ADVISORY COUNCIL

DAVID RUTOLO has thirty-five years experience in research, product development, manufacturing, and technical marketing support in the pharmaceutical and nutritional industry. He earned his PhD in organic chemistry at the University of California at Irvine and a JD from Western State University, College of Law. In addition, he holds a Certificate of Completion in FDA Law from the University of Southern California.

David is Director of Research and Development for IdeasOne and Wellcorps International, where he is responsible for co-research/formulation and development activities ensuring the ingredients and compounds selected for various formulated and manufactured products are compatible and synergistic for their intended usages and throughout the production process. Additionally, David's wealth of manufacturing experience in a wide variety and range of delivery vehicles ensures every formulation meets or exceeds the highest of quality control standards with unparalleled consistency and excellence.

David is a major contributor to the American functional food and high-profile bottled juice market segments, and he continues to develop health care products specifically designed for the international marketplace. Through a number of private development associations, he consults and formulates nutritional products for Asia, Europe South America and Australia.

David was a Cofounder of Micelle Laboratories, Inc., where he served for over 20 years as Executive Vice-President and as a Board Member. The firm provides pharmaceutical and nutritional product development and manufacturing in an FDA drug-licensed facility. As a formulator, he developed unique functional foods, nutritional supplements, skin care formulations, veterinary formulas, and OTC products for a wide variety of domestic and foreign companies. At Micelle, he pioneered the development of micellization, a specialized and patented delivery system to enhance the absorption of fat-soluble substances, which is widely utilized by organizations in the production of nutritional and skin care preparations.

Prior to that, he served as Vice-President and as a Board Member of Anabolic Laboratories, Inc., a pharmaceutical and nutritional manufacturer. There he was responsible for manufacturing and marketing specialty nutritional and OTC products exclusively to health professionals in the United States, Canada and Australia. In this capacity, he developed a number of unique delivery systems, including beadlet time-release formulations.

Over the past 30 years, his research has included kinetic studies of ester hydrolysis rates; investigation of organo-sulfur chemistry; modification of anti-cancer agents; studies of the biological activity of indoloquinones; new methods of synthesis of anticancer compounds; carbon-13 analysis of reactivity of new organic compounds; effects of magnesium orotate; oral (sublingual) absorption of vitamin B12; studies of orotate minerals; studies on sustained-release water-soluble nutrients; development of enhanced absorption formulations of fat-soluble substances (micellization); micellization methodology for beta-carotene and other fat-soluble nutrients; micellized vitamin A ester formulations for topical applications; clinical evaluation of micellized retinyl proprionate in the treatment of skin conditions; dosage forms and quality control methodology for shark cartilage in human clinical trials; particle-size determination of micellized fat-soluble substance formulations; gel forms of stabilized micellized beta-carotene preparations for oral topical applications; and clinical evaluation of stabilized micellized beta carotene gels in the treatment of oral cancer.

MEG JORDAN is Department Chair and Professor of Integrative Health Studies at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. Dr. Jordan is a clinical medical anthropologist, international health journalist, behavioral medicine specialist, and registered nurse with over 30 years experience.

She is a one of the most recognized names in health and wellness reporting with international columns, weekly TV and radio newscasts, and she is a popular keynote presenter. Known as the Global Medicine Hunter, Dr. Jordan searches for healing remedies throughout Asia and South America. Called a health trendspotter by USA Today and Newsweek, she has been a media commentator for CNN and FOX and NBC's Today Show. Author of five health books, she is also editor-in-chief and founder of American Fitness Magazine.

Her research on integrative medicine focuses on healing circles comprised of practitioners of varying disciplines, philosophies and licensure. Meg presented to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), and her research on four emergent theories of healing disciplines was featured in a PBS-audience presentation and DVD. As a cardiac rehabilitation specialist, Meg helped create the nation's first hospital-based wellness center in Los Angeles, and as a trustee, helped establish the award-winning wellness center at Valley Care Health System in Pleasanton, California.

Meg serves on several boards, including the National Wellness Institute, Access to Health Experts, and the Calistoga Institute and has taught at San Francisco State University's Institute for Holistic Health Studies, UCLA, University of British Columbia and Laney College. She was Director of Integrative Practice at the Health Medicine Institute and continues her clinical practice helping clients with behavior and lifestyle change. She is also President of Global Health Media, a communications and research firm supplying Healthy Living newscasts to Global TV in Canada, syndicated columns throughout India and Asia, and she hosts her own radio programs on Health Radio Network.

Her degrees include a PhD in medical anthropology, Union Institute & University; M.A. Philosophy and Religion, CIIS; BA Communications University of Illinois; BS Nursing, Metropolitan State. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including Healthy American Fitness Leader from the Jaycees, and the Service and Leadership Award from the National Wellness Institute. Her research and educational presentations on the functional benefits of native remedies have been successfully employed by nutraceutical companies for the past 12 years.

SALLY BLAKE LAMONT is a naturopathic doctor, acupuncturist, and educator who has devoted the last twenty-seven years to practicing and teaching the principles of healthy living. She blends the science of naturopathic medicine with the ancient wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition to maintaining a private practice in Corte Madera, California, she teaches at San Francisco State University in their Department of Health Education.

