Holly Ahern, MS

Robert Bransfield, MD, FILADS

Dr. Robert C. Bransfield, MD, DLFAPA is a graduate of Rutgers College and the George Washington University School of Medicine. He trained at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Dr. Bransfield’s primary activity is an office based private practice of psychiatry. Dr Bransfield is the Past President of ILADS, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation and the New Jersey Psychiatric Association. He has held a number of administrative positions with hospitals and organizations involved with health, mental health and community related activities and has received multiple awards from the APA and ILADS, including the Pioneer Award. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers—RWJ Medical School and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Dr. Bransfield’s clinical activities have focused upon treating patients who are considered to be treatment resistant. Many of these patients were found to have infectious disease contributors to their psychiatric symptoms. As a result, his research has often focused upon the association between infectious disease and mental illness. Dr. Bransfield has authored and co-authored a number of publications in peer-reviewed and other literature and has been active in political advocacy on an international, national, state and local level.

Mary Ann Comunale, PhD

Tania T. Dempsey, MD

Dr. Tania Dempsey, MD, ABIHM 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 her own Integrative medicine practice which has evolved into AIM Center for Personalized Medicine, a destination Medical Center in Purchase, NY, focusing on complex, multi-system diseases. Dr. Dempsey is a leading expert in Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Dysautonomia, ME/CFS, Vector-Borne Infections and Autoimmunity.

Garth Ehrlich, PhD

Kenneth Liegner, MD

Jackie Meinhardt, DNP

Jacki Meinhardt, DNP, FNP-BC is a nurse practitioner, research scientist, and global leader in functional and integrative medicine. Actively practicing in Northern Virginia, Dr. Meinhardt holds a doctoral degree in neuroscience, integrative medicine, and is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner.

B. Robert Mozayeni, MD, FILADS

Dr. B. Robert Mozayeni was trained in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at Yale and at NIH. He has had pre- and post-doctoral Fellowships in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, and also at NIH where he was a Howard Hughes Research Scholar at LMB/DCBD/NCI and later, Senior Staff Fellow at LMMB/NHLBI/NIH. He is an expert in Translational Medicine, the science and art of advancing medical science safely and efficiently. He is a Fellow of the non-profit Think Lead Innovate Foundation and is a co-founder of the Foundation for the Study of Inflammatory Diseases. He is a Founder of the Foundation for the Study of Inflammatory Diseases to crowd-source medical solutions for complex conditions using existing knowledge, diagnostic methods, and therapies to meet patient needs immediately. He is the Chief Medical Officer of Galaxy Diagnostics, LLC. And, he was recently appointed to be a Board member of the Human-Kind Alliance. Dr. Mozayeni has held admitting privileges (since 1994) on the clinical staff of Suburban Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine and an affiliate of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

Nancy O’Hara, MD

Samuel Shor, MD, FILADS

Dr. Shor developed his long-standing interest in chronic fatigue in the late 1980s and soon expanded his focus to managing related conditions, which led to his expertise in managing Lyme disease. His commitment to the field has included a congressional presentation on Capitol Hill, four live appearances on National Public Radio, and service on the 2010–2011 Virginia Governor’s Task Force on Lyme Disease.

Dr Shor has also held leadership roles as President of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) and as Chair of the Loudoun County Lyme Commission for a decade. In addition, he has contributed original research to the peer-reviewed literature and Dr Shor was the principal author of the consensus definition of Chronic Lyme Disease.

At the heart of his work is a dedication to improving patients’ lives, which continues to drive his pursuit of new ideas and better treatments.

Chris Winfrey, MD