Epigenetic Awards Ceremony

Welcome

2008 Award Recipient:
Randy Jirtle, PhD

Randy Jirtle is director of the Laboratory of Epigenetics and Imprinting at Duke University and is a professor of radiation oncology at the school's medical center.

His groundbreaking research with agouti mice has revealed that a mother's diet during pregnancy can influence gene expression in her offspring by altering the epigenome.

The 2008 Epigenetic Medicine Award Ceremony

Speakers will include:

	Bruce H. Lipton, PhD Bruce Lipton is an internationally recognized authority in bridging science and spirit. He has been a guest speaker on dozens of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national conferences.Dr. Lipton’s research on muscular dystrophy, studies employing cloned human stem cells, focused upon the molecular mechanisms controlling cell behavior.
	Donna Eden is among the worlds most sought after, most joyous, and most authoritative spokespersons for energy medicine. Her abilities as a healer are legendary, and she has taught some fifty thousand people world-wide, both laypeople and professionals, how to understand the body as an energy system. Since childhood, she has been able to see the flow of the body’s energies, and from this clairvoyant ability, she has developed a system for teaching others, who do not have this gift, to productively work with their body’s energies. Her best-selling book, Energy Medicine, has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and is a classic in its field. According to Caroline Myss: “The contribution Donna Eden has made with Energy Medicine will stand as one of the backbone studies as we lay a sound foundation for the field of holistic medicine.”
	David Feinstein, PhD, a clinical psychologist, is an international leader in the field of Energy Psychology. He has served on the faculties of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Antioch College. Among his major works are The Promise of Energy Psychology (co-authored with his wife, Donna Eden, and Gary Craig), Energy Psychology Interactive, Personal Mythology, and Rituals for Living and Dying. His books have won four national awards, including the USA Book News’ 2007 Book of the Year award (Psychology/Mental Health Category). www.innersource.net
	Gary Craig, is the Founder of EFT. EFT is based on a new discovery regarding the body's subtle energies. Simply stated, it is an emotional version of acupuncture, except needles aren't necessary. Instead, you stimulate well established energy meridian points on your body by tapping on them with your fingertips. The process is easy to memorize and is portable so you can do it anywhere.
	Gregory Nicosia, PhD, DCEP, President elect of ACEP. Gregory is a licensed psychologist and the founder of Advanced Diagnostics, P.C., Pittsburgh's premiere center for Energy Psychology based psychotherapeutic treatment of trauma and remediation of cognitive dysfunction. Gregory Nicosia has helped to research, explore and elaborate the newest psychotherapies in the last 30 years including biofeedback and behavioral medicine, EMDR, and Energy Psychology.
	Tapas Fleming began her passionate search for truth at age 15. For many years her focus was on enlightenment, interpersonal relating and emotional release. In 1974, Tapas was initiated into natural meditation, a yoga-meditation for purification and liberation. Tapas came up with a new simple and elegant way to serve her patients -- Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT). She is a leading force in the emerging field of energy psychology.
	David S. Gruder, PhD, DCEP, is the Executive Director of Willingness Works® in Del Mar, California, through which he lectures, trains and consults worldwide in Personal, Relationship & Leadership Integrity Development. His doctorate is in clinical psychology with a secondary emphasis in organizational development and conflict resolution. For almost three decades, David Gruder has provided organizational analyses, staff training, team development and executive mentoring, for executives, administrators, leaders, businesses and academic institutions.
	Paula Shaw CADC, DCEP, is a chakra therapy expert, and author of Chakras,The Magnificent Seven. She is also the creator of the Energy Psychology modality, Conscious Healing and Repatterning Therapy (CHART). She will introduce you to the Seven Chakras of the human energy system and will give you the clear, concise information you need to understand what each chakra represents physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually; as well as its relationship to life issues and events. She will also teach a powerful technique for clearing the chakras of the negative effects of traumatic experience.