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ISSSEEM Leadership
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Charles Tart, Ph.D., President of ISSSEEM
Dr. Charles T. Tart has been involved with research and theory in the fields of Hypnosis, Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Parapsychology, Consciousness and Mindfulness since 1963. He has authored over a dozen books, two of which became widely-used textbooks; he has had more than 250 articles published in professional journals and books, including lead articles in such prestigious scientific journals as Science and Nature, and provides regular public speaking appearances. |
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Lynn Van Buren, Director
Lynn Van Buren, M.A., has studied subtle energy for over 25 years, from Therapeutic Touch to Tantra. With his wife, Marjorie, Lynn has sought to experience earth and site energy from Spain to Hawaii and even stayed up all night in an Iron Age fogou to help research the impact of earth energy on dreams. In addition to his more esoteric pursuits, Lynn continues a 40-year career as a financial adviser. He serves on several not-for-profit boards, currently serving as vice-president of CEEMS, president of the board of Topeka Natural Food Co-op, and presiding clerk of Topeka Friends Meeting (Quaker). He uses and teaches relaxation and subtle energy techniques to enhance personal and business success. |
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Lilly Coniglio, M.A., Director
Lilly Coniglio
Lilly has devoted her career to assisting organizations in strategic thinking for breakthrough solutions, building stronger levels of impact, and garnering higher levels of community investment. She is a firm believer that organizations can find practical solutions for the complex challenges they face. She is known for her innovative thinking, trouble-shooting, and providing new perspectives and ideas for building more effective and successful organizations. She is frequently called upon to custom design nonprofit-for-profit partnerships and to develop new models for organizational productivity.
She has consulted on initiatives for America Medical Women’s Association, American Public Works Association, Kansas University Medical Center, Cleveland Chiropractic College, Medical Group Management Association, Unity World Headquarters, CARE, Inc., Colorado Preservation, Inc., EduCare Colorado, People to People International, American Taiwan Society, Silicon Prairie Technology Association, The Northern League, Women’s InterSport Network, Citistates Economic Development Task Team, The World Conference on Tourism and Technology, Raise the Nation, Kansas City T-Bones Baseball Club, and the Sportscaster’s Challenge Golf Tournament.
Lilly received a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and holds a Masters Degree in Higher Education Administration/College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State in Ohio. She lives in Kansas City, MO and is Managing Director of Creative Leadership Solutions. |
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Kathy A Hastings, Chair of the Board
Kate Hastings’ career includes world-class experience in a variety of prestigious and diverse start-ups requiring large-scale fast growth in a context of high-risk performance, funding, and deadlines. She has directed planning, management, and development for well-recognized national and international organizations, along with planning and facilitating hundreds of community and people-based programs throughout the United States. Her work has received awards and recognition for setting new standards in profitability and programming excellence.
Ms. Hastings’ goals include bringing together her personal interests in the study of science and spirit with her professional skills. Hastings holds a Th.M. from Holos University Graduate Seminary, writing on “Sacred Space” She currently is pursuing her Th.D. at Holos on the topic “The Transcendent Nature of Public Celebration.” A resident of Phoenix, Arizona, she is the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. She has participated in ISSSEEM since 1989.
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Chris Hibbard,
Ph.D., Treasurer
Christine Hibbard has been an educator, clinical psychotherapist
and psychophysiologist in Boulder County, Colorado
for twenty seven years. She is also on the faculty
of Naropa University, Holos University, University
of Colorado School of Medicine's Department of Global
Health, and is an ordained Interfaith minister, serving
as a Spiritual Director and teacher. Dr. Hibbard has
spent the last eight years working with post war trauma
and conflict in Kosovo, Israel, Syria and Uganda. She
serves on several non-profit Boards, including the Past
Co- Presidency of ISSSEEM (Energy Medicine,) and the
Presidency of the Colorado Association of Applied
Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. She teaches Mind/Body/Spirit
Medicine nationally and Internationally. |
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Gilah Yelin Hirsch,
Director
(BA UC Berkeley, MFA UCLA, is a painter, writer, theorist, photographer, videographer, filmmaker, lecturer and Professor of Art at California State University, Dominguez Hills (Los Angeles). She works in a multidisciplinary manner including art, design, anthropology, architecture, theology, philosophy, psychology, psychoneuroimmunology and world culture. As an internationally exhibiting artist since 1968, Hirsch’s paintings have been acquired by major public and private collections, and have appeared on covers and within dozens of journals, magazines and books, along with articles and book chapters about her life and work. Hirsch’s own articles and theoretical papers have been published in scholarly journals internationally, and Hirsch’s film "Cosmography: The Writing of the Universe", an investigation into the relation between origin of alphabet, pattern in nature and the neurology of perception and cognition, has received worldwide interdisciplinary notice. Her current film, “Reading the Landscape”, brings these concepts to children of all ages in sixteen languages and cultures. Hirsch has lectured and worked in the field of psychoneurimmunology since 1980, most recently for children with cancer of the “Sunshine Foundation”.
