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Biographies |
Team Member BiographiesChris Ells is a founding member of the Parkinson’s Treatment Team. He is a licensed acupuncturist with a Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Five Branches Institute in 2001. Chris has been a devoted practitioner of meditation and internal martial arts; he lived and studied in a Zen community in the hills of New Hampshire for six years. Chris contends that his jokes are of the highest comedic caliber. Whenever interacting with him, please keep this in mind Laura Walter has been a licensed acupuncturist since 1999, with great scepticism of anything she can’t touch and feel herself, which includes Tuina, but she uses Tuina because it works. She describes herself as an incredibly flawed character who is trying to live with deep integrity in work, play, and with family. She has been involved with the Treatment Team since 1999. She began her work with neurological disorders during her Master’s degree program (1998) by assisting at Five Branches Institute’s neurology clinic. She trained with Janice Walton-Hadlock and treats patients at the weekly Parkinson’s clinic. She brings to her FSR practice the kind of patience that can only be learned by raising a son like Elias (age nine - plays first base and without warning transforms into a medieval knight in shining armor). Clay Walton-Hadlock joined the team in October 2004. He has been doing FSR (Yin Tui Na) for several years. He has not yet written his bio. Janice Walton-Hadlock, associate professor at Five Branches Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been a licensed acupuncturist since 1994. She received her Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1993, and her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1974. She has had research articles published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Acupucture, The Journal of Chinese Medicine, and other journals of Asian medicine. She is the author of Recovery From Parkinson’s, A Practitioner’s Handbook. In addition to her lifelong interest in western medicine and fifteen years of study in Asian medicine she is also keen on late 20th century physics, especially Chaos theory, and has been a student of yoga philosphy for over 25 years. She admits to memorizing poetry. She is annoyingly quick to quote ancient pundits if it will serve to drive home a point, and she has probably not had an original thought in her life. Rebecca Weinfeld, LAc, has not finished writing her bio. Underlined text indicates a link to another page. To go to another page of this website, click the mouse on the selected underlined text. |