Organist and carillonist Grace Chan is a PhD Candidate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music researching organ and carillon performance/ culture in Australia. Grace has performed on all three carillons Australia. She was a carillon student at the National Carillon, Canberra from 2018-2022. In July 2019, she was invited to perform the world premiere of an Australian carillon work at the Palau de la Generalitat Carillon, Barcelona. Grace has performed for Sydney University Graduation ceremonies and special occasions for the Faculty of Medicine. As a practicing medical doctor, she has had a longstanding interest in community wellbeing.
Grace Chan is the carillonist of the University of Sydney. As organ player she gives impressive recitals as well.
Hello! I am Eric Schendel, owner of The Lifestyle Doctor. I am a personal technology consultant and I also teach people how to successfully run a business from their home on their computer. Here is a brief summary of my background and interests.
My family moved down to Mexico when I was seven and we lived there eleven years, mostly in a little town called San Miguel de Allende. When we returned to the States we settled in Texas where I completed high school and attended college and medical school. In 1984, I fell in love with computers and what they could do to improve the practice of medicine. My first computer was a KayPro II and my second was a PC clone made by Heath, which came in a kit which had to be assembled—I even had to solder the components onto the circuit boards! Later I joined a locum tenens company (medical temporary agency) so that I could complete a Ph.D. in bioengineering with a major in computerized medical diagnostics. Now Big Planet offers me a chance to share some of my computer knowledge and my passion for technology with other people.
I live in Seattle with my wife Fionnuala and our son Keith. Recreational interests include writing, skiing, sailing, hiking and traveling.
Born and raised in County Durham, UK, Dr Brenda Davies – Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, medium, author, broadcaster and spiritual teacher, pharmacist, is a very happy mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She has lived a fascinating life which has taken her around the world many times. As Principal of the Brenda Davies International School of Healing and Spiritual Development, she has taught in England, Ireland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the USA, Turkey, Cyprus, Bali, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and elsewhere. She has loved doing peace and conflict resolution work in many countries that have been ravaged by war. Her great love is Zambia, where she spent many happy and exciting years, however, she is now happily settled in Wales.
Her first attempt at fiction was in her twenties while she was pregnant with her second child. The manuscript still lives in a cupboard at home. Her real writing career began at 55 with the publication of The Rainbow Journey. Several non-fiction books on spirituality and health followed, including Journey of the Soul, which was nominated for the Kindred Spirit Award. At the age of 78, she turned to fiction with her debut novel ‘The Girl behind the Gates,’ which will hopefully be released as a major feature film in the not-too-distant future. At 82, she is happily settled in Wales, where she still works full-time – now mainly online – and writes at every possible spare moment. She loves life and people and nature and is very happy with her lot. She hopes you will enjoy her books and some of which she still has to write. Hopefully, her second novel will be published soon.
Judith Orloff MD is the NY Times bestselling author of The Genius of Empathy and The Empath’s Survival Guide. Her upcoming children’s book The Highly Sensitive Rabbit, helps sensitive kids embrace their empathic gifts as a strength. Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist, an empath and intuitive healer, and is on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty. She synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality and passionately believes in the power of integrating this wisdom for total wellness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBmJe5KMQI
Dr. Orloff has been called “the godmother of the empath movement.” She specializes in treating empaths and highly sensitive people in her private practice. Dr. Orloff’s work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Oprah Magazine, the New York Times and USA Today. She has spoken at the American Psychiatric Association, Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit, Google, TEDx U.S. and TEDx Gateway Asia. The New England Journal of Medicine writes, “Dr. Judith Orloff advises physicians on improving their intuitive powers. Her simple but powerful message is ‘Listen to your patients.’”
Gunter Frank (born 1963 in Buchen (Odenwald)) is a German physician and non-fiction author.
Frank studied medicine in Heidelberg and Chicago. He runs his own general practice in Heidelberg. He is a member of the Heidelberg City Council.
Frank is a lecturer at the Business School St. Gallen,[1] a private provider of executive education seminars, and the author of several books on health and nutrition. He is a public critic of the German healthcare system.[2]
He publishes his theses on the political blog “Achse des Guten” (Axis of Good).[3] At the invitation of the AfD parliamentary group, he said in committee hearings that the COVID vaccinations were a “thalidomide scandal by a factor of ten.”
Stanislav Grof (born July 1, 1931) is a Czech-born American psychiatrist. Grof is one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of psychological healing, deep self-exploration, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche.
