Center Staff

The Center has gathered a team of experienced practitioners from around the country. Together they are forming a new kind of group practice where conventional physicians, many of them trained in complementary therapies, and seasoned holistic practitioners work together in collaboration. For all practitioners the chance to offer quality, integrative care in this healing setting is the realization of a long term goal, actualized through many years of hard work and dedication to this shared vision.

In addition to physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and psychologists with expertise in integrative medicine, the staff includes licensed and credentialed complementary providers. The Center's staff is committed to relationship-centered care and a collaborative working environment. Click on any practitionerÕs name to learn more about their background.

	Woodson C. Merrell, MD Executive Director		Internist, Acupuncture, Integrative Medicine
	Mary Beth Augustine, RD, CDN		Senior Integrative Nutritionist
	Lisa Bartoli, DO		Physiatrist, Orthpaedic and Sports Rehabilitation, Medical Acupuncture
	Sapna Chaudhary. DO		Family Medicine
	Stephen Dahmer, M.D.		Family Medicine
	Martin Ehrlich MD, MPH, CAc Medical Director		Integrative Internal Medicine
	Sezelle Gereau, MD		Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, Adults and Children
	Mary Gocke, RD		Integrative Nutritionist
	Robert Gotlin, DO Director of Orthopaedic and Sports Rehabilitation		Physiatrist, Orthpaedic and Sports Rehabilitation
	Marsha J. Handel, MLS Director, Informatics and Online Education		Professional and Consumer Information Services
	Emily Hartzog, MD		Gynecology
	Pamela Hops, MD		Family Medicine
	Yvonne Johnson, PT		Program Manager, weFocus on Fitness @ CCHH
	B. Basia Kielczynska, MS, L.Ac.		Acupuncture, East Asian Medicine
	Benjamin Kligler, MD, MPH Research Director Vice Chair, Department of Integrative Medicine		Family Medicine
	Roberta Anne Lee, MD Vice Chair, Department of Integrative Medicine		Integrative Internist, Botanical & Ethno-Medicine
	Hanniel Levenson		Research Associate
	Rachel Nechemia, RN, MS, FNP		Family Nurse Practitioner
	Arya Nielsen, PhD, LAc		Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine
	Gilles Obermayer, LMT-NCBTMB		Asian therapeutic bodywork and Swedish massage
	Aurora Ocampo, MS, RN, CS		Clinical Nurse Specialist, Aromatherapy, Biofeedback
	Geralyn Petrilyak, PT, MS		Senior Physical Therapist, weFocus on Fitness @ CCHH
	Stephan Quentzel, MD, JD, MA		Holistic Family Medicine, Integrative Psychiatry
	Esther Sackett, MPA		Clinical Program Coordinator, the Department of Integrative Medicine
	Nathalie Stern, M.D.		Pediatric Homeopath
	Helen K. Volonakis, MPA Administrator
	Caroline Lisa Werner, JD, LMSW, SWC(c)		Clinical Social Worker
	Pamela Yee, MD		Integrative Internal Medicine
	Jeff Young, BS, Ex, Phys		Personal Training, weFocus on Fitness @ CCHH

The Center Advisory Board

The following individuals, reflecting a wide range of interests and specialties, have made themselves available to us for many needs, including planning sessions, consultations, intellectual and moral support, publicity, fund-raising, lectures and educational programs. Many of them early on expressed a willingness to acknowledge their support for the Center, and for this we are deeply grateful.

	Jean Anselmo, BSN, RN		Consultant and Educator
	Michael Balick, PhD		Curator, Ethnobotany, N.Y. Botanical Garden
	Walter Beebe		Founding Chairman and President, New York Open Center
	Samuel Benjamin, MD		Former Director, Center for Complementary/Alternative Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook
	Herbert Benson, MD		Chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Founding President of the Mind/Body Institute, Harvard Medical School
	Raymond Chang, MD		Director, Meridian Medical Group
	James Dillard, MD, DC, L.Ac		Medical Director, Alternative Medicine Department, Oxford Health Plans
	Henry Dreher		Author
	Mathew Fink, MD		Chief, Division of Vascular and Critical Care Neurology Director, Yarmon Stroke Center, Beth Israel
	Richard Gere		Actor, Tibetan Activist
	Daniel Goleman, PhD		Author
	Jerry Hickey, RpH		Author, Owner, Hickey Chemists
	Steven Horowitz, MD		Chief, Medical Cardiology, The Heart Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
	Stephen Josephson, PhD		Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital
	Suzanne Karpas		Trustee, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
	Dharma Singh Khalsa, MD		Director, Longevity Institute, Tucson, AZ
	Debra Korzenik, Esq.		Senior Associate General Counsil, Continuum Health Partners
	Fredi Kronenberg, PhD		Director, The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
	Philip J. Landrigan, MD		Professor and Chair, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Director, Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
	Mathew H.M. Lee, MD, FACP		Hoard A. Rusk Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
	Michel Lerner, PhD		President and Founder, Commonweal
	George Lewith, MD		Co-Director, The Center for the Study of Complementary Medicine, Southampton and London
	Frank Lipman, MD		Founder and Director, Eleven Eleven Wellness Center
	Joseph Loizzo, MD		Director, Columbia Presbyterian Center for Meditation and Healing
	Oren Lyons		Chief, Onandaga Nation
	Deborah Matza, RN, MPH		Clinical Coordinator, Heart Institute's Center for Cardiac and Pulmonary Health , Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
	Betsy McGregor, MD		Former Director, Humanistic Health Care Program, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
	Richard Pierson, MD		Radiation Research Center, St. Luke's/ Roosevelt Hospitals
	Stefan Rechtschaffen, MD		Director, Omega Institute
	Rachel Naomi Remen, MD		Co-founder Commonweal
	Bill Sarnoff		Trustee, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
	Robert M. Schiller, MD		Chair, Alfred and Gail Engelberg Departments of Family Medicine, The Institute for Urban Family Health, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
	Sister Joanne Schuster, PhD		Franciscan Sisters of Poor Foundation
	Rajendra Sharma, MD		Medical Director, The Hale Clinic, London
	Rena Shulsky		Shulsky Foundation
	Anna Souza		Director, Procultura
	Andrew Weil, MD		Director, Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona

The Board of Advisors also includes the Directors of the Center:

	Martin Ehrlich, MD, MPH, CAc		Medical Director
	Ben Kligler, MD, MPH		Research Director Vice Chair, Department of Integrative Medicine
	Roberta Lee, MD		Vice Chair, Department of Integrative Medicine
	Woodson C. Merrell, MD		Executive Director
	Helen K. Volonakis, MPA		Administrator

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