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Raj Chovatiya
Raj Chovatiya, MD, PhD, MSCI, FAAD is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University Chicago Medical School and Founder and Director of the Center for Medical Dermatology and Immunology Research in Chicago, Illinois. His clinical and research focus includes the intersection of cutaneous immunology and inflammatory disease. He received his MD and PhD in immunology from Yale and completed his residency, postdoctoral research fellowship, and MS in clinical investigation at Northwestern University where he also served as Chief Resident. Dr. Chovatiya has a particular interest in optimizing patient-centered care, understanding chronic disease burden especially in understudied inflammatory diseases, exploring health and social disparities, and improving care across diverse skin types. He has published numerous abstracts and manuscripts and has been nationally and internationally recognized for his contributions as a clinician, educator, researcher, and leader.
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Alexandra Vaughn
Alexandra is a 4th-year medical student at Drexel University. Learn about Alexandra and her interest in skin health.
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Michael Smith
Regional Sales Manager – Medical Division6 years with Practice Solutions2x Pinnacle Award WinnerOver 200M in funded loans for doctors in private practiceDedicated LearnSkin representative for BofA
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Misha Rosenbach
Misha Rosenbach, MD is a Professor of Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Vice Chair of Education and Program Director of the dermatology residency. Dr. Rosenbach’s clinical practice is focused on complex medical dermatology and his research is focused primarily on sarcoidosis and granulomatous skin conditions. He has published more than 240 peer reviewed articles, multiple chapters, and textbooks, including the premier text in the field, Andrews’ Diseases of the Skin. Dr. Rosenbach serves one of the physician leads of Penn’s climate and sustainability mission and serves as co-Chair of their Committee on the climate emergency. Nationally, Dr. Rosenbach a co-Founders and co-Chair of the American Academy of Dermatology’s Expert Resource Group on Climate Change. He has published extensively on the intersection between Climate Change and medicine, in particular dermatology, and is actively involved in multiple organizations focused on sustainability in medicine.
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Vanessa Smith
A licensed Acupuncturist, Dr. Vanessa Smith received her Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from Southern California University of Health Sciences as well as a BA in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from Cal State University Fullerton (CSUF). She was part of the inaugural DACM cohort in the Eastern Medicine Department here at SCU and further went on to earn a Diplomate in Oriental Medicine through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She has taught at Southern California University of Health Sciences in the Interprofessional Education Department since 2017 and the Ayurvedic Medicine Department since 2022, bringing her passion for interprofessional education and her knowledge of integrative health in practice. When not teaching, she is seeing patients full-time at her private clinic, Horning Chiropractic and Acupuncture in Laguna Hills, Ca. where she sees patients from all walks of life.
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Melinda Ring
Dr. Melinda Ring serves as Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern University, and Clinical Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. She earned her medical degree and completed her residency at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, completed a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Ring is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine, and Diplomate of ABLM, and cares for patients with a wide variety of conditions and preventive health needs, with a special focus on women's health. In her roles at Northwestern, she oversees medical student and resident education and directs the clinical and faculty fellowships in integrative medicine, teaches the Cooking Up Health culinary medicine course, and researches nutrition and integrative strategies to promote health. Additionally, she contributes to textbooks, lectures, and research articles in the field of Women’s Health and Integrative Medicine, including PCOS, sleep disorders and menopause. In 2013, Rodale Books published her first book on integrative women’s health, The Natural Menopause Solution, and she has contributed to a variety of publications, including HuffPost and CNN. Dr. Ring also serves as board chair for the American Board of Integrative Medicine, on the Steering Committee of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Global Advances in Health and Medicine. In 2021 she received the Bravewell Distinguished Service Award, one of the highest honors in the field of integrative health, and presented a TedxChicago talk on culinary medicine and how patients can be their own, best, first doctor.
