EmbodiWorks consults with experts on our Integrative Cancer Care Advisory Board for input to educate and advocate for people affected by cancer, health care providers, as well as improve cancer care systems. Some of our Integrative Cancer Care Advisory Board members provide expert information for, review, and/or author website content. Our Advisors are MDs, PhDs, social workers, patient advocates, integrative health care providers, visionaries, and other professionals serving people affected by cancer. EmbodiWorks Integrative Cancer Care Advisory Board includes the following remarkable people.
Jeanne Achterberg, PhD
Lise Alschuler, ND
Kris Carr
Moshe Frenkel, MD
James S. Gordon, MD
Lora Matz, MS, LICSW
Dave Paxson, MBA
Mary Ann Richardson, DrPH
Gabrielle Roth
Linda Sparrowe
Jeanne M. Wallace, PhD, CNC
Honorary Memorial Member: O. Carl Simonton, MD
Jeanne Achterberg, PhD
 Jeanne Achterberg, PhD is a scientist who has received international recognition for her pioneering research in medicine and psychology. A faculty member for 11 years at Southwestern Medical School, she is expressionsly a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. She also co-chaired the mind/body interventions ad hoc advisory panel and the Research Technologies Conference of the Office of Alternative Medicine, and was a member of the Advisory Board, Unconventional Cancer Treatments Study Group, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. She is a research consultant and advisor to 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. Imagery in Healing is critically acclaimed as a classic in the field of mind/body studies, and Woman as Healer is described as a ground breaking work, surveying the activities of women from prehistoric times to the present. Rituals of Healing is a primer on the use of creative therapies for health and medicine, and won the Book of the Year Award from the American Nursing Association. Her book Lightning at the Gate is the story of her personal healing journey.
Her awards include Healer of the Year, given by the Nurse Healers' Cooperative, the Gardner Murphy Scholar Award, and the Moncrieff Award for Burn Research. In April of 2001, she was featured in Time Magazine as one of the six innovators of alternative and complementary medicine for the coming century. Dr. Achterberg is past president of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, was Senior Editor for Alternative Therapies, a peer-reviewed medical journal with an international circulation, and has many other accomplishments.
Lise Alschuler, ND
 Lise N. Alschuler, ND, FABNO, is a naturopathic physician with board certification in naturopathic oncology. She specializes in naturopathic care for people who have been affected by cancer. She was recognized as one of three Naturopathic Elders by the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. She received a President’s Award from the Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and she was recognized as one of Seattle’s "Top Doctors" by Seattle Magazine.
Previously, Dr. Alschuler was the director of naturopathic medicine at Midwestern Regional Medical Center—Cancer Treatment Centers of America, an accredited hospital specializing in comprehensive, integrative cancer care. Prior to that, Dr. Alschuler was a member of the faculty and clinic medical director at Bastyr University in Seattle.
She is widely recognized as an expert in cancer treatment and prevention and is a sought-after speaker to physicians, patients, and the general public. She gives presentations about integrated healthcare, naturopathic medicine, and naturopathic oncology nationally and internationally.
Dr. Alschuler is the immediate Past-President of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. She is currently Vice President of Quality and Education at Emerson Ecologics, LLC, the largest distributor of dietary supplements and services to healthcare professionals. She also provides naturopathic oncology care at Naturopathic Specialists. Dr. Alschuler has written extensively on the subject of integrative medicine and is herself a breast cancer thriver.
Kris Carr
 Kris Carr is a best-selling author, filmmaker, and motivational speaker. She is the subject of the inspirational documentary, Crazy Sexy Cancer, which she wrote and directed for TLC and Discovery Health.
Her awarding-winning books, Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips and Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor, are must-have manuals for triumphing over disease while shattering stigmas and embracing a holistic approach to recovery. Carr’s third book, New York Times bestseller Crazy Sexy Diet, is a kick ass nutrition and lifestyle game plan for wellness warriors seeking optimal health and vitality.
As an irreverent foot soldier in the fight against disease, Carr inspires countless individuals and their families to make the link between personal and planetary health by adopting a plant-based diet and improving lifestyle choices. Her witty anecdotes, and tips for tackling adversity motivate her audiences to become empowered wellness activists.
Carr has lead health and healing workshops at The Omega Institute, Kripalu, The Crossings, and The New York Open Center. She lectures around the country at medical schools, hospitals, wellness centers, corporations and universities such as Boston College and Harvard.
