Organizers

Richard Hiltner, MD, DHt - President

Richard Hiltner, MD, DHt was born in Kansas City, Missouri on October 18, 1944 and completed a Doctorate of Medicine at the University of Missouri Medical School in 1970. He has been a practitioner of Family Medicine in Ojai, California since 1974. In 1975 he started studying homeopathic medicine at the National Center for Homeopathy in Pennsylvania. In 1975 he became a member of the California Homeopathic Medical Society [Established in 1887] and has since been on the Board of Directors and has been President since 1988. He also has been Editor of the newsletter/journal of the Society since 1989. He also joined the American Institute of Homeopathy [Established in 1884] and received Board Certification as a Diplomate in Homeotherapeutics [DHt] from the American Board of Homeotherapeutics in 1978. In 1976 and 1978 he trained with an international homeopathic teacher, George Vithoulkas, in Athens, Greece. He has been a member of the American Academy of Family Practice since 1978. In 1988 he graduated from the three-year Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine. He studied with Ze-lin Chen, MD Professor of Medicine at the Shanghai Medical University, who is recognized internationally in Tongue Diagnosis of Traditional Chinese Medicine. National Vice-President for the USA to the International League of Homeopathic Medical Doctors [LIGA Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis] since 1999. Vice-President of the American Board of Homeotherapeutics in 2000.Graduate of the International Institute of Iridology in 2002. In June, 2002 he gave a paper in Moscow, Russia on tongue diagnosis and its relationship to homeopathic medicine at the 57th LIGA Congress. "Tongue Diagnosis", Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Volume 89, Number 2, Summer 1996.

Todd A. Hoover, MD, DHt - Secretary

Todd A. Hoover, MD, DHt is a Board Certified Family Practitioner in Homeopathic Family Practice in Philadelphia for over 15 years. His work experience includes being a Navy Medical Officer, Emergency Room Physician and a Medical Director for Lockheed Martin, Inc. Dr. Hoover is the current President of the American Institute of Homeopathy, immediate past president of the Council on Homeopathic Education, and a member of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia Convention of the U. S.

Richard Moskowitz, MD - Treasurer,

Richard Moskowitz, MD, has practiced family medicine since 1967, and classical homeopathy since 1974, studying with the NCH Postgraduate Course, as well as George Vithoulkas, Rajan Sankaran, and others. Besides teaching, supervising, and lecturing, he has written two books, Homeopathic Medicines for Pregnancy and Childbirth, and Resonance: The Homeopathic Point of View, and many articles, such as "Homeopathic Reasoning," "Some Thoughts on the Malpractice Crisis," "Vaccination: a Sacrament of Modern Medicine," "Why I Became a Homeopath," "The Fundamentalist Controversy," "Hidden in Plain Sight," and "Diagnosis." He practices in Boston, and currently serves on the Board of the American Institute of Homeopathy.

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Chairperson
Dr. Joyce Frye has served as the president of both the American Institute of Homeopathy and the National Center for Homeopathy. She is the Chair of the Pharmacopoeia Revision Committee for the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia Convention of the United States (HPUS) and is a member of the International Scientific Committee on Homeopathy and Influenza (ISCHI). Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences at the University of Maryland where she see patients for homeopathic treatment at the Center for Integrative Medicine—the first such center in the U.S. to be affiliated with a medical school—founded by Dr. Brian Berman in 1991. Training: Doctor of Osteopathy, Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Resident in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Masters in Business Administration, St. Joseph's University. MS Clinical Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania.

Iris Bell, MD, PhD has been a researcher in areas related to holistic, complementary and alternative medicine for over 30 years. She was chosen as one of the Best Doctors in the Pacific region of the US in 1996 and in the US in 1998. Currently Professor of Family & Community Medicine, Dr. Bell has served on the faculties at Harvard Medical School, University of California San Francisco, and the University of Arizona. She graduated magna cum laude in biology from Harvard University and then received her PhD in Neuro- and Biobehavioral Sciences and MD from Stanford University. Her psychiatry internship and residency were at the University of California–San Francisco, and she is Board certified in Psychiatry with Added Qualification in Geriatric Psychiatry. She is licensed to practice conventional medicine in Arizona and California.

Sandra M. Chase, MD, DHt, a BA graduate of Bridgewater College in Virginia, earned her Doctor of Medicine through the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and took her internship and residency program through the Department of Family Practice, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
She studied homeopathy through the National Center for Instruction in Homeopathy and Homeotherapeutics and completed a Preceptorship under Maesimund B. Panos, MD, DHt.
Dr. Chase has been practicing homeopathic medicine in her private family medical practice for over 34 years. She has been very active in organizational homeopathy regionally, nationally, and internationally and is currently General Secretary for Public Relations (Member of Executive Committee) and Editor of The Liga Letter, the annual publication of the Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis (LMHI). She is also Trustee and Past President of the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH); Secretary of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia Convention of the United States (HPCUS); and President of the American Board of Homeotherapeutics (ABHt). She is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern Homeopathic Medical Association (SHMA) and Secretary of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania (HMSSP) and Editor of The Southern Letter and The Hahnemannian, the newsletters of the respective associations.
She is a Past President (1995-1998, 1st woman president), former Prime Vice President (1991-1994), former General Secretary for Propaganda, and past national Vice President to the LMHI for the USA, for Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis.
In October 2004, she was named President of Honor, Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, a perpetual award bestowed for meritorious service upon persons who have served as Liga President, granted only six times (first woman to receive this award) since the Liga's founding in 1925.

