Welcome to Gentle Wing: Your Path to
Holistic Wellness
in Amsterdam

Medical, Health and Wellness expert:

A seasoned physician with a broad range of experience in:

• Conventional Medicine and conventional medical delivery, including: Navigating patient insurance policies, coding, standard of care, specialist referral, and more.
• Health and wellness, including: diet and nutrition, exercise, mental health, weight loss, supplementation, and more.
• Research into efficacy, best practices, and novel approaches to a broad range of issues.
• Educator, with an emphasis on wellness topics, including:
• General education topics: “Nonviolent Communication.” “Nutrition for Humans.” “Herbalism for Beginners.”
• Specific lecture topics: “Aromatase Inhibitors and Estrogen Toxicity.” “Evidence Based Natural Cancer Treatment.”
• 10 years of movement classes for all fitness levels, including martial arts, dance, and yoga.
• Organizational co-operator and leader: As a student body official, member of a Board of Directors, and business owner/ entrepreneur:
• Consistently creates a culture of team participation, communication, and personal responsibility to the organization.
• Consistently finds, researches, and integrates solutions that both meets the needs and maximizes the potential of the participants and stakeholders.
• Assembled and trained staff from different countries, of different age groups, and with vastly different skill sets.
• Culturally Competent: A well traveled and broadly experienced creative thinker:
• Has hired, trained, and retained employees in other countries remotely.
• Approaches the lives of individuals, demographic groups, organizations, or abstract multifactorial situations like health care delivery with attention and care they require to enact measurable change.

Technical Skills

• Years of experience using Electronic Health/Medical Records, including implementation for medical offices.
• Google Apps: Broadly experienced with collaboration and data management tools:  Forms, spreadsheets, group chat, Google+, documents, comments, youtube, voice, and more.
• Basic science research background, including fractional distillation, HPLC, and NMR
• Business process skills including hiring, creating training materials and performing training, and all aspects of business management.
• Mac, PC, Android, iOS competent. Experienced with Microsoft Office, Quickbooks, Photoshop, Premier Pro, Adwords, WordPress, Asterisk, and many other platforms.

Past Professional Affiliations:

• American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
• Arizona Naturopathic Medical Association
• Endocrinology Association of Naturopathic Physicians
• New York Association of Naturopathic Physicians

Experience

Physician

SageMed

Kirkland Washington, USA
April 2014 to April 2015.
General Naturopathic care with an emphasis on physical medicine.

Foothills Primary Care

Phoenix Arizona USA
August 2012 to March 2014.

• Practicing in a busy Internal Medicine practice, typically seeing 15 to 25 or more patients per day, including AHCCCS, Medicare, and Medicaid.
• Caseload includes complicated Internal medicine patients, acute emergencies, and medical procedures. Arizona allows full diagnostic and prescriptive rights to Naturopathic Physicians.
• Patient population includes diverse class, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
  The practice also specializes in weight loss, physical medicine, anti-aging,  and hormonal health, and these patients comprise around 35% of the visits.

Whole Family Medicine / True Abundance Health

2004 to Present.
Development of a private practice with an emphasis on whole family health, chronic disease, cancer care, women’s health, mental health, and difficult to treat conditions.
Worked with vendors like supplement manufacturers and distributors, dropshippers, advertisers, marketers, printers, and more.

Researcher:

Consilience Research Institute:

June 2023 – March 2024
Working with Daniel Smachtenberger and his team on various health related projects, including writing the “Anthropogenic Causes of Human Health Disorders,” a document describing the ways technology causes human health concerns.

Educator:

Communicating Peacefully:

2008 to 2011.
Workshops, classes, and team building services for corporations, civic/charitable groups, schools/colleges, and individuals. Providing education for supervisors, staff,  teachers, students, communities, and families. Groups include:

• Americorps: Communicating Peacefully, conflict resolution for volunteers.
• Highland Central School District, Highland NY: Conflict Resolution for District Administrators.
• Hartwick College, Oneonta NY: Nonviolent Communication.

Teaching Assistant / Tutor: Bastyr University:

Fall 1999 to spring 2003

• Teaching Assistant for Medical Biochemistry, Naturopathic Manipulation, Physical Clinical Diagnosis, and a tutor for Medical Anatomy, Medical Physiology, and Medical Histology.
• Provided a positive, reassuring, and stimulating learning environment for many students on a wide range of subjects.
• Merit award for outstanding contributions to the tutoring center.

Peacemaker Academy

2019 to present
Developed an innovative martial arts curriculum based in body-mind-spirit principles and practices:

• Mixed Martial Arts
• Conflict Resolution
• Mindfulness Meditation

Other Teaching Positions

• Continuing Education for Fishkill Medical Group. “Evidence Based Natural Cancer Treatment.”
• Hope’s Breast Cancer Alliance Conference. “Aromatase Inhibitors and Estrogen Toxicity.”
• Medical Science Faculty at Swedish Institute, NY, and City College of Nursing, NY, NY
• The Omega Institute, Rhinebeck NY: Nonviolent Communication, Herbalism, Nutrition, and Movement classes for staff.
• The Living Seed Yoga Center, New Paltz NY: Movement classes weekly for 7 years, various lectures including Detoxification, Lyme’s Disease, Nutrition, and more.

