Hippocrates Health Institute - Healing Our World

Staff


Executive Administrators Managers Therapists
Brian Clement, PhD, LNC
Co-Director
Michael Bergonzi
Greenhouse Manager
Antony Chatham
Psychotherapist/Wellness Coach
Anna Maria Clement, PhD, LNC
Co-Director

Chrystal Murphy
Store Manager

Andy Bernay Roman
Psychotherapist

Scott Josephson, MS, RD
Director of Operations

Jolene Jackson 
Spa and Theraphy Director

 
  Jody Albert
Program Consultant
 
 

Sato Ramdas
I
.T Director

 

 

Carole Bianco
Director of Finance
 
  Reenie Brewer
Director of Guest Services
 
 

Ken Blue
Executive Chef

 
 

Bonnie Wishney 
Assistant to the Director

 

 

Brian Clement, Co-director Brian Clement, PhD, LNC
Co-Director

hdirector@hippocratesinst.org

In his role as a progressive educator, Brian has conducted countless seminars, lectures, and educational programs, traveling extensively to more than 25 countries around the globe. At home in the United States, he has taken the message of this widely successful program to the entire country. In recent years he has been commissioned by government-supported organizations to establish, organize, and direct health programs in Denmark, Switzerland, Greece, and India. Brian has also written numerous books in which he explores the various aspects of health, spirituality, and natural healing. His recent best-selling book, Living Foods for Optimum Health, has been acclaimed by Marilyn Diamond, co-author of the book Fit for Life, as "an important and eminently readable book for the new era of self care," and by Coretta Scott King as a "landmark guide to the essentials of healthy living." In response to the growing public demand, he has produced an educational video series on the practical application of Hippocrates Health Institute's Life Change Program, the three-week detoxification and cleansing process that is recognized worldwide as Hippocrates' signature program. In addition, Brian created the Hippocrates Health Educator Program, a nine-week intensive instructional that certifies students to teach the Hippocrates Living Foods Lifestyle, with graduates in over 12 countries. His progressive ideas on natural health approaches, coupled with his vast theoretical and practical scientific experience, have earned him a reputation as a leading expert in the natural health field. Brian's professional opinion is highly regarded and much sought after; he is a frequent guest on television, radio and in print, and acts as a resource expert for several publications. Brian has also been recognized for his significant contribution in the field of modern health care by Who's Who Among Outstanding Americans.

Dr. Brian Clement has spent more than three decades studying nutrition and natural healthcare.  He has received graduate degrees in both naturopathic medicine and nutritional science.  Since 1980 he has directed the Institute's growth and development as well as facilitated the implementation of such progressive natural health treatments as: the Living Food Diet, Wheatgrass Therapy, Dark Field Microscopy, and the essentials of mind-body therapies. Over the years Brian has assumed the role of a health advocate, motivating a very eager public to take action to improve their lives.

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Anna Maria Clement, Co-director Anna Maria Gahns-Clement, PhD, LNC
Co-Director

dlahoski@hippocratesinst.org

Anna Maria kicked off her career in natural health advocacy by founding the first living food organization in Scandinavia, and was a member of the Natural Health Care Coalition, a government supported effort in unifying the field of complementary health care in her native Sweden. Anna Maria has since become Co-Director and Chief Health Administrator of Hippocrates Health Institute situated originally in Boston, Massachusetts, and now located in West Palm Beach, Florida. She is one of the leading experts in live blood cell analysis, a revolutionary technique in the comprehensive assessment of a person's state of health. She trained in this method under American Biologics in California and assisted their professional staff in furthering their education in this field. Anna Maria Gahns-Clement is the author of four books on the application of natural health methods in family and children's care. She, also, collaborated in creating a series of books about the Hippocrates Life Change program. She lectures extensively around the country as well as around the globe employing a style that is uniquely down-to earth and sensible approach to teaching practical methods that people can comfortably incorporate in their own lives. As multi-faceted as her life is, the one role Anna Maria considers to be the most important, the most challenging and, undoubtedly, the most enjoyable of all is her role as mother to her four children, whose perfect health is a tribute to her and the Hippocrates lifestyle.

 

Doctor Anna Maria Gahns-Clement embarked on her vocation as a practitioner of natural healthcare when she assumed the directorship of Sweden's Brandal Health Center in Stockholm, an internationally recognized and well-respected center for health recovery. Her advanced education in nutritional science, iridology, bodywork therapy, touch-for-health, and nursing healthcare serve to enhance the instinctive qualities that, as a natural healer, she already possessed.

Scott Josephson, MS, RD
Director of Operations
sjosephson@hippocratesinst.org

Scott is the Director of Operations at Hippocrates Health Institute and a national level conference speaker throughout the United States and Canada.  His day-to-day operations inclued spearheading projects and managing all staff. Scott is a recipient of numerous awards and is frequently published covering a wide range of health- and wellness- related topics. In 2006 Scott was nominated and awarded the Director of the Year at an industry conference for his excellence in teaching continuing education units.  In addition to several certifications, he has a Master’s degree from the University of Miami and is on the advisory boards of Can Fit Pro and the American Wellness Professionals and Associates. His work portfolio includes hands-on work with Geraldo Rivera, Wimbledon Champion Chris Evert and athletes from the New York Giants and New York Mets.

