Medical Advisory Board Members
Dr Andrew Heyman
Dr James LaValle
Dr Gavin Macgregor-Skinner
Allison Remy
Dr David Ross
Ray Solano
Dr Andrew Heyman
MD, MHSA
Andrew Heyman is an internationally recognized pioneer, scientist, clinician and educator in Integrative and Metabolic Medicine. His professional activities over 30 years represent one of the most influential voices for meaningful change to conventional medicine that includes the best practices of traditional healing therapies and lifestyle medicine with the most advanced science of today. He is triple Board certified in Family Medicine, Integrative Medicine and Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine.
He is currently the Medical Director of Integrative Medicine at The George Washington University and responsible for overseeing graduate education and multiple degree programs, research, and clinical services, and managing an inter-disciplinary faculty of health professionals. Here he developed the first masters degree in the United States in Integrative Medicine offered at a major university that prepares physicians to sit for the American Board of Integrative Medicine through the American Board of Physician Specialties.
Prior to assuming this role, he spent 16 years at the University of Michigan, serving to build one of the largest and most successful academic-based Integrative Medicine programs in the United States.
He is also the Director of Academic Affairs for the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, the largest private education organization in the world in Anti-aging, Functional and Integrative Medicine. He oversees the training of 1000s of medical professionals each year on the topics of Anti-aging, Integrative, Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine. His responsibilities include oversight of all curriculum, development of online and in-person education modules, faculty selection and oversight, individual mentorship of physician learners, oversight of the A4M Board exam, and world wide lecture engagements.
Dr. Heyman is considered a world expert in Biotoxin Illness and Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome. He has co-authored academic articles and book chapters with Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker, conducts research in neuroinflammation, proteomics and transcriptomics of CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome), and applies an evidence based, Integrative Medicine model to this chronic illness. He often teaches with Dr. Shoemaker to properly train the next generation of Shoemaker certified providers, and lectures widely on the subject. His clinic is a Center of Excellence that attracts patients from all over the world to treat CIRS related to Water Damaged Buildings, Lyme disease and other biotoxins.
He is also currently the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of the Metabolic Code, a consulting company dedicated to offering health technology, education, and clinical services. In this position, his clinical team manages wellness across large populations through a sophisticated online point of care platform that automates the metabolic evaluation of individuals and targets lifestyle plans to build resiliency and vitality.
Dr. Heyman has held several leadership positions in the field of Integrative Medicine. He was the national clinical working group co-chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine for 4 years, a collaboration of 57 North American universities involved in Integrative Medicine. He is the online editor for the Journal of Men’s Health in the section of Integrative Medicine, and he also holds the position of Editor-In-Chief of the Internet Journal of Anti-Aging and Aesthetic Medicine. His research interests include the Stress response and NeuroEndocrinology, Cardiometabolic Disease, Men’s Health and most recently neuroinflammation and biotoxic exposures.
In 1990, he received formal training in Five-element Shiatsu and Traditional Chinese Medicine, during which time he developed an interest in increasing access to natural therapies to underserved populations while partnering with the University of Pennsylvania. He continued this work with Jim Gordon, MD, at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington DC, exploring the intersection between public health, at-risk groups, and alternative therapies.
Dr. Heyman went on to receive a Masters in Health Services Administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and, upon graduation, became the administrator at the University of Michigan Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Center where he was responsible for administering a $7 million NIH grant to research alternative therapies for cardiovascular diseases. The center was one of the first in the country to place alternative therapies and their scientific examination in an academic context, eventually being renamed the Program of Integrative Medicine.
He was responsible for overseeing education programs in the medical and nursing school, managing large clinical research studies, and the development of a multi-specialty Integrative Medicine clinic as part of the Department of Family Medicine. He simultaneously continued to consult on developing population-based interventions, utilizing Integrative Medicine and primary care for at-risk populations in Philadelphia, Washington DC and Detroit.
Dr. Heyman attended the University of Michigan Medical School, graduating in 2004 while being awarded the Excellence in Family Medicine scholarship. During this time as a medical student, he maintained involvement in the Integrative Medicine Program to continue to build knowledge and clinical skills in this area. He then completed a Family Medicine residency from the same institution, and became the first Fellow of Integrative Medicine as well. Upon completion of medical training, he remained as faculty to continue his academic work in stress management, cardiometabolic diseases, and nutrition.
Dr. Heyman remains clinically active as well, as the owner of an Integrative Medicine clinic in Northern Virginia at the Virginia Center for Health and Wellness. He continues to run clinical research studies through his practice, with a focus on neuroinflammatory, neurodegenerative, genomic, proteomic and metabolic features of patients suffering from Water Damaged Buildings and Tick Born Illnesses. He is also trained in Medical Acupuncture, Osteopathic manual therapy, botanicals, homeopathy, nutrition, mind-body medicine, and employs a wide variety of rejuvenating therapies including hormones, peptides, platelet-rich plasma, and stem cells.
