ARTH17Arthritis Summit

Event Experts

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  Heidi Hanna, PhD

  5 Steps to Transform Your Relationship with Stress

  What You'll Learn +

  • Playful mantras for balanced living
  • Mindfulness is aligning energy with thoughts
  • Resilience through focus, service and purpose
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  Bonnie Feldman

  Advocate for Yourself in the World of Autoimmunity

  What You'll Learn +

  • Take control of your own health!
  • Using a feedback loop to achieve your goals
  • Finding the right practitioner
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  Sarah Ballantyne, PhD

  Autoimmunity, Arthritis and The Paleo Approach

  What You'll Learn +

  • Therapeutic benefits from lifestyle modification
  • Sleep hygiene and stress management relieves pain
  • What is the optimal nutrition for you?
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  David Minkoff, MD

  Autonomic Response Testing to Diagnose/Treat Arthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • Don’t overwhelm the overwhelmed body
  • Dental problems are often a root cause of illness
  • The promise of ozone treatment for wellness
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  Kathie Swift Madonna, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND

  Common Sense Approach to an Anti-Inflammatory Diet

  What You'll Learn +

  • Food can fuel or cool inflammation
  • Balancing omega-3, omega-6, food and supplements
  • Foods to avoid for an anti-inflammatory diet
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  James Gordon, MD

  Connection Between Stress, Trauma and Illness

  What You'll Learn +

  • Inseparable connection of mind and body
  • Stress exacerbates arthritic symptoms
  • How to heal trauma
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  Frank Lipman, MD

  EcoSystems Approach to Treating Arthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • Largely ignored system that causes joint pain
  • Role of acupuncture in healing fascial tightening
  • Top 3 factors for a healthy gut
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  Aly Cohen, MD, FACR

  Environmental Toxins and Inflammatory Arthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • Balance Western medicine with integrative modalities
  • How toxic is your drinking water?
  • Top tips for air quality
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  Patrick Hanaway, MD, FAAFP, FACN

  Factors Needed to Create Gut Balance

  What You'll Learn +

  • Taking fear out of microbiome testing
  • Probiotics have limitations (but also successes!)
  • Simple tools to improve your microbiome
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  Tom O'Bryan, DC, CCN, DACBN

  Finding and Treating the Causes of Your Arthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • A disease can begin decades before symptoms
  • Calming an immune response, what to do first?
  • Top lab tests for an immune response
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  Kristi Hughes, ND

  Functional Medicine Approach to Arthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • Tick-borne illness could be creating symptoms
  • Phytonutrients feed detox pathways
  • Go to the gut!
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  Vikki Petersen, DC, CCN, CFMP

  Gluten, Food Sensitivities and Arthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • Gluten causes leaky gut in everyone
  • Treat your body like a Maserati
  • Stop weakening the gut with gluten
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  Sandra Scheinbaum, PhD

  Health Coaching Tips to Support Lifestyle Change

  What You'll Learn +

  • How to find the right health coach for you
  • Use physical senses to create a relaxation response
  • Live by your character strengths to thrive!
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  Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, IFMCP

  How Emotions, Stress and Self-Awareness Influence Diet

  What You'll Learn +

  • Beyond food, what elements aid digestion?
  • Resolving food attachments through purpose
  • Color, quotes and community
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  Kara Fitzgerald N, ND, IFMCP

  Lab Testing for Arthritis, Autoimmunity and Inflammation

  What You'll Learn +

  • Tests to diagnose arthritis (and track improvement!)
  • Health clues in unexpected lab tests
  • [For clinicians] Companies to work with
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  Andre Panagos, MD, MSc, FAAPMR

  Lifestyle and Regenerative Medicine for Osteoarthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • Can diet affect inflammatory markers?
  • Exercising, even with arthritic pain
  • Are PRP and stem cell injections helpful?
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  Jay Davidson, DC, PScD

  Lyme Diagnosis and Treating the Whole Person

  What You'll Learn +

  • Migratory arthritis as a symptom of Lyme
  • Open up drainage pathways for disease healing
  • How to do a coffee enema
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  Richard Horowitz, MD

  Managing Lyme and other Tick-Borne Diseases

  What You'll Learn +

  • Look for Lyme as the cause of arthritis symptoms
  • Lyme bacteria persists in the body
  • 16-point model to eliminate Lyme
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  David Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN

  Modern Epidemic of Inflammatory Arthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • Why arthritis is a body-wide imbalance
  • How infection contributes to autoimmunity
  • Are grains contributing to your arthritis?
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  Jill Carnahan, MD, ABFM, ABIHM, IFMCP

  Mold, CIRS and Water-Damaged Buildings

  What You'll Learn +

  • Link between mold and autoimmunity
  • Why treating symptoms too fast can be detrimental
  • How mold can trigger pain flareups
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  Jonathan Landsman

  Most Common Myths Linked to Arthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • Conventional medicine’s vague answer
  • Which foods are anti-inflammatory?
  • 4 oral problems that can contribute to arthritis
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  Mark Burhenne, DDS

  Oral Microbiome as a Trigger for Systemic Inflammation

  What You'll Learn +

  • Is toothpaste causing damage in your mouth?
  • Gum disease, inflammation and connection to arthritis
  • Dangers of mouth breathing (and an easy fix!)
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  Robert Silverman, DC, MS, CNS

  Osteoarthritis: Why Losing Body Fat Matters

  What You'll Learn +

  • Lose weight to lose inflammation
  • HIIT for visceral fat loss
  • Anti-inflammatory diet for pain relief
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  James Maskell

  Reversing Arthritis at the Lowest Possible Cost

  What You'll Learn +

  • Can pharmaceuticals get you back to health?
  • Participatory medicine is the future
  • YOU determine your health outcomes (not doctors!)
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  Amy Myers, MD

  Rheumatoid Arthritis: Diagnosis, Causes and Treatment

  What You'll Learn +

  • Functional medicine for chronic illness
  • Heal the gut first!
  • The Myers Way for life-long success
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  Aviva Romm, MD

  Role of Adrenals in Regulating Inflammation

  What You'll Learn +

  • Danger of pushing through stress
  • Promoting sleep, relaxation and productivity daily
  • Regulating cortisol and reducing inflammation
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  Todd LePine, MD

  Role of Imbalanced Gut, Oral Bacteria and Viruses

  What You'll Learn +

  • How does belly fat affect arthritis?
  • Testing and treatment for Epstein-Barr
  • Stimulating the vagus nerve for relaxation
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  Jeffrey Bland, PhD

  Systems Biology, Epigenetics and the Future of Medicine

  What You'll Learn +

  • Is our environment creating disease responses?
  • Eating a diet friendly to the immune system
  • Practicing wellness medicine, not disease medicine
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  David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM

  The Gut-Joint-Brain Connection

  What You'll Learn +

  • Systemic inflammation is the root of disease
  • Eat foods rich in butyrate to feed gut bacteria
  • Choosing the right probiotic
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  Izabella Wentz, PharmD, FASCP

  Thyroid as Gateway to Autoimmunity and Arthritis

  What You'll Learn +

  • TSH may not show thyroid disease
  • Underlying factors of autoimmune thyroid disease
  • Nutrient deficiencies and supplements
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  Neha Sangwan, MD

  Tools to Improve Communication and Reduce Stress

  What You'll Learn +

  • 5 steps to turn anxiety around
  • Value of good tears
  • 5 levels of agreement
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  Amy Oestreicher

  Transforming Personal Challenge into Positive Change

  What You'll Learn +

  • Four skills of resiliency
  • You are creative!
  • Healing by sharing your story
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  Raphael Kellman, MD

  Treat the Gut, Heal the Joints

  What You'll Learn +

  • Why gut dysfunction signals immune dysfunction
  • Impact of stress on the microbiome
  • How probiotics can modulate the immune system
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  John Bagnulo, MPH, PhD

  Using Food As Medicine to Support Gut Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Resistant starches feed friendly bacteria
  • Choose dairy products with A2 casein
  • Disturbing prevalence of glyphosate in food
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  Wendy Myers, FDN-P

  Using NES to Repair Joint Damage

  What You'll Learn +

  • What are bioenergetics?
  • NES Health System’s approach to healing
  • Connection between EMFs and cancer

Meet Your Host

Susan Blum, MD, MPH

I have experienced first-hand what many of my patients have – pain. A few years ago I developed Arthritis and more than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease where the body attacks the thyroid. By following the exact same Functional Medicine and lifestyle principles I prescribe to my patients, I was able to cure myself of both these conditions. I approach my work using a groundbreaking whole body perspective known as Functional Medicine. This means that I get to the root causes of why people get sick beyond the symptoms and identify the steps to help them get healthy. There’s so much people can do to feel great.