Ann Crile Esselstyn
Ann Crile Esselstyn is a relentlessly energetic and creative advocate for the plant-based, whole-food way of life. She is the author of the recipe section of Dr. Esselstyn’s bestselling book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, and co-author of The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook with her daughter, Jane.
Ann never stops looking for ways to bring that important agenda to delicious life, devising ever more practical and powerful ways to shop, cook, and engage even the most reluctant eaters in the plant-perfect diet. She is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Masters in Education from Wheelock College. Ann taught English and History for 27 years at Laurel School in Cleveland, Ohio, where she received the Hostatler Award for Outstanding Teaching.
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Will Tuttle, PhD.
Dr. Will Tuttle, visionary educator and musician, is the author of the international best-seller, The World Peace Diet. A former Zen monk and recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award, he is cofounder of The Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals and is a vegan since 1980.
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Pamela Popper, ND., PhD.
Dr. Pam Popper is a naturopath, an internationally recognized expert on nutrition, medicine and health, and the Executive Director of The Wellness Forum. Dr. Popper is the author of several books; her most recent is Solving America’s Healthcare Crisis. She is the Founder of The Wellness Forum Foundation, which offers programming in schools designed to improve children’s health through better nutrition.
Dr. Pam Popper is a straight-talking professional who is not afraid to criticize national health organizations, government agencies, medical professionals, pharmaceutical companies, agricultural organizations and manufacturing companies, many of whom have agendas and priorities that interfere with distributing truthful information and promoting public health.
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John Robbins
John Robbins is the awarded author of nine bestsellers that have been translated into 26 languages. His books include The Food Revolution, Diet For A New America, and most recently, No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution.
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Saray Stancic, MD.
Saray Stancic, MD., is a board certified physician and the founder of Stancic Health and Wellness, LLC where she practices Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Stancic is currently producing a documentary film, Code Blue: Redefining the Practice of Medicine, which will highlight the practice of Lifestyle Medicine to prevent, treat, and manage chronic illnesses. In doing so, she has been traveling coast-to-coast over the past several months, interviewing prominent leaders in Lifestyle Medicine.
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Doug Lisle, PhD.
Doug Lisle, PhD., is the Director of Research for The TrueNorth Health Center, and the psychologist for the McDougall Wellness Program. He is also the pioneer psychologist of Esteem Dynamics.
Jane Esselstyn, RN.
Jane Esselstyn, RN., is the co-author of The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook,The Engine 2 Cookbook, and the creator of the recipe sections of #1 NYTimes bestseller, Plant-Strong and The Engine 2 Seven Day Rescue, by Rip Esselstyn. Her annual conference, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease and Autoimmune Disease for Women, focuses on the power of a plant-based approach to eliminate this #1 killer of women and other preventable, lifestyle related diseases.
Culinary Medicine
Chef Del Sroufe
Chef Del Sroufe is a member of The Wellness Forum and the co-owner and chef at Wellness Forum Foods. After a lifetime of yo-yo dieting, he has lost over 200 pounds on a low fat, plant-based diet. Sroufe is the author of three cookbooks, The China Study Quick and Easy Cookbook, Better Than Vegan and the bestseller, Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook. Visit ChefDelSroufe.com
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Heather McDougall
Heather is the CEO of Dr. McDougall’s Health & Medical Center. She has managed every aspect of the McDougall Program since it moved to Santa Rosa in 2002. Her involvement in the business includes Program Director, overseeing the McDougall website and McDougall Facebook page, day-to-day business operations, recipe development and advertising.
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Ocean Robbins
Ocean Robbins is co-founder & CEO of the 450,000 member Food Revolution Network. He has hosted more than 800,000 people in his online Food Revolution Summits, and he’s facilitated organized and facilitated hundreds of live seminars, gatherings and events for more than 200,000 leaders from 65 nations. Ocean serves as adjunct professor for Chapman University, and is a recipient of the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Freedom’s Flame Award, the Harmon Wilkinson Award, and many other honors. He is author of The Power of Partnership, and co-author of Voices of the Food Revolution and Choices For Our Future.
Brian Hart, M.Ed.
