
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, IFMCP
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
Dr. 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.

Michelle Leary, ND, IFMCP
Director – Vida Integrated Health
executive board member
Dr. Michelle Leary

Tom Guilliams, PHD
Founder/Director: the Point Institute
executive board member
Tom Guilliams, PHD

Dr. Bridget Briggs, MD
Certified Family Medicine Physician
executive board member
Dr. Bridget Briggs, MD
Dr. Bridget Briggs, MD has been empowering patients to live inspired healthy lives for over 20 years. Her integrative approach and profound knowledge of genetics, epigenetics, nutrigenomics and biochemistry has paved the way to her advanced methods in precise, personalized, preventative medicine. Dr. Briggs is a board certified Family Medicine Physician who is at the forefront of the emerging science of genetics and how a patient’s DNA can be altered to prevent disease or treat current ailments with a personalized treatment plan.She specializes in functional medicine, bio-identical hormones, lipidology, women’s health, pediatrics, geriatrics, detoxification, nutritional and dietary support.Her expertise in genetic testing and interpretation allows her to develop a precise treatment approach leading to improvement in all areas of disease ranging from chronic migraines, fatigue, anxiety, depression, autism, GERD, IBS, SIBO issues among others.