As a graduate of the University of Florida, Dr. Coy is proud to be a "Gator". His medical training took him to Cebu City in the Philippines with plenteous training in general medicine and surgery, nutrition and tropical diseases. He completed post-graduate medical training at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City before starting his first six years of medical practice in Marysville, Kansas where he acquired intense experience in obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, general surgery, emergency and family medicine. He was a Company Surgeon for the Union Pacific Railroad, the industrial physician for several local companies and served as the County Coroner.

In 1985 Dr. Coy came home to Central Florida and worked in Emergency Medicine and as a hospital physician. At the same time Dr. Coy began a multi-year stint in the walk-in clinic business. As he frustrated the staff for "taking too long with his patients," he won their praise as well, and the satisfaction of his patients because he kept digging until he got to the bottom of their problems. But the choice of solutions just seemed incomplete.

Over 20 years ago, Dr. Coy had already been introduced to Environmental Medicine and Allergy therapies not used by conventional physicians. It was at that time that Dr. Coy began to add to his training. Dr. Coy has acquired multiple skills that enable him to see patients as degenerating but thriving, imbalanced but correctable, turning despair into hope, helping people to regain control of their own health. Dr. Coy has a reputation in The Villages area community as a problem solver. Because of his traditional medical training, Dr. Coy can understand the reasoning behind pharmaceutical use and surgical decisions.

Dr. Mikhail Kogan obtained his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine. Subsequently he competed his internal medicine residency at Montefiore Program for Social Medicine and fellowship in Geriatrics at George Washington University, where he remained on faculty.

Among his many other areas of study are courses in nutrition, therapeutic use of vitamins, functional medicine, botanicals, and other alternative modalities. Weaving those tools into the fabric of his medical practice has enabled Dr. Kogan to provide innovative and effective treatments to his patients with minimal use of invasive procedures or heavy reliance on medications, to understand the importance of self-exploration, awareness and beneficial lifestyle changes as essential stepping stones on his patients’ paths towards better health.

His commitment to the importance of integrating different healing modalities with modern-day Western medicine has led him to become a founding board member of the American Board of Integrative Medicine, the director of the George Washington University Integrative Geriatrics Fellowship and co-director of the Integrative Medicine Track program at the George Washington University School of Medicine, a part-time faculty member of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, and GW Center for Aging, Health and Humanities.

Kalpana Patel, MD. FAAP, FAAEM, DABEM is a board certified Environmental Medicine specialist having deep interest in the environmental aspects of health and disease. She is a Founder of the Environmental Health Center-Buffalo (EHC-Buffalo), Dr. Patel is currently a director of this highly specialized medical facility. Dr. Patel serves on the board and is a president of the Environmental Health Foundation of the Western New York (WNY), was a president of the American Board of Environmental Medicine, and previously has served on the board of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine

Dr. Patel was awarded highly prestigious award by American Academy of Environmental Medicine for her contribution and research in the subject of environmental medicine and the Herbert J Rinkle award in 2008 for excellence in teaching techniques of environmental medicine. She has also received the 2003 Physician of the year award and 2004 Pioneer of Healthcare Reform Award and many other awards nationally and internationally. Dr.Patel is a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo and fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Academy of Environmental Medicine.

Dr. Patel has published many peer-reviewed research papers related to the topic of environmental medicine. She is a co-author of the medical textbook, Reversibility of Chronic Degenerative Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 1: Regulating Mechanisms of Chemical Sensitivity.; Volume 2: The Effects of Environmental Pollutants on the Organ System; Volume 3: Clinical Environmental Manifestations of the Neurocardiovascular Systems. Currently she is private practice of environmental medicine; Volume 4: The Environmental aspect of Chemical sensitivity; Volume 5: Treatment options of Chemical sensitivity.

Todd A. Born is a naturopathic physician, certified nutrition specialist (CNS), co-owner and medical director of Born Naturopathic Associates, Inc., in Alameda, California. Dr. Born is the Product Manager, Head of New Product Development, Scientific Advisor for Allergy Research Group, LLC and is Editor-in-Chief of their science-based Focus Newsletter. Dr. Born is also lead advisor and President of the International Society for Naturopathic Medicine, as well as a medical wellness advisor for the International Medical Wellness Association.

Dr. Born graduated from Bastyr University in Seattle and completed his residency at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health and its thirteen teaching clinics, with rotations at Seattle-area hospitals.Dr. Born’s clinical focus is utilizing integrative medicine to treat chronic disease. He has a strong interest in difficult and refractory cases, allergies, gastrointestinal issues, neurological and neurodegenerative disorders, and geriatrics. He has extensive knowledge and training in the basic medical sciences, physical medicine (osseous manipulation, craniosacral therapy, hydrotherapy and physiotherapy), botanical medicine, homeopathy, biotherapeutic drainage, Ayurveda, counseling, pharmacology, and diet and nutrient therapies.

