Discover a wealth of evidence-based courses developed by Dr. James Greenblatt and expert faculty with decades of clinical experience in functional medicine and nutritional psychiatry.
Meet the Instructors
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.
Read MoreAn acknowledged integrative medicine expert, educator, and author, Dr. Greenblatt has lectured internationally on the scientific evidence for nutritional interventions in psychiatry and mental illness. Through three decades of practice and research, Dr. Greenblatt is a leading contributor to helping physicians and patients understand the role of personalized medicine for mental illness.
In April of 2017, Dr. Greenblatt was inducted into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame by the International Society of Orthomolecular Medicine.
He is the author of seven books, including Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD; Nutritional Lithium: A Cinderella Story; Answers to Anorexia; Integrative Medicine for Alzheimer’s; Integrative Medicine for Binge Eating; and Integrative Medicine for Depression; and co-editor with Kelly Brogan, MD, of the textbook Integrative Therapies for Depression.
Dr. Greenblatt is the founder of Psychiatry Redefined, an educational platform dedicated to the transformation of psychiatry. Psychiatry Redefined offers online CME-approved courses, webinars, and fellowships for professionals to learn about functional and integrative medicine for mental illness. To learn more, please visit www.JamesGreenblattMD.com.
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.
Read MorePeter is a sought after thought leader in the field of integrative medicine for mental health. He has spoken at the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health conference, for general session at A4M, at the Integrative Health Care Symposium in New York City, the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Council for Responsible Nutrition, American Academy of Environmental medicine, as well as to medical schools and functional medicine physician groups across the country. He is the immediate past president of the NY Association of Naturopathic Physicians and, was chosen naturopathic physician of the year in New York State in 2008. For more information, please visit www.DrPeterBongiorno.com
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.
Read MoreIn 2004 Dr. Gominak moved with her husband to Tyler, Texas and began to concentrate on treating neurological illness by improving sleep. She published a pivotal article in 2012 proposing that the global struggle with worsening sleep was linked to reduced sun exposure. In 2016 she followed with a second article linking the change in the intestinal microbiome to the epidemic of poor sleep, and described a simple process for normalizing sleep and the intestinal bacterial population, called RightSleep®. In 2016 she retired from office practice to have more time to teach. She currently divides her time between teaching individuals, through virtual coaching sessions and teaching clinicians from a wide variety of medical and dental fields. Her popular courses and lectures help clinicians improve their patients’ health and wellbeing by improving their sleep. To learn more about her work, courses and coaching, click here.
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH is an Integrative Medicine clinician, scientist, educator, and author specializing in the intersection of trauma, cognition, and chronic physical illness. She is a licensed psychotherapist, certified in functional nutrition, board-certified in both polarity therapy and bodywork and massage therapy, and is a national board-approved clinical supervisor. She has a private practice where she works with clients to improve mental health and reduce or eliminate medications using natural medicines. She has a PhD in Behavioral Medicine from the Union Institute and University, an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health, where she trained in nutrition, and a MA in cross-cultural health psychology from Lesley University.
Read MoreDr. Korn completed a Clinical Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School where she introduced somatic therapies for mental health and later was appointed clinical supervisor. She completed clinical internships in psychogeriatrics at Boston University Medical Center and at the Massachusetts General Hospital Trauma Clinic. She was a Fulbright research scholar in Traditional Medicine of Mexico and an NIH-funded scientist in Mind-Body Medicine. She has been on the core faculty of The New England School of Acupuncture, The National College of Naturopathic Medicine, California Institute of Integral Studies, and Capella University. She is director of research at the Center for World Indigenous Studies, a non-profit American Indian organization focusing on social justice and consultation to indigenous communities on revitalization strategies using traditional medicine, herbal and culinary practices. Leslie is the author of 9 books including Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: A Complete Guide to the Food-Mood Connection (Norton, 2016), Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature and the Body (Routledge, 2012), the bi-lingual, Medicinal Plants of the Jungle, The Good Mood Kitchen (Norton 2017) and Natural Woman (Shambhala 2019).
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.
Read MoreIn addition to her training in the medical field of psychiatry, Dr. Pentz has studied numerous complementary healing methods ranging from craniosacral therapy and EMDR to homeopathy and qi gong. She has trained with various healers exploring Chinese, Native American, Peruvian, and Ayurvedic herbal, bodywork, and energetic modalities.
Dr. Pentz is an active writer as well as a healer. In addition to her own articles and blogs she is published in the breakthrough Integrative Therapies for Depression: Redefining Models for Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention (Greenblatt JM, Brogan K (eds), 2016) textbook, which features her chapter on botanicals for the treatment of depression. Her new book, Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul (Mango Publishing) will be released in 2020, and documents her personal odyssey towards physical and spiritual healing through an Ayurvedic cleanse called panchakarma.
