ILADS Board of Directors
Amy Offutt, MD
PRESIDENT
Dr. Offutt is the medical director and co-owner of Heart & Soul Integrative Health and Yoga which she co-founded with her husband, Brad, in 2007, located in Marble Falls, Texas. Her first seven years of practice were focused on rural family medicine and obstetrics after which she transitioned to approach the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases using integrative medicine. She completed medical school at The University ofTexas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio and completed a residency in Family Medicine at Christus Health. She has completed a fellowship with the American Academy of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and had a Master’s Degree in Integrative Medicine from George Washington University.
Steven J. Harris, MD
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Steven Harris, MD is a Board-Certified Family Practitioner with a focus on chronic, complex illnesses including Lyme disease and associated tick-borne infections. His experience includes training in rural medicine of the developing world, urgent care, integrative medicine and public health. Dr. Harris has been a member of ILADS since 2003 and currently works in private practice heading up Pacific Frontier Medical located in Foster City, CA.
Steven J. Bock, MD
Immediate Past President
Steven Bock, M.D. has been practicing integrative medicine for over 35 years. He attended New York Medical College and received his M.D. in 1971. He was Board Certified in Family Practice in 1977 and is certified in Acupuncture. Dr. Bock was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Rhinebeck Health Center. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Family Practice, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Acupuncture and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Dr. Bock’s medical practice merges traditional medicine with alternative and complementary medicine, combining the modalities of acupuncture, functional and nutritional medicine, homeopathy, herbal medicine and environmental medicine into an integrated medical model for optimal wellness.
Eboni Cornish, MD
Treasurer
Dr. Eboni Cornish graduated from Brown University and Brown University Medical School. She completed her family medicine residency at Georgetown University. In 2003, as a Howard Hughes Medical Fellow, Dr. Cornish conducted translational research at the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH. She was an apprentice in the laboratory of Francis Collins, M.D Ph.D., the current Director of NIH and leader of the Human Genome Project. Under his leadership, she analyzed genetic associations of chronic illnesses. Dr. Cornish specializes in the treatment of Lyme Disease, environmental toxicity, methylation disorders, and Morgellons Disease among other chronic conditions.
Christine L. Saba, PharmD, MD
SECRETARY
Dr. Christine L. Saba is board certified in pediatrics and serves as an assistant clinical professor at George Washington Medical School and Georgetown University Medical Center. She graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1992 and did her internship and residency at Georgetown. Dr. Saba has been in solo practice since 2000, creating Saba Integrative Medicine in 2014 to focus on patients with chronic conditions or undiagnosed symptoms that require multimodal care. Her focus includes treatment of tick-borne illness and the sequela related to those infections. Before medical school, Dr. Saba received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Mercer Southern School of Pharmacy. Serving as the first senior clinical pharmacist in Johns Hopkins Hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit, she developed research protocols for analyzing various pediatric medications. She also enhanced her research skills as a medical manager of cardiovascular protocols at Squibb Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Saba is particularly interested in enhancing patients’ quality of life and thus incorporates many treatment modalities, including homeopathy and herbs. She is certified to practice acupuncture, with training in the Japanese model.
Garth Ehrlich, PhD, FAAS
Ex Officio
Dr. Ehrlich is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. He also directs three Research Centers of Excellence within the University’s Institute of Molecular Medicine and Infectious disease: the Center for Genomic Sciences (CGS); the Center for Advanced Microbial Processing (CAMP); and the Center for Chronic Infections and Biofilms. Dr. Ehrlich’s team utilize a broad array of microbiological analyses, comparative genomic techniques and bioinformatic tools, many developed in-house, to identify and characterize virulence genes within pathogens, and susceptibility genes to pathogens within their hosts. Dr. Ehrlich is also one of the founders of the field of Clinical Molecular Diagnostics (MDx), having been involved in the original application of PCR for the detection of human retroviruses in 1985. Dr. Ehrlich received his PhD from Syracuse University in molecular biology in 1987.
Tania Dempsey, MD
DIRECTOR
Dr. Dempsey is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Integrative and Holistic Medicine. She received her MD degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and her BS degree from Cornell University. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at New York University Medical Center. In 2011, she founded Armonk Integrative Medicine (AIM) which has evolved into the AIM Center for Personalized Medicine, a destination practice in Purchase, NY, focusing on complex, multi-system diseases.
Jody Greenfield, DO
DIRECTOR
Jody Greenfield, DO is board certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has been a clinician for nearly 30 years, and now focuses on the personalized care of patients with complex illnesses. Dr. Greenfield is a member of the ILADS medical education committee, focusing on the society's webinars. He has been a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stony Brook University and was an attending at Long Island Jewish Medical Center where he was a favorite teaching attending for Internal Medicine Residents and Medical students. He was formerly Instructor in Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has been awarded Most Compassionate Physician Award from his patient reviews by patientschoice.org. Today, Dr. Greenfield runs Get Well Medical Care of South Florida in Boynton Beach, FL.
Chad Prusmack, MD, FAANS, IFMPC
DIRECTOR
Dr. Chad J. Prusmack is a practicing Board Certified Neurosurgeon who specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery and traumatic brain injury. He is also the founder and Medical Director of a data driven, precision medicine health system called Resilience Code. Dr. Prusmack is certified in functional medicine through IFM and recently elected to the ILADS Board. He is the primary neurosurgical consultant for the Denver Broncos with special interest in environmental contributors to neurodegenerative disease, concussion, and post concussive syndrome such as Tick Borne Illness.
Cory Tichauer, ND
DIRECTOR
Cory Tichauer, ND has been practicing medicine for the past 20 years with a focus on the treatment of tick-borne diseases, neurodegenerative conditions, environmental medicine, and autoimmune illness. He graduated with a BA in Neurobiology from Cornell University and completed his medical degree at the National University of Natural Medicine. Dr. Tichauer is the owner and lead physician of Bear Creek Naturopathic Clinic in beautiful southern Oregon.
Chris Winfrey, MD
DIRECTOR
Dr. Chris Winfrey is a psychiatrist and owner and medical director of New Image Wellness in New Jersey. His clinical interests are neuropsychiatric conditions from a whole body perspective. Dr. Winfrey completed his undergraduate education at the University of Central Arkansas. He completed his medical education at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences(UAMS), College of Medicine, in May 2011 where he received his Medical Degree (M.D.).