As prior Executive Director of the California Naturopathic Doctors Association, Dr. LaMont spearheaded the successful legislative campaign to license naturopathic doctors (NDs) in California, setting professional standards and granting 37 million Californians access to naturopathic medical care. She received the “Naturopathic Physician of the Year” Award in 2001 from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians for her leadership and contribution to shaping health policy in the United States. As a consultant to the natural products industry, she provides expertise in integrating nutraceuticals into clinical practice. Dr. LaMont has served on numerous boards, including the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, the Marin Health Council and the Advisory Board for the Integrative Health Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Known for her passionate delivery, Dr. LaMont’s services include speaking at conferences and retreats, designing personalized natural treatment protocols for her patients, natural products industry consulting, healthy cooking classes and detoxification programs. Dr. LaMont is a 1981 graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon and the Emperor’s College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Monica, California in 1986. Her passions in life are teaching, cooking, yoga, hiking, traveling and spending time with her family and friends.

ELIZABETH LIPSKI, PHD, CCN, CHN is board certified in Clinical Nutrition and Holistic Nutrition, and earned her doctorate in Clinical Nutrition with a specialization in Integrative Medicine. As a recognized expert on integrative medicine with specific emphasis in digestion, diet and disease, Dr. Lipski regularly appears in national media and as a keynote speaker on a wide variety of topics related to nutrition and healthy living.

Well-known as the author of "the most stolen book from doctors’ waiting rooms", Liz Lipski's groundbreaking Digestive Wellness, updated and now in its third edition, remains the definitive guide to the human digestive system. Inside Dr. Lipski covers all the common gastrointestinal disorders and offers her expert guidance on the newest advances in testing and diagnosis, nutrition, and natural therapies, including detoxification, herbal remedies, and self-care strategies. Additionally, her two other very popular books, Leaky Gut Syndrome and Digestive Wellness for Children are regularly cited in national newspapers and magazines, feature stories and broadcast news items. And Liz's cutting-edge research regularly appears in the most prestigious, peer-reviewed medical journals, including Journal of Applied Nutrition and The Integrated Pharmacist.

Dr. Lipski is the Director of Doctoral Studies and Educational Director at Hawthorn University. She is on faculty and a member of the Nutrition Advisory Board for the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), a special advisor to the Board of Directors for the National Association of Nutrition Professionals (NANP), and a member of the International and American Associations of Clinical Nutritionists, and the North Carolina Integrative Medicine Society. She has also been a past Advisory Board member of the HIV/AIDS Task Force on Nutrition and the International Academy of Nutrition & Preventive Medicine.

In private practice for more than two decades, Dr. Lipski is the founder of Access to Health Experts and lives and practices in Asheville, North Carolina.

DR. BEVERLY RUBIK is internationally renowned for her research in and breadth of knowledge of alternative and complementary health care. Her main areas of interest include the subtle energetics of living systems, especially the human energy field, as well as other whole-person approaches to health and healing.

She has published over 80 research papers and two books. Dr. Rubik presently serves on the editorial boards of four peer-reviewed professional journals: Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine; Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine; Integrative Medicine Insights; and ReVision. She has served on the advisory boards of many distinguished organizations, including the Program in Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona under Dr. Andrew Weil.

Dr. Rubik was one of 18 Congressionally-appointed members of the Program Advisory Board to the Office of Alternative Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1992-1997. There she chaired the NIH panels on electromagnetic medicine and manual healing. The Office of Alternative Medicine at NIH was the precursory organization to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. While working there, she served on the editorial board of the first major governmental publication on complementary and alternative medicine: Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons.

In 1996, Dr. Rubik founded a nonprofit corporation for research and education, the Institute for Frontier Science (IFS). In 2002, IFS was awarded an NIH center grant for frontier medicine research in consortium with researchers at the University of Arizona. Dr. Rubik was a project director in this consortium and conducted studies on Reiki, a form of Japanese spiritual healing, and on qigong therapy, a healing practice that originated in China.

More recently, Dr. Rubik has published chapters in textbooks on alternative and complementary medicine, including Mosby’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach, newly revised and updated in 2008; and a chapter in Volume 2 of Psychology, Spirituality, and Healthcare published by Praeger in 2007. Dr. Rubik is currently conducting wellness research on Wellcorps International nutritional products with human subjects.

Dr. Rubik has been a university professor for nearly 30 years. From 1979 to 1988, she served on the faculty at San Francisco State University and from 1988 to 1995, she directed a progressive center on the frontiers of science and medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania. Presently she is an adjunct professor in Integrative Health Studies at California Institute for Integral Studies as well a member of the integrative health faculty at Saybrook Graduate School, both in San Francisco. In addition, she is core professor in the pre-cohort doctoral program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Beverly Rubik also maintains an holistic health practice and serves as health educator to individual clients at Health Medicine Center, an integrative health clinic, in Walnut Creek, California. Dr. Rubik is a popular keynote lecturer at both professional conferences and public events, and has appeared on television programs throughout worldwide, including “Good Morning America” (ABC-TV), where she presented her studies on the human energy field.

Dr. Rubik’s training includes a B.S. in chemistry from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and a PhD in biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California.