Staff and Consultants

Joanne Quinn

Executive Director

Joanne Quinn, Ph.D., RMA, is the Executive Director for FAIM.

Joanne has an extensive background in science with a Ph.D. in Holistic Nutrition. She has studied both allopathic and alternative approaches to health care, studying alternative therapies since 1989. These include Neurotransmitters and Brain Chemistry with Apex, Iridology with Bernard Jensen, Rayid with Dennis Johnson, Dark Field Microscopy with Gaston Naessons, Herbology with Total Health and Research, Homeopathy with Jeremy Sherr, Functional Endocrinology with Datis Kharazian, Nutrition with Bernard Jensen, Kinesiology with Total Health and Research, One Brain with One and Three Concepts, Blood Chemistry with Datis Kharazian,Touch for Health with the Touch for Health Foundation, Aromatherapy with Young Living, Meridian balancing and Chakras with Total Health and Research and Brain Gym with the Educational Kinesiology Foundation. In addition, she is a Registered Medical Assistant.

Joanne is also the Executive Director of the ELS Foundation which disseminates information to help in the elimination of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) based on research done in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Previously, Joanne has been involved with Peace Links, Women Against Nuclear War and Children's Response to Conflict.

Kristina Olson

National Research Consultant

Kristina (Kris) Olson, L.Ac, DipOM, maintains an active clinic, The Center for Oriental Medicine, in Ft. Collins, CO. She incorporates functional medicine, energy therapies and various physical modalities into her practice, blending the best of both East and West. She completed her Chinese Medicine education at the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1996.

She is certified in Acupuncture, Chinese Herbology and Oriental Medicine and holds additional certifications in Homeopathy, Nutritive Therapy and various Body and Energy Medicine techniques. She has served on the faculty of several colleges, teaching Chinese Medicine and other complementary health related subjects.

Prior to establishing her practice, she spent a number of years in the corporate world and holds and MBA from the University of Michigan. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Acupuncture Association of Colorado and the International Institute of Visualization Research.

Ferdinando Pisani Massamormile

International Research Consultant

Ferdinando Pisani Massamormile, MS, Ferdinando is the International Research Consultant for FAIM and is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.

Education

1985-1989 LUISS University (Libera Universita’ degli Studi Sociali) Rome, Italy, Major in Economics and thesis on Japanese Multinational Corporations. Founded and directed university newspaper “The Louis”.

1990 Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. Summer Program on South East Asian Economics.

1992 Universidad de Chile, Santiago. One-year program on Andean Anthropology by Prof. Victoria Castro.

1995 Schumacher College, Devon, UK. Centre of Ecological Thinking. Principle lecturers: Hazel Henderson, Vandana Shiva, Fritjof Capra, Martin Khor, Jacob von Uxkull, Brian Goodwin, Edward Goldsmith and Satish Kumar.

1997 New York Botanical Gardens, USA. Course in Ethnomedicine; final research project on the Medical Practices of Kallawaya Indians of Bolivia.

Currently studying Traditional Medicine with curanderos in the Peruvian Amazon.

Work

2006-2008 FAIM, Washington, DC and Lima, Peru. International Field Coordinator

2004-2005 Takiwasi, Tarapoto, Peru. Project Developer for this NGO dedicated to researching and applying Amazonian Traditional Medicine.

2003 Green Medicine International, Bordeaux, France. Created program to treat HIV/AIDS using aromatherapy, supplements and other non-toxic holistic therapies in Santiago, Chile.

2002 Barefoot Doctors Paris, France. Directed this NGO on behalf of Jean-Pierre Willem, MD and set up ethnomedical projects in South America.

2000-2002 Milena Kaneva Productions, Rome, Italy. Film Producer. Among the films made were TV documentaries on Balkan Traditional Medicine and the Cuban Medical System and the award winning film Total Denial.

2000 Catherine Wyler Productions. Line Producer for film on Pope John Paul II based on George Weigel’s biography Witness to Hope.

1999 Italian Parliament, Rome, Italy. Assisted MP Sandra Fei in setting up the international campaign against violence on women. Organized the Italian boycott of the annual Interpol meeting (because of their involvement with corrupt governments). Initiated protests against Iranian human rights violations during Khatami’s visit. Organized lobby campaign in favor of the Burmese Nobel Prize Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Helped initiate the first parliamentary discussion on possible crisis in East Timor.

1998 Helen Whitney Productions. Line Producer for documentary film on Pope JPII aired on PBS.

European Observer Unit, Cambodia. Italian mission member monitoring the 1998 Elections.

1996-1997 Stefano Celesti Productions, New York. Assistant Producer and Photographer.

1995 New Economics Foundation London, UK. Set up The Other Economic Summit at the Naples G7 Summit in tight collaboration with The Right Livelihood Foundation founded by Jacoub von Uxkull.

