ABOUT THE AUTHORS: DR. HYLA CASS AND KATHLEEN BARNES

 



HYLA CASS, M.D.

 

Dr. Hyla Cass is one of the country's foremost speakers and authors on the subject of integrative medicine, and  has incorporated nutrition and natural health techniques into her practice for more than 20 years.

Dr. Cass' years of experience have yielded three guiding principles:

Treat the whole person - mind, body, spirit, and environment.

Look first for the deepest root problems beneath any symptoms. 

Apply a continuum of treatments, always beginning with the safest, most natural, and most benign.

Appearances

Dr. Cass appears regularly as an expert in the field, on radio, TV (including The View and MSNBC), and in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time Magazine, and People Magazine. To see her on TV and video click here. 

Dr. Cass also maintains a busy schedule of speaking engagements at health-related events around the country, with topics ranging from complementary medicine and psychiatry, anti-aging, women's health (including natural hormone therapy), drug-nutrient depletion, weight management, to stress reduction, and natural treatments for addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression. For more information, see her website.


Medical Practice


Dr. Cass maintains a private practice in Pacific Palisades, CA (near Santa Monica). She uses an integrated approach in her evaluation and treatment of individuals with a wide variety of problems. Click here for further information. 


Curriculum Vitae

Identifying Information: Born in Toronto, Canada

Occupation: Psychiatrist; integrative medical practitioner; author; consultant

Education: Pre-Medical and Medical Education: University of Toronto, School of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Internship: Los Angeles County-U.S.C. Medical Center

Residency Training: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, child and family psychiatry

Board Certification: Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Attending Staff Physician: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (1980-92)

Professional Memberships:

  1. Orthomolecular Health and Medicine Society (OHM)
  2. National Association of Medical Communicators

Board Member:

  1. Nourish America, providing vitamins to underprivileged children and other at-risk populations.
  2. Board Advisor –American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM)

Academic Appointments and Professional Positions:

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine (1979- 2005)Psychiatric Consultant to the Independent Safety Committee, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Pacific Gas and Electric (1990–2002)Advisory Board: Health Sciences Institute, Baltimore, MD

Advisory Board: Taste for Life, Peterborough, Maine

Associate editor: Total Health Magazine, St. George Utah

Licensure: 

States of California, Delaware


Books by Dr. Cass:

8 Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Take Charge Plan for Women with Kathleen Barnes (first edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005, second edition, Take Charge Books, 2008)

Supplement Your Prescription (Basic Health, November, 2007)

Natural Highs with Patrick Holford (Penguin Putnam Avery, 2002)

User’s Guides to Herbs (Basic Health Publications, 2004), Ginkgo (2003), and Vitamin C (2003)

Kava: Nature’s Answer to Stress Anxiety and Insomnia (Prima, 1999)

St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster (Penguin Putnam Avery, 1998)
 

Contact:

Contact Dr. Cass through her website: http://www.cassmd.com



 
                           KATHLEEN BARNES

Kathleen Barnes is an accomplished author, writer, editor, publisher and producer with 13 books to her credit.

She is an unusually versatile writer with 35 years of experience as a journalist in print, broadcast and online media and as an author, editor and publisher. 

Kathleen has written about nearly every subject imaginable, from business and personal finance to to natural health, sustainable living, advertising and international marketing.

In the interest of further diversification, Kathleen has recently taken on the pleasurable task of editing and publishing a Zen priest's journals and several other publishing projects under her publishing company,n, Take Charge Books. 



Kathleen's professional experience

Author with Dr. Hyla Cass: 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Take Charge Plan for Women (second edition, Take Charge Books, 2008; first edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005). Nautilus Award finalist 2005.

Author with Dr. Robert Thompson: The Calcium Lie: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know Could Kill You (InTruth Press, 2008).

Author with Dr. Ben Johnson: The Secret of Health: Breast Wisdom (Morgan James, 2008).

Author of User’s Guide to Thyroid Disorders (Basic Health Publications, 2006).

Author of Users Guide to Natural Hormone Replacement (Basic Health Publications, 2005).

Author of Arthritis and Joint Health (Woodland Publishing, 2005). 

Editor of Memory Loss is Not Inevitable by Dr. Allen Josephs (Common Sense Publishing 2007). 

Editor of Living Green: Simple Sustainable Living by Greg Horn (Freedom Press, 2006).

Editor of Natural Cures from a Real Medical Doctor by Dr. Allen Josephs (Common Sense Publishing, 2006)

Editor of The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health by Drs. William Crook and Hyla Cass (Professional Books, 2003, 2nd edition with Dr. Carolyn Dean, 2005). 

Editor of Guts and Glory with Drs. Jordan Rubin and Joseph Brasco (in progress). 

Author of Trial by Fire: A Woman Correspondent's Journey to the Front Line (Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 1990). Second edition, ASJA Press, 2007).

Columnist on natural health for Woman’s World for nearly 7 years. 

Writer for other national and international magazines, including Taste for Life, Total Health and alive.

Editor and writer for American Health Consultants. She edited, researched and wrote five health-related newsletters, including Complementary Therapies in Chronic Care, a natural health newsletter for health care professionals over a four-year period. I also edited newsletters on diabetes, asthma, disease management and congestive heart failure.

Contributing Writer for The Inter-National-Ist (international marketing magazine).

Senior writer, editor and producer for CNN International. 

Correspondent and producer for CNN in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Correspondent for ABC television and radio and Canadian Television (CTV) based in Manila, Philippines, Rome, Italy and Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Correspondent from Europe, Asia and Africa for a variety of publications, including The Atlanta Constitution, Newsweek, The Australian (Sydney), The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), The Toronto Star, Business Week, Advertising Age and others.

Legal reporter for a medium-sized daily newspaper in Upstate New York.

Contact

Kathleen's website: http://www.kathleenbarnes.com

e-mail her at: takechargebooks@citcom.net


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