The Foundation for Health Choice
Choice, Information, Safety and Redress

Who are we?

James S. Turner, Esq.

Jim Turner, Washington, D.C. attorney and long-time advocate of informed choice for safe food, drug and other consumer products, original Nader’s Raider, and author of two best-selling books, The Chemical Feast: The Nader Report on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (Grossman 1970, Penguin 1977) and Making Your Own Baby Food (Workman 1974, 77, Bantam 1978), serves the foundation as general counsel.

     As a partner in the 30-year-old D.C. law firm of Swankin & Turner, he represents individuals, businesses, and consumer groups in a wide variety of regulatory matters, both in court and before various regulatory agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Consumer Product Safety Commission and Federal Trade Commission, and on projects with agencies such as the Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health.

     He helped organize the successful campaign to lobby Congress for passage of the Organic Food Production Act of 1990; lead the legal team that in 1996 persuaded the FDA to reclassify acupuncture needles as safe and effective for legal U.S. importation and distribution; and since 1997 has chaired Citizens For Health, the consumer group that generated over one million letters to Congress, gaining passage of the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA).

     Mr. Turner served as special counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Food, Nutrition, and Health and to the Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Research. Born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Cleveland, he is a graduate of the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University (1969), holds a
B. A. in history and political science from Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences (1962) and served as a gunnery officer on ships in the U.S. Navy from 1962 to 1966.

     Mr. Turner has a son Christopher (b. 1966), an attorney with Swankin & Turner, and a daughter Victoria (b. 1973), residing in Cambridge, England.

Jim Turner can be reached at:
1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 330
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 462-8800 Fax: (202) 265-6564
jim@swankin-turner.com
www.swankin-turner.com



Dr. Tedd Koren

Dr. Tedd Koren is the country's most widely read contemporary authority on chiropractic topics, with patient education materials published and licensed for distribution in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Japan.  He is the author of Chiropractic: Bringing Out The Best In You! and Chiropractic Wellness and Childhood Vaccinations: Questions All Parents Should Ask and a contributor to various chiropractic and bio-medical publications 

     In 1995 the U. S Federal Trade Commission tried to prevent Dr. Koren from writing and publishing about chiropractic and alternative health care. In the 6 ½- year legal battle that followed, he and the Washington, D.C. law firm of Swankin & Turner, under the direction of Jim Turner, Esq., succeeded in thwarting he FTC attack on chiropractic education.  Emerging from this fight more determined than ever to promote health care freedom, Dr. Koren went on to co-found the Foundation for Health Choice, which is devoted to ensuring that providers and patients have an open, free market for health care.

     A native of Brooklyn, New York, and a graduate of the University of Miami and  the Sherman College of Chiropractic in Spartanburg, S.C., Dr. Koren was instrumental in founding the Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania College of Chiropractic in 1978, where he taught histology, neurology and chiropractic adjusting techniques. He also established an extremely successful holistically oriented health center in Philadelphia, has written extensively for Koren Publications and produced and hosted a popular weekly two-hour call-in show, "Holistic Hotline,"  on commercial radio. 

     He lives in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania with his wife Beth and children (Seth, 10,  and Shayna, 7), and currently devotes himself to writing, lecturing and doing research, as well as maintaining a private practice. 

Tedd Koren's CV
 

Dr. Koren can be reached at:
PO Box 665, 
Gwynedd Valley, PA 19437 USA
215-699-7906
tkoren1@aol.com 
www.korenpublications.com


Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Steven C. Eisen

Dr. Steven C. Eisen is the Research Coordinator for the Foundation. He is the author of the Pennsylvania chiropractic peer review guidelines and national chiropractic peer review guidelines published by the Council on Chiropractic Practice and approved by the National Guidelines Clearinghouse. In addition to being the recipient of numerous awards for his work in Pennsylvania, Dr. Eisen’s professional expertise has been sought after by numerous state and national chiropractic organizations, governmental agencies, attorneys and health care providers.

Dr. Eisen is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Pennsylvania College of Chiropractic and recently retired from his active chiropractic practice of 21 years. He is now pursuing other interests including working with the Foundation for Health Choice.

