Advisory Board

David A. Bianchi, MD FACS

Dr. David Bianchi is a member of the Cardio Crusaders medical advisory board. He is board certified in ENT, a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Evan Birkhead

Currently the Vice President of Corporate Communications at Helicor Inc., the manufacturer the StressEraser. Birkhead is a consultant providing corporate communications advice, expertise and support to technology and healthcare organizations. His 25-year career spans 14 years experience as high-tech journalist followed by 11 years experience in corporate communications with expertise in global sales and marketing programs, marketing communications, media relations, message creation and evolution, online and print advertising, partner programs, customer reference ability programs, web strategy, trade shows, and video production.

Dr. Christopher Breuleux

Leading and cutting edge design for education, training, research, development and consulting expertise in the medical, wellness, fitness and health care industry. Health researcher and faculty member with ten teaching universities, Medical Wellness Diplomat, Advisor and Fellow with Worksite Health Promotion and the American College of Wellness. Assembled and led a nationally recognized Board of Directors, Medical Wellness Advisory Board, and Wellness Practitioner Advisor. Professional Association leadership with Medical Wellness Journal Editor, CEO and publisher. Proven track record in diverse market segments including university, employee, medical and community programs. Developed and designed the first joint university-hospital and healthcare-hospital award winning wellness facilities. Directed the first medically-based wellness centers in Houston and Cincinnati, developed the Integrative Medicine Unit and Wellness Institute. Successful international consultant, speaker, trainer and team leader for wellness, health promotion, fitness, worksite and corporate health programs.

Dr. Philip Brotman

Dr. Philip Brotman has thirty years experience in business management and marketing, as head of Biofeedback Instrument Corporation, NY. He also has training as an Electrical Engineer and Physicist (BEE and Masters Physics from Polytechnic Institute of NY), and a PhD in Electromedical Sciences. He was a staff physicist, computer sciences at Hughes Aircraft, Culver City, CA, from 1961-1966.

Dr. Brotman has extensive training in physiological feedback processes and their development into computerized systems, for use by clinicians and in the home.

His company Biofeedback Instrument Corporation has been profitable for over 30 years. It is involved with medical and health/wellness systems for Corporations, Health Centers and Hospitals and for laymen.

Dr. Brotman is a certified biofeedback practitioner; he has helped in the setting up of biofeedback/wellness centers throughout the country. He has also trained hundreds of clinicians in biofeedback and its clinical applications including stress management, anxiety reduction, tension and migraine headaches, substance abuse, high blood pressure.

Dr. Brotman speaks English and Portuguese.

Richard N. Edie, M.D.

A Princeton University graduate, Edie attended medical school at Columbia University under the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He worked as a surgeon at Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. Edie has certification by the American Board of General Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is a member of many highly esteemed professional societies including the American Medical Association and the American Heart Association. Edie's work has appeared in numerous medical and surgical publications and research abstracts.

Robert Fishman, Ph.D.

The founder and owner of Poste Haste Pharmacy, a landmark in Hollywood, Florida that also serves as a compounding pharmacy for doctors and their clients across the United States and throughout the world. Dr. Fishman is considered an expert in bio-identical hormones and is a much sought-after speaker. He is a member of the Diabetes Life Center, Lifespan Health and Wellness Natural pharmacy, and the Professional Compounding Centers of America. He is director of the Robert Fishman Institute which trains healthcare practitioners on how to design, monitor and collect outcomes information for patient's programs on bio-identical hormones and nutritional therapy.

Clifford Fruithandler, DC, PA

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Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™

Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is a one-of-a-kind "Motivational Humorist & Team Communication Catalyst."  The "Doc" is an acclaimed keynote and kickoff speaker known for his interactive, inspiring and FUN speaking and workshop programs.  The "Stress Doc" is also a team building and organizational development consultant for a variety of govt. agencies, corporations and non-profits.  And he is AOL's "Online Psychohumorist" ™.  Mark is currently leading "Bridging the Generational-Cultural Divide" and "Stress, Team Building and Humor" programs for the 1st Cavalry and 13th Expeditionary Support Command (ESC) Divisions and Brigades, at Ft. Hood, Texas and Ft. Leonard Wood, MO.  A former Stress and Conflict Consultant for the US Postal Service, the Stress Doc is the author of Practice Safe Stress and of The Four Faces of Anger.  See his award-winning, USA Today Online "HotSite" -- www.stressdoc.com -- called a "workplace resource" by National Public Radio (NPR). 

Debbie Gryniewicz

Debbie studied both Radiologic and Nuclear Medicine Technology, specializing in Nuclear Cardiology. She served as Director of Education for the School of Nuclear Medicine Technology at Northwestern University Hospital in Chicago, Illinois for five years. Debbie also developed the Nuclear Cardiology Department at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago under the direction of Hyo Byun, Radiologist.

Debbie worked as an applications consultant for Medical Data Systems, a division of Medtronic, Inc. Her responsibilities included teaching nuclear medicine and computerized medical imaging across the United States and in Europe. Later, Debbie assumed responsibility for a five state sales area and gained sales and marketing experience. Her productivity won her the top sales position in her first year, having sold over one million dollars of computerized imaging equipment. While working for Medical Data Systems, Debbie also worked with the product development team on projects such as digital radiography.