Barry is a Holistic Practitioner who specializes in biomedical and environmental medicine interventions to assist the body in the healing process. He has dedicated his career to healing children and families after his own son was diagnosed with multiple medical conditions, from which all he has significantly improved.

Barry has a Masters in Physician Assistant studies from Finch University/Chicago Medical School and has been certified as a Defeat Autism Now clinician. He has several published articles in The Autism File and Autism Science Digest. He has presented across the country for organizations such as TACA, Holistic Mom’s Network, National Autism Association and Autism One. Barry has also spoken for local organizations – the San Antonio Natural Parenting group and Any Baby Can San Antonio.

Some of The Conditions Barry Treats Include:

·      Adrenal Fatigue

·      ADD/ADHD

·      Allergies

·      Autism Spectrum Disorders

·      Bowel issues/Disorders

·      Chronic Inflammation

·      Chronic Infections (Viral,Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic, Lyme)

·      Detoxification Disorders

·      Eczema

·      Gastrointestinal Issues

·      Hormone Imbalances

·      Hypo/Hyper Thyroid

·      Immune Dysregulation

·      Mitochondrial Dysfunction

·      Malabsorption/Maldigestion

·      Neurotransmitter Issues

·      Nutritional Deficiencies

·      Rashes

Dr. Shanhong Lu is a third-generation female medical doctor. She grew up with two traditions of medicine: her grandmother was a traditional Chinese medicine doctor and her mom was the first female cardiologist and professor of medicine. Dr. Lu holds an MD, and a PhD in Human Physiology, and was postdoctoral fellowship trained in Genetics of Hypertension. Dr. Lu is a published author in hypertension research and a public speaker for environmental health and sustainable health care.  She is double board certified in Internal Medicine and in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. She also strongly believes in optimizing women’s hormones through biorhythmic bioidentical dosing.  Her interest in the root causes of chronic diseases was inspired by her trials and errors healing not only her own endocrine and autoimmune challenges, but also thousands of people with serious complex medical issues.

Genes raise the gun and environmental factors pulls the trigger.  Over the past 20 years, based on some genetic and environmental assessment, Dr. Lu has been solving numerous “untreatable" chronic complex illnesses by implementing a core scientific program.  This program focuses on 3 simple steps: (1) naturopathic detoxification support (with genomic guidance and practical environmental assessment), (2) organic whole food and plant based lifestyle, (3) reestablish neuroendocrine immune homeostasis.  She strongly believes in the power of personal responsibility and the ability to heal.  She also honor personal timing and choices.  She encourages living life with authenticity and courage.  Her mission is to empower you to awaken the doctor within.  Patients heal themselves.

After 20 years in practice, collaborating with hundreds of practitioners across all specialties, in conventional, functional medicine and naturopathic principles, she is now opening her new chapter as a medical educator, researcher, collaborator, and teacher to people from all walks of life and profession.  She realized without educating practitioners in busy clinical settings, the majority of patients living in a polluted environment will not heal effectively and many could exhaust their financial resources and worse of all delay their precious time window in healing.  Dr. Lu believe in access to health care for all people regardless their insurance and financial status.  For this very reason, she is now offering her donation based coaching program to both patients and practitioners who are interested in working together.

Kielmann was awarded a Masters of Science Degree in Human Nutrition (with honors) from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. In addition to that, he is board-certified in Clinical Nutrition (CNS®), an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (candidate) (IFMCP®) 2018 and pursuing a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition (DCN) in 2019.

Jan regards Nutrition as the absolute core of health and focuses on nutritional and botanical interventions to support chronic, degenerative and auto-immune diseases, patients with cancer, energy and mental health challenges, as well as food intolerances, Mold exposure, Lyme disease, chronic infections, general disease prevention and optimal wellness.

He has almost a decade of experience and is very well connected in the Integrative Medical field, studying and training with some of the foremost Nutritional,Naturopathic, Functional and Integrative practitioners in the country.

Besides his nutritional training, Jan is continuously staying abreast with the newest research in Botanical medicine (Traditional, Eclectic&Functional Herbalism), Environmental Medicine, Functional Medicine, Nutritional Genomics, Functional Immunology and Integrative Mental Health.

He co-foundedthe (Professional) Functional Nutrition Forum with currently more than 2500 licensed healthcare practitioners, as well as the public Functional NutritionForum on Facebook and is active on the legislative level to help bring advanced Clinical Nutrition back to its place in the center and as the focus of Healthcare. He teaches Nutritional Genomics to Medical Doctors and adjunct practitioners besides advising and represents advanced companies in the nutraceutical and diagnostic fields.

