Mitochondrial Medicine: Exploring the Roots of Health and Disease
This virtual conference will provide perspective on emerging paradigms of mitochondrial medicine and empower clinicians to address these key growing public health concerns, especially in regards to long-COVID, cardiometabolic health and chronic immune dysfunction.
Speakers
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Jeff Bland, PhDDr. Jeffrey Bland is a personable and highly respected thought leader who has spent more than four decades focused on the improvement of human health.
He is known worldwide as the founder of the Functional Medicine movement, which represents his vision for a care model that is grounded in systems biology and informed by research that he has a unique ability to synthesize. His pioneering work has created the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute (PLMI), as well as the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), the global leader in Functional Medicine education. Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of healthcare practitioners have participated in PLMI and IFM programs, and this collective knowledge has positively impacted the lives of patients all over the world. -
Elroy Vojdani, MDDr. Elroy Vojdani, MD is the founder of Regenera Medical, a boutique functional and immune medicine practice in Los Angeles focused on the intersection of immunology, metabolism, and environmental health. After graduating from the University of Southern California School of Medicine and completing his residency at the USC Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Vojdani began his career as an interventional radiologist, diagnosing and treating complex late-stage cancers and other severe diseases.
While this experience provided deep insight into hospital-based medicine, his passion for preventing disease before it progresses into chronic illness led him to pursue a root-cause, systems-based approach to care. Today, he focuses on identifying the biological drivers of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune conditions and continues in his father’s footsteps, seeking answers to medical conditions that often go undiagnosed or untreated.
Dr. Vojdani has co-authored more than 35 scientific publications and remains actively involved in research related to autoimmune, neurodegenerative, and autoinflammatory diseases. He is also the co-author of the medical textbook Food Associated Autoimmunity and the author of When Food Bites Back, with a forthcoming book, The Immunometabolic Code, exploring the relationship between immune regulation, metabolism, and chronic disease.