Randall Neustaedter, OMD, LAc

Dr. Neustaedter practices Oriental medicine and homeopathic medicine in Redwood City, California, specializing in child health care. An accomplished and well-recognized author, his works include an authoritative text, Homeopathic Pediatrics, and a popular book for parents, The Vaccine Guide, as well as many articles in the homeopathic medical literature. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a major in English literature and creative writing, and then went on to practice medicine and healing.

     Dr. Neustaedter is a licensed acupuncturist and received his Doctorate in Oriental Medicine in Hong Kong. His practice integrates homeopathy, Oriental medicine, and modern diagnostic techniques.

Dr. Neustaedter's Personal Biography


Sherri Tenpenny D.O.

Sherri J. Tenpenny, D.O. is the Director and Founder of OsteoMed II, a clinic established in Strongsville, Ohio in 1996 to provide alternative, traditional and preventive medicine. She is also the president of New Medical Awareness Seminars, LLC.

     Dr. Tenpenny is an expert in the area of alternative medicine. In addition to appearing on many radio and television talk shows, Dr. Tenpenny has been interviewed by national print media for health-related newspaper and magazine articles.  She lectures at Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve Medical School, and speaks at conventions, both nationally and internationally, on topics related to alternative health.  She is currently touring the country teaching seminars entitled "Vaccines: the Risks, the Benefits, the Choices," emphasizing the aspects of vaccination not generally portrayed by conventional medicine.

     In addition, she has been the moderator of the internet forum called "Health Wise" located at: www.cleveland.com fielding questions on both alternative and traditional medicine.  Cleveland Live is owned by the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer newspaper, and receives more than 80 million "hits" per month.  Her column is one of the most popular on the site.

     Dr. Tenpenny is a graduate of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. She received her medical training at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri.  Dr. Tenpenny is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.  She has undertaken many advanced courses in alternative medicine, including acupuncture and complex homeopathy.

     Prior to her career in alternative medicine, Dr. Tenpenny served as Director of the Emergency Department at Blanchard Valley Regional Hospital Center in Findlay, Ohio, from 1987 to 1995. In 1994, she and a partner opened OsteoMed, a medical practice in Findlay limited to the specialty of osteopathic manipulative medicine. In 1996, Dr. Tenpenny moved to Strongsville, Ohio, and opened OsteoMed II, expanding her practice to include traditional, complementary and preventive medicine.

Dr. Tenpenny's CV

Dr. Tenpenny can be reached at:
OsteoMed II, Inc.
13550 Falling Water Road, Suite 202, Strongsville, Ohio  44136
440-572-1136
www.osteomed.com
osteomed2@aol.com


Harris L. Coulter Ph.D

Dr. Coulter was born on October 8, 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland. In his significant career he has made contributions in many areas, including cancer, vaccinations, and shedding light on the conflict between the AMA and Homeopthy. His fluency in many languages (German, French, Spanish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian) has helped him to communicate to a wide audience.

January 1997
Lectured to homeopathic and other physicians specializing in alternative medicine in Berlin, Germany, Moscow, Russia and London, UK.

October 1996
Lectured on cancer immunotherapy at the 51st Annual Conference of the World Homeopathic League (LIGA) in Capri, Italy and at the Third Dead Sea Conference on Potentiating Health and the Crisis of the Immune System in Zichron Yaacov, Israel. Guest Lecturer at the Convention of the Romanian Homoeopathic Society in Bucharest, Romania.

March 1996
Editorial board of the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research. Appeared as expert witness on risks and benefits of childhood vaccinations (lawsuit by parents refusing to vaccinate their children).

February 1996
Introduced VG-1000, a unique vaccine treatment for cancer, to the IAT Clinic, Freeport, Bahamas. Advisory Board Member of the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research.

November 1995
Lectured on medical and homeopathic history at Centre de Techniques Homeopathiques, Montreal, Canada (lectures published by the Centre under the title: Histoire de l'Homeopathie).

October 1995
Lectured at 50th Congress of International Homeopathic Medical League (Oaxaca, Mexico) on the dangers of childhood vaccinations.

September 1995
Lectured at Conference on Genetic Causes of Violence (University of Maryland) on childhood vaccinations as a cause of violent behavior.