Jason earned his Master’s of Science in Oriental Medicine in 2002 from the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine, in Chicago, USA.  He founded A Center for Oriental Medicine near Chicago and still maintains a busy, private practice. In 2009, Jason was honored to be one of the first Americans accepted into the PhD program at the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, which he completed in 2012.  In his doctoral work, Jason developed a technique that was shown experimentally to reduce anxiety and improve working memory.  Jason taught at DePaul University’s College of Health Sciences and Northwestern University’s Student Leadership Conference.  Dr. Bussell spent 7 years on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (including three years as President), but he had to leave that board because he was appointed by the Illinois State Governor to serve on the State Government’s Board of Acupuncture.  He has authored papers forpeer-reviewed professional journals and lay publications, and his book The Asian Diet has been sold worldwide.  In 2016, Jason returned to school to earn a Master’s in Business Administration and a Master’s of Public Health atJohns Hopkins University with the intention to help integrate acupuncture and Chinese herbology into the Western medical world.  In 2017, Jason became the first acupuncturist to receive a post-doctoral fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine department.  His areas of interest included cognition, memory, and mood.

Elisa Bergamin initially trained in pharmacological chemistry at the University of Studies of Padua in Italy, where she also became a pharmacist. After, she joined the PhD program in Structural Biology at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, which is part of New York University School of Medicine in New York, USA. In the laboratory of Stevan R. Hubbard, she trained as a protein crystallographer and studied the structure and function of important signalling molecules. After obtaining her Ph.D., she continued her training as a postdoctoral fellow at the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, at the University of Ottawa, Canada, in the laboratory of Jean-François Couture. There, she became interested in chromatin enzymes that control cellular functions by epigenetic mechanisms. She worked on the protein ATXR5, a histone methyltransferase that silences heterochromatic loci by monomethylating histone H3 on lysine K27 (H3K27). Following the resolution revolution, she joined as postdoctoral fellow the lab of the Nobel laureate Günter Blobel at Rockefeller University in New York to learn cryo-electronmicroscopy. She became a team leader in the Functional Genomics and Cancer department at the IGBMC in January 2018. Her team is interested in studying structural and functional basis of chromatin remodeling.

Dr. Jianmin Zhang, Professor in the Department of Immunology at the Peking Union Medical College & the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on studying the pathological mechanism of neurodegenerative diseases and developing therapeutic approaches against these diseases including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Zhang has published more than 50 prestigious scientific papers and acquired several patents related to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Sonya has been practicing as a Naturopathic Doctor since 2003, after completing her pre-medical studies at the University of Western Ontario and her post-graduate naturopathic training at the Canadian College of  Naturopathic Medicine.  Dr. Sonya is a board certified Naturopathic doctor and member in good standing of the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors.

Dr. Sonya has completed The Autism Research Institute’s Level I and II Defeat Autism Now! training and is currently at the mentor stage of the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs fellowship.  Biomedical treatment is extremely important to Dr. Sonya, both as a mother and as a professional. She is committed to staying current on research and treatments that can benefit children with developmental concerns. Dr. Sonya is extremely passionate about biomedical treatment and has treated thousands of children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders. As the mother of 3 young children, she is dedicated to bringing the most current research and advanced treatments to her multi-disciplinary wellness clinic located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Doherty is an international speaker and lectures extensively on biomedical treatment and the prevention of autism and other developmental delays. As a member of the Treat Autism faculty, she trains other health care professionals in biomedical treatment, in addition to providing information to parents, educators and therapists on the importance of addressing the medical aspects of autism in order to help optimize children’s development.

Dr.Doherty is an expert in mitochondrial dysfunction. She is one of the favorite speakers at 2017 IFNM forum. Dr. Doherty will come back this year to discuss how mitochondrial dysfunction related to Alzheimer's disease.

Andrew Rostenberg, DC, is a chiropractor, kinesiologist, functional medicine expert, methylation researcher, and director of Red Mountain Natural Medicine in Boise, ID. He is the founder of Beyond MTHFR©, a leading voice in the emerging field of functional medicine and genetics, raising awareness of how genetic variation impacts our health.  In addition to running a busy practice, Dr.Rostenberg has developed cutting-edge protocols using methylation pathways designed to optimize biochemistry, detoxification, digestion, brain function and more. Due to the popularity of his BeyondMTHFR© YouTubeTM channel and website, he has attracted patients from all over the world who seek to optimize their genes and change their lives.  He has clinical experience treating patients of all ages and walks of life, ranging from elite athletes and children to those suffering from complex digestive, autoimmune and neurological diseases.

