WELLNESS FORUM APPROVED PRACTITIONERS

The Wellness Forum only recommends health care practitioners who are certified to practice Lifestyle Medicine. Lifestyle Medicine is a specialty that involves the use of diet and lifestyle as the primary intervention tools in order to prevent, stop the progression of, or reverse degenerative disease.

Lifestyle Medicine-certified practitioners recommend the use of diagnostic testing, drugs and surgeries when they are absolutely necessary. But research has shown that most of the time drugs and surgery are not necessary, not helpful, and often harmful; and there are serious questions as to the advisability of many diagnostic tests.

Some of the points that differentiate Lifestyle Medicine-certified practitioners from others are:

• Commitment to use only reliable, published scientific evidence in making recommendations to patients
• The use of long-term overall health outcomes as a measurement of success; acknowledgement that short-term biomarker manipulation does not represent health improvement, and that surrogate markers can be misleading in determining health outcomes
• Addressing underlying causes of disease; refusal to use supplements or drugs simply to mitigate symptoms in most instances

Certification in this specialty and inclusion in our practitioner list can be earned by either completing the Wellness Forum's Lifestyle Medicine Certification Course or through internship with a certified practitioner. There are no exceptions.

Dr. Matt Brown, M.D.
108 Doctors Drive
Boone, North Carolina 28607
(828) 262-3212

Vanessa Houssels-Chamberlin
Certified Wellness Forum Consultant
Las Vegas Nevada
(702) 419-9577

Dr. Don Dinwoodie, M.D.
Orthopedic Surgeon
1100 Irvine Blvd. #39
Tustin, CA 92780
(714) 573-7060

Dr. Michele Emery, M.D.
Family Practice
Gainesville, FL
(352) 281-2373

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn
The Cleveland Clinic
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
(216) 444-6662
www.heartattackproof.com

Dr. Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
Co-owner, TrueNorth Health
1551 Pacific Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 586-5555
www.healthpromoting.com

Dr. Michael Klaper, M.D.
General Practice
True North Health
1551 Pacific Avenue
Santa Rosa, California 95404
(707) 586-5555
www.healthpromoting.com

Lori Krause
Registered Nurse
Kitchen Coach
Overland Park, KS
(913) 484-5537
www.yourkitchencoach.net

Kim Ladjevich
Holistic Health Counselor, CHC, AADP
Sharpsville, PA
(724) 456-7576

Dr. Matt Lederman, M.D.
Dr. Alona Pulde, M.D.
532 ½ North Vista Street
West Hollywood, CA 90036
(323) 876-3600
www.exsalus.com

William Lessler, LPCC
Cognitive Behavioral Therapist
3857 North High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43214
(614) 397-0714

Dr. Doug Lisle, Ph.D.
Co-owner, TrueNorth Health
1551 Pacific Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 586-5555
www.healthpromoting.com

Dr. John McDougall, M.D.
PO Box 14039
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
(707) 538-8609
www.drmcdougall.com

Dr. Ralph Moss, Ph.D.
PO Box 1076
Lemont, PA. 16851
(800) 980-1234 / (814) 238-3367
www.cancerdecisions.com

Dr. Ionana Razi, M.D.
Pediatrician
3537 R Street NW
Washington, DC 20007

Dr. Irving Schwartz, M.D.
Cardiologist
927 Broadway Street #200
Quincy, Illinois 62301
(217) 221-0900

Michelle Taylor-Chinn
Nurse Practitioner
1726 Amhurst Drive
San Angelo, TX 76901
(325) 658-1511 x 3689

Dr. Mark Sholtz, M.D.
Prostate Oncology, Inc.
4676 Admiralty Way #101
Marina del Ray, CA 90292
(310) 827-7707
www.prostateoncology.com

Dr. Jean Thompson
Retired Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Certified Wellness Forum Consultant
Katy, Texas
(281) 395-9485

Don Walker
Exercise Physiologist, Certified Personal Trainer
Certified Wellness Consultant
Bullhead City, AZ 86442
(928) 768-1339

Yunger, Melanie
Nurse Practitioner
Shawnee, KS
(913) 962-6164

The following health care professionals are certified as Lifestyle Medicine Practitioners, but do not practice. They are engaged in other very important health-related activities and are recommended by The Wellness Forum:

Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D.
The Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine
5100 Wisconsin Avenue NW #400
Washington, D.C. 20016
(202) 686-2210
Founded in 1985, the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is a non-profit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.
www.tcolincampbell.org
For more than forty years, Dr. T. Colin Campbell has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Project, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He has more than seventy grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers and coauthor of the bestselling the book, The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health.

Dr. Kathryn Collins, M.D.
Retired Physician