Brian Hart, M.Ed. is a highly experienced educator with over twenty-five years in the field as a teacher, administrator, consultant, and advocate for school change in both the public and private sectors. Brian specializes in working with organizations to help them create immersive, hands-on, experiential programs designed to transform thinking and build problem-solving skills. He is a former Outward Bound instructor, wilderness EMT, plant-based chef, middle school principal, and carpenter. When not educating others about the benefits of whole food, plant-based nutrition, Brian is a committed ultra-endurance athlete with four Ironman finishes to his name, among other run, bike, and ski events. Brian graduated from Dickinson College with a BA in History. He earned his M.Ed. in teaching and curriculum design from Ursuline College. Brian also holds a Rouxbe Plant-Based Cooking Certification and a Montessori Adolescent Educators endorsement.
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Kathy Freston
Kathy Freston is a bestselling author with a focus on healthy eating and conscious living. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean, Veganist, Quantum Wellness, The Book of Veganish and her latest, Clean Protein. A media favorite, Kathy has appeared frequently on national television, including Ellen, The Dr.Oz Show, Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, The Talk, The Martha Stewart Show, Extra and Oprah.
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Michael Greger, MD.
A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Michael Greger, MD, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. He has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, testified before Congress, and was invited as an expert witness in the defense of Oprah Winfrey in the infamous “meat defamation” trial. In 2017, Dr. Greger was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award. He is a graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. His latest book How Not to Die became an instant New York Times Best Seller. He has videos on more than 2,000 health topics freely available at NutritionFacts.org, with new videos and articles uploaded every day. All proceeds he receives from his books, DVDs, and speaking engagements is all donated to charity.
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Monica Aggarwal, MD.
Board certified in cardiology, echocardiography and nuclear cardiology, assistant professor of medicine in the University of Florida Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), where she is a member of the nutrition council working on nutrition policies for the nation. Dr. Aggarwal is also the author of the book “Finding Balance: Empower Yourself with Tools to Combat Stress and Illness,” which outlines 10 prescriptions to help guide people to better health.
Education Advisor
Claudia Diaz
Claudia is the founder and visionary behind the Montessori British School (MBS), a prestigious, highly regarded, and most important schools in Colombia. She is also an innovator for a state-of-the-art academic curriculum that goes beyond academic content. Claudia is a whole plant-based eater who understands the importance of nutrition in action. She actively develops programs aimed at improving student’s eating habits through education. Claudia earned a professional degree in Architecture from Universidad Javeriana, a Master’s in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Master’s in Education from the University of Alabama, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Kellogg’s Business Executive Program.
She was also part of the Singularity Program that takes place in Silicon Valley for Exponential Technology; she has enrolled in culinary courses at “El Gato Dumas”; has studied Sustainable Agriculture at the National Gourmet Institute of New York, and high definition photography and filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. She is a certified Coach from the ICT (International Coaching Community), and was admitted for a Fellowship at Columbia University for the Klingenstein Heads Program. Claudia is also the recipient of one of the country’s most prestigious awards, the “La Cruz José Acevedo y Gomez,” given to outstanding human beings that contribute to the development of society in a meaningful way.
Culinary Medicine
Chef Ramses Bravo
Chef Bravo is a professional whole food plant-based chef and the author of many best-selling books including the Bravo! cookbook, as well as Bravo Express!. He teaches adults and children how to cook absolutely delicious WFPB meals without sugar, salt, and oil. He is the executive chef for True North Health Center since 2007 and the leading Chef for the Culinary Medicine program for WFPB.ORG.
Evelisse Capo, Pharm D.
Dr. Capó is a certified instructor for PCRM’s Food for Life and CHIP (Complete Heath Improvement) programs. Dr. Capó collaborated with the GEICO Workplace Nutrition Study coordinated by the Washington Center for Clinical Research. She practices as a health and nutrition coach in her consulting practice The Food Pharmacy located in Sarasota, FL. Dr. Capó also practices as an Instructor and Spanish Outreach Coordinator for the T. Colin Campbell for Nutrition Studies. She has been able to accomplish these endeavors with the love and support of her husband and four plant-strong children.
