HeartMath LLC works with many top leading authorities in their respective fields and has formed a number of advisory boards to consult with on key initiatives.
Dennis Cryer, M.D. FAHA is former VP External Medical Affairs for Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he devoted his full efforts to external development programs across the cardiovascular and metabolic disease spectrum, as well a liaison for advocacy with other key therapeutic areas. Prior to that he oversaw their Women’s Health Care area. Dr. Cryer is Chair, Corporate Affairs Committee for the American Society for Hypertension, a Fellow of the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Council of the American Heart Association, serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Family Practice Foundation and is a member of numerous scientific organizations, including the American Diabetes Association, the American Federation for Medical Research and the Society for Women’s Health Research. He received his medical education at Johns Hopkins University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is currently medical director for CryerHealth, a health care consultancy based in Washington, DC.
Mimi Guarneri, MD, FACC – Integrative Medicine – Dr. Guarneri is co-founder and director of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, CA. A noted cardiologist and author of the best-selling “The Heart Speaks”, Dr. Guarneri has become one of the leading practitioners in the world in the emerging field of integrative medicine. Trained as an interventional cardiologist at New York Cornell Medical School, Dr. Guarneri continues to practice cardiology at Scripps, while becoming a passionate advocate for healthy lifestyle, diet, exercise, stress reduction and spiritual well-being. She is overseeing implementation of HeartMath programs throughout the Scripps system.
Jennie Chin Hansen is President-elect of the Board of AARP, the world’s largest membership organization serving the needs of adults 50 and older.. Jennie is a national leader in health care, having been executive director of On Lok for more than twenty years. On Lok established an international reputation as one of the most innovative senior care programs in the world, serving the elder Chinese community in San Francisco. She takes over the reins as president of AARP in May 2008 and currently is head of the Board of Directors. She is the first “boomer” generation individual to be named President of the Board of AARP.
Lee Lipsenthal, M.D.HeartMathSenior Medical Advisor. For more than a decade Lee was Vice President and Medical Director of Dr. Dean Ornish’s Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He developed and directed research in lifestyle modification for cardiac patients and trained physicians, nurses, exercise specialists, psychologists and stress management instructors in the delivery of cardiac risk modification programs. He helped create relationships with health insurers to establish payment for the Ornish lifestyle modification/risk factor reduction programs. Prior to that, he was Medical Director of Cardiovascular Services for the Benjamin Franklin Clinic in Philadelphia. Lee’s passion is physician well-being and he provides programs for physicians throughout the country through his program, Finding Balance in a Medical Life. Lee is a licensed HeartMath® trainer and provides HeartMath® training for doctors, nurses, and health care organizations.
Paul Rosch, M.D. Paul is President of the American Institute of Stress and one of the world’s leading authorities and media spokespersons on stress. Paul is also clinical professor of medicine and psychiatry at New York Medical College, honorary vice president of the International Stress Management Association, and author of The Doctors Guide To Instant Stress Relief, DeStress - Weigh Less and Bioelectromagnetic Medicine. Paul wrote the foreword to Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman’s book Transforming Stress (New Harbinger Publications, March 2005). Quantum Intech's emWave technology received the American Institute of Stress first Seal of Approval and Award for Distinction and Innovation.
Harry Soza is one of the industry pioneers in creating information technology for healthcare applications. He co-founded Resolution Health, Inc. in 1996 and was a member of the senior management team. Beginning in early 2002, he led the development and implementation of the Direct-to-Member™ services. Prior to RHI, he was the founder and President of Preferred Solutions, Inc., one of the first on-line pharmacy benefit management companies. In this role, he participated in numerous industry initiatives, such as HCFA’s 1989 Medicare Rx Task Force, which helped create the foundation for today’s emerging Internet-enabled healthcare applications. Preferred Solutions was acquired by PacifiCare Health Plans in 1995, and continues operations today under the name of Prescription Solutions. Currently Harry is co-founder of Vrylmkt, a viral marketing firm capitalizing on the spread of social networking to facilitate commercial relationships. Harry assists QI and HeartMath in health care and social networking strategies.