February 1995
Spoke at 49th Congress of International Homeopathic Medical League (New Delhi, India), and to homeopathic physicians in Calcutta, India, on 'Vitalism and the Future of Medicine.'

December 1994
Published: Divided Legacy. Volume IV. Twentieth Century Medicine: The Bacteriological Era.

April 1994
Lectured at 150th Anniversary meeting of The American Institute of Homeopathy on: 'American Medicine, Where We've Been and Where We're Going.'

September-October 1993
Ad Hoc Advisory Panel of the Office of Alternative Medicine. Worked with Office of Alternative Medicine supervising trial of shark cartilage in treatment of cancer.

September 1992
Pharmacological and Biological Treatments Panel Member on the NIH's Workshop on Alternative Medicine. The report published was Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons, also known as the Chantilly Report.

September 1992
Lectured at the Fifth International Conference on Neuro-Developmental Issues (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) on the post-encephalitic syndrome.

1990-96
Advisory board of the Cancer Chronicles.

1990-91
Board of Directors, International Foundation for Homeopathy.

1990
Published: The Controlled Clinical Trial: an Analysis, and Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality.

1988
Testified before House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor: on AIDS and Syphilis: the Hidden Link.

1987
Published: AIDS and Syphilis: the Hidden Link.

1986
Published (with Barbara Loe Fisher): DPT: A Shot in the Dark.

1985
Awarded the Hahnemann Prize of the Belgian Faculty of Homeopathy.

1983-89
Editorial board of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.

1981-82
Vice President of the American Center for Homeopathy and editor of The American Homeopath; Secretary of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia Convention.

1981
Published: Homeopathic Science and Modern Medicine.

1977
Published: Divided Legacy. Volume II. The Origins of Modern Western Medicine: J. B. Van Helmont to Claude Bernard.

1975
 Published: Divided Legacy. Volume I. The Patterns Emerge: Hippocrates to Paracelsus.

1974 May-June
39th Congress of the International Homoeopathic Medical League, Washington, D.C. George Vithoulkas and Harris L. Coulter honored as writers on homeopathy.

1973
Published: Divided Legacy. Volume III. The Conflict Between homeopathy and the American Medical Association, and Homeopathic Influences in Nineteenth-Century Allopathic Therapeutics.

1972
Published: Homeopathic Medicine.

July 1969
Awarded Ph.D. by Columbia University, NY; dissertation title: Political and Social Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Medicine in the United States: The Formation of the American Medical Association and its Struggle with the Homeopathic and Eclectic Physicians.

1965-75 - Director of Publications, American Foundation for Homeopathy.


Philip Incao, M.D.

Philip Incao graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University and received his MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1966.  He served as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam conflict.

     Dissatisfied with the limitations of modern medicine, he spent two years in Europe in the early 1970's studying anthroposophic medicine, which combines the insights of the perennial spiritual wisdom with the rational method of modern science.

     He was the first president of the Physicians' Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM) in the  USA and has had an active general practice since 1973.

     His article on vaccinations and the immune system, "Supporting Children's Health" in the September 1997 issue of Alternative Medicine Digest magazine, generated much interest and was reprinted in Canada, Australia, Norway and in the Chinese language throughout Asia.

     Dr. Incao was an invited speaker at the three International Public Conferences on Vaccinations sponsored by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) and has shared the podium with Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the NVIC at regional vaccination workshops and in vaccine testimony to the Health Committee of the Colorado State Legislature.

     He has served as an expert witness in court concerning vaccination and has submitted medical opinions in support of parents seeking compensation for their vaccine-damaged children.

     Dr. Incao's special interest is strengthening the health of children against the increasing spirit-weakening influences of modern life, especially in education and healthcare.  He lectures frequently on the practical application of a spiritual yet scientific understanding of the human being as it relates to healing and education.  He is a consultant to many Waldorf Schools throughout the US.

     Dr. Incao has been a featured speaker since 1990 at the annual conferences of the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (FACT) in New York City.  He is also a member of the advisory board of Alive and Well AIDS Information Network in Los Angeles and the National Vaccine Information Center in Virginia.