Television appearances include: CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, Today Show, Montel, Access Hollywood, The Mike & Juliet Show, Good Morning America and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Carr is on the Advisory Board of Donna Karan's Urban Zen Foundation and is the founder of Red House Pictures and Crazysexylife.com. She lives by her motto: Make juice not war.
Moshe Frenkel, MD
 Moshe Frenkel MD is the founder and director of Integrative Oncology Consultants. He is a clinical Associate Professor at the University of Texas and board-certified family physician with extensive experience in complementary and integrative medicine. In addition, he serves as the Chair of the Clinical Practice Committee of the Society of Integrative Oncology and is faculty of the Center for Mind Body Medicine.
Prior to directing Integrative Oncology Consultants, Dr. Frenkel was the medical director of the Integrative Medicine Program at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas. Dr. Frenkel founded the first Integrative Medicine clinic in this center. The clinic provides consultations to patients touched by cancer on the best way to integrate complementary and integrative medicine to their care.
Dr. Frenkel is an internationally recognized expert in integrative oncology with multiple publications related to the best way to integrate integrative medicine into conventional care. He has published over 50 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and has coauthored chapters on Integrative Medicine in leading oncology textbooks.
Dr. Frenkel received his medical degree in 1980 from Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and received his diploma in family medicine from the Hebrew University, Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. He completed a family practice residency at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in Patchogue, N.Y., which was affiliated with Stony Brook University. Prior to joining M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr Frenkel was a faculty member at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He served there as a key contributor to a National Institutes of Health grant on integrating integrative medicine into the medical school curriculum, as well as providing integrative medicine consultations to patients and families. He then joined MD Anderson and served until 2009 as the medical director of the Integrative Medicine Program. Since he retired from MD Anderson he founded the "Integrative Oncology Consultants" and continues to provide consultations to patients in his private clinic, as well as consulting institutions that have interest in developing integrative oncology service in their location.
James S. Gordon, MD
 James S. Gordon, MD, a Harvard educated psychiatrist, is a world-renowned expert in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma. He is the Founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Dean of the Graduate School of Mind-Body Medicine at Saybook University, a Clinical Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at Georgetown Medical School, and recently served as Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. He also served as the first Chair of the Program Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine and is a former member of the Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the NIH.
Dr. Gordon has devoted over 35 years to the exploration and practice of mind-body medicine. After gradating Harvard Medical School, he was for 10 years a research psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health. There he developed the first national program for runaway and homeless youth, edited the first comprehensive studies of alternative and holistic medicine, directed the Special Study on Alternative Services for President Carter's Commission on Mental Health, and created a nationwide preceptorship program for medical students.
Dr. Gordon has created ground-breaking programs of comprehensive mind-body healing for physicians, medical students, and other health professionals; for people with cancer, depression and other chronic illnesses; and for traumatized children and families in Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel and Gaza as well as in post-9/11 New York and post-Katrina southern Louisiana. Nearly 3,000 health and mental health professionals throughout these regions have been trained by Dr. Gordon to more effectively address the psychological trauma within their communities, including supervision and training of a local leadership group within each region which enables the CMBM model to be fully integrated into and sustainable within the local healthcare community.
Dr. Gordon's most recent book is Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression (Penguin Press). His also the author of Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies and Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies (both Perseus Books). In addition, Dr. Gordon has written or edited 9 other books, including the award-winning Health for the Whole Person, and more than 120 articles in professional journals and general magazines and newspapers, among them the American Journal of Psychiatry, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Psychiatry, The American Family Physician, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He also helped develop and write the educational materials to supplement the public television series "Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers".
Dr. Gordon's work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, FOX News and National Public Radio, as well as in The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, People, American Medical News, Clinical Psychiatry News, Town and Country, Hippocrates, Psychology Today, Vegetarian Times, Natural Health, Health, and Prevention.
Lora Matz, MS, LICSW
 Lora Matz has been a leader in the field of Integrative Medicine for many years. She is a psychotherapist, lecturer, and writer who works extensively throughout the country in the area of Mind-Body Medicine and Transpersonal Development. Lora worked in Washington, DC as the Associate Director & Clinical Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine with Dr. James Gordon, Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She continues to work as a senior faculty member for the Center's Professional Training Programs. Lora is skilled in curriculum and program development, including program development for the Greater Twin Cities United Way, the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing, Health Coaching Program, Sunstone Cancer Retreats, Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, MN, the Kids Resiliencey Education Program and others. In addition to working in the Twin Cities, Lora travels throughout the country as a consultant and educator conducting trainings. Lora also has extensive experience in the area of death and dying and has served as a consultant to hospice in advancing integrative practices. Lora teaches and works with archetype, myth, and symbol as a bridge to personal and collective spiritual transformation. She has co-led a pilgrimage to France and Scotland with colleague, Lyndall Johnson of Aslan Institute.
