Patricia Norris, Ph.D.
Patricia Norris Ph.D. is a psychophysiologic psychologist and psychotherapist. She was a pioneer in Psychoneuroimmunology for many years at Menningers in Topeka Kansas,
and at Life Sciences Institute of Mind-Body Health, which she founded with her husband Steven Fahrion, Ph.D. Currently she is Associate Professor of transpersonal psychology and energy medicine at Holos University Graduate Seminary, and serves on several boards and committees. Current interests include how science, healing, and spirituality relate and interact; Psychosynthesis and the search for self; death, dying, and trans-communication; exploring ideas in quantum physics, string theory, etc. and how they relate to who we are; and conscious working in the planetary field of mind.

Ann Nunley, M.F.A., Ph.D.
Ann Nunley, M.F.A., completed undergraduate and graduate work in Design (1960 and 1963) at the University of Kansas. She studied in Italy and Mexico. Her professional career includes personal journeys through symbolic painting, as well as a dedicated interest in human consciousness and creative methods that utilize symbology and artistic expression for psychospiritual healing. She is author of a book/card set entitled, Inner Counselor, and the Inner Counselor Manual a manual for a course of study that sets forth a unique approach to personality integration.

Ann and Bob have worked since 1963 to find ways to integrate holistic learning and holistic living with traditional institutions to facilitate the transition into the next millenium. They served together as Co-Chairs for the 1987 Council Grove Conference on States of Consciousness sponsored by the Voluntary Controls Program of the Menninger Foundation. They were Co-Chairs of the 1995 ISSSEEM Conference on The Art and Science of Energy Medicine sponsored by the Life Sciences Institute, and both serve on the advisory board of the Bonny Foundation, which is involved with GIM music-centered therapy. Ann and Bob are the past Co-Presidents of ISSSEEM, serving as co-presidents for the 1998-99 year. Ann is a founding member and Provost Emeritus of Holos University Graduate Seminary and currently serves on the Holos Board and on the faculty where she is director of the transpersonal psychology track.

Denise Lewis Premschak brings a spirited perspective and rich resources to her work in the world. She draws upon experience from both the corporate and public sectors that spans sales, training, marketing, recruiting, and consulting along with many years of non-profit volunteer leadership. In her more than 30 years of self-study, Denise has focused on the role and effect of subtle energies on spiritual and personal development. Denise founded Field Guide, LLC, her coaching, training and consulting practice in 2003. There, she offered intuitive guidance to individual and executive clients as a livelihood mentor and spiritual teacher. She has a toolkit of wholeness-based methods and technologies that aid in uncovering practical personal strategies and developing emotional skillfulness for leading organizations and leading inspired lives.

She has delivered unique and experiential FieldTraining Workshops and Field Day Retreats; additional FieldWork includes facilitating leadership intensives, business development and consulting for organizational teams. Denise is the Coordinator for Denver Noetic Alliance, an active IONS community group, serving on the leadership and the monthly programming committees. She lives with her husband of 23 years and her two sons in Parker, Colorado. She enjoys camping, hiking, whitewater rafting, yoga and has a voracious appetite for learning. She says her real (and ever continuing!) education comes from her relationships with Spirit, family, friends, clients, community, purposeful work and expressive play.

David Hibbard, M.D.
David Hibbard, M.D. is the Co-Founder and Senior Physician at the Family Medical Center of Lafayette, Colorado, where he has worked for 26 years with his wife, Dr. Chris Hibbard. He has been involved with ISSSEEM since 1992 when he served on the Program Committee, presenting in 1994, Co-Guest editing the 1995 Winter edition of Bridges and serving as Co-President in 2000-2001 along with wife.

Since 2005 he and his wife have committed to working a month each year at a remote, resource poor hospital in Southwest Uganda near the Rwanda and Congo borders. They are also on the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine¹s Center for Global Health. He currently serves on the ISSSEEM Advisory Council.

Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., an epidemiologist and former medical school professor, is the pioneering scientist whose research beginning 25 years ago is generally credited with establishing the field of religion, spirituality, and health. He published the first comprehensive reviews, conducted the first systematic research, and was the first scientist ever funded by the NIH. He left a successful academic career in 1997 to devote his full-time efforts to writing and consulting.

Dr. Levin's current work is two-fold, encompassing his dual identity as both scientist and religious scholar: ongoing epidemiologic investigations of the impact of love on indicators of population health, and exploration of canonical and rabbinic perspectives on the role of divine love in Jewish moral theology. Author of over 150 scholarly publications, including six books, he has served on the editorial boards of numerous peer-reviewed journals, has served on and chaired NIH panels, and has lectured throughout the world. Dr. Levin was the 1997-98 President of ISSSEEM.

