Brian: Credentials, Publications, & Education

Academic Education (accredited, selected):                                                                                                                         

        ND(c)  (2016-20)   Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Naturopathic Medical Doctor Candidate                 

        MPH(c) (2009-13) Dual: Epidemiology and Environmental Health Science, Indiana University School of Medicine Fairbanks 

                                                   School of Public Health, and Indiana University School of Public Health: forthcoming concentration project     

        BA (2009)              Majors: Philosophy, Pre-Med. Minor: Anthropology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis 

        BA (1998)               Majors: History & Judaic Studies. Minors: Psychology, Philosophy, & Hebrew, Indiana University, Bloomington

        1996-1997              Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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Public Speaking (selected: invited, presenter, panelist, moderator, educator):​

• 2022  Invited Speaker & Presenter, Children’s Health Defense: Atmospheric Pollution: The Rain From Planes Stays Mainly in the Brain?  to a group of physicians and lay public re: sources, routes, and distribution of anthropogenic air pollution, the history of technology relating thereto, and their effect on sensitive populations and the environment (March)

• 2021  Invited Speaker & Presenter, COVID-19: to a physicians’ group re: vaccination challenges, pharmacoepidemiologic approaches to assess vaccine adverse events, safety, efficacy, shedding and breakthrough cases, within the naturopathic community, (March)

• 2020  Invited Speaker & Presenter, COVID-19: to a physicians’ group re: case and death definitions, asymptomatic transfer, issues with vaccine hesitancy within the naturopathic community, massage, and acupuncture group (Nov)

• 2020  Invited Speaker & Presenter, COVID-19: to a physicians’ group and clinic including physicians, acupuncturists, and massage therapists, re: cases, face coverings vs respiratory protection for vulnerable populations, environmental decontamination, and the current politicized climate in medicine (Oct)

• 2020  Invited Speaker & Presenter, physicians group re: COVID-19: infectivity, transmission, PPE, shelter-in-place (May)

• 2020  Invited Speaker & Presenter, physicians group re: COVID-19, historical parallels and distinctions (Apr)

• 2020  Invited Speaker & Presenter, Environmental Health Symposium Annual Conference, Scottsdale, AZ: Sleeping Sanctuaries: how our health is affected by the quality of our sleep environment. 

• 2019  Presenter, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (SCNM), Electromagnetic Radiation: Tron & Our Modern World

• 2019  Presenter, SCNM, Damp & Water-Damaged Buildings, Fungi, Microbial Toxins, & “Mold”  

• 2018  Presenter, SCNM, Environmental Health Symposium - No Toxin Left Behind

• 2017  Presenter, SCNM, “Vitalistic Naturopathic Medicine”

• 2017  Presenter, SCNM, “Holistic Counseling”

• 2017  Invited Speaker & Presenter, Communities Collaborative Brain Development Conference, "Every Student Succeeds," Mahnomen, MN.  “Electromagnetic Radiation: Are Cell Phones, Wi-Fi, & Dirty Electricity an Invisible Threat to Our Children's Health?”  

• 2017  Presenter, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. “Electromagnetic Radiation & Medicine:  Epidemiology, Etiology,                               Identification, and Prevention”

• 2015  Invited Speaker & Presenter, “Healthy Buildings & Homes: Learning Begins with a Healthy Building.”  Healthy Buildings 2015                      America, University of Colorado, Boulder & Intnl Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate

• 2014  Invited Speaker & Presenter, San Carlos Apache Tribe Annual Meetings, “Ebola: Risks, Challenges,

•             Opportunities, and Essential Information for the Community”

• 2014  Invited Speaker & Presenter, Communities Collaborative Brain Development Conference: "Empowering

•             Children," Mahnomen, MN. “Life Disrupted: Endocrine Disruptors in Early Childcare.”

• 2014  Invited Presenter, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center, Annual Meeting, “Endocrine Disruptors in our Schools and                         Communities.”

• 2012  Invited Presenter, First Annual Public Health and Research Symposium, Fairbanks School of Public Health Indiana University                      Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)

• 2011  Invited Moderator, Neighbor Power! Conference, “It Starts With a Seed,” University of Indianapolis

• 2010  Invited Moderator, Food for Thought Conference, “Challenges of Buying Local,” IUPUI

• 2007  Invited Debate Panelist & Presenter: “Teaching Intelligent Design in Public Science Classrooms” representing the IUPUI                                Anthropology and Philosophy Departments), IUPUI, 2007

• 2000  Instructor, History of Israel, Colorado Agency for Jewish Education, Denver, CO

• 2000  Instructor, Hebrew, Intermediate, Colorado Agency for Jewish Education, Denver, CO

• 1999  Invited Speaker, University of Pennsylvania - Yitzhak Rabin’s Legacy, with Israeli MK Yael Dayan

• 1999  Invited Panelist, The Future of Zionism, University of Maryland, College Park, with Judy Widetzky 

• 1999  Invited Keynote Speaker & Presenter, Annual Gala, American Jewish League for Israel, Boynton Beach, FL

• 1998  Invited Keynote Presenter, Holocaust Denial: Refute, Recoil, or Run? 

• 1997  Invited Keynote Speaker, Root & Branch, Jerusalem, with Ka’are Christianson, Nobel Peace Prize Committee

• 1997  Invited Presenter, Machon Masa, with Michael Elkins (journalist who scooped the Six-Day War), Jerusalem, Israel

• 1997  Invited Presenter, Machon Masa, with Isser Harel (former head of Shin Bet Intelligence Services), Jerusalem, Israel