Dave Paxson, MBA
 Dave Paxson has a life long interest in integrative health care. He is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist and serves as Board of Directors President of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Association. From 1985 to 2005, he was involved in clinical social work and the management of social services for Montgomery County, Maryland. He earned a MBA from the University of Maryland in 1978. Dave was an Army Nurse during the Vietnam conflict. He has experience in Psychiatric Nursing and was involved in both the clinical and administrative side of managing addiction treatment centers. In an interim career, he was involved in directing a major national trade association. He has also been involved in technical writing and consulting work regarding medical economics and epidemiology.
Mary Ann Richardson, DrPH
 Mary Ann Richardson, DrPH is pioneer researcher of complementary and alternative therapies and an experienced independent investigator and program director at academic, government, for-profit, and non-profit organization levels, with an international scope. She has worked with industry, regulatory agencies, and clinical research sites to develop and conduct evaluations of botanicals, pharmacologics, and bioelectromagnetic therapies with grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DOD), and other non-profit agencies. She is founder of Alycon Associates, a consulting group whose mission is to build collaborative networks among manufacturers/inventors, clinicians/ research scientists, and visionary non-profit, and for profit organizations to advance novel therapeutics through the application of scientific rigor with strategic investigational approaches.
She holds a Masters and Doctorate degree in Public Health, focused on epidemiologic and statistical methods, from The University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health (UT-SPH), where she was Assistant Professor and Director of The UT – Center for Alternative Medicine Research. The center was the first funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the only one cofounded by the National Cancer Institute to evaluate complementary/alternative (CAM) therapies for cancer.
She is a former Health Science Administrator, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at NIH where she managed a large oncology portfolio and developed new research initiatives; Director of Research/Vice President, National Foundation for Alternative Medicine (NFAM), where she directed programs to identify and evaluate innovative therapies for chronic conditions; Principal Investigator, Complementary and Alternative Medicine for the Military (MIL-CAM): Epidemiological Documentation Service (EDS), funded by the Department of Defense through the Samueli Institute, to identify and evaluate CAM with relevance for the military.
Dr. Richardson is a Founding Member of the American Society of Complex Therapeutics and an Advisory Board member of the Cochrane Collaboration CAM Field Group. She is former Executive Secretary for the NIH Cancer Advisory Panel for CAM, member of the National Cancer Institute Adult Treatment Editorial Board for Physicians Data Query (PDQ) and Editorial Board, American Cancer Society CAM committee member, and Cancer Coalition advisory board member.
Research interests include complex therapeutics, phytomedicines, bioelectromagnetic and frequency therapies, and non-toxic, non invasive, and low cost treatments for chronic conditions including cancer, cardiovascular, HIV/AIDS, neurologic disease, and toxic and environmental exposures.
Gabrielle Roth
 Gabrielle Roth has turned thousands of people across the globe on to the inner, healing rhythms of their dancing souls, the creative brilliance of their innate originality and the unexpected daring to express themselves in theater, dance and poetry. Through her movement philosophy, the 5Rhythms®, Gabrielle and her certified teachers world-wide have helped people of all ages discover that when you put the psyche in motion, it heals itself.
Based in New York City, Gabrielle has written three books, produced three DVDs and 20 albums. Through her ongoing interactive-live theater, catalytic classes and workshops around the world, Gabrielle continues to inspire and guide people on the path of shaping life itself into a work of art.
She has been featured in Bazaar, Donna Karan's Woman to Woman, Utne Reader, Self, Elle, Mademoiselle, New Age Journal, Body Mind Spirit, Shape and many other national publications.
Linda Sparrowe
 Linda Sparrowe has a long and varied career in magazine and online publishing, with a special emphasis on women's health and lifestyle content. Currently, she is vice president of content development for SacredAgent, a website focused on the world's wisdom traditions currently in development. Linda was editorial director of InnoVision Health Media from 2005 to 2009 and changed the name of the publication to Natural Solutions that was relaunched with great acclaim. She also created Natural Solutions' Beauty With a Conscience awards, working in concert with Whole Foods Markets and the Teens for Safe Cosmetics organization to help women understand the connection between their health and the choices they make in their every day lives.