Finally, Dr. Heyman has been featured on the Discovery Channel, Martha Stewart Living Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Natural Health Magazine and appeared in many other TV and print venues and is a widely sought after, and celebrated speaker around the world on many Integrative Medicine topics. His teaching approach is described as deeply rooted in scientific evidence, grounded in the clinical reality of expert patient care, and readily accessible to both the new learner and seasoned practitioner alike.
Dr James LaValle
RPh, CCN, DHM, DHPh
James LaValle is an internationally recognized clinical pharmacist, author, board-certified clinical nutritionist, and expert and educator in integrative and precision health. James is best known for his expertise in personalized integrative therapies uncovering the underlying metabolic issues that keep people from feeling healthy and vital. A thought leader in drug/nutrient depletion issues, he has published 4 books and 3 databases in this area alone. As such he has over 35 years’ experience integrating natural and integrative therapies into various medical and business models. His latest research is in drug-induced microbiome disruption.
Dr Gavin Macgregor-Skinner
DVM, MSc, MPH, MRCVS, Senior Director of ISSA – The Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association
Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner is a Senior Director at ISSA – The Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association and has more than 30 years of technical experience in responding to infectious disease outbreaks and emergency management. He is a trained epidemiologist and completed the 2-year US CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers training known as CDC’s disease detectives.
While working for the US Government he completed three deployments to West Africa setting up and managing Ebola hospitals, three deployments to Afghanistan for WHO Early Warning, Alert and Response System (EWARS), and two deployments to Iraq for biological risk management assessments for the US Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
For the COVID-19 pandemic, he conducted onsite biological risk assessments and provided “just-in-time” training on infection prevention and control, cleaning and disinfection, and safe working practices for frontline workers in 16 US States and Hong Kong in hospital emergency departments, assisted-living and nursing homes, convention centers, airports, stadiums, public transport workers, and hotel staff and other essential employees. He served on COVID-19 medical advisory committees for American Airlines, Port Authority Of New York and New Jersey, Hyatt Hotels, International Association of Venue Managers, American Association of Airport Executives, NFL and NBA teams including Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, and Los Angeles Lakers.
He served 12-years as an Officer in the Australian and British militaries with deployments to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, Hong Kong, and Northern Ireland. In Bolivia, working for the UK government, he helped establish a national One Health disease surveillance system.
He currently manages the ISSA Making Safer Choices program, that focuses on workforce development across the value chain of the cleaning industry and for essential frontline workers to clean for health and safety and measure cleanliness by making evidence-based informed decisions.
He is an Associate Professor at Penn State College of Medicine and teaches three graduate courses on Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Terrorist Emergencies and has received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in training.
He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, BBC, Canada CTV, Australia ABC, C-SPAN, and other news outlets to share his expertise on High Consequence Pathogens such as Coronavirus, Ebola, Influenza, Measles, Cholera, Zika and other global health threats.
Allison Remy
Allison Remy, PA-C, is a certified Physician Assistant with over 16 years of clinical experience spanning multiple specialties, including Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Emergency Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hyperbaric Medicine, and Integrative/Functional Medicine. Drawing upon her own experience with biotoxin-associated illness and autoimmune disease, Allison is deeply committed to helping patients restore health and vitality through comprehensive whole-body evaluation and a personalized, multimodal approach to care.
Dr David Ross
M.D.
Dr. Ross is a neuropsychiatrist and brain injury medicine specialist. He is
board certified in general psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and brain injury medicine.
His current positions include Founder and Director of the Virginia Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Founder and CEO of NeuroGage LLC.
He completed medical school and residency in psychiatry at VCU. After that, he finished a fellowship in neuropsychiatry at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland, where he stayed on the faculty for several years.
In 1997, he returned to VCU where he served on the full-time faculty for several years.
In 2001, he founded the Virginia Institute of Neuropsychiatry, an organization dedicated to the understanding and treatment of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, including traumatic brain injury, brain injury due to mold-related illness, and other disorders.
He and his colleagues actively research neuropsychiatric disorders and have published 53 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He has served as a reviewer for many scientific journals. He has taught hundreds of residents and medical students over many years.
Since 2010, he and his colleagues have pioneered the application of NeuroQuant®, FDA-cleared MRI brain volumetry software, to patients with traumatic brain injury. Since 2011, they have been developing NeuroGage®, which is software that extends the utility of NeuroQuant®.
Ray Solano
Ray Solano is a clinical pharmacist (35 years and counting), certified clinical nutritionist, owner of SkinLasting, a hydrating moisturizer, and host of HealthyChoicesXM radio and podcast. He is trained in unique uses of peptide pharmaceuticals and formulated and developed patented Synapsin Nasal Spray for cognitive regeneration.
Ray Solano is a graduate of Mercer Southern School of Pharmacy, with an emphasis in nuclear pharmacy. Ray provides professional counseling to patients who take both prescription and complementary medicine. He specializes in learning disorders, neurotransmitter function, detoxification, weight management, diabetes, hormone stabilization, and oncology nutrition.
Ray also holds regular seminars on men’s health and works closely with parents and physicians to form topical formulations and injectables for autistic patients.