Health Advisory Board

Health Advisory Board

WholeHealthED is extremely grateful to have the guidance and perspective of many of the nation’s leading pediatricians and child health experts. Our Health Advisory Board members are committed to the principles of whole child health and appreciate the role that whole health learning can play in supporting children’s health and wellbeing, in mind, body and spirit.

Members

David Becker MD, MPH, MA, LMFT
Integrative Pediatrician and Behavior Specialist,
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Co-Medical Director, UCSF Pain Management Clinic
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics
San Francisco, CA

Shay Beider MPH
Executive Director
Integrative Touch for Kids
Tucson, AZ

Kevin Berry MD
Senior Physician Executive
Booz Allen Hamilton
Washington, DC

Melanie Brown MD, MSE, FAAP
Director of Integrative Medicine, Children’s Minnesota
Associate Professor Pediatrics, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Stephen Cowan MD
Westchester Center for Holistic Families
Mt. Kisco, NY
Tournesol Wellness, New York, NY

Timothy Culbert MD, FAAP
Medical Director of Integrative Medicine, PrairieCare
Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN

Karen Erickson DC, FACC
Erickson Healing Arts
New York, NY

Anna Esparham MD
Director Headache Treatment Center
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Kansas City, MO

Anu French MD
Pediatrics and Integrative Medicine
SSM Health, Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
St Louis MO

Melanie Gold MD
Professor, Pediatrics and Population & Family Health
Columbia University Medical Center
Medical Director, School Based Health Centers
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY

Elise G. Hewitt DC, DICCP
Portland Chiropractic Group
Portland, Oregon

Ruby Kalra MD, FAAP
Pediatric Hematology Oncology
Los Angeles, CA

David Katz MD
President, True Health Initiative
CEO, Diet ID
Derby, CT

Kathi Kemper MD
Professor, Pediatrics
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, OH

Ben Kligler MD 
Director, VHA Office of Patient Centered Care
and Cultural Transformation
Veterans’ Health Administration
Washington, DC

Jennifer Lawson MD, MA
Clinical Associate in Pediatrics, Duke Children’s Primary Care
Faculty Associate, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities,
and History of Medicine
Associate, Duke Initiative for Science and Society
Durham, NC

Maria Mascarenhas MD
Director, Clinical Nutrition Department
Director, Integrative Health Program
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Hilary McClafferty MD, FAAP
Founder and Executive Director
Academy of Pediatric Integrative Medicine
Tucson, Arizona

Sanghamitra Misra MD
Medical Director, Texas Children’s Mobile Clinic Program
Director, Integrative Medicine Program, Texas Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics / Pediatric Clerkship Director
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Claudia Morris MD
Professor, Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
Wilbur Fisk Glenn Jr. Distinguished Faculty Chair
for Clinical and Translational Research
Research Director, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Research
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

Sandy Newmark MD
Clinical Professor
Director of Clinical Programs
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Amy Saltzman MD
Director, Still Quiet Place
Director, Association for Mindfulness in Education
Santa Barbara, CA

Scott Shannon MD, FAACAP
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Colorado
Founder, Wholeness Center
Fort Collins, CO

Erica Sibinga MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Gary Soffer MD
Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
Department of Pulmonology, Allergy, Immunology
and Sleep Medicine
Department of Integrative Medicine
New Haven, CT

David Steinhorn MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Medical Director, PANDA Palliative Care Program
Division of Critical Care
Children’s National Medical Center
Washington, DC

Shiu-lin Tsai MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
New York, NY

Joel Warsh MD
Integrative Pediatrics and Medicine
Studio City, CA

Rachel Workman MD
Integrative Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-General Pediatrics,
Colorado University School of Medicine
Denver, CO

Robert Zarr MD, MPH
Founder, ParkRX America
Washington, DC

(May 22, 2020)

See members of our Education Advisory Board here.