Over seventy awards, honors, grants, fellowships and residencies include US National Endowment for the Arts; California State University (statewide as well as California State University, Dominguez Hills), CA; CLASS Foundation (CO); Panavision Inc; California Community Foundation; Fieldmouse Foundation (CA); Takahashi Foundation (CA); US Embassies Slovakia and Ukraine; Mountain Conservation Recreation Authority, CA; Dorland Mountain Colony, CA; Banff Center for the Arts, Canada; MacDowell Colony, NH; Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy; Tyrone Guthrie Center for the Arts Ireland; International Painters’ Sympats, Slovakia; Tamarind Institute of Lithography, NM; St. Martin's School of Art, London, England; Syracuse University, NY, Rim Institute, AZ; Hollyhock Institute, BC, Canada; Esalen Institute, CA. Hirsch has led creativity workshops and has given over three hundred presentations on her work at universities, institutes and conferences internationally.
Gilah Yelin Hirsch resides in Venice, California.
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Karen Malik, M.A., Director
Karen has been a Residential Trainer with the Monroe
Institute for 25 years. One of the original Trainers,
she also served as Director of the Western Division
of the Institute, Director of the National Coordinators
Program, and over the years has played an integral
role in the ongoing development of Institute programs.
She holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology, is a Senior
Fellow with BCIA, and is a Certified Holoenergetic
Practitioner. She has extensive training in the alternative
healing arts as well as the Transpersonal approach
to therapy and healing. She is in private practice
in Sausalito, California, which extends nationally
and internationally. Her many years of experience in
working with people has given her an understanding
and ability to facilitate the unfolding of those individuals
who are choosing to open to more of who they are. She
considers it a privilege to work with people in this
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Patricia Norris, Ph.D., Vice Chair of the Board
Patricia Norris Ph.D. is a psychophysiologic psychologist
and psychotherapist. She was a pioneer in Psychoneuroimmunology
for many years at Menningers in Topeka Kansas,
and at Life Sciences Institute of Mind-Body Health,
which she founded with her husband Steven Fahrion,
Ph.D. Currently she is Associate Professor of transpersonal
psychology and energy medicine at Holos University
Graduate Seminary, and serves on several boards and
committees. Current interests include how science,
healing, and spirituality relate and interact; Psychosynthesis
and the search for self; death, dying, and trans-communication;
exploring ideas in quantum physics, string theory,
etc. and how they relate to who we are; and conscious
working in the planetary field of mind. |
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Jim Oschman, Ph.D., Past President
After a successful career as an academic scientist, specializing
in cell biology and biophysics, Jim began to research
complementary medicine. He has published about 30 research
papers in some of the world's leading scientific journals,
and about an equal number in journals related to complementary
medicine. He has also written two books on energy medicine,
and lectures internationally on this subject. He has
presented workshops for virtually every therapeutic school
and has also lectured at a variety of medical schools
and hospitals around the world. Jim’s investigations
of the energetics of the living connective tissue matrix
are the evidence base for integrating a wide range of
therapeutic approaches that are part of the new medicine
that is emerging worldwide. |
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Beverly Rubik, Ph.D., Director
Beverly Rubik is a frontier scientist renowned
for her pioneering research. She holds a Ph.D. in biophysics
(UC Berkeley, 1979) and has dedicated her career to pursuing
research on subtle energies and energy medicine, and has
published over 80 papers & 2 books. She is adjunct professor
in Integrative Health at Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies as well as Saybrook;
consultant to the Anodos Foundation; and president/founder of the Inst. for
Frontier Science, a nonprofit laboratory in Emeryville, CA. |
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Claude Swanson, Ph.D., Director
Dr. Claude Swanson was educated at MIT and Princeton University, and is currently director of the Synchronized Energy Institute in Colorado Springs, Colorado. For the past twenty years he has consulted in applied physics for government and private corporations, and has conducted research into subtle energy and its relationship to conventional physics. He has recently completed his second book focusing on the physics of subtle energy in medicine and energy healing. |
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Bernard O. Williams, Ph.D., Editor of Journal
Berney Williams is Dean of Energy Medicine University in Sausalito, California, and Professor at the Holos
University Graduate Seminary. Dr. Williams serves as the editor of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, and