Gloria André Feighelstein
General Oral Surgeon Dentist
Homeopathy Oral Surgeon Dentist
Buco-Maxilo-Facial Surgeon
Orthomolecular Oral Surgeon Dentist
Superior Education Professor
Education Master

Professional Homeopathic Activities:
Secretary for Dentistry - LMHI – Executive Committee
Regional Councelor – Brazilian Dentistry Council - Rio de Janeiro
President of the Integrates Therapies Commission
Member of Ethic Commission
President of the Brazilian Dentistry Homeopathy Association – Rio de Janeiro Section
President of the Latin America Homeopathy Dentistry Association
Technical Responsible of the Dentistry Service of the Civil Police Hospital – Rio de Janeiro Security State Secretary
Dentistry Coordinator and Responsible to the Methodology
Education and Homeopathy Philosophy of the Post-Graduated
Course of Homeopathy of the Brazilian Federation of Homeopathy
Titular Professor of Homeopathy Discipline of Salgado de Oliveira University – Dentistry and Pharmacy Graduate Courses
Titular Professor of General Pathology, Molecular Biology,, Celular Biology, Histology, Embriology and Pharmacology of the Salgado de Oliveira University – All Health Academic Area Member of the Brazilian Federation of Homeopathy

Email: gafccp@unisys.com.br
dentistry@lmhint.net
comissao.terapeuticas@cro-rj.org.br

John A. Ives, Ph.D. is the Director of the Brain, Mind, and Healing Program and Senior Scientist for the Samueli Institute. He has been with Institute since its inception in 2001. Research efforts under his direction include the use of dietary supplements for the treatment of leukodystrophies and traumatic brain injury, anti-cancer effects of homeopathy, and the modification of immunological response through homeopathy. Other projects under his direction include laboratory research into human bioenergy and the measurement of biophotons for determining health status. In collaboration with his colleagues, Dr. Ives developed and published the "silica hypothesis" as part of a vigorous research program into the underlying mechanisms of homeopathy.

David Riley, MD Clinical Associate Professor, UNM Medical School Editor in Chief, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine Member, Board of Trustees - American Holistic Medical Association Founder - Integrative Medicine Institute

John Saxton. B Vet Med, Vet FF Hom, Cert IAVH, MRCVS qualified in 1964. Involved with homoeopathy since the late 1970s, he is a Fellow, past president and examiner of the UK Faculty of Homeopathy; an Examiner and Teacher for the International Association for Veterinary Homeopathy, an ex co-ordinator of its education committee and presently the veterinary secretary for the LMHI. Currently he runs a homoeopathic referral practice, teaches homoeopathy in Britain and abroad and writes. The co-author, of Textbook of Veterinary Homeopathy, his other books are Miasms as Practical Tools and Bowel Nosodes in Homeopathic Practice.

Amarilys de Toledo Cesar, pharmacist, homeopath, PhD in Public Health, Has been working since 1984 in her own pharmacy in São Paulo, with homeopathy, phytotherapy, flower essences, aromatherapy, she also has, with her family, an industrial laboratory that produces mother-tinctures and homeopathic dinamizations as raw-materials for other pharmacies. She has been working for the valuation of the pharmacists and the homeopathic pharmacy, even internationally, being the LMHI Secretary for Pharmacy for 11 years. Member of the board of homeopathic pharmaceutical associations and schools, she participated of several national and international congresses, responsible for courses and speeches in Brazil and South America.

Dr. Michel Van Wassenhoven Medical doctor (Université Catholique de Louvain) 1974. Electrocardiography (UCL) 1976. Specialist General Medicine (UCL) 1976. Homeopathic MD (Ecole Belge d’Homéopathie, Bruxelles) 1979. President of UNIO HOMEOPATHICA BELGICA 1986-2008. Founder of ECH (1991), coordinator research sub-committee since 1994. Belgian LMHI Vice President 1995-2007. GIRI member (Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Infinitésimal) since 1996. GIRI Vice President since 1999. President of the Belgian registration committee for homeopathic medicinal products (Service Public Fédéral Santé publique) since 2002. LMHI Secretary fro Research since 2007. Organiser of the 63th LMHI congress of the LMHI in 2008 in Belgium.
Some recent publications:
Homeopathic Medicine Research Group Report, Direction Générale XII, Commission Européenne. Rapport final, Commission Européenne Ed. , 229 pages, 1996.
COST Action B4, Final report supplement, « Basic Research Litterature Review », Office for Official Publication of the European Committee Publisher, 158-161, 1999.
Anelli M, Scheepers L, Sermeus G, van Wassenhoven M. Homeopathy and health related Quality of life : a survey in six European countries. Homeopathy, 2002 Jan;91(1):18-21.
Entretiens du Carla, « L’homéopathie : relations entre les recherches actuelles et la pratique médicale et pharmaceutique », Laboratoires Pierre-Fabre, 24 & 25 octobre 2002.
van Wassenhoven M, Ives G. An observational study of patients receiving homeopathic treatment. Homeopathy 2004 January,93:3-11.
First Line Medicine – Clinical Verification of Homeopathic Symptoms. B. Jain Archibel ISBN 978-2-87491-003-6, 678 pages, 2008.

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