Committed to Education
For the past 12 years, Restorative Formulations has supported and become the Platinum Sponsor of the Annual Restorative Medicine Conference. For years, this conference has been one of the most popular around for MDs, NDs and more. This community of doctors and healthcare professionals has grown and formed in to its own separate, non-profit medical organization: The Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine (AARM) which is dedicated to bringing medical and naturopathic physicians together in order to foster the growth of restorative medicine as a whole.
The AARM Board of Directors and speakers are some of the most influential and progressive within the industry:
Karan Baucom, MD, OB/GYN
Karan Baucom MD, OBGYN, FAARM has been active for many years in the area of women's health, and has been Board Certified in Obstetrics/Gynecology since 1981. Held Assistant Professorships in the Obstetrics/Gynecology DepartmentsoftheUniversityofMissouri,andthe University of Kansas Medical Center Dr. Baucom is the Medical Director of The Baucom Institute of Longevity & Life Enhancement in Overland Park, Kansas.
Colin Chan, MD
Colin Chan, MD received his medical degree from the University of Toronto, Canada and is Board Certified in Family Medicine in both the United States and Canada. He is an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. His medical practices focuses on all aspects of health and wellness and disease prevention. He utilizes medical knowledge from both Western and Eastern Medicine, including naturopathic medicine and bio-identical hormones. He is one of the very few physicians in Florida who is certified in Restorative Medicine and routinely uses Sustained Release T3.
Joseph Fiacable MD
Joseph Fiacable, MD graduated from Indiana School of Medicine in Indianapolis and has been practicing medicine for over 48 years. He established a private practice in psychiatry from 1967 to 2000 and since 2000 has specialized in male & female natural hormone assessment and replacement and thyroid conditions.
Paul R. Fleischman, MD
Dr. Fleischman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago and an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the Einstein College of Medicine. Trained in psychiatry at Yale University, Dr. Fleischman served as Chief Resident in Psychiatry at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. He has practiced psychiatry for over 30 years in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Ivan Paz, ND
Ivan M. Paz ND has practiced naturopathic sciences since 1982; being alumnus of Hahnemann Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (aka Florida College of Naturopathic Medicine), Bradenton, FL. Cofounder of NOVIS Natural Clinic of San Juan, Puerto Rico where he currently practices with emphasis on environmental medicine, detoxification, pain management and mind- body approaches for stress reduction. As a renowned herbalist in the Caribbean, he brings together a body of modern and ancient practices that use the less invasive natural techniques with measurable results to enhance wellness. Currently certified in Restorative Medicine.
Joseph Pizzorno, ND
Dr. Pizzorno is one of the world's leading authorities on science-based natural medicine. A physician, educator, researcher and expert spokesman, he is founding president of Bastyr University, Editor-in- Chief of IMCJ, Chair of Science Board of Bioclinic Naturals, Vice-chair of Board of IFM and Treasurer of the Board of AANP. Dr. Pizzorno has received numerous awards and honors and co-authored the Textbook of Natural Medicine and best-selling Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine (new editions in 2012). His newest book, Clinical Pathophysiology, A Functional Perspective (2012), provides the scientific foundation for a systems approach to healing.
Sadeq Quraishi, MD
Sadeq Quraishi MD is a physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree and training in Anesthesiology at Penn State. He then completed subspecialty training in Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Quraishi is a nationally recognized leader, educator, and innovator. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and written several book chapters. Dr. Quraishi's research focuses on the role of Vitamin D in acute stress and critical illness.
Aviva Romm, MD
Dr. Aviva Romm is a Yale-trained physician specializing in integrative medicine for women and children, a midwife, an herbalist, an award-winning author, and the creator/owner of WomanWise, online courses dedicated to vitality and optimal health for women and children. She is a mother, a teacher and speaker, an artist, and a woman who lives from the heart. She has spent nearly 30 years as a health care practitioner and advocate for women and children.
