Edward Bauman, MEd, PhD, is the director of Bauman College: Holistic Nutrition & Culinary Arts with Distance Learning and Classroom Programs in Northern California and Boulder, CO. Dr. Bauman developed the Eating for HealthTM nutrition model, which is an effective way to promote optimal health, live well with cancer, prevent disease, manage chronic illness and help people discover the joys and ease of eating delicious fresh, natural foods and beverages. Dr. Bauman is the author of Eating for Health: A Guide to Optimum Health and Vitality, The Recipes and Remedies for Rejuvenation Cookbook, and Controlling Cancer in our Community (www.baumancollege.org). He is a delightfully wise, practical and inspiring teacher and mentor, who makes complex nutritional information easy to digest and assimilate. For the past 23 years, Dr. Bauman has been leading Vitality Fasting Retreats. Personal "Jump Start Cleansing" programs and consultations can be arranged by appointment through Bauman Clinic (www.BaumanNutrition.com).  |
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Bidyut (BK) Bose, PhD, learned yoga and meditation from his father as a child, and later with monks in the Himalayas. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Niroga Institute, a non-profit Center for Integral Health, bringing mindfulness practices to those who need it most - vulnerable populations such as cancer survivors, seniors, people battling addiction, and at-risk youth. Niroga is actively engaged in collaborative research to study the effects of our Healing Yoga protocol on the immune system as well as on stress, anxiety, and depression. Bidyut earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and his current research interests have shifted to the application of Healing Yoga to many common chronic conditions and to special populations. |
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| Jeremy Geffen,
MD, FACP is a board-certified medical oncologist, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a pioneer in integrative medicine and oncology. He is president of Geffen Visions International and director of integrative oncology for P4 Healthcare and Caring4Cancer.com. He is author of the highly-acclaimed book The Journey Through Cancer: Healing and Transforming the Whole Person (Three Rivers Press, 2006) and integrative medicine program The Seven Levels of Healing®. Described as an "oncologist of the future," Dr. Geffen founded the Geffen Cancer Center and Research Institute (GCCRI) in Vero Beach, Florida, in 1994, which he directed until 2003. GCCRI was one of the first cancer centers in the United States explicitly designed to provide a working model of truly holistic, comprehensive cancer care for the 21st century. The Center was well-known for its ground-breaking Seven Levels of Healing Program, which integrates state-of-the-art conventional cancer treatments with a wide array of complementary therapies designed to help patients and family members heal and transform at the deepest levels of the body, mind, heart, and spirit. Dr. Geffen's work is now focused on writing, speaking, offering seminars and retreats, and consulting with individuals and organizations in developing integrative and multidimensional programs for medicine and life. |
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Gary Malkin's video
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Gary Malkin is an Emmy award-winning composer, producer, performer, and public speaker, dedicated to making a difference in the world by offering musical experiences and resources that inspire the heart and catalyze societal and individual healing. Together with co-author Michael Stillwater, he produced the internationally acclaimed CD/book Graceful Passages, which was created to help people meet the spiritual issues of mortality in an aesthetic way. As the co-founder of the nonprofit Companion Arts (with Stillwater), he co-created the audio resource for healthcare professionals entitled Care for the Journey, as well as the CD for the healing journey entitled The Heart of Healing. An in-demand public speaker, he has presented at places such as Harvard’s Conference on Spirituality and Health, Scripps Clinic, and UCSF Medical School. As an Artistic Director for conferences internationally, Gary is dedicated to using music and media as resource to help us to balance our lives with greater meaning, compassion and service. |
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Emmett Miller, MD, one of the fathers of Holistic and Mind/Body Medicine, is a physician, scientist, musician, and master storyteller, whose multicultural heritage has given him a unique social, medical, and spiritual perspective. A graduate of The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Miller has served as lecturer or preceptor at Stanford University, the University of California, and other universities and medical schools. He gained international prominence as a founder and Medical Director of the world's first Cancer Support and Education Center in Menlo Park (1977). He is probably best known for his creation of the first deep relaxation/guided imagery tapes (1973). Now on CDs and DVDs, these healing products are recommended and used by top hospitals and health professionals. He is the author of numerous books, including Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind/Body Medicine and dozens of audio and video products widely available. |
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An Inconvenient Tumor
Terri's and Annan's worlds cracked open with the diagnosis of cancer. Facing their inner demons and their own mortality sent them in seemingly different directions- Terri to save herself and Annan to save the planet. "An Inconvenient Tumor" brings Terri and Annan center stage to share their balancing act between well being and living large.