Bruce Wilson, M.D.HeartMath Medical Director. Bruce is a cardiologist who uses the emWave and HeartMath methods in his practice at North Shore Cardiology in Milwaukee WI. He is a licensed HeartMath trainer and a leading spokesman for HeartMath and emWave. He trains healthcare leaders, hospital staff, and cardiac patients in HeartMath and appeared on a PBS special on HeartMath. He is founder and Chairman of the Board of Heart Hospital of Milwaukee. Formerly, he was Director of University of Pittsburgh Heart Institute, Assistant Professor of Cardiology at University of Minnesota Hospital and awarded Teacher of the Year by the Minnesota Medical Foundation. Dr. Bruce Wilson is HeartMath's medical director and an investor in QI.
Institute of HeartMath Scientific Advisory Board
Maria Lourdes Arguelles, Ph.D., M.S., B.A., Chair of the Faculty Executive Committee,
Professor of Education and Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont,
C.A.
J. Andrew Armour, M.D., Ph.D., Researcher and specialist in Neurocardiology; Editor,
Neurocardiology, Centré de Recherché, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur, University of Montreal,
Canada.
Cleve Backster, Ph.D. (Hon.), D.Sc. (Hon.), Polygraph specialist and researcher in
primary perception; President, Director and Chief Instructor, The Backster School of Lie
Detection; Director, Backster Research Foundation, San Diego, CA.
Bob Barrios-Choplin, Ph.D., Organizational psychologist; Director, U.S. Naval
Postgraduate School - San Diego, CA.
Raymond Trevor Bradley, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Research Professor, Center for
Brain Research and Informational Sciences, Radford University; Director, Institute for Whole
Social Science; Author – Charisma and Social Structure, Carmel, CA.
Linda Caviness, Ph.D., Professor, La Sierra University, School of Education, Glendale,
C.A.
Professor L. Murray Gillin, A.M., F.T.S.E., Professor Emeritus, Swinburne University of
Technology, Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Victoria, A.U.
William C. Gough, Ph.D., Physicist; Chairman of the Board, Foundation for Mind-Being
Research, Los Altos, CA.
Stephen Greer, D.O., Cardiovascular surgeon, Dayton, OH.
David Joffe, Biomedical engineer and mathematician, Boulder, CO.
James R. Johnston, Ph.D., Physicist; Senior Scientist, ORION Research, Berkeley,
CA.
Joe Kamiya, Ph.D., Originator of biofeedback technology; Former Professor of Medical
Psychology, Research Psychologist, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
Lee Lipsenthal, M.D., Vice President and Medical Director, Lifestyle Advantage,
Sausalito, CA; Medical Advisor, HeartMath LLC; Originator, “Physician, Heal Thyself”
Program, San Anselmo, CA.
Joe F. McCaffrey, M.D., Vascular Surgeon, Auburn Memorial Hospital, Auburn, N.Y.
Mona Oyos, B.S., C.V.T., N.B.C.P.T., R.D.C.S., Cardiovascular specialist,
ultrasonagrapher, San Jose, CA.
Joseph Chilton Pearce, Specialist in early child development; Author – The Crack in the
Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Evolution’s End and The Biology of Transcendence, Faber, VA.
Karl H. Pribram, M.D., Ph.D. (Hon.), Neurosurgeon; Neuroscientist; Professor Emeritus,
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Stanford University; Distinguished Research Professor, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.
T. Gregory Quinn, M.D., Cardiologist; Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation, San Ramon
Regional Medical Center, Oakland, CA.
Richard Rahe, M.D., Stress researcher; Specialist in the psychometric assessment of life
stress and its relationship to health; Coauthor – The Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment
Rating Scale; Director, Health Assessments Programs, Inc., Reno, NV.
Elizabeth A. Rauscher, M.S., Ph.D., Researcher, director Tecnic Research Laboratory,
Apache Junction, Ariz. – electromagnetic phenomena, biomedical and bioengineering
research; senior scientist Global Coherence Monitoring Project; formerly at NASA space
shuttle, Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories; former United
Nations delegate long-term energy sources; author six books, extensive journal publication.
Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P., President of the American Institute of Stress; Honorary
Vice President of the International Stress Management Association; Clinical Professor of
Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
Donald H. Singer, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., F.C.C.P., Cardiologist; Specialist in heart
rate variability; Clinical Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Medicine; Former Director of the Reingold ECG Center and Professsor of
Medicine and Pharmacology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Keith A. Wesnes, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.S.S. C.Psychol, F.B.Ps.S., Chief Executive,
Cognitive Drug Research Ltd, Berkshire, U.K.; Visiting Professor, Human Cognitive
Neuroscience Unit, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.