Founder, CEO, Tech Consultant, Head of Marketing

ForBy.io

January 2022 to present

• Managing the design and implementation of a liquid democracy software.
• Researching and developing features
• Working with designers on UI/ UX implementation
• Working with the open source group Flowback to modify their project
• Working with front and back end coders
• Networking and research on the state of digital democratic process

Holistic Practice Management:

April 2008 to present.
Founded and developed a full-service administrative support company that caters to the specific needs of holistic healthcare providers. This company has 8 employees and serves over 40 professionals.

• Human Resources, including recruitment, terminations, staff development, taxes, payroll, budgeting.
• Technological implementation:
• Full implementation of a Switchvox VOIP phone server, including DNS, SMTP, etc.
• Customization of Salesforce for a team of 5 salespeople.
• Elaborate Google Apps implementation including
• Google Forms as call and incident logs
• Real-time Client Manuals and Spreadsheets
• Google Voice and Chat for all employees
• Google Sites
• Quickbooks, including employee client billing, payroll, and tax management.
• Extensive WordPress implementation including:
• CNAME, DNS, FTP, HTML, CSS proficiency.
• Site Membership software
• eCommerce Shopping Carts
• Forums
• and more.
• Customer service and sales.
• Project Management, including planning and implementing system upgrades and all staff training related activity, usually recorded via screencast and executed remotely.
• Worked with services and vendors like advertisers, marketers, printers, and more.
• Marketing, including keyword research, adwords, link building and traffic generation, facebook and twitter marketing, print and email campaigns.

Board of Directors

Legislative Committee member.
New York Association of Naturopathic Physicians:
2004 to 2008.
Responsible for the management of the NYANP with other board members.
Developed processes and accompanying forms to facilitate grassroots legislative lobbying and action.

Student Council Leader

PR coordinator:
Bastyr University Student Council:

Fall 1999 to Spring 2001.
One of the five equal elected leaders to the Bastyr University Student Council.  Exercised leadership and motivational skills in seeing the various team projects and responsibilities to completion.

• Bastyr University representative for both the AANP and the CNA.
• Developed the framework for an Office of Student Outreach, established media training protocols for students, and developed main messages, copy, and graphics for several BU public speaker presentations.
• Worked to address the needs of students and the administration. Problem-solved and integrated various resources into tools germane to the needs of the parties involved.
• Found creative ways to involve students into the inner workings of the campus and the profession.

Business Co-owner and Operator:

Kresge Community Natural Foods Co-Operative:

Spring 1997 to summer 1998.

• Was directly and indirectly responsible for all aspects of owning and running a retail health food store, including purchasing, pricing, bookkeeping, maintenance and improvements, taxes, incorporation and nonprofit status, and marketing.
• Developed leadership and problem solving skills working within the consensus-based cooperative core group of owners, and with shopping members, on all aspects of operations.

Organic Farm and Garden Worker:

Various farms and gardens in British Columbia, Canada:

Prior to college and in between sessions from 1992 to 1995.

• All phases of farm and garden work from bed prep, planting, fertilizing and weeding, to harvest and market.
• Worked with livestock and did some child care.

Activist and Organizer

Greenpeace, CoPIRG, CalPIRG, and The Resource Center

From graduation from high school 1991, and between college sessions until 1995.

• Helped organize and MC a large rally.

Education

Bastyr University (B.U.), Seattle Wa:

September 1998 to December 2003:
Completed accredited programs of coursework and clinical internship toward a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree and Masters of Science in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (includes Chinese Herbal Medicine.)
Programs:

• Physician training at a fully accredited 5-year medical university. Curriculum includes history taking, physical exam, laboratory medicine, diagnostic imaging, conventional and functional diagnosis, referral, and management. Modalities include minor surgery, pharmacology, counseling, botanical medicine, dietary and nutrient therapy, physical medicine, exercise prescription, wellness medicine, and other healthcare modalities.
• Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine training including traditional Chinese medical diagnosis, acupuncture and oriental medical techniques, Chinese herbal formulation, and Chinese nutritional therapy.
  Awards:
• Recipient of B. U. 1999-2000, 2001-2002, and 2002-2003 Graduate Merit-based Scholarship.
  Recipient of the 2000-2001 Konig Foundation Scholarship for academic excellence and exceptional contributions to the University.
  Activities:
• Taught a popular “Peaceful Warrior” class at B. U. that combines Ashtanga Yoga, Capoeira, and Aikido/Jujitsu for three years.
• Conceived of and completed many initiatives, including the modular resource system and resource room layouts at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health.

University of California Santa Cruz:

January 1997 to May 1998
BA in Biology/ Pre-Med

• Conducted natural products chemistry research, which included fractional separation and distillation, HPLC, and NMR operation and interpretation.
• Training in the use of cytometry, biochemical, immunological and functional assays, protein expression analysis using Western Blot and/ or ELISA.
• Proficient in cell culture and microbiology lab procedures.
• Honors on comprehensive Biology Degree final exam.

California State University, Stanislaus

September 1995 to November 1996

• Dean’s List
• Helped develop the BioAg Organic Garden Project

State University of New York, Oneonta

March 1993 to July 1994

• Received a scholarship for a 5-week anthropology field trip to the Southwest.

Nonviolent Communication Conflict Resolution Training

Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, 2007

Other information:

• Renovated a house, including designing and building a curved staircase to code, installing barn beams to create a spacious kitchen/ livingroom to code, and installing a wood stove and chimney to code.
• Converted a 1985 Peugeot to run on vegetable oil.
• Enjoys vegetable lacto-fermentation and kombucha making.
• Has continued yoga, jujitsu, and capoeira training.
• Basic outdoor survival skills.

References available upon request.