Annan Paterson - Raised in Berkeley during the 1960s and 70s, Annan has been trying to save the world ever since. She has worked in California public education for almost 30 years and has recently become involved in local politics and government in Marin County. She was diagnosed with early stage ovarian cancer in 1989 and wrote her signature solo show, Deep Canyon, to express and share this life-changing experience. Thanks to Healing Journeys and the Cancer as a Turning Point™ conferences, Annan has performed Deep Canyon for thousands of cancer patients, "thrivers," and health professionals across the USA. She is most proud of the wonderful family she co-created with husband Frederick Hansen, and through them she knows that love and faith are the world's best hope. Performing with Terri Tate is a dream come true for Annan, and tons of fun to boot. www.annanpaterson.com
Terri Tate, RN, MS - Thriving through two bouts of oral cancer from which she had a 2% chance of survival has taught Terri Tate lots of lessons in overcoming obstacles with grace and humor. Now she offers us her wisdom, along with a hefty side order of laughs, in programs like Wit and Wisdom from Both Sides of the Bed (for health care providers), and in her wildly successful one woman show, Shopping as a Spiritual Path. Shopping, voted Best of the Fringe at the 2007 San Francisco Fringe Festival, is now available on DVD thanks to a grant from The Lloyd Symington Foundation. An inspirational humorist, keynote speaker and performer, Terri believes that she has been granted this bonus life to spread messages of hope, laughter and loving life "as is." www.territate.com. |
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Pam Quillin, brain tumor survivor, is one of the volunteers for this conference. Pam is proud to be an alumni of the very first Healing Journeys' Cancer As a Turning Point conference in 1994. Since then, she’s managed to thrive (most of the time) while dealing with the continuing effects of radiation, chemotherapy, multiple surgeries, and brain injury symptoms similar to those suffered by returning veterans. All this while guiding a stubborn four-year-old into becoming an independent (though still stubborn) young woman. This experience has provided Pam with a keen awareness of what’s truly important, as well as a finely honed foolishness detector, which she uses readily but with great diplomacy (again, most of the time). A firm believer in the mind-body connection and the healing power of laughter, Pam’s known for her quick wit and caring heart.
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Ann Roach, extraordinary vocalist and recording artist, is versed in styles that range from rock to jazz and what lies between. She started singing at the age of 3 and began studying at the age of 6. In October of 1998, Ann represented the Academy of the Arts at the World Championships of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, where she received a gold and two silver medals for her vocal abilities. You can catch Ann singing at Christ Unity Church in Sacramento on Sundays. Ann’s debut CD, Shine Through Me, is available at the Christ Unity Church Bookstore and on I tunes. Ann’s sultry tones, crystal clear voice and exquisite emotion will leave you touched and inspired. |
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Jami Sieber - Every so often a musician emerges who manages to speak to the spirit by way of her instrument. Electric cellist and vocalist Jami Sieber reaches inside the soul with compositions that are contemporary, timeless, lush, and powerfully evocative. A pioneer of both the acoustic and electric cello, her style of playing is recognized internationally. Employing electronics and looping techniques she creates sounds never associated with the cello. Her music goes from the deepest stillness to ecstatic pulsing rhythms and melodies. Jami has composed for film, theater, and dance and has released four independently produced CDs. This special performance will be a magical multi-media concert inspired by Sieber’s remarkable experiences with elephants in Thailand. |
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Jonna Tamases grew up in Northern California and started performing in grade school. She attended Columbia University and Stanford University, then honed her comedic skills with various sketch and improv groups in San Francisco. A 3-time cancer survivor (Hodgkin's Disease, Large-Cell Lymphoma, Breast Cancer), she has turned her experience into a highly acclaimed one-woman show, Jonna’s Body, please hold. The show has gotten rave reviews and was nominated for two Ovation Awards: Best World Premiere Play and Best Lead Actress. The recently released movie version won the Audience Award for Best Comedy Short (Asheville Film Festival), Best Short Comedy and Best in Show (MAGA Film Festival), and the Award of Excellence (AOF Film Festival). |
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Linda Tillery - Native San Franciscan Linda Tillery is a Grammy© nominated vocalist, percussionist, producer and cultural historian. She has dedicated the last 16 years of her artistic life to the research, teaching, and performance of African American vernacular music. At the age of 19, she became lead singer and percussionist of the the Berkeley based rock band, Loading Zone. She was an original member of Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra and has appeared with some of the Bay Area’s most notable recording artists. Her career, spanning 40 years, has gone from rock diva to soul healer. This marks Ms. Tillery’s 4th appearance at Healing Journeys conferences and her 1st appearance as a cancer survivor. In 2005, she underwent surgery to remove a gastro-intestinal stromal tumor.
