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.
 
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.
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
Ralph Carson, LD, RD, PhD
Dr. Carson has been involved in the clinical treatment of obesity, addictions, and eating disorders for over 40 years. His unique background in health science and medicine, coupled with nutrition and exercise has prepared him to integrate neuropsychobiological intervention and proven psychotherapeutic treatment. He is an active board member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP).
Read MoreDr. Carson has authored several popular books on nutrition, lifestyle practices, good health and the brain: Harnessing the Healing Power of Fruits, and the recently published The Brain Fix: What’s the Matter with Your Gray Matter? He is currently Vice President of Science and Innovation for the Eating Recovery Center’s CORE Program for weight management and binge-eating disorders in Denver, CO, and consultant for the Pinegrove Behavioral Health and Addiction Center in Hattiesburg, MS.
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.
Felice Gersh, MD
Felice Gersh, M.D. is a multi-award winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, a practice that provides comprehensive health care for women by combining the best evidence-based therapies from conventional, naturopathic, and holistic medicine.
Read MoreShe taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine for 12 years as an Assistant Clinical Professor, where she received the highly coveted Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award. She now serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, through the University of Arizona School of Medicine, where she lectures and regularly grades the case presentations written by the Fellowship students for their final exams. Dr. Gersh is the bestselling author of PCOS SOS and PCOS SOS Fertility Fast Track, and she has published articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. She is a prolific lecturer and has been featured in several films and documentary series, including The Real Skinny on Fat with Montel Williams and Fasting with Valter Longo, Ph.D.
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.
Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, MD
Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD, is a nationally recognized physician with expertise in the fields of nutrition, allergy, environmental medicine, Lyme disease, and the healing of mind-body-spirit as a unified whole. He co-founded The New England Center for Holistic Medicine in Newbury, Massachusetts, and has taught extensively, including practitioner training courses at the Omega Institute, The National Institute of Behavioral Medicine, and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society.
Read MoreDr. Kinderlehrer created and organized the Lyme Fundamentals course which is presented annually at the International Lyme and Associated Diseases conferences. He is the author of several review articles in medical journals and the Lyme Times. His integrated medical practice in Denver, Colorado, focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne disease.
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
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.
Read MoreDr. Podesta’s primary focus is access to integrative mental health and addiction treatment, with a whole health focus, for all. Her current activities include teaching (Tulane and LSU), consulting in Re-entry court, board member of the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices (www.benzoreform.org), and recently re-releasing her book, HOOKED, for an updated edition. She is the immediate past president of the Louisiana chapter of the American society for addiction medicine (ASAM) and currently serves in national committees. She consults to the Louisiana governor’s HOPE committee, and often advises for the city and state regarding addiction, best practices and more. She is a distinguished fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and also the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Podesta regularly travels to teach and speak on the topics of Addiction Medicine and Integrative Psychiatry.
Jonathan Prousky, MSc, MA, RP, ND
Jonathan Prousky, MSc, MA, RP, ND, is the Chief Naturopathic Medical Officer at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (Toronto, Ontario). His primary responsibility is ensuring the delivery of safe and effective naturopathic medical care to patients, as well as ensuring the safety and effectiveness of the medical training in the naturopathic program.
Read MoreDr. Prousky has lectured extensively on various health-related topics throughout North America to medical doctors, naturopathic doctors, other health care providers and patients at numerous conferences and health fairs. He was the first naturopathic doctor to receive the “Orthomolecular Doctor of the Year” award in 2010, and to be inducted into the Orthomolecular Hall of Fame in 2017. Dr. Prousky is the author of more than 60 scholarly publications, including several consumer and naturopathic texts. His clinical practice focus is primarily on the evaluation and management of mental health problems. He has spent over 20 years advocating and working with patients that wish to receive integrative care to help their mental health struggles.
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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