     Recently, three of Dr. Incao's essays on children's health, the immune system and smallpox are included in the book The Vaccination Dilemma published by Lantern Books.

     He is happily married and is the father of three grown sons.

Dr. Incao's CV


Jeanne Ohm, D.C.

Dr. Jeanne Ohm , a practicing DC since 1981, is an international authority on "Chiropractic Care in Pregnancy and Infancy," a topic on which she gives lectures in both public and professional forums.

Her professional mission is to provide Doctors of Chiropractic with the skills and motivation to take care of more pregnant mothers and children.

In addition to her family-oriented wellness-based practice, she has authored numerous papers on pregnancy, birth, children and chiropractic and founded "Makin' Miracles...Connecting Kid's n' Chiropractic" community outreach programs and tools to educate children and adults about the life-saving benefits of chiropractic. She is also the producer and writer of the children's chiropractic song, "Power On!" and producer of the educational video, "Birth Trauma: A Modern Epidemic" (www.makinmiracles.com).

She is Executive Coordinator for the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (www.icpa4kids.com), and editor of the ICPA's magazine Pathways to Family Wellness (www.pathwaystofamilywellness.com). She is a board member of the ICPA Children's Chiropractic Research Foundation (www.icpa4kids.org), Foundation of Health Choice (www.foundationforhealthchoice.com), the Holistic Pediatric Association (www.hpakids.org), and Families for Natural Living (www.familiesfornaturalliving.org).

It is Dr. Ohm's understanding that birth trauma is a chiropractic concern, and therefore it has become her goal to eradicate its damaging effects on the newborn. Her aim is to accomplish this by adequately training DC's in specific chiropractic techniques and care for pregnancy, birth and infancy; forming national alliances for chiropractors with like-minded birth practitioners and attendants; empowering mothers to make informed choices in pregnancy and birth, and offering patient educational tools which address this issue.

Dr. Ohm has six children who were all born at home, have all received chiropractic care since conception, are not vaccinated, and are living drug-free, healthy lives. She can be reached through any of the above web sites.

Dr. Ohm's CV


Neil Z. Miller

Neil Z. Miller is a medical research journalist and natural health advocate. He is the author of numerous articles and books on vaccines, including Vaccines, Autism and Childhood Disorders (2003), the updated and revised Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective? (2003), Immunizations: The People Speak!  (1996), and Immunization Theory Versus Reality (1995). He is a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows, including Donahue and Montel Williams, where he is often seen and heard debating doctors and other health officials. Mr. Miller has a degree in psychology, is the director of the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute (www.thinktwice.com), the publisher of New Atlantean Press, and is a member of Mensa, the international high-IQ society. He lives in Northern New Mexico with his family.

     Mr. Miller is a health pioneer who presented documentation about vaccine safety and efficacy problems long before these concerns were made public. For example, several years ago he complained about toxic mercury being put into  childhood vaccines and provided evidence linking vaccines and autism. During the past decade, cases of autism skyrocketed by more than 500 percent in countries that use the MMR vaccine. In some parts of the United States, one of every 150 children is autistic. Recently, Congress commanded the FDA to remove mercury from vaccines, and new studies by several world-renowned scientists confirmed an MMR-autism link. Despite the many problems uncovered in Mr.  Miller's research, he does not tell parents to reject the shots, but merely advises them of the risks. Every year, more than 12,000 people in the United States, mostly children, report serious adverse reactions to mandated vaccines. The FDA estimates that this represents just 10 percent of the true rate. Yet, even these figures pale in comparison to the number of cases of other diseases now being scientifically linked to inoculations, such as cancer to polio vaccines, multiple sclerosis to the hepatitis B vaccin, and diabetes to the Hib vaccine, to name just a few.

     "For these reasons, among others," he states, "I am opposed to mandatory vaccines. I do not recommend for or against the shots. I want everyone to think through this enigmatic and controversial  subject on their own. I believe that parents are capable of obtaining the facts and making knowledgeable choices regarding the care and welfare of their children."

     Mr. Miller has publicly debated the pros and cons of mandatory vaccines with several pediatricians and other health practitioners, including the chief medical epidemiologist for the National Immunization Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He conducts lectures throughout the United States and is available to discuss his research on vaccines.


 

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