Dr. Gottfried is a board-certified gynecologist and physician scientist. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed residency at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Gottfried is a global keynote speaker who practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and functional medicine. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in Dept. of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, Younger, and her latest, Brain Body Diet.

Dr. Trindade is a teacher, author, and international speaker in functional medicine. She is a graduate of the fellowship in Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine and teaches in the Fellowship (a Master’s program through the Morsani School of Medicine, University of South Florida).

 

In addition, she is faculty at the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM). After obtaining her BA degree in Biology she went on to finish a Master’s in Public Health in the area of environmental health and epidemiology before starting medical school. She graduated first in her class in family practice from the University of California Davis School of Medicine and did her residency training in family practice at the U.C. San Francisco/Santa Rosa Program. She has been in clinical practice for over 20 years. Before starting her own private practice in 2004 in functional medicine she was the medical director of a non-profit organization that catered to the underserved. Her work has been published in Townsend Letter, Guide to Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine, Saúde Actual, and the Border Health Journal among others. She is currently very active in developing teaching programs in Functional Medicine in the USA, Latin America and Europe.

Dr. Superko’s research and clinical focus is on the metabolic and inherited aspects of coronary heart disease. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, medical degree from the State University of New York-Stony Brook, and completed his internship, residency, and fellowship at the University of California, Davis. Over the past 35+ years he has completed multiple NIH trials including heart disease regression, coffee and lipoprotein metabolism, exercise and weight loss with a focus on lipoprotein subclass distribution, firefighter heart disease, and genetics. He served as Director of the Stanford University Lipid Research Clinic and Laboratory, the Director of the Cholesterol Research Center at the University of California-Berkeley, the Director of the American Heart Association Lipid Disorders Training Center, the Founder of Berkeley HeartLab, and Director of the Center for Human Genomics at the Saint Joseph’s Hospital/Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia. His most recent investigation was the National Firefighter Heart Disease Prevention study which revealed metabolic and genetic contributors to the epidemic of coronary heart disease in firefighters. This work has now expanded to a National non-profit program that helps identify firefighters vulnerable to a sudden coronary event and works to prevent CHD events in this professional population that serves to protect the rest of us. Dr. Superko also served as the Chief Medical Officer of Celera corp. (human genome in 2001). He has published 166 manuscripts, authored 19 textbook chapters, and 130 invited presentations at National and International scientific meetings for a total of 320 publications. He is the receipient of many awards including the Larry King Physician Laurete award, the Montague Boyd Award for Best Research Article, and the Doc Hopkins award from the California American Heart Association for New Insights. He has published a book for the public entitled “Before the Heart Attacks” that explains advanced aspects of causes of heart disease that go beyond cholesterol. His publication, ‘Beyond LDL-C’ in Circulation 1996 alerted the community to the concept of residual risk following LDLC reduction and the need to think beyond LDL cholesterol. His current professional activity includes a clinic focused on premature CHD and familial CHD at PRIMA Heart in Monterey, California and continued research focused on the genetic and metabolic contributors to CHD in firefighters. He is particularly interested in working with the American Society of Preventive Cardiology in expanding programs that identify firefighters and law enforcement officers vulnerable to a sudden coronary event and preventing such events.

Dr. Douglas Harrington has over 30 years of experience in the research, development, commercialization, and expansion of innovative healthcare technology and services. As former President and Lab Director of Nichols Institute, Dr. Harrington expanded their molecular genetics, infectious disease, immunology, cytogenetic, and anatomic pathology offerings.

 

Dr. Harrington holds a number of patents including automated image analysis of residual cancer protein, catalytic heavy metal extraction, and biomarker assays for diagnosis and classification of cardiac disease. He has been involved as director or founder of multiple startup companies – from devices to molecular genetics focusing on immunology, cancer, and cardiology, where he has taken a number of new molecular technologies through state and federal regulatory approval.

Dr. Mark Houston is the Director of the Hypertension Institute and Vascular Biology, Medical Director of the Division of Human Nutrition and Medical Director of Clinical Research at the Hypertension Institute in Nashville, TN. He is on the faculty and Director of the Advanced Cardiovascular Modules XVI A4M/MMI in the US and Director of the Cardiovascular Module 2 for A4M/MMI. He is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Health Care Sciences at George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine and Health Science. He served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and then as an Associate Professor of Medicine from 1978-1990 at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and was an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, (VUMS) (1990-2012). He also served as an Adjunct Professor in Metabolic Medicine at the University of South Florida, Tampa (USF) Medical School (2014-2918)

Dr. Houston has four board certifications by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) (FASH-Fellow), the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine (ABAARM, FAARM) and American Board of Cardiology (ABC) Certification in Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease (DABC). He holds two Masters of Science degrees in Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, CT (MS) and another in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine (University of South Florida School of Medicine-Tampa (MSc).

 

He was selected as one of the top physicians in the US in Cardiovascular Medicine in 2018 by the US Consumer Research Council. Dr. Houston was also named as one of the Top Physicians in Hypertension in the US in 2008-2014 by the Consumer Research Council. He was honored by USA Today as one of the Most Influential Doctors in the US in both Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia twice in 2009 and 2010. Dr. Houston was selected as The Patient’s Choice Award in 2010 -2012 by Consumer Reports USA. He was selected as one of the Top 100 physicians in the US by the American Health Council in 2017 and one of the Top 50 Functional and Integrative Medical Doctors in the USA in August 2017. He was also named one of America’s Best Physicians in Cardiology 2018 by the National Consumer Advisory Board. In 2019 he was elected to the Continental WHO’S WHO as a Top Doctor in the field of Medicine as the Medical Director and Founder of the Hypertension Institute.

 

Dr. Houston has presented over 10,000 lectures, nationally and internationally and published over 250 medical articles, scientific abstracts in peer reviewed medical journals, books and book chapters. He is an author, teacher, clinician and researcher.

James LaValle, is an internationally recognized clinical pharmacist, author, board certified clinical nutritionist, and expert and educator in integrative and precision health. James is best known for his expertise in personalized integrative therapies uncovering the underlying metabolic issues that keep people from feeling healthy and vital. A thought leader in drug/nutrient depletion issues he has published 4 books and 3 databases in this area alone. As such he has over 35 years’ experience integrating natural and integrative therapies into various medical and business models. His latest research is in drug induced microbiome disruption.

 

He has served thousands of patients, using his metabolic model for health, in his personal integrative health practices, currently at LaValle Metabolix in Orange County, CA, and formerly at LaValle Metabolic Institute, an interdisciplinary medicine facility which he founded in Cincinnati in 2001 and sold in 2014. His experience spans from the super athlete to individuals struggling with chronic health complaints. organizations and and athletes from the Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks, San Jose Sharks, Toronto Maple Leaf’s Orlando Magic, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, Houston ASTROS, ST. Louis Cardinals as well as athletes from Olympians, to collegiate baseball, basketball and football, car racing all search out his expertise for optimizing metabolism and targeting real world results. He was selected to be Integrative Medicine Program Director for the NFL Hall of Fame Health and Performance Program in 2019. He also educates and works with military Special forces to optimize resilience and metabolic reserve.

Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra is a board-certified cardiologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. Certified as a bioenergetic psychotherapist, and nutrition and anti-aging specialist, Dr. Sinatra integrates psychological, nutraceutical and electroceutical therapies in the matrix of healing. He is the founder of www.heartmdinstitute.com, an informational website dedicated to promoting public awareness of integrative medicine. Dr. Sinatra is a fellow in the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Nutrition. Dr. Sinatra’s latest book, co-authored with Tommy Rosa, is Health Revelations from Heaven and Earth.