Kusum Bhat, Ph.D., P.A.

Kusum is a certified Biofeedback specialist and physician assistant, with a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She is currently the clinical director of the Cybernetix Medical Institute, as well as a mental health clinical specialist at the Contra Costa County Hospital in Martinez, California. She has also previously interned at the Children’s Hospital in Oakland, the Battered Women’s Alternative, the Hume Center in Concord, and the Contra Costa County Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Service.

Dr. Bhat has repeatedly demonstrated her expertise in the field of Biofeedback and Applied Psychophysiology. Her doctoral dissertation was on The Role of Biofeedback Assisted Anger Control in Reversing Heart Disease. Moreover, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and has held workshops all over the world on heart rate variability and anger control, “Emotional Intelligence by Self-disclosure”, and “Do-able stress control for the 21st century”.

Naras Bhat, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Naras is a physician, board-certified in Internal Medicine, Metabolic Cardiology, and Stress Management. He currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bhat is the author of the internationally known book, How to Reverse and Prevent Heart Disease and Cancer and produced two popular videos, Uprooting Anger and Meditation Prescription. He has just published his new book, Reversing Stress and Burnout.

Born in India and educated in the West, Dr. Bhat connects Eastern disciplines with Western high-tech medicine using computer feedback systems known as cybernetics. Dr. Bhat is the founder and director of the Cybernetix Medical Institute. His active stress and heart disease reversal clinic has training programs for patients, physicians, and health care workers. He has done extensive research on how stress affects the heart from the perspective of heart-centered physiology, called cardio-neuro-immunology.

Russell Hicks, M.D.

Russell received his M.D. from UCLA in 1967 and is board certified in both internal medicine and psychiatry. He has been medical director and chief of numerous services in both the military and civilian sectors. His distinguished teaching career began in 1974 and continues to the present. It includes appointments at the University of Hawaii, Loma Linda, and Chapman University. He has published on chronic pain, PTSD, and substance abuse.

Gerald Kozlowski, Ph.D.

Gerald Kozlowski received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1970. His work history includes Physiology; Teaching Fellow, University of Rochester (1971 – 1973); Assistant and Associate Professor of Anatomy & Physiology, Colorado State University (1973 – 1976); Associate Professor of Anatomy & Physiology & Biophysics, Colorado State University (1976 – 1978); Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston (1978 – 1980); Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (1980 – 1998); Full Faculty Member, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School (1980 – 1998); Senior Lecturer of Department of Cognition and Neurosciences, University of Texas at Dallas (1998 – current). He has a long history of grant supported research in brain-behavior and psychophysiology

Susan Middaugh, Ph.D., PT

Susan received her degree in Physical Therapy in 1965 and her doctorate in experimental physiology in 1971. She is a professor in the departments of rehabilitation medicine and anesthesia at the medical university of South Carolina and director of its clinical biofeedback program. She also directs the department of rehabilitation medicine’s chronic pain rehabilitation program. Her primary research effort has been directed toward investigating methods for applying basic learning principles in the treatment of patients with neuromuscular and musculoskeletal diagnoses. Treatment procedures using electromyographic feedback, based on this rationale, have proven to be effective in patient treatment. The present research program is directed toward controlled clinical study, development of experimental models, testing of theoretical assumptions, and gathering of basic information concerning the nature and extent of feedback-related gains areas of interest to rehabilitation professionals including neuromuscular re-education following CNS or PNS damage, musculoskeletal pain including work-related overuse syndromes, and fecal and urinary incontinence. She has a long history of grant support for her research and has published widely in her field with over 100 articles and abstracts in recognized journals.

Donald Moss, Ph.D.

Don earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Duquesne University and completed clinical training at the University of Pittsburgh Health Center. He is chief editor for the Biofeedback Newsmagazine, and consulting editor for the Journal of Neurotherapy. Dr. Moss has published three books and over fifty articles, book chapters, and book reviews on biofeedback, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and mind-body medicine. He currently has an edited volume in preparation on clinical psycho-physiological applications in primary care medicine.

Donald Moss is a clinical psychologist and managing partner in the Psychological Services Centers of West Michigan, and directs their Chronic Pain Services. He formerly was an adjunct instructor teaching psychotherapy and counseling at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, and has provided professional training, workshops, and clinical supervision throughout the US and abroad on anxiety disorders, biofeedback, stress management, and psychotherapy.

David Ostransky, DO, FCCP, FACOI, D.ABSM

Dave received his D.O. in 1979 from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at Grandview Medical Center in Ohio in 1982. He has a fellowship in pulmonology and has done a preceptorship in sleep disorders. He is board certified in both internal medicine and sleep disorders. He directs the Regional Clinical Faculty, Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, is a Physician Specialist, Private Practice of Pulmonology, Occupational Lung Diseases, & Sleep Disorders, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, and is Medical Director, Sleep Lab, Osteopathic Medical Center of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas. He has a long history of grant support and has published widely in pulmonology.

Barbara Peavey, Ph.D., M.S. Psych Pharm

Barb received her doctorate in psychology from the U of North Texas in 1982 and her Post Doctoral Masters in Clinical Psychopharmacology in 2001. She is an adjunct professor at the U of North Texas. Her main interest is in behavioral medicine centering on self-regulation and biofeedback. She teaches biofeedback and psychophysiology instrumentation, clinical intervention, and ethics regionally, nationally, and internationally, including Italy (dentists) and Austria (neurologists). Barb has published and has presented widely on biofeedback related issues.

Richard A. Sherman, Ph.D.

Rich received his doctorate in psychobiology from New York University in 1973. He has accrued over thirty years of experience teaching and performing research and clinical work in behavioral medicine and related fields. Dr. Sherman is recognized as a superb teacher and has given courses at virtually all levels of adult education including numerous undergraduate, medical resident, and graduate school courses as well as continuing education courses for clinical professionals in both on-site and distance based formats. Dr. Sherman is best known for his work elucidating mechanisms and treatments for phantom limb pain, temporal relationships between changes in muscle tension and pain, and environmental studies on mechanisms of and behavioral treatments for urinary incontinence. This work has resulted in over 125 articles and several books for both professionals and patients. His research has been supported by numerous private foundations, for-profit organizations, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and the National Institutes of Health. He has been president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, has been on the Association’s board of directors twice, and has chaired its research and program committees.

Wes Sime, Ph.D., Ph.D

Wes received his Masters Degree in Health Education in l968, a Masters Degree in Epidemiology in l975, his Ph.D in Exercise/Stress Physiology in l975; and a second Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in l991. He is a Licensed Psychologist in Nebraska; is Certified in Biofeedback by BCIA, Certified in Stress Management; Certified in Sport Psychology AAASP; a Certified consultant in Sport Psycholgoy (US Olympic Registry} and listed in the NFL Registry of providers in sport psychology. He has been Professor in Health and Human Performance University of Nebraska-Lincoln from l977 to the present. He teaches health psychology, sport psychology, stress management, and pathophysiology. His research is on occupational stress, exercise therapy and performance enhancement.

Eric Willmarth, Ph.D.

Eric received his doctorate in clinical psychology in 1998 form the Fielding Institute and now has his diplomate in rehabilitation psychology. He is certified in clinical hypnosis and is chair of the ethics committee for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Willmarth is a fellow of the American Academy of Pain Management. He directs the behavioral medicine program for and is president of Michigan Pain Consultants. He is also director of behavioral medicine for Holland Community Hospital’s Pain Management Center. He has published and presented on both pain and hypnosis.