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Catherine Wall Emerson and Robert Wall Emerson

Catherine Wall Emerson and Robert Wall Emerson

Rob and Catherine Wall Emerson are both orientation and mobility specialists, teaching in the Department of Blindness and Low Vision Studies at Western Michigan University. Rob earned a Ph.D. in education and human development with a specialization in orientation and mobility from Vanderbilt University in 1999. Catherine, after earning a master of education in educational psychology from McGill University in Montreal in 1997, went on to earn a graduate diploma from Mohawk College in Ontario as an orientation and mobility instructor. In 2002, she earned her rehabilitative services credentials from San Francisco State University.
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Cyndi Turner

Cyndi Turner

When Cyndi Turner was working in her father’s orthopedic practice in Florida, she noticed that even the best spinal surgeries didn’t last for more than 10 years, but those patients who got involved in a good exercise program had much better outcomes. So she earned a B.S. in physical therapy from Loma Linda University in 1983.
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Andy Boesky
Andy Boesky

Andy Boesky has been in private chiropractic practice for 20 years. He graduated from Western Michigan University in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree, and from Life Chiropractic College in Marietta, Georgia, in 1988 with a doctor of chiropractic (D.C) degree. He specializes in pediatric chiropractic care (for conditions of the spine resulting in ear infections, colic, bed-wetting, and immune disorders), and also works with adults, including senior citizens.
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Terri Vought
Terri Vought

Terri Vought is a personal and professional life coach who has been coaching, training, and consulting in the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, Michigan, areas for more than 25 years. Her purpose is to inspire and lead people to live fuller, happier, and more balanced lives.
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Bill Parravano

Bill Parravano

Bill Parravano is an Ortho-Bionomy instructor and an advanced Ortho-Bionomy practitioner in the Louisville, Kentucky area. Over the past eight years he has studied with a wide spectrum of experienced instructors while traveling throughout Europe and the United States.
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Lori Evesque
Lori Evesque

Lori Evesque earned her BS in Food and Biological Process Engineering from Purdue University and her MS in Food Science from the Universityof Illinois. An Advanced Master Gardener, Lori has spent the last 20 years learning how to improve her health and the health of her family through natural means.
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Renu Sharma
Renu Sharma

Renu Sharma is a registered occupational therapist who has practiced in the Kalamazoo, Michigan, area for the last 20 years. Along with her husband, Raj, a physical therapist, she owns and practices at Advantage Physical Therapy in Portage, Michigan [...]
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Cassandra Worth
Cassandra Worth

Cassandra Worth—or Cazzi as she prefers to be called—has been practicing massage therapy for 10 years. She is nationally certified by the NCBTMB (the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork), and is a graduate [...]
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Holly Jane Perry

Holly Jane Perry

Holly Jane Perry, B.S, received her Human Energy Field Practitioner certification in Brennan Healing Science in 2000; she is also a sacred space practitioner. Holly has a deep passion for studying the human energy field and the energetic function of [...]
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Kimberley Krapek

Kimberley Krapek

Kimberley Krapek has been a registered nurse since 1980. She became a Certified Diabetes Educator and clinical specialist while working as a staff nurse at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. She has spent the past 25 years [...]
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Joe Kennedy

Joe Kennedy

Joe Kennedy has 35 years of experience in accounting and finance, with most of those years associated with manufacturing firms, and the last five in biotech with MedImmune. Joe is a proud husband and father of three healthy, beautiful children and [...]
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James Andrew

James Andrew has a B.S. in Operations and Logistics.  He has been working in the biotech industry for the past five years, in both development and commercial manufacturing. James manages the supply chain operations at two manufacturing [...]
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Annette Barton

Annette Barton, LMSW, ACSW, BCD, has worked in the mental health field for more than 20 years and has maintained a private psychotherapy practice since 1989. She works with older adolescents, adults, couples, and groups. She has a holistic focus and [...]
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James R. Duby, Jr.

James R. Duby, Jr. is an attorney and founder of the firm Duby & Associates, PLC in East Lansing, Michigan. His primary areas of expertise are trademark, copyright, trade secrets, Internet, business formation and transactions, corporate, secured [...]
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Claudia Harris

Claudia Harris, RN, CDE, practiced as a diabetes educator in Eugene, Oregon, for 10 years before joining Abbott Diabetes Care recently as a clinical specialist. She was named Diabetes Educator of the Year in Oregon in 2003. Claudia has written [...]
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Jill Nelson

Jill Nelson, a recovering computer consultant, is a nationally licensed massage therapist, certified lymphedema therapist, clinical instructor, and a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. She has an active massage and healing practice [...]
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