Faculty

James Greenblatt, MD

A pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, James M. Greenblatt, MD, has treated patients since 1988. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Greenblatt currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine.

Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc

Dr. Peter Bongiorno is a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist and serves as co-medical director of InnerSource Natural Health and Acupuncture, a thriving practice with two clinics in New York (New York City and Long Island).  He specializes in using integrative care to heal mood disorder. Dr. Bongiorno researched as a pre-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, at the National Institute of Mental Health’s department of Clinical Neuroendocrinology, where he first studied the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis response to stress. He also researched at Yale University in the department of pharmacology before training at Bastyr University in naturopathic medicine and acupuncture.

Rachel D. Egan PMHNP

Rachel received her BSN and MSN through Massachusetts General’s Institute of Health. Upon completion of this program, she was granted the Harriet Towle Excellence in Clinical Nursing Practice award. Rachel worked as an RN and completed her Master’s clinical hours at Walden Behavioral Care, a program specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. She now works there as the Associate Medical Director of Ambulatory Programming. In May 2021, Rachel completed Psychiatry Redefined’s Fellowship in Functional & Integrative Psychiatry. Rachel employs integrative and functional medicine techniques with outpatients in her private practice on Cape Cod, MA.

Stasha Gominak, MD

Dr. Gominak attended college in California and  medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, receiving her MD degree in 1983. She completed a Neurology residency in 1989 at the Harvard affiliated, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. From 1991-2004 she practiced as general neurologist in the San Francisco Bay area.

Judith E. Pentz, MD

Judith E. Pentz, MD is an integrative psychiatrist who has dedicated her career to combining the very best of western and integrative medicine in order to cultivate balanced mental health for all those who seek it.  

Dr. Pentz attended the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo (now the University of Toledo), completing her psychiatric training in 1990 and achieving board certification in 1993 (adult psychiatry) and 1994 (child and adolescent psychiatry), respectively.  

Arwen Podesta, MD, ABPN, FASAM, ABIHM

Practicing in New Orleans, Arwen Podesta, MD is a board-certified adult psychiatrist with sub-specializations in addiction medicine, forensic psychiatry, and integrative medicine. She opened Podesta Psychiatry LLC in 2012, with a team of excellent providers- a multidisciplinary collaborative model with nutrition, psychotherapy, acupuncture and psychiatry.

David Shannahoff-Khalsa

David Shannahoff-Khalsa is the Director of The Research Group for Mind-Body Dynamics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) BioCircuits Institute, and a member of the UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine. Prior to coming to UCSD in 1994, he spent 23 years at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, first working on the building blocks of the genetic code, and then pioneering novel studies in the neurosciences.

William Shaw, PhD

William Shaw, PhD, is board certified in the fields of clinical chemistry and toxicology by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Before he founded The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc., Dr. Shaw worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Children’s Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine, and Smith Kline Laboratories. He is the author of Biological Treatments for Autism and PDD, originally published in 1998 and Autism: Beyond the Basics, published in 2009. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide.

Jacob Teitelbaum, MD

Jacob Teitelbaum, MD is a board-certified internist and a nationally renowned expert on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, sleep, and pain.  In seeking to heal from the CFS and fibromyalgia that burdened him throughout medical school, Dr. T embarked upon a journey to uncover new treatments that at the time were unknown to mainstream medicine.  This journey became the foundation of his life’s mission: to help people who suffer from these debilitating illnesses and to educate the professionals who work with them.  The breakthrough treatment program he has developed over the course of this journey, the S.H.I.N.E.^® Protocol, has helped tens of thousands of patients reclaim vitality, comfort, and health.