Advisory board
The advisory board's focus
To build on the seed grant given by Judith Nan Joy and the Miller Family
Foundation, the program established a hospital-linked "informed advocacy group"
that has as its primary focus the advancement of the integrative medicine
initiative. We believe it is important to integrate the ideas and wishes of the
patients, their families and surrounding communities with the staff's to create
an integrative medicine program that truly reflects the needs, beliefs, and
culture of our patients and families.
The advisory board is a partnership of staff, families, and the community at
large that concentrates on education and philanthropy of integrative medicine.
The board consists of various interest committees and an auxiliary board which
meet three times a year. Planning committees meet during the year, and all board
members are encouraged to attend educational and retreat opportunities of the
integrative medicine initiative. The advisory board will be a vital asset in
helping the initiative grow and become an integral part of the comprehensive
care at Children's Memorial Hospital.
The advisory board's mission
To advise and support the work of the integrative medicine initiative to
achieve their goal of a safe, healing medical environment for children and their
families from a holistic perspective.
The board's goals
- Support: Through visits with alternative and complementary practitioners
and round table discussions at committee meetings, board members will be
provided with a supportive environment to discuss recent advances in clinical
service and research strategies.
- Advocate: Through opportunities to attend the pediatric integrative
medicine conference, participation in education interest groups, updates from
scientific journals on recent research articles, and presentations on current
research projects at Children's Memorial Hospital, board members will have the
opportunity to become educated representatives for the initiative at the
hospital.
- Succeed: The board will, on behalf of the integrative medicine initiative
at Children's Memorial Hospital and in conjunction with the Children's
Memorial Foundation, help identify, cultivate and solicit members of the
prospective donor community who are interested in pediatric integrative
medicine.
Board members:
Eric Achepohl, Chief Executive Officer, The Benida Group, LLC
Beth
Bollenbach, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Don Camp, Administrator,
Children's Memorial
Aimee Crow, MD, Pediatric hospitalist, Evanston
Northwestern Hospital
Helga DeBontin, Community member
Rosalyn L. Bruyere,
DD, Director, Healing Light Center
Virginia Cooke, President, Phoenix Perth
Institute
Leon Epstein, MD, Head, Neurology, Children's Memorial
Jim
FioRito, Family Services Advisory Board, Children's Memorial
Lynn Getz,
Executive Director, Globe Foundation
Sue Horner, RN, MSN, Developmental Specialist,
Children's Memorial
Judith Joy, Philanthropist, Children's Memorial
Hospital
Kathi Kemper, MD, MPH, Professor, Wake Forest
University Health Science
Morris Kletzel, MD, Head, Hematology/Oncology/Stem
Cell Transplant, Children's Memorial
Karen Koffler, MD, Director, Evanston Northwestern
Healthcare, Integrative Medicine
Claudia Lubin, Consultant,
Healthy Alternatives
Dena Mendes,
Consultant, Healthy Alternatives
Mike Miller, MD, Director of Clinical Services,
Immunology/Rheumatology, Children's Memorial
Kirk Moulton, LicA, Director,
Healing Junction
Steve Porges, PhD, Director, The Brain-Body Center,
Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
Melinda
Ring, MD, Medical Director,
Resurrection Center for Integrative Medicine
William Schnaper, MD, Vice-chair,
Dept. of Pediatrics, Children's Memorial
Loren Sorce, PPN, NP, Children's
Memorial
Santhanam Suresh, MD, Dept. of Anesthesia, Children's
Memorial
Carol Swegle, Community member
Leslie Mendoza Temple, MD,
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Integrative Medicine
Pieter Van Heule, DC,
Director, Integrated Holistic Health Care
Xiobin Wang, MD, Director, Smith
Child Health Research Core, Children's Memorial
JoAnna Weinstein, MD,
Hematology/Oncology, Children's Memorial
Leonard Wisneski, MD, FACP, FACN,
Medical Director, Integrative Medical Communications, George Washinton
University Medical Center
Tita Zeffren,
Philanthropist, Children's Memorial