Bruce C. Wilson, M.D., F.A.C.C., Cardiologist; Former Director, University of Pittsburgh
Heart Institute; Former Chief of Cardiology and Chairman of Medical Education, Columbia
Hospital, Milwaukee; Chairman of the Board, Heart Hospital, Milwaukee, WI.
Tony Yardley-Jones, M.D. Ph.D., F.F.O.M., F.R.C.S.E., Specialist in occupational
medicine and toxicology; Medical Director, Hunter Kane (UK); Occupational physician,
London Bridge Hospital; Consultant in occupational medicine, Chelsea and Westminster
Hospital, London; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Occupational Health,
Birmingham University; Editorial Representative and former President, Section of
Occupational Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK.
Business Advisory Board
Dick Bernacchi,partner in Irell & Manella law firm specializing in computer, ecommerce and entertainment law is facilitating Quantum Intech's (QI’s) investment, patent, licensing and IP strategy. I & M does QI’s legal work and investment filings. Irell & Manella owns an equity interest in QI.
Robert Brasch,President & CEO, Pacific Partners, Inc. identifies and develops new business opportunities for Asian companies in the U.S. and vice versa. In 1983, he became founding president and CEO of the World Trade Bank. He was instrumental in organizing am/pm Japan, Co. Ltd., a Japanese convenience store chain with annual sales in excess of $2 billion. Bob serves as QI’s advisor on banking and also assists in negotiations with Asian companies.
Fred Fuchs,formerly President of American Zoetrope (Francis Ford Coppola’s
Production Co.). Fred is assisting in QI’s interactive media Web Portal plan and is helping establish relationships in the gaming and entertainment industry.
Mary Furlong Founded SeniorNet and Third Age and her list of clients includes IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, Pfizer, Microsoft, and AARP. Mary is the author of Turning Silver into Gold: How to Profit in the New Boomer Marketplace and sponsors the annual “What’s Next Boomer Business Summit” to help socially-and consumer-conscious companies understand the real needs of this growing market. Mary assists QI in business development and partnerships for the baby boomer marketplace.
Jim Huffman was director of Motorola’s Emerging Technologies Center and works with QI on product development, manufacturing and web strategy.
Charlie Inlander is President of People’s Medical Society, historically the most influential consumer health advocacy organization in the United States. He is on the advisory boards of the Citizen Advocacy Center, the Primary Care Management Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians, and is the author of numerous books. Charlie is a consultant to HeartMath on healthcare licensing and marketing.
David Joffe is Vice President of Research & Development, Chief Technical Officer and founder of Lexicor Medical Technology, a leading manufacturer of EEGbrain mapping technology for the behavioral medicine market. Dave was involved inInstitute of HeartMath research and some of the signal processing algorithms used inour HRV feedback technology. Dave advises QI on technology development and patents.
Andre Lake Mayer is VP of Business Development for Playmate Toys. She was formerly
Director of Licensing for Lucas Arts and Entertainment, responsible for Star Wars licensing and prior to that position was Director of Licensing for Paramount, responsible for all Star Trek licensing. Andre is a consultant to QI’s game, entertainment and educational toys strategy.
Bob Megantz has more than twenty years experience in technology development and licensing, primarily in the electronics, telecommunications, and computing industries, working with established and start-up companies. Bob was GeneralManager at Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, where he directed more than 125 licensees in the consumer and professional audio markets. Bob is a consultant to QI on technology and HeartMath brand development, licensing strategy and licensing negotiations.
Chris Sawicki,President of Hunter Kane Ltd., a UK company. Hunter Kane is a licensee of HeartMath LLC In the UK. Hunter Kane's HeartMath clients include Shell, BP, Unilever, GlaxoSmithKline, IMG and other global companies. Hunter Kane has an equity interest in QI.
Larry Udell is President of the Licensing Executive Society, Silicon Valley Chapter,
Executive Director of the California Invention Center, of the Center for New Venture
Alliance (part of Cal-State University) and of Intellectual Property International, Ltd.
Mr. Udell consults with QI in intellectual property and patent strategy, and licensing.
Mr. Minhaj Ali Khan is Chairman and Founder of the Midlink Group of Companies with interests in the USA, Pakistan and the UAE. The Group has diverse business interests which include: Alternative Fuels, Power Generation and Textiles. He is a share holder in the HeartMath group of companies through its parent company Quantum Intech. He is also a licensed HeartMath 1:1 Provider.
