dr. Dean Ornish's
Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Eat More, Weigh
Less, and Love &
Survival. Dr. Ornish was appointed
to The White House Commission on Complementary and
Alternative Medicine Policy and has been a physician
consultant to The White House and to several
bipartisan members of the U.S. Congress.
Kenneth
R. Pelletier, PhD, MD(hc)
Kenneth R. Pelletier is a
Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of
Arizona School of Medicine and University of
California School of Medicine (UCSF) in San Francisco,
Director of the Corporate Health Improvement Program
(CHIP) with research involving 20 of the Fortune 500
companies. He is the author of 12 bestselling books
including Mind As Healer, Mind
As Slayer, The Best Alternative Medicine, Sound Mind-
Sound Body, Stress Free for Good: Ten Scientifically
Proven Life Skills for Health and
Happiness, and his newest
book, New Medicine :
Integrating Conventional and Alternative
Medicine.
Susan
Reynolds, MD, PhD
Susan Reynolds is the
President and CEO of The Institute for Medical
Leadership, which provides executive coaching and
leadership development for physician leaders and
health care executives. A former emergency physician,
CEO of an emergency medical center, White House
advisor, and executive search consultant, she created
a physician leadership training institute, initially
for the American Medical Association. Her clients
include numerous medical societies as well as many
hospitals and health systems. She also developed the
highly acclaimed Chief of Staff Boot Camps, which have
trained over 1,000 physician leaders and hospital
administrators.
Martin
L. Rossman, MD
Martin Rossman is the
Co-Founder of AGI, and the Founder of
www.thehealingmind.org, a premier resource for
evidence-based guided imagery audio tools for
self-healing. He is the author of the popular
books Guided Imagery for
Self-Healing and Fighting Cancer from
Within, and many articles and book
chapters on imagery, mind/body medicine and integrative
medicine.
Francine
Shapiro, PhD
Francine Shapiro is the
creator of Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing (EMDR), a senior research fellow at the
Mental Research Institute, and founder of the EMDR
Humanitarian Assistance Programs (a nonprofit
organization that coordinates disaster response and
pro bono trainings worldwide). She is a recipient of
the International Sigmund Freud Award of the City of
Vienna, for distinguished contribution to
psychotherapy, and the Distinguished Scientific
Achievement in Psychology Award presented by the
California Psychological Association.
C. Norman
Shealy, MD, PhD
Norman Shealy is a
neurosurgeon, developer of TENS, Founding President of
the Americn Hoilistic MedicAl Association and
President of Holos University Graduate Seminary. Dr.
Shealy has published over 300 papers and 25 books,
including LIFE BEYOND 100-SECRET
OF THE FOUNTAIN and PONY WISDOM OF THE
SOUL. He is also the producer
of MEDICAL
RENAISSANCE-THE SECRET CODE.
Nimrod
Sheinman, ND
Nimrod Sheinman is the
founder and director of the Israel Center for
Mind-Body Medicine. Over the last twenty years, he has
taught Guided Imagery and Mind-Body Priciples in
hospitals, institutes, universities and international
conferences in Israel, Australia, Europe and USA. He
is a graduate (1986) of the National College of
Natural Medicine (Portland, Oregon, USA), and a
graduate of the Academy for Guided Imagery's
Interactive Guided Imagerysm
Training.
David
Sobel, MD
David S. Sobel is Medical
Director of Patient Education and Health Promotion for
The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. and Kaiser
Permanente Northern California which serves over 3
million members. His research and teaching interests
include medical self-care, patient education,
preventive medicine, behavioral medicine and
psychosocial factors in health. He is coauthor of
seven books including: Living a Healthy Life
with Chronic Conditions, The Healing Brain, Healthy
Pleasures and Mind&Body Health
Handbook.
Hillary
Tindle, MD
Hilary Tindle is a
clinical investigator and Assistant Professor of
Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine
at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research and
clinical efforts focus on mind body therapies for
addiction in general and smoking cessation and relapse
prevention in particular. As director of the “Kick the
Habit” Smoking Cessation Clinic at University of
Pittsburgh, she actively translates promising research
findings into clinical practice. Her work is currently
supported by an NIH-sponsored Multidisciplinary KL2
career development award, the Mind and Life
Foundation, and the Pittsburgh
Foundation.
Andrew Weil, MD (tentative)
A world-renowned leader
and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine,
Andrew Weil is a best-selling author and editorial
director of DrWeil.com, the leading online resource
for healthy living based on the philosophy of
integrative medicine. Dr. Weil's books include the
national bestsellers Spontaneous Healing, 8
Weeks to Optimum Health, Eating Well for Optimum
Health, and The Healthy
Kitchen. His latest book,
Healthy
Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual
Well-Being, was published in October
2005.
Kathryn
P. White, PhD, DHM, LAc
Kathryn P. White is a
licensed clinical psychologist, licensed
acupuncturist, and doctor of homeopathic medicine
practicing in Beverly Hills, CA. She serves as
President of the American University of Complementary
Medicine, Professor & Coordinator of the Clinical
Health Psychology Doctoral Programs at Alliant
International University, Los Angeles, and Assistant
Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA.
<< PREVIOUS
PAGE • NEXT PAGE
>>
