Board

Ann Blake Tracy, a Ph.D. in Health Sciences with the emphasis on Psychology, is the director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness. She has specialized for 14 years in adverse reactions to serotonergic medications (such as Prozac, Sarafem, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Celexa, Lexapro, Effexor, Serzone, Anafranil, Fen-Phen, Redux and Meridia) and has testified before the FDA and congressional subcommittee members on Prozac. She has testified since 1992 as an expert witness in Prozac and other SSRI related court cases around the world. Her first book on the issue was published in 1991. During the last twelve and a half years she has participated in innumerable radio, television, newspaper and magazine interviews. We know of no one with such extensive experience and expertise on all of these issues surrounding the SSRI antidepressants as Dr. Ann Blake Tracy. You can learn a lot about these medications from her latest book on the Prozac family of antidepressants: PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA? (2001). The book is the product of many, many years of intensive research, and the cases of approximately 1,000 patients on a long-term basis.

Dr. Tracy also has an hour and a half long audio tape/CD, “Help! I Can’t Get Off My Antidepressant!,” which explains the safest withdrawal methods from these antidepressants and how to rebuild the body and brain after the use of these drugs. She has spent the last thirteen years working with patients coming off of these antidepressants. That experience has helped her to know much about the serious and very dangerous withdrawal effects and how to avoid those in coming down off the drugs.

For more information on materials by Dr. Tracy call 800-280-0730.

Click here for more information about Ann Tracy’s book and tape.

Dr. Candace B. Pert, PhD

Research Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., Former Chief of Brain Biochemistry at NIH for 13 years. She studied the inner workings of the body with an eye towards identifying and locating peptides and receptors. She became convinced these chemicals were the physical manifestation of emotion. She takes some time from her research and teaching schedule to lecture internationally on the issues of neuropeptides and mind-body communications. Links for ordering her latest book, MOLECULES OF EMOTION, can be found on our “Book” page.)

Dr. Julian Whitaker, MD

Dr. Julian Whitaker, founder of the Whitaker Wellness Institute, is one of the country’s foremost advocates of healing through diet, exercise, lifestyle changes, and the principles of orthomolecular medicine. He preaches to an ever-growing audience through his clinic, newsletter, books, lectures and now his web site, drwhitaker.com. Today over half a million subscribers, disenchanted with the failures of conventional medicine, rely on his newsletter, Health & Healing, for news about safe and effective alternatives.

Graduated from Dartmouth College in 1966, Dr. Whitaker earned his medical degree at Emory University Medical School in Atlanta in 1970, and completed his internship at Grady Memorial Hospital, also in Atlanta.

Dr. Kevin Millet, DC www.fibrowellness.com

Dr. Kevin Millet, DC Dr Millet, who himself was able to overcome hyperactivity, depression, compulsive behavior and suicidal tendancies through nutrition, is currently the director of Total Wellness. Total Wellness is a wholistic center near Salt Lake City, Utah. He conducts seminars throughout the United States to health practitioners in applying nutrition and other wholistic methods to regenerate the entire body, including the brain and endocrine system.

Dr. Lorraine Day, MD

An internationally acclaimed orthopedic trauma surgeon and best selling author was for 15 years on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine as Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics. She was also Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital and is recognized world-wide as an AIDS expert. She has been invited to lecture extensively throughout the U.S. and the world and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including 60 Minutes, Nightline, CNN Crossfire, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King Live, The 700 Club, John Ankerberg Show, USA Radio Network, Art Bell Radio Show, Three Angels Broadcasting Network and Trinity Broadcasting Network.

Joyce Riley vonKleist, RN, BSN, Captain, USAF inactive Reserve

Has presented at the National Institutes of Health, medical legal conferences such as the American Trail Lawyers Association, was host of her own radio talk show “NurseTalk Radio-The Truth in Health Care”, and has guested on over 1500 radio and television shows, including Art Bell, Chuck Harder and Michael Reagan. Served as a Captain in the United States Air Force and flew on C-130 missions in support of Operation Desert Storm. She now serves as spokesperson for the American Gulf War Veterans Association whose purpose is to provide education and information for the Gulf War veterans and their families and to seek treatment for the illnesses that thousands of Gulf War veterans now suffer from.

Dr. Bradford S. Weeks, MD

Bradford S. Weeks, M.D. is a medical doctor whose practice welcomes people all ages suffering with all illnesses. He offers conventional, as well as complementary, medical and psychiatric care. Dr. Weeks’ approach is biochemical in nature. That means he works to correct your underlying biochemical imbalances which create your illnesses and pain, rather than to simply offer you various synthetic drugs designed to suppress your symptoms.

Mark M. Miller, ICFDA Web Administrator

Mark and his wife Cheryl lost their 13-year old son to a Zoloft-induced suicide in 1997, Since then, Mark has been serving as the organization’s Regional Director in Kansas and developed the ICFDA website to help connect survivors and educate others about the dangerous and often deadly side effects of prescription medications.