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Naomi Uchida-Boas
Naomi Uchida-Boas is Lead Clinical Faculty in the Ayurveda Medicine Department at her alma mater, the Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCUHS). At SCUHS Naomi has worked in a clinical, teaching, and administrative capacity for the past seven years. In 2016 Naomi established her own private practice, HEAL Ayurveda, in West Los Angeles, where she currently manages a team of holistic practitioners offering a variety of healing modalities.   Naomi is a Certified Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, Massage Therapist, Vedic Astrologer and Energy Medicine practitioner. She began her journey into Ayurveda over 15 years ago and personally experienced its profound healing power. Naomi is passionate about empowering individuals with the tools to live optimally through nutrition, herbs, lifestyle, energy healing and therapeutic body treatments. She has treated a wide array of conditions, including digestive, skin, stress, anxiety, pain, hormonal, and musculoskeletal.
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Susan Taylor
Susan C. Taylor is the Bernett Johnson Endowed Professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. In addition, she is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston and is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Dermatology.   Dr. Taylor’s clinical and research focus includes pigmentary disorders, acne, and alopecia. Her work has focused on advancing clinical knowledge and addressing gaps in central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia. She also serves as Principal Investigator for Phase II through Phase IV clinical research trials. Dr. Taylor has over 100 original publications as well as five books, including Taylor and Kelly’s Dermatology for Skin of Color. She has given more than 80 lectures both nationally and internationally. Before joining Penn, Dr. Taylor was in private practice at Society Hill Dermatology from 1989 until 2016.   Dr. Taylor was elected President-elect of the American Academy of Dermatology and will take office in March 2024. Dr. Taylor was the recipient of the AAD’s 2022 Inaugural John Kenney Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award and Lectureship. She served as AAD Vice President 2020-2021. Dr. Taylor is the 2022 recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Perelman School of Medicine.   Professor Taylor is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, and a member of the American Dermatological Association, the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, the Noah Worcester Dermatological Society, the Skin of Color Society, the Women’s Dermatologic Society, the Pennsylvania Medical Society and the Philadelphia Dermatology Society. She serves on the editorial boards of Archives in Dermatologic Research, Cutis, and Practical Dermatology and is a peer reviewer for several other journals, including Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, British Journal of Dermatology, JAMA Dermatology, and Journal of Drugs in Dermatology.
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Melissa Mondala
Dr. Melissa Mondala is a double boarded in Family Medicine & Lifestyle Medicine with additional fellowship in Integrative Psychiatry and Health & Wellness Coaching Certificate. She earned her Medical Degree at Chicago Medical School along with a double Masters of Biomedical Science and Masters of Health Administration. She serves as Core Faculty at Loma Linda University Preventive/Lifestyle Medicine Department, which is one of the blue zones for longevity. She is co-founder of Dr. Lifestyle Clinic in Newport Beach which was awarded by University of California Irvine as Public Health Site of Excellence. She is also a Lifestyle Medicine Director at Rheumission, an integrative rheumatology telehealth practice for California and Pennsylvania.She is an international speaker and has planted seeds of change in the community through lecturing at local medical schools, veg fests, and national medical conferences. Her passion is educating on healthy living and cooking @drmelissaskitchen (instagram/youtube). She uplifts others through self-empowerment and self-compassion. Her life mission is to bring hope to those who are silently suffering from mental distress, autoimmune diseases, hormone imbalance, and long-covid19.
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Micah Yu
Dr. Yu is an integrative rheumatologist who incorporates complementary medicine with traditional rheumatology. He is triple board-certified in Rheumatology, Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. He obtained his MD from Chicago Medical School and holds a Masters in Healthcare Administration and Biomedical sciences. He completed his internal medicine residency and rheumatology fellowship at Loma Linda University in Southern California. He is a graduate of the Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Arizona. In addition, he is certified in functional medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine. He has a very unique perspective on autoimmune disease and arthritis as he is both a patient with arthritis and physician. Dr. Yu was diagnosed with gout at the age of 17 and later diagnosed with spondyloarthritis as well. He is able to understand his patient’s medical problems from a patient perspective. The foundation of his practice is to combine allopathic medicine with complementary medicine. He works with his patients to come up with a treatment plan that not only fights the disease but also is aligned with his patient’s goals.