Bob Nunley, Ph.D.
Bob Nunley, Ph.D.,was for 40 years a Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas and for five years as Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs at Holos University Graduate Seminary. He received his B.S..and M.S. (1952 and 1953) from Marshall University, and his Ph.D. (1957) from the University of Michigan. He is interested in innovative teaching methods and the psychology of learning, and has made numerous explorations into ways of enhancing the human potential for learning and growth. He served five years on the Technical Advisory Board of the Fetzer Energy Medicine Research Institute. He currently serves on the advisory Counsel of ISSSEEM and the board of directors of Holos University Graduate Seminary and the College of Integrative Medicine., He is a classical and folk guitarist.

Ann and Bob have worked since 1963 to find ways to integrate holistic learning and holistic living with traditional institutions to facilitate the transition into the next millenium. They served together as Co-Chairs for the 1987 Council Grove Conference on States of Consciousness sponsored by the Voluntary Controls Program of the Menninger Foundation. They were Co-Chairs of the 1995 ISSSEEM Conference on The Art and Science of Energy Medicine sponsored by the Life Sciences Institute, and both serve on the advisory board of the Bonny Foundation, which is involved with GIM music-centered therapy. Ann and Bob are the past Co-Presidents of ISSSEEM, serving as co-presidents for the 1998-99 year.

Elmer Green, Ph.D. - Founding President
Along with wife and colleague, Alyce Green (Deceased), Dr. Green has authored many scientific papers and wrote the book, Beyond Biofeedback. He is a member of several professional societies and advisory boards. For 20 years, he and Alyce lectured and conducted workshops on the Theory and Practice of Biofeedback Training for Psychophysiologic Self-Regulation, in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Holland, Australia, the Philippines, India, and the Soviet Union.

Dr. Green's past research, combining the disciplines of Autogenic Training and Biofeedback Training, includes physiological studies of yogis in India in 1974. This work in India and the United States was documented in the video, "Biofeedback: The Yoga of the West" (produced by Elda Hartley, Hartley Film Foundation, Cos Cob, CT).

Dr. Green's most current research included a study of psychophysics and psychophysiology during a form of Tibetan meditation. In this work, Dr. Green and his colleagues discovered anomalous electric-field effects in and around the bodies of well-known healers. Documentation of the abilities of one of these healers, Mietek Wirkus, appears in the video, "Bioenergy: A Healing Art," (4803 St. Elmo Ave., Bethesda, MD 208141, Phone: 301-652-1691).

Carol J Schneider, Ph.D.
Dr. Schneider received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Colorado. During an internship and postdoctoral fellowship at C.U. Medical School, she became interested in psychosomatic medicine. In 1971, she became interested in biofeedback as a way of teaching self-regulation, and subsequently opened one of the first teaching and treatment centers at C.U., in 1973.

Dr. Schneider's research and writing efforts have been in the areas of child abuse, biofeedback, and stress management. From the recognition that most people with unmanageable physical pain have suffered abuse as a child, she became interested in mind-body-spirit healing for pain of any kind. From her experiences as a clinician training many patients to relax, descriptions of the unusual experiences of some of these patients began to register in her mind. When a laying-on-of-hands healer introduced her to this unusual world (for her), many streams of consciousness came together to form a deep interest in wanting to understand paranormal experiences and energies. Dr. Elmer Green had been encouraging her to "see the light" in this way for many years.

Dr. Schneider is very glad that she could put the organizational skills learned through being President of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (formerly Biofeedback Society of America) to use in co-founding ISSSEEM. In From 1989-2007, she was editor of Bridges, ISSSEEM's Magazine. In 1993, she served as ISSSEEM's President.

T.M. Srinivasan, Ph.D.

Dr. Srinivasan received a Ph.D. in Electron Physics at Goteborg, Sweden, after which he returned to his native India to help set up a Biomedical Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. During 1977-1978, he was in charge of the Institute of Yoga studying prevention and cure through yoga. He served as Chairman of the International Conference on Energy Medicine at Madras during March, 1987, the papers from which are reported in his edited book, Energy Medicine Around the World.

Dr. Srinivasan joined the A.R.E. Medical Clinic, in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1988, to investigate the holistic health concepts in the Cayce material as well as work on acupuncture diagnostics. He joined the John E. Fetzer Institute at Kalamazoo, Michigan in November, 1989, and worked to set up a lab to investigate medical devices available in the holistic health area. Presently, he works in Madras, India with Ayurveda and Yoga practitioners.

Dr. Srinivasan likes to think of energy medicine based on two components, namely the exogenous and endogenous energy systems. The external energy applied in the former case interacts with the internal energy/informational systems in the body to produce healing and/or homeostasis. (Note that healing need not imply a homeostatic balance in the body). In the case of endogenous energy system, the energy within the body is manipulated through methods such as meditation, Tai Chi, yoga and visualization. It seems that most healing procedures can be categorized as one or the other of these types. Of course, scientists must still deal with measurable problems within these categories. Thus we have is yet another definition of energy medicine adding to an already confusing array of ideas arising in this field!