Jillian Stansbury, CMA, BS, ND
Dr. Stansbury is a naturopathic physician for 25 years specializing in women's health, mental health, and chronic disease. She holds undergraduate de- grees in Medical Illustration and Medical Assisting and graduated with honors in both programs. Dr. Stansbury chaired the Botanical Medicine Program at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine for over 20 years and remains on the faculty of both NCNM and Bastyr University.
Michael Friëdman, ND
Dr. Friedman is a licensed naturopathic physician and medical herbalist. Dr. Friedman is the author of the medical textbook Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology and co-author ofHealingDiabetes. Dr.Friedmanisalsoan experienced clinician and has published case studies including: Remission of Stage 4 Metastatic Ocular Melanoma, Treatment of Lymphoma with Poke Root and Pacific yew, and The Use of Botanical and Mineral Supplementation to Treat Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes.
Rosemary Gladstar
Rosemary Gladstar is a world-renowned herbalist and the founder of The California School of Herbal Studies, the oldest running herb school in the United States, and the author of many books, including Herbal Healing For Women, The Story Book Herbal Healing Series, and The Family Herbal. She is a pioneer in the herbal movement and has been called the 'godmother of American Herbalism'. Rosemary is the organizer of the International Herb Symposium and The New England Women's Herbal Conference held annually in NE. Rosemary lives and works from her home, Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center, a five hundred acre botanical preserve in central Vermont.
Gerrie Lindeque, MD
Gerrie Lindeque, MD obtained his MD from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He also holds a diploma in anesthetics from the College of Medicine of South Africa. For the past seven years his practice has been situated in Parys, Free State, South Africa, where he focuses on the treatment of degenerative diseases with nutritional and natural therapies. He has had good success in the treatment of various disorders including cancer, diabetes, heart and organ failure, auto-immune disorders, and autism. Dr. Lindeque also practices prolotherapy or joint and ligament reconstruction therapy by use of the injection of natural proliferant solutions to help patients avoid orthopedic surgery whenever possible.
Susan Thompson
Dr. Susan Thompson graduated, University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1985. She completed her residency in Family Medicine with an allopathic education. In 2004 Dr. Thompson was introduced to the Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome and from there to the broader field of Restorative Medicine. Since then she has been learning from patients and other healers how to guide persons toward wellness. Her current practice now focuses on her passions in health care: maternity and delivery, Restorative Medicine, and assisting the start up of a clinic in the mountains of Haiti for five villages that have never had health care.
David Winston, RH (AHG)
Mr. Winston is an Herbalist and Ethnobotanist with over 40 years of training in Cherokee, Chinese and Western herbal traditions. He has been in clinical practice for over 34 years and is an herbal consultant to physicians, herbalists and researchers throughout the USA and Canada. Mr. Winston is the founder/director of the Herbal Therapeutics Research Library and the dean of David Winston's Center for Herbal Studies. He is also a member of the AHPA Expert Advisory Council that created the new edition of the Botanical Safety Handbook to be published in 2013.
John Woytowicz, MD
Dr. Woytowicz has been on the faculty of the Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency (MDFMR) since 1995 where he is Director of Integrative Medicine (IM) and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine as the Dartmouth School of Medicine. He graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1986, now part of Drexel University.
Eugene R. Zampieron, ND, MH, RH(AHG)
Dr. Zampieron is a naturopathic physician alumni of Bastyr University. Dr. Zamperion helped firmly establish the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine as the first accredited naturopathic medical college on the Eastern seaboard. He is currently the senior-most faculty member at the institution and has taught botanical medicine, phyto-pharmacognosy, botanical pharmacy, urology, geriatrics, rheumatology, and the history of natural medicine.
The partnership between Restorative Formulations, AARM and the Annual Restorative Medicine Conference represents the leading cross-disciplinary collaboration between medical and naturopathic physicians.
By supporting AARM and its member physicians, Restorative Formulations is committed to education and the long-term growth of the medical community.
For more information about AARM, contact:
Katherine Kleine, Program Director
www.restorativemedicine.org
626-389-8072