Arwen Podesta, MD, ABPN, FASAM, ABIHM
Arwen Podesta, MD is a board-certified adult psychiatrist with sub specializations in addiction medicine, forensic psychiatry, and integrative medicine. A graduate of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Podesta completed her psychiatry residency in at Louisiana State University before pursuing fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at Tulane University.
Read MoreIn the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Podesta became involved in actioning psychiatric care for underserved and disenfranchised populations, and was awarded the Gambit’s 40 Under 40 in 2009. Since then she has been an enthusiastic participant in the public sector as Medical Director of ACER and a consultant for the Orleans Criminal Court, Drug Court and Re-entry Services. Additionally, she maintains status as a consulting Addiction Medicine Specialist. Across all contexts and venues, Dr. Podesta’s primary focus has been and continues to be access to integrative mental health and addiction treatment, and rational prescribing practices.
Dr. Podesta maintains an active role in the academic community as a clinical faculty for Tulane Psychiatry Residency, Louisiana State University Psychiatry Residency, and Tulane Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Her outstanding clinical and academic contributions to the field of medicine earned her a nomination for the role of President of the Louisiana chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine in 2017. In 2019 she was awarded the honor of Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. A renowned speaker, Dr. Podesta regularly travels to teach and speak on the topics of Addiction Medicine and Integrative Psychiatry.
Since opening Podesta Psychiatry LLC in 2012, Dr. Podesta has been voted into the ranks of New Orleans Magazine’s Top Doctors on an annual basis. The Podesta Psychiatry team includes some of the best treatment providers in the Gulf Coast, and Podesta Psychiatry continues to evolve toward the multi-disciplinary collaborative model that embodies Dr. Podesta’s wellness model for whole health.
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.
Read MoreHe has discovered a novel step in the evolution of the nervous system that gives new insights to mind-body (psychophysiological) states and how these states can be controlled. He has published widely in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conducted three clinical trials using Kundalini Yoga meditation techniques for treating obsessive-compulsive disorders and OC spectrum disorders. He has pioneered the use of whole-head magnetoencephalography brain imaging to study yogic meditation techniques. He has presented and taught Kundalini Yoga Meditation protocols for treating psychiatric disorders at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meetings 13 times (including 11 full day CME courses).
He has written four books that include 100+ different meditation techniques and multipart disorder-specific protocols for treating all of the major psychiatric disorders. His 3 books published by W. W. Norton and Co. include: Kundalini Yoga Meditation: Techniques Specific for Psychiatric Disorders, Couples Therapy, and Personal Growth, 2006; Kundalini Yoga Meditation for Complex Psychiatric Disorders: Techniques Specific for Treating the Psychoses, Personality, and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 2010; and Sacred Therapies: The Kundalini Yoga Meditation Handbook for Mental Health, 2012. His 4th book is Psychophysiological States: The Ultradian Dynamics of Mind-Body Interactions, In the series “International Review of Neurobiology,” Academic Press (Elsevier Scientific Publications), vol 80, 2008. His latest publication is the following: Kundalini Yoga Meditation vs. the Relaxation Response Meditation for Treating Adults with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial, by David Shannahoff-Khalsa, Rodrigo Yacubian Fernandes, Carlos Alberto De Bragança Pereira, John March, James Leckman, Shahrokh Golshan, Mario S.R. Vieira, Guilherme Polanczyk, Euripedes Constantino Miguel, Roseli Gedanke Shavitt, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry (2019), section Mood and Anxiety Disorders. To view the online publication, please click here.
To learn more, please visit SacredTherapies.com and www.TheInternetYogi.com.
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.
Read MoreDr. Shaw is the stepfather of a child with autism and has helped thousands of patients and medical practitioners to successfully improve the lives of people with autism, AD(H)D, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, bipolar disorder, chronic fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, immune deficiencies, multiple sclerosis, OCD, Parkinson’s disease, seizure disorders, tic disorders, Tourette syndrome, and other serious conditions. For more information, please visit www.GreatPlainsLaboratory.com
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.
Read MoreDr. T is the Director of the Practitioners Alliance Network (PAN) and the lead author of multiple studies exploring effective treatment interventions for CFS, fibromyalgia, and autism. He makes frequent media appearances and has been featured on such programs as Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News, the Dr. Oz Show, and Oprah & Friends. He is also the author of numerous books including The Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Solution (Avery), Pain Free 1-2-3 – A Proven Program for Eliminating Chronic Pain (McGraw-Hill), and Real Cause, Real Cure (Rodale), as well as the popular free iPhone and Android application “Cures A-Z.”
In September of 2020 Dr. T will be releasing the new edition of his best-selling book From Fatigued to Fantastic, a landmark resource that examines CFS and fibromyalgia, their underlying causes, and proven, evidence-based methods for eliminating them.
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