Featured Speakers and Presenters
Scientific Speakers:
Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., MD
Title: Eliminating Heart Disease
Dr. Esselstyn is a preventive cardiology consultant in the Department of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. He has conducted a 20-year study irrefutably proving that changes in diet and nutrition can cure heart disease. In addition to over 150 published scientific articles, he is the author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease. Dr. Esselstyn has served as President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons and organized the first National Conference on the Elimination of Coronary Artery Disease. See www.heartattackproof.com
Jacqueline Chan, DrPH, MPH
Title: Water and Health
Dr. Chan is on the faculty of Loma Linda University, School of Public Health and is a Co-Investigator of the Adventist Health Study where she has planned and supervised the field clinics of this landmark study. She has presented her study on water intake and the prevention of cardiovascular deaths at scientific meetings such as the XXth Congress of the European Society of Cardiology and the International Congress on Heart Disease. Jacqueline is currently studying the relationship between Vitamin D and heart disease under a post-doctoral grant from the National Institutes of Health. See www.llu.edu/news/pr/042502water.html
Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH
Title: Diet and Ecology
Dr Diehl is Director of Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Loma Linda, California. His pioneering efforts with Nathan Pritikin and Dr. Dennis Burkitt have shown conclusively that many of today's diseases are truly reversible through some simple lifestyle changes. As a best selling author, researcher, dynamic speaker, and top-ranking motivator, he has lectured to corporations and governments and has presented seminars on four continents. He says that more than 50,000 CHIP graduates can testify to the effectiveness of the CHIP program. The stunning clinical results of this program have been published in over a dozen peer-reviewed medical and health journals. See www.chiphealth.com/scientific.html
Neal Barnard, MD
Title: Reversing Diabetes & Politics of Food
Dr. Barnard is founder and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nationwide organization promoting preventive medicine, good nutrition, and controversies in modern medicine. He has published groundbreaking research results in peer review journals such as The American Journal of Cardiology and is author of eight books, including Foods That Fight Pain, Turn Off the Fat Genes and his most recent one, Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes. He has been instrumental in reforming federal dietary guidelines. He is in high demand as a highly credible and motivational speaker in the area of lifestyle medicine. See www.pcrm.org
Gary Fraser, MD, PhD, MPH
Title: The Adventist Health Study and Diet and Cancer
Dr. Fraser, originally from New Zealand, is Professor of Epidemiology and Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University. He is the Director of a series of long-term medical research projects known as the Adventist Health Study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, a research project measuring the link between lifestyle, diet, disease, and mortality among Seventh-day Adventists. He is the author of Diet, Life Expectancy, and Chronic Disease published by the Oxford University Press that summarizes the findings of the Adventist Health Studies which have broadly influenced medical science. See www.llu.edu/llu/health
Jeff Novick, MS, RD
Title: Health Food vs. Healthy Food: How Can You Tell the Difference?
Mr. Novick’s humorous approach to nutrition has helped thousands worldwide make the transition to healthful living. He serves as Director of Health Education for the National Health Association and is the nutritionist/dietitian for the prestigious McDougall Program in Santa Rosa, CA. He was Director of Nutrition at the Pritikin Center in FL and has taught nutrition at several university medical schools. As a scientifically credible motivational speaker he is in frequent demand and has been featured in many magazines and on multiple TV programs including the Today Show. See www.jeffnovick.com
Joan Sabate, MD, DrPH
Title: Nuts and Health
Dr. Sabate, originally from Spain, is professor of nutrition and the chair of the Loma Linda University School of Public Health Department of Nutrition. He served as principal investigator in a nutritional study that directly linked the consumption of walnuts to significant reductions in serum cholesterol. His findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1993, receiving the attention of more than 400 media sources, national and international. See www.nutstudies.org
Serena Tonstad, MD, MPH, PhD
Title: Impact of Lifestyle on Lipid Profile
Dr. Serena Tonstad, from Norway, is Professor of Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University. She has dedicated her career to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and is the primary investigator in a wide range of studies regarding lipid-lowering, obesity, and smoking cessation. She is interested in integrating lifestyle change and drug treatment for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and has authored or coauthored over 170 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. See www.llu.edu/llu/sph
Sigve Tonstad, MD, PhD
Title: The Crisis of Antibiotic Resistance
Dr. Sigve Tonstad is from Norway and is currently an internist in the Department of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Religion at Loma Linda University. He received his MD from LLU School of Medicine and his PhD from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, founded in 1410. He has also studied at Middle East College in Beirut, Andrews University, and Duke University. He was a pastor, evangelist, and teacher in Oslo, Norway. He has been widely published with more than 50 articles in Norway and the US and has taught at both Andrew University and Avondale College. See www.llu.edu/llu/sph