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Nick Trujillo is Professor of Communication Studies at CSUS, where he teaches courses in organizational communication, media sports, and small group communication. He has also been a professor at Purdue, Michigan State, and Southern Methodist universities. He received his B.A. from the University of Southern California, where he also played baseball (a pitcher), his M.A. from San Diego State University, and his PhD from the University of Utah. He has published over forty scholarly and trade articles as well as four books. His last book, Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices (Hampton, 2008, with Leah Vande Berg) was written together with his wife, who died of ovarian cancer in December, 2004. His alter ego, Gory Bateson, is lead singer of the mythical band The Ethnogs, whose music videos can be found on YouTube under the singer’s name. |
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Stacy D'Andre, MD, Medical Director, Gastrointestinal &
Gynecologic Tumor Programs
Stacy is a board-certified internal medicine specialist and oncologist who specializes in caring for patients with gastrointestinal and gynecologic cancers, with a particular focus on caring for elderly patients. Dr. D’Andre received oncology fellowship training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she served as an instructor and senior associate consultant in medical oncology. Before that, she completed her residency in internal medicine at University of Virginia, after completing medical training at University of California, Davis. Most recently, Dr. D’Andre was an assistant professor of hematology/oncology at University California at Davis.
Leslie Duket, LCSW, Cancer Support Services
Leslie has ten years of social work experience with an emphasis on counseling patients and caregivers living with cancer or a life threatening illness. She has worked in numerous areas in the health care setting, including hospice, assisting older adults in long-term care, and providing support services to children and adults in the inpatient hospital setting. Leslie is trained in relaxation and guided visualization, which can help patients to reduce the stress of the cancer experience. In addition, Leslie also has experience with Reiki; Reiki is a holistic healing modality which uses gentle touch to enable the body, mind and spirit to relax and come into balance. Reiki can help patients to reduce their levels of stress, tension, and anxiety, and may help reduce pain levels as well. Services provided by Leslie through the Sutter Cancer Center are available at no cost to patients and family members affected by a diagnosis of cancer.
Sue Hazeghazam, RD, Clinical Dietician
Sue received her Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics from the University of Eastern Kentucky and completed her internship at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She began working for Sutter Health in 1988, working first in psychiatry and then with cardiac intensive care patients. In 1990, she changed her specialty to oncology nutritional care and has been providing nutritional care to cancer patients ever since. She has helped develop the nutritional standards of patient care for Sutter Cancer Center's Bone Marrow Transplant Unit and medical and surgical oncology units, as well as establishing the Oncology Outpatient Nutritional Counseling Service. Presently, she provides individual nutritional counseling and monthly group nutrition classes to Sutter oncology patients at the Sutter Cancer Center, 2800 L Street, Sacramento. Sue is a registered dietician (R.D.) and is a member of the American Dietetic Association and is on the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society.
Kay Judge, MD -- Moderator
Kay Judge, M.D., ABIHM, is board-certified in Internal Medicine and by the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. She is a practicing physician and co-medical director of Sutter Downtown Integrative Medicine, which is a group of health practitioners committed to integrating evidence-based alternative therapies with conventional medical practices. Dr Judge feels that there are many paths to healing, and encourages the exploration and integration of multiple healing modalities that address what is most important to each individual. Along with her partner, Dr Maxine Barish-Wreden, Dr Judge writes a column for the Sacramento Bee titled "The Integrative Way"-which is distributed nationally by McClatchy News. Their book, the CIG guide to The Secrets of Longevity, is coming out in November, 2008, and is distributed by Penguin Publishing.
Elaine Mayumi Whitefeather, spiritual teacher/counselor, inspirational speaker and author inspires and encourages individuals, organizations and communities to the blessings of life. Using the wisdom of her diverse ancestral heritage and thirty years of human service expertise, Elaine educates and motivates others to the power of holistic healing. A cervical cancer survivor, Elaine knows that in order to truly go beyond surviving into thriving, it begins with seeing yourself as sacred. Elaine’s consulting company (Whitefeather Basinger & Associates) offers numerous classes and circles that facilitate an individual’s quest for holistic healing and personal growth. www.WBAconsultants.com.
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