on the Editorial Board for the International Union of Medical and Applied Bioelectrography. He is also President
of the Center for Environmental Energy Medicine Studies, in Lawrence, Kansas. Berney is an historian of sci-
ence. His studies range from the earliest circuit designs for electronic digital computers, to physiological and
psychological investigations of mind, and the history of spiritual alchemy and physical chemistry. |
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Denise Lewis Premschak
CEO
Denise Lewis Premschak brings a spirited, collaborative perspective and rich resources to ISSSEEM. She draws upon her experience and leadership in sales, training, marketing, recruiting, and consulting in both the corporate and public sectors as well as many years of volunteer contributions for non-profit organizations. During her more than 30 years of independent study, Denise has focused on the role and effect of subtle energies upon personal, spiritual evolution. Denise founded a coaching, training, and consulting company called Field Guide where individual and executive clients developed emotional skillfulness for leading organizations and leading inspired lives. FieldWork included leadership intensives, business development and organizational consulting along with intuitive guidance, livelihood mentorship and spiritual teachings. Prior to joining ISSSEEM, Denise served five years on the leadership and the monthly programming committees for Denver Noetic Alliance, an active Denver Metro IONS community group. She lives with her husband of 24 years in Parker, Colorado. She has two sons in college, enjoys boating, camping, hiking, whitewater rafting, yoga and has a voracious appetite for learning. Denise says her real education comes from her relationships with Spirit, family, friends, clients, community, purposeful work and expressive play. |
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Wanda and Herb Blumenthal
Bio information coming shortly. |
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Steven L. Fahrion, Ph.D.
Steven Fahrion Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist He was
a pioneer in Biofeedback and Self-Regulation for many
years at the Mayo Clinic, Menningers and Life Sciences
Institute of Mind-Body Health, which he founded with
his wife, Patricia Norris Ph.D. in
Topeka Kansas. He specialized in cardiovascular applications
of biofeedback, and conducted NIH research in hypertension,
bioenergy applications to basal cell carcinoma; and conducted
research in brainwave training for substance abuse problems.
Current interests include teaching literacy to bilingual
students. For 12 years he edited the journal Subtle Energies
and Energy Medicine. |
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David Hibbard, M.D.
David Hibbard, M.D. is the Co-Founder and Senior Physician
at the Family
Medical Center of Lafayette, Colorado, where he has worked
for 26 years with
his wife, Dr. Chris Hibbard. He has been involved with
ISSSEEM since 1992
when he served on the Program Committee, presenting in
1994, Co-Guest
editing the 1995 Winter edition of Bridges and serving
as Co-President in
2000-2001 along with wife.
Since 2005 he and his wife have committed to working
a month each year at a
remote, resource poor hospital in Southwest Uganda
near the Rwanda and Congo
borders. They are also on the faculty of the University
of Colorado School
of Medicine¹s Center for Global Health. He currently
serves on the ISSSEEM
Advisory Council. |
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Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., an epidemiologist and religious scholar, holds a distinguished chair at Baylor University, where he is University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Professor of Medical Humanities, and Director of the Program on Religion and Population Health at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center and as Scientific Chair of the Kalsman Roundtable on Judaism and Health Research at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He is a pioneering scientist whose research beginning in the mid 1980s helped to create the field of religion, spirituality, and health. He published the earliest comprehensive reviews and was the first scientist ever funded by the NIH to conduct research in this field.
Dr. Levin’s current work is focused on four areas: (a) the influence of religion on population health and aging, (b) theories of healing and the work of healers, (c) the intersection of Judaism and health, and (d) the role of faith-based resources in public health and healthcare policy. Author of over 150 scholarly publications, including seven books, he has served on the editorial boards of numerous peer-reviewed journals, has served on and chaired NIH panels, and has lectured throughout the world. Dr. Levin was the 1997-98 President of ISSSEEM.
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Ann Nunley, M.F.A., Ph.D., Secretary
Ann Nunley, M.F.A., completed undergraduate and graduate
work in Design (1960 and 1963) at the University of
Kansas. She studied in Italy and Mexico. Her professional
career includes personal journeys through symbolic
painting, as well as a dedicated interest in human
consciousness and creative methods that utilize symbology
and artistic expression for psychospiritual healing.