1992-1994 Tevecorp Santiago, Chile. Assistant Producer of Manuela Gumucio in media project in partnership with RAI (the Italian State-owned television company).

Martin Möhrke

Europe Resource Coordinator

Martin is an educated expediter custom clearance agent and chip chandler. He first got involved with Stevia, Aloe Vera. He started www.aloevera.nl and distributed Aloe Vera in the Benelux.

In 2000 he began working with the Prognos Meridian Diagnosis and Therapy Device, lecturing and training over 150 practitioners in Benelux, Thailand and South Africa. He also worked in a child disorder clinic in Bahrain. In 2005-2006 he investigated several energy devices including the NES Health Device, setting up the distribution known as NES Health Europe.

Since 2005 Martin, along with scientists, doctors and therapists, has investigated and tested the effectiveness of various devices for the complementary and integrative health market. Some of the devices include bioresonance, quantum physics, nanopulse therapy, frequency therapy, infrared thermal imaging diagnostics, and regulation diagnostics according to Professor F. A. Popp. He participated in many conferences, seminars and trainings in western, traditional and alternative medicine. These activities of investigation, diagnostics and therapeutical methods have given Martin a unique perspective into the field of energy medicine.

Kimberly Schipke, M.S.

International Resource Coordinator

Kimberly is a biomedical engineer with over six years of research experience in tissue engineering, cellular/tissue mechanobiology, and medical device design. She has presented her work at the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Institute of Biological Engineers, Vidya Pratishthan’s School of Biotechnology in Baramati, India, the California Institute for Human Sciences, and the Saude Quantum Conference 2011 in Recife, Brazil.

She is co-founder and past-President of Bulldogs for Heart Health, a non-profit organization devoted to educating the youth in Mississippi about healthy food choices and exercise options in an effort to reduce childhood obesity. She has also worked as a compliance associate for an independent review board to oversee clinical research performed by pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers.

She is adept in the rules and regulations of the Food and Drug Administration as well as the Department for Health and Human Services, and she currently consults laboratories on how to raise their clinical research standards. She is a trainer in medical thermal imaging and helps scientists develop protocols for quantifying thermal energetic changes in the body with various bioenergetic devices and techniques.

Her publications include, "Design of a Cyclic Pressure Bioreactor for the Ex Vivo Study of Aortic Heart Valves." J Vis Exp. 2011 Aug 23;(54) and a book chapter entitled "O Ponto de Mutação de Doenças Energéticas em Doenças Sintomáticas" in Pontos do Mutação na Saúde which was published in Brazil September of 2011.

Thornton Streeter

Asian Resource Coordinator

Dr. Thornton Streeter DSc. is an official representative for AISBBS to the United Nations (ECOSOC) and special Advisor to the ICNM, the UK's leading authority on Complementary and Natural Medicine. He is Director of the Centre for Biofield Sciences.

• Faculty head of the Zoroastrian College section of Human biofield Research. Since 2004 , appointed as a student thesis guide.
• Doctor of Science, Mumbai, India.
• 2004 Special Advisor to Institute of Complementary and Natural Medicine ICNM London.
• 2006 Program Committee for All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Indian Institute of Technology's National Seminar on Scientific validation and Technical evaluation of Ancient Medical Systems.
• 2007 Advisory Board, Uniting Technologies USA.
• 2007Advisory Board BodyTalk International USA
• 2008 Visiting Lecturer Medical School, St George’s University, Grenada.
• 2002-2007 Visiting Lecturer at Westminster University, Department of Integrated Medicine, London UK
• 2008 served on the Board of Directors of the North American Academy of Energy Medicine (NAAcEM)
• Since 2002 has delivered keynote lectures on Biofield Science.
• Co-organizer of the 1st and 2nd Bioenergy Devices Conference at California Institute for Human Science 2010 and 2011
• Organiser of the 26th International Conference on Holistic Health and Integrative Medicine, Mumbai, India. Jan 2012.
• Member of: ISSSEEM, ACEP, ICNM and Fellow of World Association of Integrated Medicine.

Contact Information:

Bear Shola, Reddicks Hill
Upottery, Devon, UK + 44 1404 861497
Mumbai +919821421822
thornton.streeter@gmail.com

Cam Howard

Web site design and development; Information technology consultant

Cam Howard is a web site designer/developer based in New Hampshire. She creates web-based resources for non-profit, education, and ministry-related organizations and enjoys working collaboratively with people to help tell their stories.

Prior to her current work, she worked with Ken Bedell at EPIC, Inc. (Ecumenical Programs in Information and Communication) and taught at United Theological Seminary (Dayton, OH) in the fields of web site design, graphics animation, multimedia production, instructional design, and online learning. She has also worked with communications for the New Hampshire Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.