 

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Reenie BrewerMaureen "Reenie" Brewer
 Guest Relations

rbrewer@hippocratesinst.org

Reenie brings to Hippocrates her experience in hotel management and her unofficial 'maternal' style born out of raising four children,nurturing eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  She has enriched the workplace and increased guest satisfaction with her competent, sweet, and proven attentiveness. Reenie is part of the managment team that has secured Hippocrates' position as the foremost in complementary healthcare in the world.

 

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Bonnie Wishney
Administrative Assistant
bwishney@hippocratesinst.org


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Andy Bernay-RomanAndy Bernay-Roman, LMHC
Psychotherapist

Andy has served as a mind/body psychotherapist at Hippocrates since December of 1990,using and teaching radical feeling-centered, body-focused awareness tools to help Hippocrates guests get to the essence of problems and solutions. He conducts private sessions with individuals, couples, and families, and also facilitates the ongoing Healing Circle therapy and support group. A guest expressed of Andy's counseling style: "The humor Andy uses is relaxing and effective. His style appears effortless and easy, and yet is direct and keen."

Andy expounds on his deep feeling therapy approach and on his model and techniques for change in his book, Deep Feeling, Deep Healing: The Heart, Mind, and Soul of Getting Well.

 

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Antony Chatham, LCSW, MTh, MPhil, NBCCH
Licensed Psychotherapist/Wellness Coach

Antony has been working with Hippocrates guests since 1994, providing individual and group sessions, as well as lectures. He employs various effective brief-model techniques from Eastern and Western traditions of holistic healing while integrating his knowledge and experience in the fields of psychology, philosophy, and theology, in which he holds graduate and advanced graduate degrees. Antony's work is focused on state-of-the-art stress management using hypnotherapy, Progressive Relaxation, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Guided Imagery, Regression, pastoral counseling, and spiritual consultations. His lactures are centered around holistic approaches to health and healing from a mental health perspective.

 

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Jolene JacksonJolene Jackson
Spa and Therapy Director

With many years of management, sales, and marketing experience along with a rich backdrop of professionalism to Hippocrates, Jolene oversees front desk operations and directs the efforts of the staff and therapists serving guests in the Oasis Therapy Center. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree as a cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and has ascended through the ranks of the real estate and high-rise development industries. Jolene has blended her business management and leadership experience with her self-healing insights to assist the Hippocrates Health Institute team by creating a highly professional, compassionate, educational, and life-changing guest service experience.  

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  Ken Blue
Executive Chef

(561) 471-8876 ext. 106

After graduating from the Hippocrates Health Educator program, Hippocrates engaged Ken to assist the head chef for one year. He soon assumed this pivotal role and has since enriched and expanded the repertoire of delicious, nourishing cuisine served to our guests and visitors.  As one time proprietor of his own award winning vegetarian restaurant, his executive culinary skills were well recognized before coming to Hippocrates.  Monthly, Ken offers classes on gourmet living food preparation for the general public.              

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Michael BergonziMichael Bergonzi
Greenhouse Manager & Hippocrates Emissary

michael@hippocratesinst.org

Growing the "lifeblood" of the Hippocrates program, Michael is internationally known as the pre-eminent wheatgrass cultivator. He has worked the of the field of integrative health care since 1990. In the early days he was Greenhouse Manager at the Optimum Health Institute and then spent time working and studying with Doctor Bernard Jensen's protege and daughter-in-law, Ellen Tart Jensen.  He has since innovated many of the cutting edge growing systems presently utilized at the Hippocrates Health Institute. Beyond his scope of work in the greenhouse, he travels extensively representing the Institute. When at Hippocrates, he leads classes on growing wheatgrass, sprouting, communication, and understanding judgment. Together with Master Chef Ken Blue, they offer a sprouting/food preparation class several times a year at the Institute. Check our calendar page for the next lecture.


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Jody Albert
Program Consultant
jody@hippocratesinst.org

Upon discovering Hippocrates, Jody, a native Floridian, has stated that it has been her dream to work at Hippocrates and help spread the word to a culture that desperately needs awakening from its current destructive health practices. Jody's skills are enhanced by over twenty years of experience in resort property management. In her role as Program Consultant, she is involved in assisting interested individuals in understanding the Hippocrates program and the benefits of attending our three week educational program.



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Chrystal MurphyChrystal Murphy
Store Manager

cmurphy@hippocratesinst.org

 

A native Washingtonian, Chrystal began her retail career in Boston which led her to the buying office at Saks Fifith Avenue in NY and eventually into wholesale as an Account Executive at Liz Claiborne. Her experience soon led her to London for several years, which enabled her to learn more about alternative lifestyles and vegan nutrition. Chrystal chose to follow her dream and work in the health field at Hippocrates in 1996. Through the years, she has held several different positions at HHI but she has found her home in the store!

 

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Carole Bianco
Director of Finance

cbianco@hippocratesinst.org  

 

In February 2008, Carole joined the Hippocrates team as the Director of Finance. She is originally from Montreal, Canada, and has resided in South Florida since 1989. Carole provides extensive experience in numerous areas of finance and accounting and has contributed a wealth of knowledge and professionalism to the department. Her strong skills in computer software have enabled her to restructure the accounting department and develop internal controls and protocols for the Institute. Additionally, Carole is fluent in French and English, and has previously worked in banking and for NCR Canada. 

 


Sato Ramdas
Director of IT
sramdas@hippocratesinst.org

 

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