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Elisha L. Reverby, LE
Elisha Reverby’s career in organic beauty and wellness span over 25 years. She has been mentored by some of the most esteemed chemists and beauty industry experts and is a pioneer in natural skin care, formulating and manufacturing her own skin care products at a time when there were no labs to do it for her. Elisha’s passion for skin nutrition began in the home with a mom whose core values were rooted-in health and using food as medicine. These directly influence how Elisha lives her life and how she advises her clients. She has transformed the most troubled skin and unhealthy lifestyles with a straight-forward, loving and easy-to-digest approach that combines nutrition, lifestyle medicine and her signature Simple Beauty skin care routine. You can email Elisha at [email protected] Elisha is a serial entrepreneur. Apart from being CEO of Elique Organics, she owned Get Waxed, an nationally recognized organic waxing & skin care boutique in Venice Beach. Get Waxed was recognized as the Best in LA by Allure, LA Weekly and InStyle magazine and has been featured on ABC News, Z Living Channel and Vogue magazine. Elisha has created Limited Edition collections for Crosby Street Hotel and ABC Home, both in New York City and Elique has been featured in WWD, CNN, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Lucky Magazine, Jewish Woman magazine and Edible Westside. She is a CA and NY State Licensed Esthetician, Dr. Vodder Certified Manual Lymphatic Drainage therapist, Certified Ayurvedic Wellness Educator and Chef. Elisha is a philanthropist and creates wellness days for those less advantaged and with the help of her clients she distributes homemade food and other essentials to the homeless community in Los Angeles. Personally, she relishes in a good who-dunnit and one day dreams of a mountain property where she will grow plants, distill hydrosols, host retreats and give a home to any animal that needs one.
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Jessica Iclisoy
Over 30 years ago, Jessica Iclisoy embarked on a journey to create a non-toxic environment for her family. In 1995, launching in her kitchen with ingredients she had sourced, Jessica began to create the beloved formulas for what is today, the industry standard in natural plant-based skincare, California Baby. Since then, Jessica has built California Baby into a globally recognized brand, with more than 200 products available at retailers nationwide and through a global distribution network. California Baby is a recognized Women Owned Business, with its own certified organic and FDA registered manufacturing operation and certified organic farm.A nationally recognized business leader and entrepreneur, Jessica has been featured in NBC’s Today Show, Forbes, Fortune, the New York Times, Fast Company, Inc., and Entrepreneur, among many others. Recognized by Forbes magazine for her achievements in building California Baby, Jessica was recognized on the magazine’s annual Self-Made Women list from 2017 to 2022.Jessica is the host of the California Natural Living Podcast which breaks down healthy living challenges to apply problem-solving tactics and tips for living a healthy vibrant lifestyle.She is a member of the Fast Company Impact Council which is an invitation-only collective of innovative leaders and the most creative people in business. Jessica is the chair of Female Arts Initiative, which is a nonprofit to support women in the arts. She is a Board member of UCLA – Santa Monica Hospital and serves as the Committee Chair for their Integrated Medicine Initiative.Jessica believes that her mission extends far beyond creating products that are safe for children and healthy for the environment. In 2016, she launched The Natural Advisory Council (NAC) to form a coalition of natural, organic, and “green” product manufacturers, retailers, and non-profit consumer protection organizations to advocate, collaborate and educate (ACE) on the definition and use of the term, “natural” in all consumer products. She also collaborates with leading groups and companies to initiate congressional action to establish federal legislation demanding safe cosmetics and has participated in lobbying activities to help shape the Toxic Substances Control Act and Personal Care Product Safety reform.