Wes Youngberg, DrPH, MPH, CNS
Title: WinWellness
Dr. Youngberg has lectured at medical conferences throughout Asia and the USA over the past 20 years. His focus is the full integration of physical, emotional, and spiritual risk factors in the assessment and intervention of patient care. He is currently the Director of the Rancho Wellness Center and Lifestyle Medicine Clinic for the Rancho Family Medical Group in Temecula, CA. He conducts disease state management programs for optimal health and is co-author of the Win! Wellness program that will be showcased at this Summit. See www.ranchofamilymed.com/Wes_Youngberg.html
Summit Inspiration
Richard Hart, MD, DrPh
Title: Keynote Address Thursday Evening, Fulfilling the Vision
Dr. Hart is the President and CEO of Loma Linda University. He has also served LLU as Chair of the Department of Health Sciences, Director of the Center for Health Promotion, Chair of the School of Medicine Department of Preventive Medicine, Dean of the School of Public Health, and Chancellor and CEO. He was the first student missionary from the Adventist church to serve outside North America. He and his family later served in Tanzania for 5 years. As an intern from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, he developed the department of community health in Moshi and co-authored Child Health for midlevel health professionals in Africa. Dr. Hart has a vision for lifestyle medicine and health care that extends to the farthest reaches of the globe. See www.llu.edu/llu/chancellor.html
Randy Roberts, DMin
Title: 8:30am Sabbath Sermon, University Church
Dr. Roberts was born in South America of missionary parents where he spent the majority of his early life. He has served as pastor in the Texas conference, chaplain at the Loma Linda University Medical Center, and was instrumental in establishing and leading the Center’s grief recovery program. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist and has also served as the Associate Dean for the Faculty of Religion at LLU. He has been the senior pastor of the University Church since 2000, speaking both nationally and internationally. He has authored the book The End is Near (Again). See www.lluc.edu
Donald Mackintosh, MDiv, RN
Director, Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism
Title: 11am Sabbath Sermon, Wong Kerlee Conference Center
Pastor Mackintosh is the Director of Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism (AFCOE). He has coordinated and conducted multiple evangelistic meetings and bridge events. He has written a fresh series of studies on Daniel and Revelation and the Sanctuary of Scripture and has also produced a series of studies entitled "What's The Connection?" designed to lead people who attend health events to a study of Scripture. Pastor Don has been intimately involved with CHIP ministry for more than 12 years and has played a vital role in the development and expansion of CHIP throughout North America. See www.connections.threeangels.org & www.amazingfacts.org
Richard A. Schaefer, University Historian
Title: Legacy, The Heritage of the Adventist Health Message
Mr. Schaefer is currently the president of the Loma Linda Chamber of Commerce and has been the historian for Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center for the past eight years. He has found evidence of Providence that no other historian has found including evidence that even John Burden and Ellen G. White could not have known in their time. This summer began his 44th year of employment at Loma Linda University and Medical Center. Most of that time he was the director of Community Relations for the Medical Center. He is the author of 12 books, most of them relating to the history of Loma Linda. See www.llu.edu/news/today/today_story.html?id=1446
Harold Burden, MDiv, MPH
Title: CHIP Stories and Reports
Pastor Harold has been the chairperson of the Adventist CHIP Association since its founding in December of 2000. He was a pastor in Wyoming and then a missionary in South America for 10 years—Lake Titicaca, Peru & Medellin, Colombia. After 25 years as hospital health educator at Portland Adventist Medical Center in Oregon, he “retired” and became a full-time CHIP volunteer. His wit and wisdom helps to hold “CHIP in the Church” together. See www.adventistchip.org
Lily Diehl, DMA
Title: Sabbath Vespers with Cheri Carrick
Dr. Lily Diehl, wife of Dr. Hans Diehl, is a concert pianist and recording artist. For over 25 years she has had one of the largest and most successful music studios in Southern California, using the “Triangle of Success” that involves the parents, student, and teacher in the learning process. Her students consistently place high in piano competitions. Even though she had three graduate degrees and a secure university position, she took the risk of stepping out on her own and starting a private studio because she has found greater satisfaction in working with young and promising students. See www.iamaonline.com/Bio/Lily_Diehl.htm
Cheri Carrick, MBA
Title: Sabbath Vespers with Lily Diehl
Ms. Carrick grew up near Spivey, Kansas and has been playing since she was just five years of age. She won the title of Miss Lincoln, Nebraska with a piano performance talent and has played in conjunction with speaking engagements for various church-sponsored events across much of the US and as far away as Russia. Currently, she is Director of Business Development & Marketing for the Florida Hospital Healthcare System, but music continues to be a large part of her life. Her passion is to influence others to know God as a personal Friend. See www.chericarrick.com
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