She is author of a book/card set entitled, Inner Counselor,
and the Inner Counselor Manual a manual for a course
of study that sets forth a unique approach to personality
integration.
Ann and Bob have worked since 1963 to find ways to
integrate holistic learning and holistic living with
traditional institutions to facilitate the transition
into the next millenium. They served together as Co-Chairs
for the 1987 Council Grove Conference on States of
Consciousness sponsored by the Voluntary Controls Program
of the Menninger Foundation. They were Co-Chairs of
the 1995 ISSSEEM Conference on The Art and Science
of Energy Medicine sponsored by the Life Sciences Institute,
and both serve on the advisory board of the Bonny Foundation,
which is involved with GIM music-centered therapy.
Ann and Bob are the past Co-Presidents of ISSSEEM,
serving as co-presidents for the 1998-99 year. Ann
is a founding member and Provost Emeritus of Holos
University Graduate Seminary and currently serves on
the Holos Board and on the faculty where she is director
of the transpersonal psychology track. |
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Bob Nunley, Ph.D., Council Chair
Bob Nunley, Ph.D.,was for 40 years a Professor of Geography
at the University of Kansas and for five years as
Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs at Holos University
Graduate Seminary. He received his B.S..and M.S.
(1952 and 1953) from Marshall University, and his
Ph.D. (1957) from the University of Michigan. He
is interested in innovative teaching methods and
the psychology of learning, and has made numerous
explorations into ways of enhancing the human potential
for learning and growth. He served five years on
the Technical Advisory Board of the Fetzer Energy
Medicine Research Institute. He currently serves
on the advisory Counsel of ISSSEEM and the board
of directors of Holos University Graduate Seminary
and the College of Integrative Medicine., He is a
classical and folk guitarist.
Ann and Bob have worked since 1963 to find ways to
integrate holistic learning and holistic living with
traditional institutions to facilitate the transition
into the next millenium. They served together as Co-Chairs
for the 1987 Council Grove Conference on States of
Consciousness sponsored by the Voluntary Controls Program
of the Menninger Foundation. They were Co-Chairs of
the 1995 ISSSEEM Conference on The Art and Science
of Energy Medicine sponsored by the Life Sciences Institute,
and both serve on the advisory board of the Bonny Foundation,
which is involved with GIM music-centered therapy.
Ann and Bob are the past Co-Presidents of ISSSEEM,
serving as co-presidents for the 1998-99 year. |
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Karl Maret, M.D., M.Eng.
Dr. Maret is President of the Dove Health Alliance,
a nonprofit foundation based in Aptos, California,
focused on the creation and promotion of global research
and education networks in energy medicine. He practices
complementary medical modalities including nutrition,
functional medicine and energy medicine at the Dove
Center for Integral Medicine in Aptos, CA. Trained
in both electrical and biomedical engineering before
his medical studies in Canada, he also completed a
4 year post-doctoral research fellowship at UCSD, where
he developed all the instrumentation for the successful
American Medical Research Expedition to Mt. Everest
in 1981. He is a partner in Heart-Mind Communications,
currently co-authoring a book on heart wellness. Dr.
Maret lectures internationally in energy medicine and
subtle energy healing. |
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Maurie Pressman, MD
Bio information coming shortly. |
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Norm Shealy, MD, Ph.D.
Bio information coming shortly. |
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Jerry Wesch, Ph.D.
Dr. Wesch is a clinical health psychologist and alternative
medicine researcher with almost 25 years of professional
experience with mind/body therapies. He also is a "closet
mystic" with personal experience of anomalous
phenomena going back to childhood. His first psychology
research project as a high school student suggested
that love enhanced psi hit rates. He was an NIH-funded
Co-Investigator on the NIH/NIAID Multicenter AIDS Cohort
Study and is Past-President of ISSSEEM. |
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Leonard A. Wisneski, M.D.
Information coming shortly. |
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Elmer E. Green, Ph.D. - Founding President
Along with wife and colleague, Alyce Green (Deceased),
Dr. Green has authored many scientific papers and wrote
the book, Beyond Biofeedback. He is a member of several
professional societies and advisory boards. For 20
years, he and Alyce lectured and conducted workshops
on the Theory and Practice of Biofeedback Training
for Psychophysiologic Self-Regulation, in the United
States, Canada, Great Britain, Holland, Australia,
the Philippines, India, and the Soviet Union.
Dr. Green's past research, combining the disciplines
of Autogenic Training and Biofeedback Training, includes
physiological studies of yogis in India in 1974. This
work in India and the United States was documented
in the video, "Biofeedback: The Yoga of the West" (produced
by Elda Hartley, Hartley
Film Foundation, Cos Cob,
CT).
