Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

Alex Holland, LAc, MAc

Alex Holland is an acupuncturist, educator and composer. He was one of the first graduates of the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Seattle in 1985 and did his clinical training in Chongqing, China, in 1985, where he worked at the Chongqing Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

He was the Academic Dean of the Northwest Institute from 1992 to 1996 and former Chair of the Board of Directors. He has worked extensively on the national level with the Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine to develop and maintain quality standards of education in Oriental medicine.

Alex currently lives in Tucson, AZ., and is a co-founder and President of the Asian Institute of Medical Studies. He enjoys teaching and has been a curriculum consultant to schools across the country and Canada.

He has written numerous articles on Chinese medicine and is the author of Voices of Qi -An Introductory Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine . Alex has appeared on both radio and television promoting the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine.He currently divides his time between teaching, administrative work, writing and exploring his creativity through musical composition.

Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, MPH, CCFP

Ann Marie Chiasson MD, MPH, CCFP is Canadian Board Certified in Family Practice and pursued a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Chiasson holds an MPH in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a MD, with honors, from Dalhousie School of Medicine in Nova Scotia, Canada. She completed her residency in Family Medicine in Canada and worked as a primary care physician in Northern Canada for the Central Interior Native Health Service, and in Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. Chiasson has also trained with Dr. Brugh Joy (Joy's Way &Avalanche) and Maria Elena Cairo, She works with Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona (Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, & Coyote Wisdom) co-facilitating Spirituality and Healing conferences. Dr. Chiasson has had extensive experience exploring energy medicine and alternative healing practices including time spent with Mayan shamanic healers and psychic surgeons in the Yucatan peninsula.

Currently, Dr. Chiasson has a private integrative and energy medicine practice in Tucson, AZ where she offers consultations, treatments, seminars, and retreats. She also teaches through the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.

Cynthia Thomson, PhD, RD

Cynthia Thomson is a Registered Dietitian with over 20 years of experience providing nutrition counseling to patients. She obtained her PhD in Nutritional Sciences in 1998 and in the past 4 years has focused her career on research in the area of diet and cancer.

Prior to her research position, she coordinated the development and implementation of a comprehensive nutrition curriculum at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine. She is the current Chair of the American Dietetic Association practice group of nutrition educators of health care professionals.

Cyndi is married and the mother of two high-energy boys who help her to maintain a sense of balance and meaning in life.

David Kiefer, MD

David Kiefer, M.D., is a board-certified family physician with licenses in Washington, Arizona, and Wisconsin. In Seattle, he supervises family medicine residents at a homeless youth clinic, teaches naturopathic medical students at Bastyr University, and works in an urgent care. He completed a fellowship at the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, where he is now an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine. Dr. Kiefer graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, Wisconsin, and completed his residency training at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. His research and teaching interests include ethnobotany, especially in Latin America, and the clinical applications of evidence-based herbal medicine.

Devorah Coryell

Devorah Morris Coryell has worked in the health field for more than 25 years and is co-founder and executive director of The Shiva Foundation, an organization dedicated to education and support for those dealing with lossand death.

She conceived and directed the Wellness/Education Program at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona, one of the nation's foremost and innovative health resorts.

Based on a wellness model she developed, the program embraced a full spectrum of life patterns and resources that influence health including the capacity to grieve.

Ms. Coryell has been instrumental in bringing the wellness model into thecorporate world, where it is now being used extensively by companies. Inaddition, she has counseled families and individuals confronted withcatastrophic life situations.

Devorah is advisor to the Pritiken Longevity Center lectures and leads programs throughout the country. Her work contributes to a continuing dialogue on grieving and its importance to health and the fulfillment of life potential.

Frederic Craigie, PhD

Dr. Craigie graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College and subsequently received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Utah. He served two years of internships in the Veterans Administration system in Maine and Utah.

Since 1978, he has been a faculty member at the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency in Augusta, Maine. He also holds an appointment as Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.

Fred has a longstanding interest in spirituality and heathcare. Over the last 25 years, he has written and presented extensively about the healing and life-giving roles of spirituality in patient care, in the experience of health care providers, and in the life and culture of health care organizations. Related activities include being the founder of a pastoral care program at the Residency's affiliated hospital, organizing an annual Maine symposium on spirituality and health since 1987 (www.mainedartmouth.org/nevola/nevola08) and serving as associate editor of a professional journal devoted to Christian faith and mental health.

