Dr. Annette Bosworth, MD

Internal medicine specialist, Dr. BOZ on Youtube

Conference Topic: High on Acid? Forget That!

How Uric acid & keto diets affect dementia 

Annette Bosworth was born into a farming family in rural South Dakota, inheriting hard work and the expectation that all things are teachable. Throughout her medical training and career, she applied her inheritance to teach patients through storytelling and practical application of medical jargon.

Dr. Bosworth has worked as an Assistant Professor and Medical Doctor in Internal Medicine, helping students and patients combat chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, depression, addiction, and autoimmune problems. Through the DOD Counter-terrorism, she teaches how to optimize brains & bodies with applicable neuroscience. She has taught at the University Of Utah & University of South Dakota Schools Of Medicine and has been featured on CNN, Time, US News & World Report, Fox News, & more.  She has authored several books, including "Any Way You Can", which highlights her personal journey into the world of the ketogenic diet as she helped her mother successfully battle an aggressive form of lymphocytic leukemia.

Dr. Jocelyn Tan M.D., FACP, dABLM



Conference Topic: Ketogenic Diets in Real Life Clinical Practice

Dr. Tan is American board certified in Medical Oncology and in Lifestyle Medicine . She also trained in Mind-Body Medicine and Medical Acupuncture.  Dr. Tan serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and is the Integrative Oncology program director at the Pittsburgh Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 Dr. Tan is also a researcher, having been principal investigator for the national clinical trial, Ketogenic Diet in Advanced Malignancies. She specializes in gastrointestinal cancers, including liver and colorectal cancers, blood malignancies, and rare cancers, is aFellow of the American College of Physicians, member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and Society of Integrative Oncology. Online, she is known as the Keto Oncologist and runs a Facebook support group called Keto for Cancer.

Dr. Karen Ellen Fink

BSN, HNB-BC, LMT



Conference Topic: Living your bucket list on a daily basis

Ms. Fink is a licensed massage therapist, and is board certified as a holistic nurse and reiki master educator. Kae has specialized in integrative medicine medical massage, hospital-based massage, and holistic nursing, providing patient, family, and staff-centered care across the lifespan. As a holistic nurse massage therapist she co-creates a therapeutic relationship with her clients and combines holistic and integrative modalities and self-care education to match individual needs. Karen has many certifications and advanced training in both nursing and massage. She presents educational programming for massage therapists, staff nurses, employees, to medical professionals, and the community. She has acted as a co-investigator in research projects, is a published author and poet, presents at the regional, national, international level, and is active in national professional associations and committees. Her core values include prioritizing her own self-care and role-modeling and educating others about self-care, stress management, resilience, whole health,providing a holistic presence, and supporting her work with evidence-based modalities and a variety of nursing and other multidisciplinary theories and conceptual models. Her intention is that every nurse, heath care professional, and those caregivers in the community fill their vessel first, so they can pour forth to others, without depleting themselves.

Dr. Abdul Kadir Slocum

MD ChemoThermia

Conference Topic: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND OUTCOMES OF INTEGRATIVE STRATEGIES

Dr. Abdul Kadir Slocum M.D. is originally from the United States, but grew up in Turkey and completed his medical training at Marmara University, Istanbul. He is an oncologist dedicated to improving his patients’ outcomes with innovative treatment modalities and integrative therapeutic approaches. Drawing on his many years’ experience, he combines evidence-based complementary and metabolic therapies with conventional cancer treatments for optimal patient outcomes.
In his practice at ChemoThermia, Dr. Slocum integrates complementary and metabolic therapies such as hyperthermia, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, ozone therapy, repurposed drugs, ketogenic diet and other metabolic therapies into personalized treatment plans and keeps up-to-date with the latest research to deliver the latest evidence-based practice. He values transparent communication with his patients and involves them in shared decision-making, empowering them throughout their journeys.

Dr. Ayman Abdel Halim MD

Holistic , Palliative Care and Pain Specialist

Special Topic: Biomedical Acupuncture + demonstration

My name is Dr. Ayman Abdel-Halim or sometimes my patients call me Dr. Halim or Dr. H. , I have more than 30 years’ experience in Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative medicine. I graduated from Ain Shams University in Cairo December 1986 and I earned my Board certification in Anesthesiology 1997 , Pain Management 1998 and Palliative Medicine in 2016. I do have special interest in Complimentary medicine and I am Board certified in Acupuncture since 2004. In addition, I have a passion to Cancer pain, and I am fellowship trained in Palliative care from the University of Arkansas for medical Sciences. I have been involved in Academics since my graduation, lectured both at the national and international levels in all Complimentary, Pain and Palliative Medicine Disciplines . I wrote a book Chapter about interventions in Palliative care in 2011.I developed a scientific group called Holistic, Palliative and Pain that has 200 members up till now. My passion for teaching and passing knowledge to the next generation of physicians made me start a biweekly lecture in pain and palliative care subjects as well as an online daily Holistic, Palliative and Pain Exchange with a group of physicians from different areas in the Arab world. Currently serving as a Visiting Professor in Ain Shams University in Cairo since September 2022.