Czechoslovakia was the centre of psychedelic research behind the Iron Curtain during the 1950s and 1960s. Grof’s early research in the clinical uses of psychedelic substances was conducted at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, where he was principal investigator of a program that systematically explored the heuristic and therapeutic potential of LSD and other psychedelic substances.[
In 1973 he was invited to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and lived there until 1987 as a Scholar-in-Residence, developing his ideas and conducting month-long workshops.[citation needed] In 1977, Grof was the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association, serving as president for several subsequent decades. He went on to become distinguished adjunct faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a position he remained in until 2018.
In May 2020, he launched, with his wife Brigitte Grof, a new training in working with holotropic states of consciousness, the international Grof Legacy Training
Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953[1]) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen,[2] an American novelist and retired general physician.
Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While growing up in San Diego, California, Gerritsen often dreamt of writing her own Nancy Drew novels.[4] Her first name is Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance novels.[2] Although she longed to be a writer, her family had reservations about the sustainability of a writing career, prompting Gerritsen to choose a career in medicine.[5] In 1975, Gerritsen graduated from Stanford University with a BA in anthropology, intrigued by the ranges of human behavior.[6] She went on to study medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.[5] She received her medical degree in 1979 and started work as a physician in Honolulu, Hawaii.[7][8]
While on maternity leave, she submitted a short story to a statewide fiction contest in the magazine Honolulu. Her story, “On Choosing the Right Crack Seed“, won first prize and she received $500.[7][9] The story focused on a young male reflecting on a difficult relationship with his mother. Gerritsen claimed the story allowed her to deal with her own childhood turmoil, including the repeated suicide attempts of her mother.[7]
Inspired by the romance novels she enjoyed reading while working as a doctor, Gerritsen’s first novels were romantic thrillers.[7] After two unpublished “practice novels”, Call After Midnight was bought by publisher Harlequin Intrigue in 1986 and published a year later.[10] Gerritsen subsequently wrote eight romantic thrillers for Harlequin Intrigue and Harper Paperbacks.
In 1996, Gerritsen wrote Harvest, her first medical thriller.[10] The plot was inspired by a conversation with a retired homicide detective who had recently traveled in Russia. He told her young orphans were vanishing from Moscow streets, and police believed the kidnapped children were being shipped abroad as organ donors.[11]Harvest was Gerritsen’s first hardcover novel, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list at number thirteen.[12] Following Harvest, Gerritsen wrote three more bestselling medical thrillers: Life Support,[13]Bloodstream,[14] and Gravity.
In 2001, Gerritsen’s first crime thriller, The Surgeon, was published and introduced homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Although a secondary character in The Surgeon, Rizzoli has been a central focus of 13 subsequent novels (see below) pairing her with medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles.[16] The books inspired the Rizzoli & Isles television series starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.[17] Gerritsen also made an appearance in the series’ final season as a writer who helps Isles establish herself in the literary field
Although most of her recent books have been in the Rizzoli/Isles series, in 2007 Gerritsen wrote a stand-alone historical thriller titled The Bone Garden. A tale of gruesome murders, the book is set primarily in 1830s Boston and includes a character based on Oliver Wendell Holmes.[19][20]
Gerritsen’s books have been published in 40 countries and have sold 25 million copies.
Gerritsen co-wrote the story and screenplay for Adrift, which aired on CBS as Movie of the Week in 1993 and starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Greenwood
She is also the composer of the musical piece “Incendio” for violin and piano, a waltz that features in the plot of her novel “Playing With Fire”.[24] The composition has been recorded by violinist Susanne Hou.
Gerritsen’s mother told her traditional Chinese stories, e.g. about Monkey King. Her novel The Silent Girl uses Chinese martial arts and traditional motives in contemporary Boston. One of the victims is a Chinese chef.
Fereydoon Batmanghelidj (1931 – 15 November 2004) was an Iranian doctor, naturopath, HIV/AIDS denialist and writer. He is best known for believing increased water consumption is the cure for most disease, a view not supported by everybody.
