 Dr. William Shaw received a Ph.D. in biochemistry and human physiology from the Medical University of South Carolina. He is board certified in the fields of clinical chemistry and toxicology by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. He has supervised large endocrinology, nutritional biochemistry, and toxicology and immunology departments in positions at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Smith Kline Laboratories in Atlanta. He was Director of Clinical Chemistry, Endocrinology and Toxicology at Children's Mercy Hospital, the teaching hospital of the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine. Dr. Shaw is now the Director of The Great Plains Laboratory for Health, Nutrition and Metabolism in Lenexa, Kansas specializing in testing for autism spectrum disorders, metabolic disorde2rs in adults and children, PDD, and AD(H)D and has authored the book “Biological Treatments for Autism and PDD”. He is the stepfather of a child with autism and has helped thousands of parents and physicians successfully contribute to improving the lives of autistic children.
 Dr. Boyd Haley received a doctorate in Chemistry/Biochemistry at Washington State University. He was an NIH Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Physiology, Yale University Medical School from 1971 to 1974. He has been a professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky since 1996. Recently, Dr. Haley has testified before numerous government agencies on the effects of mercury toxicity from dental amalgams and vaccines. He was one of the first researchers to propose that the preservative Thimerosal in infant vaccines was the most likely toxic agent involved in Gulf War Syndrome and autism related disorders. He has shown using mercury analysis of birth-hair that autistics represent a subset of the population that cannot excrete mercury effectively. Dr. Haley is also co-founder and scientific advisor of Affinity Labeling Technologies, Inc., a biotech company that synthesizes and markets to major research institutes nucleotide photo-affinity analogs for biomedical research. Dr. Haley has been invited to present lectures on the subject of mercury toxicity and neurological diseases at international conferences in 12 different countries.
 Lori Knowles is a mother of a recovered child and General Manager of New Beginnings Nutritionals. She is a frequent speaker on biomedical interventions to parents and professionals at autism conferences around the world. Over the past five years, she has worked closely with Dr. William Shaw, PhD to create New Beginnings Nutritionals, a cutting edge nutritional supplement company that supports the unique needs of children with autism. She collaborates with physicians, naturopaths, scientists, autism researchers and parents in order to create a diverse product line that parents and physicians can trust. Lori enjoys drawing from both her extensive research, professional and personal experience in recovering her own child to support parents and practitioners seeking answers to improve the lives of children affected with autism.
 Scott Clack, B.Sc., N.D. received his Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Toronto (Mississauga)1981, and his Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in Seattle in 1997. He practiced in B.C. for 2 years after graduation, and moved home to Ontario in 1999. Scott Clack has been specializing in the treatment of Autism and related disorders for approximately 4 years. In working with these families, he has researched and implemented many treatments that are recommended by DAN! (Defeat Autism Now!). His formal training in treating Autism Spectrum Disorders “ASD” patients includes Open Windows (Toronto) training with Dr’s Bradstreet and Kartzinel in 2003, Open Windows (Toronto) with Dr. Bradstreet and Elaine Gotschall, Toronto mini-DAN! 2005 Physician’s training along with Great Plains Physician conference in 2006, the DAN! Conference in April 2006 and the Great Plains Physician training conference in 2007. In addition, Scott was voted Naturopathic Doctor of the year in 2005 by his Ontario peers.
 Dr. Kalpana Patel is a board certified pediatrician as well as board certified environmental specialist. She is a world renowned physician seeing patients from all over the world for the Treatment of Food and chemical sensitivities, Detoxification Disorders, Toxic Heavy Metal Poisoning and multiple nutritional deficiencies. She lectures nationally and internationally on these and related subjects. Dr. Patel has written and published several articles and a paper, soon to be published, on successful treatment of Autism using the comprehensive approach. She is the president of both the American and International Boards of Environmental Medicine. She is currently an assistant professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York in Buffalo and is a chairman and program director for the Basic and Advanced Training course by the AAEM. Dr. Patel has received many prestigious awards for “excellence in knowledge, outstanding achievements and exemplary services” in the subject of Chemical Sensitivity. She is also the President of Allergy and Environmental Health Center and has a private practice specializing in Environmental Medicine in Buffalo, New York.
 Shula Edelkind’s second child became an obvious behavior problem, she didn’t have a clue what to do. She obeyed the doctors, took parenting courses, put him on Ritalin, then Cylert, and was about to add Tegretol when he developed severe Tourette Syndrome. In the 1980’s, doctors had not yet seen Tourette Syndrome, and his symptoms scared the neurologist into stopping all medications. It took another year and a special diagnostic clinic in another city to get a diagnosis. When she saw a TV talk show discussing treatments for ADHD, including the Feingold diet, she thought it might be useful, or at least not harmful. Remarkably, in four days, her son was behaviorally normal. By the end of the year, there were no more Tourette’s tics and he has been in permanent remission for the past 25 years.
As a volunteer and staff person for the Feingold Association, Shula designs and maintains the Feingold website and searches out medical studies on the connection of diet, health, and behavior. She returned to school to study bio-psychology, graduating magna cum laude from Agnes Scott College, and is now working on her Masters degree in Psychology at University of Phoenix.
 Tami Duncan is the mother of two fabulous kids, Michael and Jenna. At age 7, Michael was diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder. After struggling to find help for her son, Tami stumbled upon TACA (Talk About Curing Autism). Soon after, Tami became a TACA meeting coordinator for the Inland Empire region. While going through the autism journey, she starting becoming sick herself and was diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease. In learning about Lyme disease, she decided to get her whole family tested. Her autistic son, Michael, came back positive. Tami then discovered a whole online community where hundreds of parents in which the mom was sick with Lyme and the autistic child was also infected. Unable to find treatment that she would consider appropriate, Tami and Kathy Blanco formed the L.I.A. Foundation, which focuses on Borrelia and multiple-infections as a potential cause of autism. Tami is now the co-founder and president of the L.I.A. Foundation and in charge of all operations.
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