Debbie managed large accounts in the financial industry including The Chicago Research and Trading Group and The Chicago Board of Trade while employed with Data General, Apollo and later Hewlett Packard computer companies.

She has served on many professional and community committees and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Birth Defect Research for Children. She is a Rotary member and was recently honored with a Paul Harris Fellowship for the responsible way she represents her business in the community.

Debbie lives in Celebration, Florida with her husband, Bruce and twin sons, Christopher and Nicholas,

George Hudson, D.O., M.P.A.

George Hudson, D.O., M.P.A is a board certified family physician with a special interest in preventative medicine and nutrition. His private practice is located in Orlando, Florida.

Dr. Hudson is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and received his post-graduate training at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, California and Florida Hospital, Orlando, Florida. Additionally, he holds a Master's degree in Health Care Management from the University of Kansas.

Dr. Hudson is a diplomate of the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians and is an Associate Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. He has held faculty appointments at Nova Southeastern University, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Hudson is a member of the medical staff at Florida Hospital East Orlando and has held the position of Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine. He has lectured extensively on Nutrition and Preventative Medicine in Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, the Netherlands and throughout the United States. Dr. Hudson is also a retired Captain and Flight Surgeon in the Navy Reserve.

Dr. Hudson lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife, Dianne, a Nurse Practitioner who specialize in family and aesthetic medicine.

Dr. Ray Lueck

Dr. Ray Lueck, Licensed Psychologist, director of Family Care Psychological Services in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dr. Lueck specializes in non-medication alternatives and helps children and adults resolve issues by getting to the root of the problem so they can get off medications which just treat the symptoms. He is certified in EEG Biofeedback and uses HRV (Heart rate variability) biofeedback. He helps indivduals resolve stress in both emotional and physical domains. He treats the whole person, mind, body and spirit. You can learn more about him at www.familycare4u.com or www.drraylueck.com. You can contact him at drraylueck@aol.com and you can also see him on www.youtube.com

Paul Nelson, M.Ed.

Paul Nelson, M.Ed. is Founding Director of HeartCoaches which matches specially trained behavior-change practitioners with people diagnosed with heart disease or struggling with associated risk factors. Paul holds a masters degree in Counseling Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has served as a Staff Therapist at a community mental health center near Boston and as a Clinical Research Associate in the Dept. of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School. He received his training as a coach at Wellcoaches Corp., iPEC/NE Coaching and Institute of Coaching/Harvard Medical School. Paul has more than 20 years of experience as a practitioner of mindfulness meditation. He is also the author of 'Speaking from the Heart: Empathic Rapport and the Role of the Oral Tradition in Moral Development' (in 'The Healing Heart', New Society, '03).

Marc Onigman

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Bill Palat

A 20 year veteran of the Natural Health Industry, Palat is the former owner and president of Everything Natural Health Food Stores in New Jersey. He has a Bachelor of Science degree, and attended the American College of Naturopathy, concentrating on Holistic Studies. Palat studied Homeopathy under world re-known homeopathic physician Dr. Luc De Shepper. He has certification for sports nutrition by the International Fitness Professionals Association (IFPA). Palat was a former radio talk show host for "Nutrition for the Novice" WPDQ 89.7, serving Monmouth, Ocean Counties and Middlesex Counties, NJ. Palat is currently working in technical support, product development and territory sales management for Reliance Private Label Supplement Company.

Brad Rowe

A Kansas City area native, Brad brought Iron Horse Sales into the world in 2006 with an initial market focus in academia. As a manufacturer's representative firm for a variety of products, Iron Horse Sales quickly expanded its offerings and its market to most industries, including the medical market. Representing the Irish defibrillator manufacturer, HeartSine Technologies - the company's founders invented the defibrillator - Brad has seen the market for Public Access Defibrillators skyrocket over the years. It used to be that ER's and ambulances were the only avenues for this technology - now, defibrillators like HeartSine's "samaritan 300" can be found hanging on walls in most schools and in all sorts of offices, large and small, from coast-to-coast.

Brad has been an entrepreneur over 20 years. His employee benefits brokerage, AssurAmerica Ltd., has specialized in small group health plans and plans for individuals and their families since 1992. Iron Horse Sales continues to operate from the Southwest corner of the Kansas City metro, serving the MINK states (MO, IA, NE, KS) and beyond. He and his wife Jane will celebrate 25 years of marriage in the spring. Their two children, a son and a daughter, are both in high school.

Dennis Spiller, M.D.

Dr. Spiller is Board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology and cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Spiller is the imaging director for Healthworx specializing in echocardiography. He graduated with Honors from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine where he received the Christian and Mary Linback Scholarship award for outstanding medical student of his class completing an internship and residency at John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in New Jersey; Dr. Spiller's training also included a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in New Jersey; He is a Diplomat of the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine and holds a faculty position as Professor of Internal Medicine at Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine as well as on the Consulting staff of the Deborah Heart and the Lung Center and currently a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists. Dr. Spiller has held the positions of Chief of Staff of Humana Hospital of South Broward, as well as Chairman of the department of medicine at Humana Hospital of South Broward and Director of Cardiology at Memorial Hospital Pembroke.

Decker Weiss, NMD FASA

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