Jeff Bland, PhD
President
Jeff Bland, PhD
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.
Nicole Fox
Chief Operating Officer
Nicole Fox
In 2014, she launched the Temecula Center for Integrative Medicine, a multidisciplinary clinic that became a model of success by blending traditional and holistic care within an insurance-based framework. Today, through her consulting group and leadership at Personalized Lifestyle Medicine, Nicole helps physicians nationwide design and sustain innovative, patient-centered practices that elevate care while ensuring financial viability.
Deanna Minich, PhD
nutrition scientist / educator / author
executive board member
Deanna Minich, PhD
Doug Gaynor
veteran – Natural Products Industry
executive board member
Doug Gaynor
He has served as an executive, a consultant, and an entrepreneur across a number of channels including Health Food Store brands, the Health Care Practitioner Market, Supplement Manufacturing and in Direct to Consumer Marketing.
Elroy Vojdani, MD IFMCP
founder – Regenera Medical
executive board member
Dr. Elroy Vojdani
Upon graduating medical school from the University of Southern California and completing his residency at USC Keck School of Medicine, Dr. V began his career as an Interventional Radiologist, diagnosing and treating complex, late-stage cancers and other extremely debilitating diseases. While this experience gave him unique insights into hospital based medicine, his desire to stop disease before it reached the point of becoming a chronic illness remained at the core of his desire to practice medicine. Today, he continues in his father’s footsteps – pioneering to find answers to medical conditions that go undiagnosed and untreated.
Dr. Vojdani has co-authored over 20 articles in the Scientific literature and continues an integral role in research related to Autoimmune, Neurodegenerative, and Autoinflammatory conditions. He is also the co-Author a medical textbook entitled “Food Associated Autoimmunity”.
Michelle Leary, ND, IFMCP
Director – Vida Integrated Health
executive board member
Dr. Michelle Leary
Tom Guilliams
VP-Science – Ortho Molecular Products
executive board member
