PIH Academy 2021 puts personalized, functional, integrative care together for you in a 2-day virtual course, filled with engaging lectures and discussions, practice worthy clinical pearls and guidance from colleagues. This 3rd year’s course focuses on key aspects of women’s health.
We follow the helpful ‘Physiology before Pharmacology’ approach in addressing people’s health across the life span while addressing the challenges and nuances involved with healthier, youthful vitality at all ages. The agenda is crafted to meet the needs of the functional and integrative healthcare practitioner with an interest and focus on women’s health. The experts concentrate on the different aspects of health ranging from bone and hormones to digestion, detoxification, brains, joints, vessels, fascia and heart.
Participate in this course to increase your knowledge and enhance competence to…
- Recognize 21st Century issues and challenges facing people across different ages.
- Learn how to address clinical conditions’ causes systematically and not treat the symptom; not fighting with pathology but rather evoking human healing responses.
- Physiology before pharmacology as the foundation for sustainable, personalized healing and wellness.
- Receive personalized proactive predictive primary prevention practice protocols.
Course 3 Faculty
Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD, CCN
Russ Jaffe is Founder and Chairman of PERQUE Integrative Health, LLC (PIH, www.PERQUE.com) a company that offers the world scientifically proven, integrative health solutions to speed the transition from sick care to healthful caring.
Lyn Patrick, ND
Lyn Patrick ND graduated from Bastyr University in 1984 with a doctorate in naturopathic medicine and has been in private practice as a state licensed naturopathic physician in Arizona and Colorado for 35 years.
Erika Mennerick, DC
Erika Mennerick, DC, Cert. MDT has practiced in Elburn, IL, a far-west Chicago suburb, since 2005, utilizing hands-on chiropractic adjustments, functional rehab, nutrition, and lab testing in her patient care. The McKenzie Method® of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy® has become a mainstay of her assessment and treatment since she successfully completed the MDT certification in 2013.
Robin Rose, DO
Dr. Robin Rose teaches you to proactively manage your health so you can look, feel and measure younger. She uses a range of methods including advanced genomic testing, wearable devices, and medical technology to slow the aging process of your DNA (biological age). Her practice focuses on resetting the health of the gut microbiome.
Kevin Steele, Ph.D.
Dr. Kevin Steele is actively engaged in the health and fitness industry. He began his career with a private personal training business while a faculty member in Physical Education, Sports Medicine, and Coaching at Pepperdine University. During this period, he also worked with a local physician specializing in Preventive Executive Healthcare Programs for corporations throughout the United States.
Hal Blatman, MD
Hal S. Blatman, MD is the founder of the Blatman Health and Wellness Center. After graduating from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Dr. Blatman trained 2 years in orthopedic surgery, practiced urgent care medicine, and then board certified in occupational medicine and clinical toxicology from the University of Cincinnati.
Joel Kahn, MD
Joel Kahn, MD, FACC of Detroit, Michigan, is a practicing cardiologist, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Michigan Medical School.
PERQUE Integrative Health (PIH) launched PIH Academy, led by Russell Jaffe with the goal of educating healthcare practitioners on Physiology First as the basis of functional medicine in practice. The Physiology First practice philosophy focuses on the processes and functions that create, sustain, and optimize life. It is an approach that looks at how the things we eat, drink, think and do impact us physiologically – either supporting or detracting from optimal function. Physiology First (before pharmacology) is at the core of proactive prevention and the practice of functional medicine.
Dr. Russell Jaffe
Russ Jaffe is Founder and Chairman of PERQUE Integrative Health, LLC, a company that offers the world scientifically proven, integrative health solutions to speed the transition from sick care to healthful caring.
Dr. Jaffe has more than 40 years of experience contributing to molecular biology and clinical diagnostics. His focus is on functional, predictive tests and procedures designed to improve the precision of both diagnosis and of treatment outcomes and he has authored nearly 100 articles on the subject.