Fred teaches about spirituality and health care for the Fellowship and Integrative Medicine in Residency programs within AzCIM.

In his personal life, Fred finds joy in his relationships with his wife and grown children. In addition, he pursues his own spirituality by being "addicted to playing basketball, restored and satisfied by doing carpentry, thankful to live in and enjoy rural Maine, bonded to major league baseball, and captivated by playing fiddle, mandolin and Appalachian dulcimer."

Fred was on-site at AzCIM for a four-month sabbatical from January through April 2004.

Gulshan Sethi, MD

Gulshan Sethi, MD, is a professor of surgery and the Medical Director, Circulatory Sciences Program for the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Sethi specializes in cardiothoracic surgery with primary interest in coronary artery bypass surgery and valvular surgery. His research includes work on: heart, heart-lung and single-lung transplantation; artificial hearts and ventricular assist devices; mechanical valves; coronary artery disease; congenital heart operations; coagulation/anti-coagulation; myocardial preservation/reperfusion injury.

He earned his medical degree from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1964. He served an internship at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, CT, and residencies in general surgery at Rush Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL, and the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS. His cardiothoracic surgery residency was done at the University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City.

He has an active practice at both the University Medical Center and the Tucson Medical Center in Tucson, Az.

In 2007, Dr. Sethi completed a two-year Fellowship in Integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona under Dr. Andrew Weil. Currently, he is the Director of Clinical Services at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine..

Harmon Myers, DO

Harmon Myers received his D.O. from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1954, completed an internship at the Kirksville Osteopathic Hospital in 1955, and was in family practice and manipulative medicine until 1996. Dr. Myers is board certified in Family Practice as well as a Special Proficiency in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. He has taught courses in strain/counterstrain manipulation for 20 years and teaches in the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. He is the author of a text called " The Clinical Application of Counterstrain".

He has served in numerous professional organizations. He was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation and served as the Chairman of the board for several years. Dr. Myers has also served on the Board of Trustees of the American Osteopathic Association and the Board of Trustees of the Tucson General Hospital.

Dr. Myers is an active volunteer as well, serving as the president of the Board of Trustees of the First United Methodist Church Foundation. He has three grown children and seven grandchildren.

James Lake, MD

Dr. Lake is a Board certified psychiatrist in private practice in Monterey, California. He has chaired symposia and workshops at APA meetings and other national and international conferences on non-conventional and integrative mental health care. Dr. Lake has served as a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Stanford, and is currently a visiting assistant professor of medicine at University of Arizona School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine. He founded and chaired the American Psychiatric Association's Caucus on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Mental Health Care from 2004 through 2010 and was appointed to a special APA Task Force on CAM and integrative medicine. He is currently co-chair of the working group on integrative mental health in the Consortium on Academic Healthcare Centers in Integrative Medicine, and is a founding member and chair of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health.

Dr. Lake has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters on integrative medicine and psychiatry. He contributes a regular column on integrative mental health care to Psychiatric Times, and serves on the editorial review boards of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Journal of the Association for Advances in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, and Jour of Clinical Psychiatry. Dr. Lake is the author or editor of four textbooks on non-conventional mental health care: Chinese Medical Psychiatry: A Clinical Manual, (with Bob Flaws), Blue Poppy Press, 2000; Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care, Thieme, 2006; and Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care (co-edited with David Spiegel), American Psychiatric Press, 2007, and Integrative Mental Health Care: A Therapist's Handbook, Norton, 2009. Long-standing interests include the role of culture in mental illness, the philosophy and history of medicine, and the role of consciousness and intentionality in healing. You may contact Dr. Lake through email or through his website www.IntegrativeMentalHealth.net

Jingduan Yang, MD

Integrative Psychiatry & Natural Medicine, Medical Director

Dr. Yang is a leading physician, board-certified psychiatrist, and international expert on classic forms of Chinese Medicine. He uniquely incorporates psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, neuro-emotional technique, acupuncture and traditional Chinese herbal medicine in the care of patients with a variety of emotional and physical illnesses. Following family tradition, he is a fourth generation teacher and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), specializing in acupuncture.