Dr. Green's most current research included a study
of psychophysics and psychophysiology during a form
of Tibetan meditation. In this work, Dr. Green and
his colleagues discovered anomalous electric-field
effects in and around the bodies of well-known healers.
Documentation of the abilities of one of these healers,
Mietek Wirkus, appears in the video, "Bioenergy:
A Healing Art," (4803 St. Elmo Ave., Bethesda,
MD 208141, Phone: 301-652-1691). |
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Carol J Schneider, Ph.D., Founder
Dr. Schneider received a Ph.D. in psychology from the
University of Colorado. During an internship and
postdoctoral fellowship at C.U. Medical School, she
became interested in psychosomatic medicine. In 1971,
she became interested in biofeedback as a way of
teaching self-regulation, and subsequently opened
one of the first teaching and treatment centers at
C.U., in 1973.
Dr. Schneider's research and writing efforts have
been in the areas of child abuse, biofeedback, and
stress management. From the recognition that most people
with unmanageable physical pain have suffered abuse
as a child, she became interested in mind-body-spirit
healing for pain of any kind. From her experiences
as a clinician training many patients to relax, descriptions
of the unusual experiences of some of these patients
began to register in her mind. When a laying-on-of-hands
healer introduced her to this unusual world (for her),
many streams of consciousness came together to form
a deep interest in wanting to understand paranormal
experiences and energies. Dr. Elmer Green had been
encouraging her to "see the light" in this
way for many years.
Dr. Schneider is very glad that she could put the
organizational skills learned through being President
of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and
Biofeedback (formerly Biofeedback Society of America)
to use in co-founding ISSSEEM. In From 1989-2007, she was
editor of Bridges, ISSSEEM's Magazine. In 1993, she
served as ISSSEEM's President. |
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T.M. Srinivasan, Ph.D., Founder
Dr. Srinivasan received a Ph.D. in Electron Physics
at Goteborg, Sweden, after which he returned to his
native India to help set up a Biomedical Engineering
department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
During 1977-1978, he was in charge of the Institute
of Yoga studying prevention and cure through yoga.
He served as Chairman of the International Conference
on Energy Medicine at Madras during March, 1987, the
papers from which are reported in his edited book,
Energy Medicine Around the World.
Dr. Srinivasan joined the A.R.E. Medical Clinic, in
Phoenix, Arizona, in 1988, to investigate the holistic
health concepts in the Cayce material as well as work
on acupuncture diagnostics. He joined the John E. Fetzer
Institute at Kalamazoo, Michigan in November, 1989,
and worked to set up a lab to investigate medical devices
available in the holistic health area. Presently, he
works in Madras, India with Ayurveda and Yoga practitioners.
Dr. Srinivasan likes to think of energy medicine based
on two components, namely the exogenous and endogenous
energy systems. The external energy applied in the
former case interacts with the internal energy/informational
systems in the body to produce healing and/or homeostasis.
(Note that healing need not imply a homeostatic balance
in the body). In the case of endogenous energy system,
the energy within the body is manipulated through methods
such as meditation, Tai Chi, yoga and visualization.
It seems that most healing procedures can be categorized
as one or the other of these types. Of course, scientists
must still deal with measurable problems within these
categories. Thus we have is yet another definition
of energy medicine adding to an already confusing array
of ideas arising in this field!
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Elmer Green, Ph.D., 1990-1992
Carol Schneider, Ph.D. 1992-1993
T. M. Srinivasan, Ph.D., 1993-1994
Steven L. Fahrion, Ph.D., 1994-1995
Jerry Wesch, Ph.D., 1995-1996
Patricia Norris, Ph.D., 1996-1997
Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., 1997-1998
Ann Nunley, M.F.A. and Bob Nunley, Ph.D., 1998-1999
Leonard A. Wisneski, M.D., 1999-2000
Chris Hibbard, Ph.D. & David Hibbard, M.D., 2000-2001
T. M. Srinivasan, Ph.D., 2001-2002
Jerry Wesch, Ph.D., 2002-2003
Karen Malik, M.A., 2003-2004
Maurie D. Pressman, M.D., 2004-2005
Christine Page, M.D., 2005-2007
Norm Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., 2007-2008
Bernard O. Williams, Ph.D., 2008
Jim Oschman, Ph.D., 2008-2009
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Penny Hiernu, 1989-2007, Founding CEO
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