Advisory Board

Chris earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut. He served as a postdoctoral research associate in…

Dr. Hyman is a practicing family physician, a ten-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field. He is the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. He is also the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center, chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a medical editor of The Huffington Post, and was a regular medical contributor on many television shows including CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, The View, Katie, and The Dr. Oz Show.

Tracey O’Shea is a licensed Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C) who graduated from Samuel Merritt University with a Master’s degree in Nursing. She became board certified through the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and was first introduced to Functional Medicine in 2013 when she knew there had to be another way to help patients reach their long-term health goals. She is the Director of the Kresser Institute ADAPT Practitioner Training and Certification Program and is Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner through the Kresser Institute and IFM.

Tracey is a registered dietitian with specialty certification training in Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy and The Bredesen Protocol…

Lucy Mailing received her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois and her undergraduate degree in Biology from…

Rob Abbott, M.D. is the medical director for Resilient Roots: Functional and Evolutionary Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia. He completed his…

Kelli Saginak, EdD, is a life, weight, and functional health coach who helps women learn how to achieve real anxiety…

Laura Schoenfeld, MPH, RD is a licensed registered dietitian and women’s health expert trained in Functional Medical nutrition therapy. She…

Rano Matthew, MD, is the medical director of the largest private practice mental health clinic in Wilmington, North Carolina, and is the medical director of a geriatric psychiatry inpatient unit. He has 25 years of traditional training in psychiatry and addiction medicine.

John Svinarich, MD, studied electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University before attending medical school at Ohio State University. As a cardiologist in the US Army, he developed skills in interventional cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. He is board certified in Medicine, Cardiology, and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. His CV includes 25 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and one currently in press.

Susan D. Denny, MD, MPH, is the Medical Director and founder of Carolina Total Wellness in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated with a BS in Biology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and graduated from Duke University Medical School and completed her internal medicine residency training at Duke University Medical Center. She has a Masters of Public Health from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Public Health Leadership.

Scott Solomons, DDS, has been practicing general dentistry at Dental Associates of Connecticut since 1989. He received his DDS at Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery in New York City, with a concentration in TMJ disorders. He interned with the US Coast Guard in Alameda, California, and then went on to receive a Fellowship in Advanced General Dentistry at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Michelle Sang, MD, FACOG, is a board-certified OB/GYN who has been in clinical practice since 1998. She is native to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, but was raised in Portland, Oregon. She attended Harvard – Radcliffe College and received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Biology with honors for her undergraduate education. She then returned to Oregon to complete medical school at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) and graduated in 1994.

Dr. Kerry Evers holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Rhode Island (URI) and is adjunct faculty at URI. She is the Co-President & CEO of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., the leading behavior change consulting firm and solutions provider.

Katie Melville earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University, where she studied the mechanisms of bone formation and resorption. In particular, she elucidated the effects of sex hormones and their receptors on bone mass and architecture. She also researched estrogen’s role in the bone’s response to mechanical loading.