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Sally Brockett

Sally Brockett, MS. Sally Brockett is the Director of the IDEA Training and Consultation Center in North Haven, Connecticut. She founded the center in 1992 to focus on interventions for developmental disabilities after 12 years as a special education teacher with all categories of disabilities. After training in France with Dr. Guy Berard, the Berard method of auditory integration training (AIT) and consultation became a special focus of her work. Mrs. Brockett has completed advanced training in AIT with Dr. Guy Berard and currently works as the world-wide representative for his program. She is a certified International Professional Instructor in the Berard method. Mrs. Brockett founded the Berard AIT International Society and has served on the Board of Directors since its beginning. She and Dr. Berard have co-authored Hearing Equals Behavior: Updated and Expanded, the newest edition of Dr. Berard's book about his method of auditory integration training.

Presentation highlight: Can 10 hours of listening to electronically modulated music really create significant improvements in behavior and academic abilities for individuals on the autism spectrum? This presentation will provide a description of the procedure and a review of data collected before and after the intervention.

Jing Liu
PhD. Co-founder of ACMES, Board member and Senior advisor.
Nezam H. Afdhal

Nezam H. Afdhal, md, is Chief of Hepatology and director of the Liver Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Afdhal received his MD degree in 1981 from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and did fellowship training at University College Dublin and at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Afdhal’s clinical expertise focuses on the management of the complications of liver disease, including cirrhosis and portal hypertension. He is the director of a clinical trials group focusing on novel treatments of hepatitis B and C, liver fibrosis and NASH. Additional research interests include basic and translational research in gallstone disease, liver cancer and in liver fibrosis. His research is funded by multiple NIH, industry and foundation grants. Dr. Afdhal has served on multiple State and National advisory boards for liver disease. He has served as on the Editorial Board and as a reviewer for multiple journals. He has published more than 180 papers in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Gut, and Journal of Hepatology, as well as 30 book chapters and 2 books. He is the editor for the Journal of Viral Hepatitis. He has spoken nationally and internationally on chronic liver disease and received many awards, including the American Liver Foundation Award for Excellence, a Fullbright Scholarship and the Mitchell Lectureship of the Royal College of Physicians. He is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and the European Association for the Study of the Liver.

Gloria Y. Yeh

Gloria Y. Yeh is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a clinician investigator in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). She received her medical degree from the University of Maryland and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her major research activities involve the investigation of safety, efficacy and mechanisms of mind-body exercise for chronic disease, with a particular interest in cardiopulmonary conditions, and expertise in clinical trial design of mind-body therapies. She is principal or co-investigator on multiple trials funded by the NIH, including two R01's investigating tai chi for patients with COPD. Dr. Yeh is the Director of the NIH T32-funded Harvard Medical School Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine. Her clinical work is in the primary care practice at BIDMC, Healthcare Associates, and the Cheng and Tsui Center for Integrative Medicine at BIDMC.

Martha Herbert | 玛莎赫伯特
MD, PhD

玛莎赫伯特，治愈自闭症研究所研究员。哈佛医学院副教授，麻省总院Transcent研究所所长，小儿神经医师。机体大脑康复中心共同主任

Buchbinder, Elizabeth

Buchbinder, Elizabeth I., MD: Dr. Buchbinder is an attending oncologist on staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; she is a clinical instructor of Harvard medical school. She received her medical training at Tufts Medical School, and finished her medical residency and oncology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Buchbinder is an oncologist with primary clinical interests in head and neck oncology, melanoma, and hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancers. As a recipient of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Young Investigator Award, she continues to perform translational research in oncology.

William Stone | 威廉斯通
PhD, ABPP-CN

威廉斯通，北美医学与科学编委，治愈自闭症研究所研究员。哈佛医学院副教授，以色列医院精神科心理医师。

Douglas Levine

Douglas Levine, MD: Dr.Levine is Vice President, Medical Scientific Affairs, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, and is leading this function’s integrated support of development and commercialization of linaclotide and additional medicinal products in the company’s portfolio. Previously, Dr Levine was Executive Medical Director for US Managed Markets and US Development Brand Leader for Nexium (esomeprazole) at AstraZeneca. His experience in industry has been to strategically integrate clinical outcomes, health economic, and quality of life evidence with commercialization of medicinal products via consumer, health care professional, and managed markets customer channels. Prior to entering the pharmaceutical industry, Dr Levine was Associate Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, of the University of Washington where his professional activities included teaching, clinical care, and applied clinical sciences focused on translational research on stratification of patients at risk for gastrointestinal malignancies and experimental therapeutics for patients with inflammatory diseases of the alimentary tract. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology.

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