Stephanie Ho  is a certified NGH (National Guild of Hypnotists) Instructor, and certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Psychology)Trainer. She is also a Peak Performance Coach and a recognized expert on Hypno Youth and Beauty.

Ms. Ho serves as NGH’s Official Envoy to China and as an ambassador for Chinese scholars and students.In 2017, she received the NGH Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an internationally recognized convention speaker and a former Wall Street investment executive.

Not only having years experience in hypnosis and helping a lot of patients improve their health, Ms. Ho is also very passionate about education. She believes it is better to teach people the way they can help themselves. Among all the hypnosis skills she has, Ms. Ho will have her first self-hypnosis workshop right before the forum. There will be 4 popular areas being covered during the workshop: pain management, sleep disorders, stress management and smoking cessation.

At the young age of twelve, Dr. Steven Osterhout was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. At age twenty, he underwent open-heart surgery. Experiencing these two profound health challenges early in life created in him an overwhelming need to find answers to why we get sick. This led to over twenty years of research, science, and participation in natural healing strategies from around the world. Dr. Osterhout learned firsthand that identifying, detoxifying, and healing the underlying causes of illness creates an authentic opportunity for the body to heal. Combining the best of natural and traditional medicine has led to the creation of Vitality Healthcare, providing our community with the best integrative approaches from around the world.

In 2004, Dr. Steven Osterhout founded Vitality Healthcare, Southwest Michigan’s premier integrative wellness center offering the best of medical and natural healing. Vitality’s experienced team of providers and staff helps patients successfully lose weight, reverse metabolic disease, and eliminate pain by addressing the underlying causes of poor health. Vitality Healthcare offers Medical & Natural Weight Loss, Functional Medicine, Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy, Natural Pain Solutions, Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, Massage Therapy, Food Allergy Testing/Neutralization, Detoxification Protocols, and much more. The Vitality Healthcare philosophy is to educate, empower and create the opportunity to restore health for those who are ready for change.

Laura Reynolds is the Director of the Cognitive Fitness Initiative.  She is responsible for overall management of the Successful Aging & Your Brain project and the Scouts Healthy Brain Initiative.  Successful Aging & Your Brain focuses on maximizing brain function and health in older adults.  The program includes live public forums, printed materials, a website section, and a full length video program.  The Scouts Healthy Brain Initiative is a free online resource on the brain and brain health to help Scout Leaders create programs for their troops. The program hopes to encourage brain healthy lifestyles as well as encourage the development of future neuroscientists.

• Founding Director, Cornell University memory disorder Program

• Chief Executive Officer, Relkin Consulting LLC

• Chief Executive Officer, Brilliant Health LLC

Dr Norman Relkin is an American Behavioral Neurologist and Neuroscientist known for his many contribution to research on Alzheimer’s disease and related brain disorders. In 1992, he established the Memory Disorders Program at the Cornell University Medical Center in New York. He subsequently served as the Program’s Director for over  the next two decades.

While at Cornell, Dr Relkin authored over 100 scientific articles on degenerative, traumatic and idiopathic disorders of the brain.  In the mid 2000s he led the North American Multicenter Clinical Trial of Intravenous Immunoglobulin for Alzheimer’s disease. In 2006, he authored the widely cited International guidelines for the diagnosis of Adult Hydrocephalus. Dr Relkin has been a central figure in the creation of Adult Hydrocephalus clinical research networks in the United Statesand China.  He serves as an advisor tothe Neurodegeneration Sub-Committee of the Chinese Microcirculation Society and is a regular speaker at its national meetings.

In 2015, Dr Relkin founded Relkin Consulting LLC, a company that provides expert guidance to major preclinical and clinical drug development programs in North America, Europe and Asia. He was appointed Chief Scientific Officer of HSRx Biopharmaceuticals LLC in 2017 and recently became Chief Executive Officer of Brilliant Health LLC, a company that deploys novel technologies to  create new types of safe and effective nutritional supplements and functional foods.

Yunfeng Duan got his PhD in behavioral biology and had postdoctoral training in bioinformatics.

Dr. Duan is now a senior engineer of data mining and application of the Institute of microbial genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Duan is a Member of China Science Popularization Writers Association. He has done a lot of public education through his wechat platform. Soon his book will be published by Qianghua Publisher.

Dr. Duan is also a clinical genetic consultant. He mainly engaged in probiotics, human symbiotic microorganism and 'bacteria - gut - brain axis', and other related studies, including long life elderly, infant intestinal microorganism and brain development in many fields.