Previously, she served as managing editor, acting editor, contributing editor, and consultant to Yoga Journal magazine and mentor/consultant for several other consumer titles. She has done copywriting and marketing for such diverse projects as the Gaiam health and lifestyle catalogs, a vitamin/supplements website, and health and wellness media kits, and a spirituality/wisdom web launch. Linda has lent her writing and editing skills to a variety of book projects and has authored several books of her own including: A Woman's Book of Yoga and Health, which teaches women to support themselves with yoga no matter what condition they face or stage of life they're in; Yoga for Healthy Bones; Yoga for Healthy Menstruation; and Yoga: A Yoga Journal Book, a coffee table book which chronicles the history of yoga and showcases more than 350 photographs of awe-inspiring yoga poses.
Outside the office, Linda has continued her commitment to holistic health. She was instrumental in launching retreats for women with breast and reproductive cancers where she leads programs focusing on yoga, meditation, and nutrition. She also leads workshops for yoga teachers on how to teach women with particular conditions or women who have undergone physical or emotional difficulties. She has appeared on several radio shows and serves as an expert on women's health and natural solutions in beauty, self care, diet, home, and family.
Jeanne M. Wallace, PhD, CNC
 Jeanne M. Wallace, PhD, CNC is an authority in integrative cancer care: educating cancer patients and their health-care providers about evidence-based dietary, nutritional and botanical support to complement conventional oncology care. Dr. Wallace pioneered a multi-modal approach targeting multiple aspects of cancer physiopathology (e.g., dysregulated cell signalling and gene expression, neoangiogenesis, apoptosis, redifferentiation and immunocompetence). Specializing in primary malignant brain tumors since 1997, Dr. Wallace also has extensive experience working with clients with breast, ovarian, colorectal, pancreatic and squamous cell head-and-neck cancers, and malignant melanoma. In 2001, she submitted a "Best Case Series" of 101 Glioblastoma multiforme (stage IV brain tumor) patients to the National Cancer Institute's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCI/NCCAM). This data was updated April 2004 to include 325 cases, and was favorably reviewed. Founder of Nutritional Solutions Consulting Group, she is board certified in Holistic Nutrition, and a member of the Society of Integrative Oncology and the National Association of Nutrition Professionals.
Honorary Memorial Advisory Board Member
O. Carl Simonton, MD
 Carl Simonton was an internationally acclaimed oncologist, author, and speaker who is best known for his pioneering insights and research in the field of psychosocial oncology. After having earned his medical degree from the University of Oregon Medical School, he completed a three-year residency in radiation oncology. It was during this time that Dr. Simonton developed a model of emotional support for the treatment of cancer patients... an approach that introduced the concept that one's state of mind could influence their ability to survive cancer.
As chief of Radiation Therapy at Travis Air Force Base, Dr. Simonton implemented this model. This was the first systematic emotional intervention used in the treatment of cancer—a program that was approved by the surgeon General's Office in 1973. While in private practice, Dr. Simonton utilized his unique approach for the treatment of cancer patients. A pilot study he conducted from 1974 to 1981, demonstrated an increase in survival time and improvement in quality of life. His early research established the foundation for two widely acclaimed books which he co-authored, Getting Well Again and The Healing Journey.
Dr. Simonton was the Director of The Simonton Cancer Center in California, where retreat programs are offered for cancer patients and their loved ones. In recent years, his model has received great acceptance in Germany, Poland, Japan and Switzerland, where he routinely conducted training sessions for health professionals.
In November 1997, he was honored by the American Medical Association for his film, Affirmations For Getting Well by Touchstar Productions. This video, used in practically every hospital in the US is presently being distributed to oncologists throughout our nation by SmithKline Beecham, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.
As an extension of his original work, Dr. Simonton developed programs to meet the needs of individuals at different points in their lives. Pediatric and hospice-based models utilizing his basic tenets are now being created.
With a strong interest in promoting the healing aspects of music, Dr. Simonton is the co-recipient of a recently funded research grant designed to test the psychoneuroimmunological effects of active drumming, and integral component of this cancer program. Through numerous presentations throughout the world, and countless interviews with leading media, Dr. Simonton helped individuals build upon their strengths by enabling them to travel their healing journeys with hope and inspiration. His pioneering approach has great potential to become the 4th tool in our armamentarium against cancer along with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
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