Traditional Medicine Virtual 2020

Biography

Peter-Hansen Volkmann originates from an old farmer family in Frisiae in Germany. His ancestry treated since about 500 years beside of their animals with chiropractic or osteopathy also men. He studied medicine in CAU Kiel and founded his medical practice at Luebeck in 1989. During the 90-ies he developed the hoT – hypoallergenic orthomolecular therapy and founded in 1998 hypo-A GmbH for the production of pure, really clean vitamin, trace elements etc. He is an international author and congress speaker in Europe, USA and Arabia and publishes 3 books and a lot of holistic papers international.

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Dr. Hansa Yogendra ji holds the office of the Director of The Yoga Institute, Mumbai, world’s oldest organised Yoga center. She is also the President of International Board of Yoga and Senior Vice President of the Indian Yoga Association (IYA). She has a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry and Zoology from Mithibai College, Mumbai and LLB (G) from the Government Law College, Mumbai. She has also received advanced training as a Yoga Teacher from The Yoga Institute, Mumbai. In 2018, the Open International University for Complementary Medicines in association with The Zoroastrian College conferred Hansaji with a Doctorate of Philosophy (Phd). She is the senior vice president of the Indian Yoga Association, committee member of the Prime Minister’s Award for Yoga (recipient of the same in 2018), and many more national level organisations. She is a widely published author of numerous works on Yoga.  

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Rosemarie Wagner has been a naturopath with a legal background for 22 years and practices in Switzerland in the Lucerne and Bern area. Since 2014 she has a federal diploma for Traditional European Naturopathy. Growing up in a family with a tradition of healing, including shamanism, she was already at an early age able to deal with extrasensory perception, the observation of disease symptoms from a medical and spiritual perspective, as well as the most diverse facets of human creativity. In a sensitive and impressive way she links physical symptoms with the underlying mental attitude.

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Clinical Aromatherapist Fai Chan started her career in 2014, when she was still a student, she already published research findings with international Aromatherapy journals. In 2015, she served the board of a world leading aromatherapy association (Alliance of International Aromatherapists). She was also the chair of the publication committee. Deli Aroma LLC is dedicated to holistic healing protocols and research. Grounded by pharmacology, her specialties are in the healing of psychiatric/neurological issues and diabetes. Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) framework, with the synergistic effects of combining the therapeutic approach with chemistry, her remedies are very effective. 

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My name is Raghda Abdelmaksoud and I am the founder and the Managing Director of EbersConsulting LLC, a family owned company based in New Jersey, USA.Ebers Consulting is dedicated to teaching Aromatherapy worldwide, arranging study tours globally, sourcing and repacking essential oils, and product formulating and development. In addition to the above, we offer business development services for small and medium sized companies in the essential oils, flavors, herbs, spices, holistic beauty, and skin care industries as well as provide them with product planning to product launches, sales and distribution to big retail stores. We have led many successful projects and brands to begin selling in the U.S. My expertise goes back to 20 years of global experience in the essential oils, flavors and fragrance industries. I worked as a supply chain manager and global business unit head both in Egypt and USA, which gives me a strong background in global supply chain and business development.   I traveled to more than 21 exotic countries and locations for a quest to become more informed about essential oils and their origins. With the exposure to almost all of the world's cultures and growing destinations, I gained a lot of experience and a strong background in supply chain, sustainable sourcing, and culture learning. In 2015, I finished my advanced clinical Aromatherapy certification in America and became the International Director for the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA) for Egypt. My passion for the industry was a driving power to a beautiful journey, and my love to volunteer in community organizations gives me a strong networking and a lot of experience. In addition, I am also a technical committee member of Women for Flavors, Fragrance North America, and a member of the International Federation for Essential Oils and Aromatic Chemical.

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Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress (1998). Since 1997, she works with the approach and treatment of all chronic diseases in a holistic way, with treatment guided through teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates.

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Lenka Govender completed a Degree in General Nursing in the Czech Republic in 2004 and worked in a hospital neurological department for 2 years. In 2012 she completed nutritional therapy studies at the College of Natural Medicine Dublin and became a nutritional therapist. In 2016 she earned an e-Cornell Certificate in Plant-based Nutrition and in the same year established PlantHappyGirl Nutrition. Today, she supports women on their journey to healthy and sustainable weight loss. She runs short courses, offers one-to-one sessions, and gives talks to inspire others on their journey to a healthy life.

