Robert A. Nagourney | 05/06/18 | mind/body/spirit

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Robert A. Nagourney, MD, is the medical and laboratory director at Rational Therapeutics, Inc., in Long Beach, California, and a clinical professor of gynecologic oncology at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology.

Dr. Nagourney received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Boston University and his doctorate of medicine at McGill University in Montreal, where he was a University Scholar. After a residency in internal medicine at the University of California, Irvine, he went on to complete fellowship training in medical oncology at Georgetown University, as well as in hematology at the Scripps Institute in La Jolla.

During his medical oncology fellowship at Georgetown University, Dr. Nagourney confronted aggressive malignancies for0 which the standard therapies remained highly unsatisfactory. Responding to an unmet need, he pioneered the development of “personalized cancer therapy,” applying a laboratory platform to match patients to therapies based on their unique response profiles.

As the founder of Rational Therapeutics, Dr. Nagourney has led in the development of “functional profiling” in human tumors. Using human tumor microspheroids isolated directly from surgical specimens, this platform known as the Ex Vivo Analysis of Programmed Cell Death (EVA-PCD®) measures drug-induced programmed cell death. The EVA-PCD has been shown to be a robust method for the prediction of clinical response to therapy.

With more than twenty years experience in this field, Dr. Nagourney has authored numerous manuscripts, book chapters, and abstracts. As a co-investigator on national cooperative trials, he introduced the use of platinum/gemcitabine doublets in the management of advanced ovarian and breast cancers, treatments that today are used around the world.

Dr. Nagourney resides in Long Beach, California with his wife and two sons.

Andrea Adler | 04/04/2018 | Marketing

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Andrea Adler, proclaimed as the “Metaphysical Marketer,” pioneered Holistic Marketing in the early 80’s. She is the founder of Holistic PR.com and has produced workshops, seminars, and tele-classes for the past 30 years. Andrea is an international speaker, workshop presenter, and consultant and has authored three books on holistic marketing: PR for The Holistic Healer, Creating an Abundant Practice, and The Science of Spiritual Marketing.

Pushing Upward, her breakout Novel, published by Hay House is the Winner of the Los Angeles Book Festival Award and Hay House “Pick of the Month” for October 2012.

Andrea was responsible for writing Herbal Life’s first audio promotional tape and marketing collateral for Bread for the World, EDF (Environmental Defense Fund), City Harvest, Food for Thought, and Co-op America.

She has written over 50 articles on holistic marketing, translated in five languages, and has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows throughout the world. For 30 years, Andrea has supported Internet companies, small businesses, cultural creatives, and entrepreneurs in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States. Andrea has been a contributing editor and writer for Body, Mind, Spirit. She has written articles for Massage Magazine, Living Natural, Massage Today, Akkadian Magazine, Spirituality and Health, Tathaastu, Marketing Holistico in Mexico City and UNO MISMO, in Buenos Aires. Both Living Natural and Massage Today featured Andrea on the cover. She has been a featured guest on Dr. Pat’s-BLOG Talk Radio, Theater of the Mind and Unity Church’s international radio show.

A recipient of the Axiom Business Book Award in 2009, and a Key-Note speaker at hundreds of conferences including: The Science and Consciousness Conference, Natural Awakenings Annual Conference, Mountain Biz, The Holistic Medical Assoc., INATS (International New Age Trade Show) and Expo Ser in Mexico City with Deepak Chopra. Andrea has studied meditation for 30 years, living in ashrams and meditation centers in India, Paris, New York, and California.

In her twenties, Andrea was an actress both on and off Broadway, appearing in Neil Simon’s Chapter Two and several TV shows. In the early 80s, while a journalist for The Times Herald Record, in Monticello, New York, Andrea was profoundly affected by three teen suicides that occurred at a local high school. In response, she wrote a grant and received funding from Senator Charles Cook to create the Off-Off Main Street Children’s Theater Company, dedicated to works by, for, and about teenagers and the challenges they face. She produced and directed this company successfully for eight years.

A Broadway actress, an author, and an ardent practitioner of meditation, Andrea continually integrates her writing, her theatrical background and her meditation discipline with her evolving expertise in writing and producing.

Andrea is a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG); Women in Film (WIF) and Step UP. She currently lives in Santa Monica, California. Her son Brian Adler is a jazz composer and musician in NYC.

Donald Altman | 05/06/18 | mind/body/spirit

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Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, known as America’s Mindfulness Coach, is a national teacher on mindful eating and mindful living. His recent book, The Mindfulness Code, was chosen as “One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2010.” His 2011 book, One-Minute Mindfulness is a One-Spirit Book Club selection. His book Art of the Inner Meal was one of the pioneering books in the field of mindful eating.

Mieke (Maria Magdalena Catharina) Roovers | 05/06/18 | Mind/Body/Spirit

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Mieke (Maria Magdalena Catharina) Roovers appears in the movie Tapping the Source. Her book the Way of Beauty will be released in the USA November 2010.

Mieke is the president of Top Life, a therapist in Chinese medicine and author of 3 books. Mieke offers personal coaching and workshops on “lifestyle and stress management” to business executives in major corporations. Mieke also conducts exclusive trips to Bali for spiritual development for select groups of clients.

She is the President of Santi Cosmetics BV, an innovative Dutch cosmetics manufacturer. As head of this company, Mieke is producing her own unique cosmetics line. These luxury beauty products combine the very best innovations available from the West with the wisdom of beauty and health from the East. In 2001, Mieke Roovers was the first to launch the most exclusive, customized makeup-line made of gemstone powder. This concept was later refined in cooperation with an international cosmetics company and became the first gemstone cosmetics suitable for the mass market. Now, Mieke is the first to take her gemstone concept onto a higher level: personal care products with falling star energizing effects.

Being a cosmetics designer and lifestyle coach, she knows that real beauty is a combination of outer body-care and inner power. Over the years, she has developed the exclusive workshop “The Way of Beauty and Beauty Secrets.” This workshop addresses the needs of women who are interested in the secrets of beauty, attraction and radiance as well as people who need to look and feel good for personal or professional reasons.