Fereydoon Batmanghelidj was born in Iran in 1931.[4][5] He attended secondary school in the United Kingdom, at Fettes College in Scotland, and later graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School of London University. He then practiced medicine in the United Kingdom, before returning to Iran.[4] There he became a wealthy entrepreneur,[6] helping in the development of hospitals and medical centres, and in sports projects, including the Ice Palace ice skating rink in Tehran.[4]
In 1979, after the Iranian Revolution, he was sent to Evin Prison in Tehran, which housed political prisoners; he was incarcerated there for two years and seven months.[7][4] Following his release in 1982, he moved to the United States.[4]
He married Lucile,[4] a Belgian,[6] and they had four children: Ardeshir, Babak, Camila,[4] and Lila, who died by suicide while he was imprisoned.[8] His first marriage ended in divorce. He later married Xiaopo Huang Batmanghelidj.[4]
Batmanghelidj was trained at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, and practised medicine in the United Kingdom before his return to Iran.[4]
He claimed that he discovered the medicinal value of water in treating the pain of peptic ulcers during his detention in Evin Prison by treating inmates with water when medication was not available. He advanced this position in a guest editorial in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in 1983.[7]
In 1992, he wrote Your Body’s Many Cries for Water.[2] In this book, Batmanghelidj asserts that chronic dehydration is the root cause of most pain and many ailments, opposing the use of drugs to cure conditions that he claimed could instead be addressed by increased water consumption.[4]
He argued that water is an important provider of “hydro-electric” energy for the body and brain, by splitting into its components hydrogen and oxygen.[2] This claim is not supported by scientific evidence.[2]
Werner Bartens (born 11 July 1966 in Göttingen) is a German physician, historian, science journalist and non-fiction author.
Werner Bartens was born the second child of Werner Bartens and his wife Luise, née Marienhagen, in Göttingen and grew up in Niedernjesa. He attended primary school in Reinhausen and then the Hainberg-Gymnasium in Göttingen, where he graduated from high school in 1985. From 1985 to 1993, Bartens studied medicine, history, and German at the universities of Giessen, Freiburg, Montpellier, and Washington D.C. In the fall of 1988, he completed a clinical internship in the emergency department at the Royal Infirmary in Cardiff, Wales. In 1991, he completed clinical internships at the University Hospital of Freiburg, the Urban Hospital in Berlin, and in cardiology at the Bad Krozingen rehabilitation center. In 1992, he received his medical degree and subsequently worked as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
In 1993 he passed the German state examination in medicine at the University of Freiburg and received his doctorate there in the same year under Christoph Wanner with a thesis on lipid metabolism disorders in nephrotic syndrome with special emphasis on lipoprotein(a). In 1995 he also received his master’s degree in history and German studies in Freiburg with a thesis supervised by Gerd Krumeich on racial theories in the 19th and 20th centuries.[1] After working as a doctor at the university hospitals in Freiburg and Würzburg, he held a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in the research group of Nobel laureate Georges Köhler. From 1997 onwards, Bartens worked as an author, translator, freelance journalist and editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, die tageszeitung and the Badische Zeitung. Since 2005 he has been an editor in the science department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and since 2008 he has been editor-in-chief.
In addition to his journalistic work, he has published numerous books with a total circulation of 1 million copies, which have been translated into 14 languages. Some of them, such as “Body Happiness,” “The Doctor Hater Book,” and “The Encyclopedia of Medical Errors,” quickly became bestsellers, some of them remaining on the bestseller lists for months. He has received numerous journalism awards for his publications, including several Science Journalist of the Year awards.
He also became known to a wider public through appearances on talk shows on German and Austrian television.
Ruediger Dahlke (born 24 July 1951 in East Berlin) is best known for the many books and articles on health issues, translated into more than 20 languages.[1][2] His work centers on psychosomatics, spiritual philosophy, nutrition and esoteric.
He continued with further studies and specialised in naturopathic medicine and various types of psychotherapy. This was followed by a long collaboration with Thorwald Dethlefsen.[citation needed]
He went his own ways by setting up a medical center in Johanneskirchen with his first wife Margit Dahlke in 1990, that is still active till today.
In 2010-2012 followed the purchase, build-up and start of a health centre Tamanga in Gamlitz, a place in Styria, Austria.
In 2020 and 2021 Dahlke became a source of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic[citation needed], and he propagated ways of overcoming the risk factors and strengthening the immune system, as set out in the books “Protection against Infections”, “Corona as a Wake-up Call” and “Mind-Food”.
He currently runs his health centre Tamanga, where he gives a variety of seminars on fasting, “connected breathing” and “integral medicine”,[7] and offering workshops on various topics promoting health Clemens G. Arvay.