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Ketrin Earwood
Serial entrepreneur currently in the business of individual self-support and healing modalities within the wellness and personal development industry. Skilled in Business Planning, Training Delivery, Sales Promotion, Positive Behavior Support, and Promotional Marketing Strategies.
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Gwen Walker
For two decades Gwen has run multiple successful companies ranging from legal services, to financial services, to sales organizations. Her passion for working with business owners led her to work with David Finkel, CEO of Maui Mastermind, to deliver the "Build a Business, not a job" message, helping business owners grow their business without sacrificing their lives. Gwen enjoys spending time with her husband, Will, of 31 years. When she's not working, you'll see her on the golf course, cooking, or traveling to exotic scuba diving destinations.
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Lacey Kruse
Lacey Kruse, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She has a special interest and dedication to medical education of medical students, residents, and fellows. She also serves as program director for the Pediatric Dermatology Fellowship at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Dr. Kruse’s clinical and research interests include pediatric skin cancer, pigmented lesions in children, and pediatric atopic dermatitis. Her research focuses on the impact of pediatric atopic dermatitis on sleep and neurocognitive function.
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Eric Dorninger
Dr. Dorninger completed his Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine and Masters of Science in Acupuncture at Bastyr University in 2003. In 2005, Dr. Dorninger founded Roots and Branches Integrative Health Care, a clinic dedicated to “Mystery Illness” where he focuses on elucidating the underlying causes of unrelenting chronic Illness. Dr. Dorninger is not concerned with “What you have” as much as he is with “Why you have it” and has dedicated his professional life to a deeper understanding ofDifferential Diagnosis based in the tradition of “Remove Obstacles to Cure”.In addition to private practice, Dr. Dorninger teaches functional medicine weekends for Apex Energetics, is a co-founder of CIRSx, and serves as Director of Research and Development for Blue Sky CBD.
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Tom La Vecchia
President and CEO of X Factor, Thomas La Vecchia, MBA began the company as X Factor Digital Marketing almost a decade ago to give business owners access to the best sales and digital marketing talent. In 2012 he developed a 4-step sales process called “The X Factor Selling System,” which became an Amazon best-selling title. Tom specializes in attracting, converting and retaining customers. Tom’s goal is to provide your business with the tools for success including sales training, SEO, public relations and more through an omnipresent approach. Tom is a best-selling (2X) for both editions of The X Factor Selling System. He also authored the first ever textbook covering Male Aesthetic Surgery edited by Dr, Douglas S. Steinbrech. He is also host of the New Theory Podcast. 
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Lashelle Ullie
His passion for having people embrace their individual beauty and skincare led to a 20+ year career working in cosmetics and product development with Neiman Marcus, Chanel, Saint Laurent, Tom Ford, Bobbi Brown, MAC Cosmetics, and many, many other high-end brands. Lashelle empowers his clients with easy, effective, and accessible skin care treatments that result in healthy-looking skin and effortless self-confidence. Lashelle is trained in oncology skin health and has created workshops and course curricula on The effects of cancer on the skin with Cancer Tower Research center, in Beverly Hills as well as Cancer support LA. His Purpose is the education of normalizing men's skin health through the mindset of self-care. His Goal is to inspire more wellness practices that enable men to be empowered to stay on the path of a lifelong journey of optimal health and well-being, as well as have skin health practices seen as a vital part of integrative healthcare.
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Siva Mohan
Siva is a big picture person. An integrationist. A pattern seer. As a UN Social Affairs Officer and working globally with private clients for over 13 years, Dr. Siva realized that even educated, active people are missing the basics of wellness. Across cultures and continents, we are leading lives set up for chronic disease and discontentment. Siva's mission is teach people to feel again; to be able to hear what their bodies and hearts are guiding them to shift. And then, to give them tools and approaches to accomplish those healthy shifts.  With an MD, and background in behavior change and education, Siva presents an empowering East-West Mind-Body version of Ayurveda. She guides her audience to a healthy lifestyle with tools and approaches from Ayurveda, emotional wellness, and modern science.