Dr. Yang received his medical and neurology training at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xian, China. He then completed a research fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. When Dr. Yang moved to the United States, he was an instructor and clinical supervisor at the Minnesota Institute of Acupuncture and Herbal Studies, and then completed further training in psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr Yang completed the Integrative Medicine certification program at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine as a Bravewell Fellow in 2008. Dr. Yang has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and been a speaker in many national and international conferences and academic institutes.

Dr. Yang is the founder and medical director of Tao Institute of Mind & Body Medicine. Besides practicing at Mt. Laurel NJ, Bryn Mawr, PA and New York City offices of the Tao Institute, Dr. Yang also practices integrative psychiatry and medicine at the Jefferson Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Yang is currently on the faculty of Integrative Medicine Department of University of Arizona and he teaches Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture for the Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program. Dr. Yang is a board member of Board member of International Organization of Integrative Mental Health. Dr. Yang is also a member of American Medical Association.

Mary Marian, RD

Mary Marian is a Clinical Nutrition Research Specialist with the College of Medicine(COM)and the Arizona Cancer Center. She is the coordinator of the nutrition curriculum for the Fellowship. Additionally, her current job responsibilities at the COM include Lecturer for the medical students, outpatient nutritionist for Sunstone Cancer Resource Center and nutritionist for the NCI End-of-Life Care Grant. She is also a per diem clinical dietitian for Northwest Medical Center.

Mary was previously employed as a Clinical Nutrition Specialist at University Medical Center in Tucson, AZ.  Her clinical responsibilities included nutritional management for patients in the Med/Surgical ICU, liver and kidney transplant patients, as well as patients in the Pediatric ICU and Cystic Fibrosis clinic.

Mikel Aickin, PhD

Dr. Aickin received a Ph.D. in Biomathematics from the University of Washington, and since then he has played an active role as biostatistician in many areas, including cancer prevention and cancer registries, diet/exercise/lifestyle interventions, observational studies from administrative data, and most recently clinical trials in complementary and alternative medicine. He has worked on a number of methodological innovations, including alternatives to randomization, causal analysis, and analysis of non-random co-occurrence. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and the Kaiser Permanente Journal.

Rubin Naiman, PhD

Dr. Rubin Naiman is a psychologist specializing in sleep and dream medicine and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine. He is also the founder and director of Circadian Health Associates, an organization that offers a broad range of sleep related services, trainings and consultation internationally.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Naiman has served as a sleep and dream consultant to world-renowned health resorts. He has worked with a diverse clientele ranging from leading CEOs to world-class athletes, from homemakers to statesmen and entertainers.

Dr. Naiman has been a leader in the development of integrative medicine approaches to sleep and dream disorders, integrating conventional sleep science with depth psychological and spiritual approaches.

Dr. Naiman is the author of a number of works on sleep, including Healing Night, a book that approaches sleep and dream issues from a scientific as well as a spiritual perspective, The Sleep Advisor, an innovative software program that evaluates and offers recommendations for healing sleep problems, and Healthy Sleep (with Dr. Weil), an audio book that approaches sleep from an integrative perspective and includes special sleep promoting exercises.

Sally Dodds, PhD

Dr. Dodds is an Associate Professor/Research Scholar of Medicine and is supervisor of the Center's research and evaluation team. Previously, she was Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and simultaneously held an appointment as Professor of Social Work at Barry University in Miami.

Dr. Dodds has been the recipient of numerous federally-funded behavioral and health services research studies. These have focused on HIV prevention, behavioral health intervention, and health services integration. For 12 years, she was principal investigator of a mental health provider training program in HIV/AIDS that reached more than 60,000 psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, and social workers. Internationally, Dr. Dodds has been an investigator on HIV/AIDS studies in India, and was a special consultant on AIDS to the US Ambassador to Haiti. Currently, she is Co-Principal Investigator of the Integrative Medicine in Residency Program, and typically serves as co-principal investigator, evaluator, or research methodologist on many of the Center's studies.

