Mentors
JOHN A. MCDOUGALL
John A. McDougall is an American physician and author
who has written a number of diet books advocating the consumption of plant based low-fat, starchy food. He conducts a 10 day residential program in Santa Rosa, a suburb of San Francisco where all patients are taken off medications for most chronic diseases and fed a plant based whole food diet for 10 days. The program succeeds in reducing blood pressure, blood glucose, LDL cholesterol and improving other signs of health.
He also conducts Advanced Study Weekend program open to public where other notable doctors, researchers and professors talk on the subject of health & nutrition.
T. COLIN CAMPBELL
Thomas Colin Campbell, PhD is an American biochemist who specializes in the effect of nutrition on long-term health. He is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. Campbell has become known for his advocacy of a low-fat, whole foods, plant-based diet. He represented US in the famous China Study project and authored a book by the same name.
CALDWELL ESSELSTYN
Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn Jr. is an American physician, author and former Olympic rowing champion. Esselstyn is director of the Heart Disease Reversal Program at the Cleveland Clinic. He independently demonstrated in the 1980s that arterial blockages can be reversed by diet and lifestyle modifications.
Ex President Bill Clinton has been his patient since 2010.
DEAN ORNISH
Dean Michael Ornish is an American physician and researcher. He is the president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He demonstrated independently in 1980s that cardiac blockages can be reversed by changing diet and lifestyle.
Dean Michael Ornish is an American physician and researcher. He is the president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He demonstrated independently in 1980s that cardiac blockages can be reversed by changing diet and lifestyle.
Neal D. Barnard, MD, FACC,
is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
and founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. He successfully initiated a lawsuit against US Government’s “Milk Does Body Good” campaign forcing them to take down all billboards and terminate the campaign.
Dr. Sachin Panda
Satchidananda (Satchin) Panda, PhD is a professor at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, and University of California SanDiego, where his research focuses on the circadian regulation of behavior, physiology and metabolism in model organisms and in humans.
Dr. Janice Stanger
Janice Stanger, PhD, author of The Perfect Formula Diet, is a
senior wellness consultant at EPIC. Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms is part of the Humanities Division within UCLA College. University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles.
PADAM BHUSHAN DR. B.M.HEGDE
Belle Monappa Hegde is a cardiologist, professor of medicine, and author. He is the former Vice Chancellor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Co-chairman of the TAG-VHS Diabetes Research Centre, Chennai and the chairman of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mangalore.
KIM A. WILLIAMS, MD
Former president of the American College of Cardiology He himself has been a vegan since 2003 and talks about his reasons for doing so – privately and professionally.
JOEL FUHRMAN MD
Dr. Fuhrman is a family physician who advocates a micronutrient-rich diet. He says an alternative medicine therapy helped speed his recovery from a serious injury and led him to become a physician. He promotes a plant based whole food diet.
VALTER D. LONGO
Dr. Longo is an Italian-American biogerontologist and cell biologist known for his studies on the role of fasting and nutrient response genes on cellular protection aging and diseases. He is the Director of the Longevity Institute at University of Southern California.
PAMELA POPPER PHD IN NUTRITION
Pamela is founder of the Wellness Forum, a company that offers educational programs to both consumers and providers that facilitate informed medical decision-making, diet and lifestyle intervention, and improved long-term health outcomes.