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Michael Klaper, MD
Michael A. Klaper, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. He received postgraduate training in internal medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, and orthopedics at University of British Columbia teaching hospitals in Vancouver and obstetrics at the University of California at San Francisco. He has practiced acute care medicine in Hawaii, Canada, California, Florida and New Zealand.
Far more fulfilling to him is his current practice, focusing on health-promoting food and lifestyle choices to help people prevent the need for hospitalization and surgery. He has authored numerous articles on plant-based nutrition and is authoring a book on using plant-based medicine to arrest and reverse disease.
A long-time radio host and a pilot, Dr. Klaper has served as nutrition advisor to NASA’s programs for space colonists on the Moon and Mars and on the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Students Association.
Dr. Klaper has been featured in several films focused on health and sustainable living, including the award winning “Diet For A New America”, “What the Health”, and “Cowspiracy.”
To improve his own health, and to minimize suffering of sentient beings, Dr. Klaper adopted a plant-based diet in 1981. He makes the latest information on health and nutrition available through his website, DoctorKlaper.com, where visitors can find the numerous videos and DVDs he has produced, as well subscribe to his free newsletter, “Medicine Capsule.”
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Nelson Campbell
Nelson Campbell founded PlantPure, Inc. and its nonprofit arm, PlantPure Communities, to lead a grassroots movement to promote the health benefits of plant-based nutrition. He is the Executive Producer, Director, and Co-Writer of the documentary film PlantPure Nation, and the pioneer of the Healing America campaign.
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Ana Negrón, MD.
Board certified in family medicine, Ana M. Negrón, M.D. has made cooking an integral part of her practice. By transitioning her patients to a whole food plant-based diet she helps reduce inflammation at the root of their illness.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Negrón has a solo nutrition practice near Philadelphia. She volunteers at a free clinic for the uninsured, and teaches young physicians how a whole foods plant-based diet can prevent, help treat, and even reverse chronic disease. Sunstone Press published her recent book, Nourishing the Body and Recovering Health: The Positive Science of Food—an antidote to our reliance on pharmaceuticals.
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Ted Crawford, MD.
Ted Crawford was born, raised, and educated in Iowa and used to take five prescription medications for his own array of health issues. After adopting a plant-based lifestyle and reversing his health problems seven years ago, he began advocating this way of living to his patients. Dr. Crawford is a board certified family practice physician who believes that most of our health problems are caused by what we choose to put into our bodies. He also believes that even if you have been treating your body horribly for years, you can reverse most, if not all, of the deleterious effects you have caused by poor lifestyle choices. Dr. Crawford practices family medicine in Tucson, AZ. He is featured in the film “Eating You Alive”.
Culinary Medicine
Kim Campbell
Kim Campbell is the author of two cookbooks, PlantPure Nation & PlantPure Kitchen, where she developed over 250 recipes using whole food, plant-based ingredients, and no processed oils. Kim has been a plant-based cook for 25 years, experimenting and preparing meals for her family and friends.
Kim graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Human Service Studies, with a concentration in Nutrition and Child Development. She later received a teaching certificate and went on to teach in various grades, from kindergarten to high school. She also raised three children with her husband, often teaching in their schools.
Kim’s passion has always been recipe development and culinary education, especially for families and children. She has taught cooking classes in her local community and now through PlantPure, Inc. She currently directs recipe development and culinary education for the Company. You can watch her educational videos through PlantPureTV.com. In addition to this work, Kim will soon launch a continuing stream of educational videos, and is creating a second cookbook to be published later this year.
Ashwani Garg, MD.
Ashwani Garg, MD is a family physician based in Lincolnwood, IL. Dr. Garg completed a degree in biomedical engineering and medical school from Northwestern University, after which he attended family medicine residency at Hinsdale Hospital. He was in private practice for 15 years and was inspired by the movie “Forks over Knives” and CNN’s “The Last Heart Attack” to adopt a plant-based diet and to work with his patients on healthy lifestyle changes. He is a founding member of the International Association of Reversive Medicine and he is WFPB certified. He is board-certified in lifestyle medicine in addition to having completed a certificate in plant-based nutrition, and has adopted an integrative approach to his medical care for all ages, birth and up.