Dr. Dodds is interested in mind/body approaches to health and behavioral health, mindfulness meditation, psychosocial stress and stress reactivity, and coping and social support. She is a trained psychotherapist and family therapist.

Sandy Newmark, MD

Dr. Sandy Newmark is a physician with 22 years of experience in pediatrics. He received his medical degree in 1984 from the University Of Arizona College of Medicine and three years later completed his residency there in pediatrics. He practiced as a general pediatrician in Tucson for 14 years, with a special interest in Behavioral problems such as ADHD and Autism. He then completed a 2 year fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona under the leadership of Dr. Andrew Weil. From 2003-2008 Dr. Newmark maintained a consulting practice in Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Tucson, Arizona; recently he joined Whole Child Wellness, an integrative pediatric practice in Belmont, California. He continues as a faculty member of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and lectures widely on Pediatric Integrative Medicine, ADHD, and Autism.

Steven Gurgevich, PhD

Dr. Steven Gurgevich is a licensed psychologist specializing in Mind/Body Medicine. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine, within the Center for Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Gurgevich also continues his thirty-six years of private practice at Behavioral Medicine, Ltd. and Sabino Canyon Integrative Medicine, LLC. in Tucson, Arizona.

He is a Fellow and faculty of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Other professional memberships are: Fellow and Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists; faculty member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine; Diplomate and Senior Disability Analyst of the American Board of Disability Analysts; the Society of Behavioral Medicine; the American Psychological Association, and state and local psychological societies.

Tara Lemmey

Tara speaks regularly on innovation, corporate strategy, and social and market trends to business, government, and social sector audiences around the world.

Tara founded LENS Ventures in 1999 with the mission of helping companies make innovation tangible. Her leadership in innovation is widely sought in industry, government, academia, and the nonprofit community.She advises senior executives of Fortune 2000 companies and serves on a variety of boards and committees. Tara is a leading member of the Markle Taskforce on National Security in the Information Age, where she has chaired the technology group for the last 5 years. The innovation work in the Markle reports has influenced a fundamental restructuring of how the government views intelligence and homeland security in the post 9.11 world. Tara is also a Commissioner for the blue ribbon Embassy of the Future project -working to redefine the future diplomacy for the post 2010 information-rich,global era.

She is an advisor to Dr. Andrew Weil's Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and is an Emeritus board member of the AIGA Center for Brand Experience, a leading design and brand organization. She also serves on the Department of Homeland Security's Privacy Advisory Committee, which is tasked with providing insights on how to best preserve privacy and civil liberties while improving national security.

Tara has led strategic client relationships with such companies as Nokia, Polycom and Intel, focusing on innovation, next-generation strategies, new markets, investments and acquisitions. Throughout her career, Tara has worked with the entrepreneurial edge of companies such as McGraw Hill, People Express Airlines, Absolut, Xerox, and Siemens. She helps companies create options for next generation growth by providing them with a unique approach to opening new markets. Tara has been published in Wired, Business2.0, Business Week, and the Harvard Business Review. She has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, and UC Berkeley and is a commentator on public radio.

Earlier in her career, Tara was president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she worked on global initiatives in the areas of intellectual property, encryption, and privacy. She also founded three technology companies that were trailblazers in new markets and was on the founding board of TRUSTe, a leader in online privacy.

Vinjar Fonnebo, MD, MSc Epidemiology, Dr Med(PhD)

Vinjar Fonnebo is Professor of Preventive Medicine and director of the National Research Centre in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM) at the University of Tromso in Norway.

His medical education and training was done at the University of Tromso and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

Vinjar was for many years in charge of the medical school at the University of Tromso. He is involved in research collaborations with colleagues at the Universities of Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim in Norway, Peninsula Medical School in UK, University of Linköping and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, Andrews University in Michigan, USA and PIM, University of Arizona, USA.

Vinjar is part of an international faculty involved in training of young researchers in the field of cardiovascular epidemiology. He has taught introductory medical statistics in a number of countries all over the world.

His current research projects include the use of complementary and alternative medicine in cancer care, integrative medicine, acupuncture for hot flashes and treatment-related side effects in breast cancer, and fermented soy as a treatment of low bone density.

He is author of a number of scientific publications, mainly in the areas of epidemiology and CAM.