Dr. Joseph E. Pizzorno, appointed by President Clinton in 2000 to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and by President Bush’s administration to the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee in 2002, is one of the world’s leading authorities on science based natural medicine.A naturopathic physician, educator, researcher and expert spokesperson, he is the founding president of Bastyr University. Under his leadership, Bastyr became the first accredited, multidisciplinary university of natural medicine and the first NIH-funded center for alternative medicine research. In June 2000, Dr. Pizzorno retired after 22 years from the presidency of Bastyr University. In 1996 he was appointed to the Seattle/King County Board of Health and was a founding board member of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia. He served as Chair of the American Public Health Association SPIG on CAM from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he joined the Scientific Review Board of the Gateway for Cancer Research Foundation and the Institute for Functional Medicine Board of Directors (where he now serves as Chair). In 2002, he became the founding editor-in-chief of Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, the most widely distributed peer-reviewed journal in the field. In 2007, he became the Integrative Medicine and Wellness expert for WebMD. He has been a licensed naturopathic physician (with prescriptive authority) in Washington State since 1975.
 
Dr. Pizzorno has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2006 at the 50^th anniversary of the founding of National College of Naturopathic Medicine, he was recognized as its most illustrious graduate. In 2004, Natural Foods Merchandiser recognized him as one of the 25 leaders in therapeutic nutrition, and he was honored by the Institute of Functional Medicine with the Linus Pauling award for his “Decades of work establishing the scientific and educational foundation of natural medicine.” In 2003, the American Holistic Medical Association recognized him as one of the 25 “Pioneers in Holistic Medicine.” In 2002, he received the “Founder’s Award for Pioneering Complementary and Alternative Medicine” by the National Foundation for Alternative Medicine. In 2001, Natural Health Magazine recognized him as one of the leading health educators in the past 30 years. In 2000, Alternative Healthcare Management recognized him as one of the four most influential leaders in alternative health care. He travels worldwide, consulting, lecturing and promoting science-based natural medicine and collaborative healthcare.
 
In 2001, Dr. Pizzorno founded SaluGenecists, Inc. to develop innovative, science based, artificial intelligence aided advice systems to provide smart, personalized health promotion and integrated care guidance for the public and practitioners. Information about the unique tools created by SaluGenecists can be found at www.salugenecists.com.
 
Dr. Pizzorno is the author of Total Wellness and co-author of the internationally acclaimed Textbook of Natural Medicine (now in its 3^rd edition with over 70,000 copies bought by doctors worldwide) and its companion books Natural Medicine Instructions for Patients and the Handbook of Natural Medicine. He also co-authored the, best-selling Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine (over 1,000,000 copies in six languages), Natural Medicine for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer and Encyclopedia of Healing Foods.

Dr. Pizzorno is Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board for Bioclinic Naturals.
 
Additional information about Dr. Pizzorno can be found at www.drpizzorno.com.

Michael T. Murray is widely regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on natural medicine. Dr. Murray is a graduate, faculty member, and serves on the Board of Regents of Bastyr University. He is co-author of A Textbook of Natural Medicine, the definitive textbook on naturopathic medicine for physicians, as well as the consumer version - the Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine. He has also written over 20 other books including Dr. Murray’s Total Body Tune-Up, The Pill Book Guide to Natural Medicines, and What the Drug Companies won’t Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn’t Know.   
 
Dr. Murray has been instrumental in bringing many effective natural products to America, including: 

• Glucosamine sulfate
• St. John’s wort extract
• Ginkgo biloba extract
• Silymarin
• Enteric coated peppermint oil
• Saw palmetto berry extract
• Anti-ACE Peptides
• PharmaGABA
• PGX 

Dr. Lyon heads up a team of clinicians and researchers dedicated to biotechnology, nutritional and natural health product research. He is an accomplished author. Dr. Lyon served as an Olympic Team physician for four years from 1988-1992 and was also head of a National Sport Science Committee for Sport Canada.

Since earning his doctorate degree in Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in 1989, Dr. Reichert has been in private practice and has also worked as an expert consultant to the natural health products industry. Dr. Reichert was the Naturopathic physician on staff for 3 years at the prestigious Tzu Chi Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Vancouver General Hospital.

Tom Tardi is also the Senior Vice President of Operations for Factors Group of Nutritional Companies. He has worked for over 30 years in the supplements industry. Tom was previously the Senior VP and COO for Vita Health Products.

Ron Smith brings 18 years experience at management level in the functional areas of quality control, quality assurance and validation in pharmaceutical and nutritional products manufacturing environment. Completed research in the areas of Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Analytical Method Development in the field of Carbohydrate Chemistry for Master of Science program, Department of Chemistry.

Henry Gan has considerable experience in the development of new products, modification of existing products, transfer of new process technologies to production, working knowledge of process validation, GLP and cGMP. Henry has over 30 years experience in product/formulation development, process development, manufacturing and quality assurance.

Dr. Slama is a gifted Ph.D. from Europe who heads our Quality Control and Research Laboratories and is actively involved in
Apitherapeutical and Phytopharmacological Research.

Chuck Chang graduated from the Combined Honours Chemistry and Biochemistry Programme at University of British Columbia. Chuck’s experience in analyzing and isolating active ingredients in herbs allows him to comment on the scientific merit of product claims, assess the potentials for various herbs and to make suggestions for planned chemical and clinical studies.