Biography

 Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress (1998). Since 1997, she works with the approach and treatment of all chronic diseases in a holistic way, with treatment guided through teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates.

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Dr. Keri Brown, ND focuses on utilizing holistic health information, cutting edge techniques, and common sense to support people back to health. She centers on actionable information that directly helps change health outcomes and makes life easier to live. She has over 30 years of experience in holistic health and sustainable living approaches involving science and nature cure. She is an integrative naturopathic doctor, speaker, author, and entrepreneur: consulting and teaching about health and wellness. Dr. Brown has a B.S. in Environmental Biology and Chemistry and a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in Washington. Dr. Brown has been a practicing naturopathic doctor and educator since 1998 and has been an innovated founding partner of several businesses: a large scale, non-profit health clinic in Vermont, the Center for Wide Awake Wellness, a consulting and wellness education company in Colorado, and Natural Healing Kits. She helps people and professionals tune into a place of heath verse disease, positive thoughts verse negative, holism verses separatism, and to search out mindfulness and nature cure practices as a place of wellness.

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Dr Amrita studied at Himachal Pradesh University Shimla and graduated as Bachelors of Ayurvedic medicine and surgery in 2006. She did Post graduate in Indian herbal pharmacology from Hoshiarpur University, Punjab. She has done M.B.A (Human resources) from PTU Jalandhar. She holds diplomas in Yoga, Naturopathy, Alternative medicine and Diet and nutrition. She is serving as a physician, life style counselor and yoga therapist past 10 years and presently working as a director of ‘Amrita’s Ayuryogavidya’ at Dharamshala dedicated for dissemination of knowledge in the field of yoga, Ayurveda and holistic health.

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Dr. Shahryar Eghtesadi  received Bachelor degree in Nutrition Science and Food Chemistry 1975, from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran; MSPH degree in Nutrition, 1977, from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran and PhD from University of  California at Davis(UCD), USA, in Nutrition (1985). He  served as Visiting Scientist in USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA), Boston, USA (1994-1995); Full professor of Tabriz, Iran and Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences and currently serves  as Professor of Azad University, Science & Research Branch, . He  was the chairs of Departments of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Biochemistry & Clinical Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition and Nutrition  in aforementioned Universities. Also Served as Associate Dean and Dean of  School of Public Health & Nutrition and School of Public Health of Tabriz and Iran Universities of Medical Sciences respectively.He was selected as distinguished professor and Scientist. For long and extended  period of time, experienced  teaching various courses in nutrition in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate and  international Bureau  programs and directed  many projects and dissertation of MS and PhD programs and Published numerous peer reviewed articles in journals and also edited several books and finally served as Principal Investigator of World Bank Project for Capacity Building in Nutrition in Iran.

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Bogyó Erzsébet studied English at Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary and graduated in 1989. Since 2002 she studied qigong and tai chi from several masters in Hungary and England. She also studied martial arts for three years between 2004 - 2007 learning this aspect of qigong as well. She started teaching qigong fro free in 2007, then in 2009 started doing her own workshops. In Hungary she studied Alternative medicine, then went on to study Alternative Movement and Massage Therapies, getting her certificate in 2018, which is recognised in Hungary to help people with qigong, joga, 5 Tibetan movements and also with massage techniques. In 2018 she studied from Master Mantak Chia in Thailand and in the same year she studied qigong healing in China for a month. In 2019 she spent altogether 4 month in China to deepen her overall qigong knowledge in China. In January 2020 she spent a month in India in an ashram near Arunachala mountains deepening her qigong and meditation techniques that improve one’s health.

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Dr Ngono Mballa Rose Industrial PharmDr (Marseille France, 1988); studied at Yaoundé I University, graduated as 3rd Cycle Doctor in Biochemistry (1993);Chair Department of Pharmacology and Traditional Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences since 2017, research on standardization and codification of African Traditional Medicine. Since 2015, she is Director General of National Quality Control and Valuation  Laboratory LANACOME, Yaoundé Cameroon.