Board Members Andy Aryapour (Advisory). Andy is a respected creative director and product designer with more than 20 years experience who owns and operates Aryapour Design. Elizabeth A. Amery (Advisory). Elizabeth is a Senior Managing Director with Changing Our World, a national philanthropy services firm. She runs the firm’s west coast operations and helps nonprofits, foundations, corporations, and individuals achieve their goals in philanthropy. She has been a long time supporter of several organizations serving children throughout the world. Daniel Beider. Daniel is the founder and Principal and Managing Director of Paramount Lodging Advisors. He has been recognized by NAI Global Hotels with the Fitzpatrick award and the Global Vision award during his tenure, and was a consistent top performer and multiple member of the Gold Club, which recognized collaborative brokerage. Shay Beider, M.P.H., L.M.T. Shay is the founder and Executive Director of Integrative Touch for Kids. She lectures, teaches, practices and publishes internationally in the field pediatric massage and integrative healing therapies for children of all ages and abilities. Shay has been an investigator on several touch and massage research studies. In 2003, Shay was awarded the Women's Studies Achievement Award by UCLA. Ronald Chez, M.D. Ron is a physician with a distinguished career spanning more than 40 years. He has served on various scientific and educational committees and has held leadership positions at several academic medical centers. Michael Curtis, M.A. (Advisory). Michael has more than 20 years experience as an Executive Director for non-profit organizations. He is a certified instructor of infant massage and supports charitable causes in the community including victims of the Chernobyl nuclear incident. Peter DuBois. Peter is currently the Executive Director for the California Dental Association and has been a long time supporter of causes that are beneficial to the health and well-being of children. Efrain Fuentes (Advisory). Efrain is the Director of Diversity Programs for the Walt Disney Company and is an avid supporter of local and broad based community organizations. Stacy R. Harmon. Stacy has been an Executive Assistant to the CEO's and CFO's of major corporations. She is a member of the International Association of Administrative Professionals and is an active volunteer for the Children's Advocacy Center. Jeanne Henry, Ph.D.(Advisory). Dr. Henry has consulted for the past 15 years serving individuals and organizations with special interests in the areas of health psychology, research, and organizational effectiveness. She has a doctorate in Guidance and Counseling Psychology and her fellowship experience was in Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment. Dr. Henry continues to remain active in community advocacy and assisting charitable organizations. Allison Krizner (Advisory). Rev. Allison Krizner is an Interfaith Minister and licensed massage therapist. She has been involved in the growth and development of ITK since it's inception. She has experience in working with children in hospice care. Gayle MacDonald (Advisory). Gayle has worked with and taught massage therapists to massage cancer patients at Oregon Health and Science University since 1994. She is the author of Medicine Hands: Massage Therapy for People with Cancer 2nd Ed. (Findhorn Press, 2007) and Massage for the Hospital Patient and Medically Frail Client (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005). Jennifer Meltzer (Advisory). Jennifer is a licensed massage therapist with extensive experience in infant massage, healthcare, and fundraising activities. Karen Overgaard, LPN. Karen is a recognized expert in the field of holistic nursing with over 35 years of clinical nursing experience. In addition to her work as a primary care nurse with Dr. Lawrence Rosen, Karen is a certified insturctor of infant massage, yoga, fitness and dance and is a Reiki Master. Penelope Thomason (Advisory). Penelope serves as the Volunteer Director for Trinity Care Hospice, the oldest and largest non-profit hospice in Southern California and the first to be licensed by the state of California. Medical Advisory Committee Ruey Chang, M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Chang is a pediatric cardiologist and director of the pediatric exercise laboratory at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is interested in exercise physiology and preventive medicine. His research includes exercise rehabilitation, physical activity assessment, and newborns with congenital heart disease. Gwen Glew, M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Glew is a pediatric fellow in the Department of Genetics and Developmental Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. She attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and did her residency in pediatrics at the University of Washington. She got a Master in Public Health degree at the University of Washington. She has also worked as a pediatirician in Puerto Rico and she has two small children. She is currently specializing in developmental and behavioral pediatrics with the goal of caring for children with special needs and developmental delays. Her current research projects involve bullying, autism, cerebral palsy, and massage. Sharon McDonough Means, MD. Dr. McDonough-Means has more than 30 years experience in pediatrics, primarily as a fellowship trained developmental pediatrician. She completed the first fellowship in Pediatric Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, focusing on integrative care for children with developmental disorders. Currently Dr. McDonough Means enjoys private practice as an Integrative Developmental Pediatrician in Tucson, Arizona. As Research Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, she is actively involved in autism research and completion of an NIH funded study of Healing Touch in stressed preterm infants. Sanford Newmark, M.D. Dr. Newmark is a physician with 23 years of experience in pediatrics. He practiced as a general pediatrician in Tucson for 14 years, with a special interest in Behavioral problems such as ADHD and Autism. He then completed a 2 year fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona under the leadership of Dr. Andrew Weil. He is the first graduate of this program to be in general pediatric practice in the United States. For the last 4 years he has been the Director of the Center for Pediatric Integrative Medicine, a consulting practice for children with a wide variety of medical issues. He also is a faculty member of the Program in Integrative Medicine. Larwrence D. Rosen, M.D. Dr. Rosen is a board-certified general pediatrician committed to family-centered, holistic child health care. He practices primary care integrative pediatrics in northern New Jersey. Dr. Rosen also serves as Section Chief of the Division of Pediatric Integrative Medicine at the Hackensack University Medical Center. He is the Program Chair of the AAP's provisional Section on Complementary, Holistic and Integrative Medicine, and he chairs the Integrative Pediatrics Council. Additionally, Dr. Rosen authors the world’s first integrative pediatrics blog, “the whole child.” David M. Steinhorn, M.D. Dr. Steinhorn is the medical director of the Judith Nan Joy Integrative Medicine Initiative at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Dr. Steinhorn's specialties are critical care (pediatric intensive care unit), pediatric palliative care and integrative medicine. Dr. Steinhorn lectures widely on palliative care, humanistic medicine and the care of critically-ill children.