5th International Conference on Chronic Pathologies 2023

Dr. Armin Schwarzbach is a Medical Doctor and a specialist for laboratory medicine from the laboratory ArminLabs, Augsburg, Germany.
Dr. Schwarzbach began by studying biochemistry at Hoechst AG, Frankfurt/Germany and pharmacy at the University of Mainz/Germany in 1984. In 1985 he studied medicine for 6 years at the University of Mainz/Germany and finished his MD in 1991.
Dr. Schwarzbach developed the worldwide first Radioimmunoassay (RIA) for human Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide (hGIP) from 1986 – 1991, getting his PhD in 1992.
He is member of the Swiss Association for Tick-borne diseases, the German Association of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine and the German Society for Medical Laboratory Specialists.
He is an Advisory Board member of AONM London, England, and Board member of German Borreliosis Society and Member and former Board Member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) and has served as an expert on advisory committees on Lyme Disease in England, Australia, Canada, Ireland, France and Germany.
Dr. Schwarzbach is the founder and CEO of ArminLabs, Augsburg/Germany and is specialized in diagnostic tests and treatment options for patients with tick-borne diseases and other chronic infections for over 20 years now.

Dr. Leona Gilbert is an Docent of Cell and Molecular Biology and the CEO of Te?ted Oy, a university spinoff company that has a goal to get the patient tested so they can be treated and recover quicker. Leona has over 20 years experience in research driven initiatives that provided valuable tools for patients.

She has a doctorate in biotechnology and a very long experience in bio-innovation and bio-business. She has supervised numerous PhD, MSc and BSc students and her various peer-reviewed articles span turning research results into translational value with developing novel delivery vectors as well as diagnostic lab-on-chip platforms. In addition, Leona’s publications also demonstrate the thorough investigation of how a common virus or bacterium can contribute to autoimmune diseases. Another highlight in these publications is the demonstration of a multi-disciplinary background and collaborative efforts between clinicians, microbiologists, diagnostic developers, nano-scientists, physicists and engineers. Gilbert’s research initiatives into complete diagnostic platforms and clinical profiling of patients for tick-borne and autoimmune diseases will allow a better understanding of how chronic conditions could be established with infectious pathogens.

A biological approach to the current crisis
Humans have been exposed to viruses since the beginning of time and our system has evolved in a hostile microbial environment. It is no surprise that 80% of us appeared already immune or partially immune against the current virus before it was detected by the end of 2019. World-wide, many health care practitioners discovered very early on that this virus is no exception – it is contained by a well-functioning immune system. If the system does not prevent the attachment or entry of the virus, a large number of biological approaches have been observed to prevent serious illness. Dr. Klinghardt will share his experience and approaches that have worked: specific herbal preparations, ozone, ultraviolet light and others.

Dietrich Klinghardt is a doctor, scientist and teacher. The methods he has developed for diagnosis and therapy are a living system into which new experiences from his medical practice, from science and clinical research are constantly flowing, thus continuously expanding his teaching.
Dietrich Klinghardt (*1950 in Berlin) studied medicine in Freiburg and has been working as a doctor in the USA since 1982. Early on, he specialised in the treatment of chronic pain. He was not only interested in the appearance of a disease, but also began to research its causes. He quickly reached the limits of conventional medicine, acquired a wide range of alternative methods and over the years developed his own forms of diagnosis and therapy based on kinesiology (Autonomous Response Test, Psycho- Kinesiology, Mental Field Technique), which have since entered medicine as the ANK method - Applied Kinesiology according to Dr. Klinghardt.
Today, the health consequences of toxic influences from the environment are the focus of his interest: heavy metals, aluminium and the topic of radiation from mobile radio. These factors are causally related to neurological abnormalities and diseases, especially in children. Another focus of his work is the biological treatment of severe so-called autoimmune diseases, which are causally related to Borrelia bacteria.
In 1996 Klinghardt founded the Institute of Neurobiology after Dr. Klinghardt, INK. The task of the institute is, among other things, to spread the method and to organize the teaching activities of the teachers and therapists trained by Klinghardt.
He is author of standard works and textbooks:

• Dietrich Klinghardt / Ariane Zappe: The biological treatment of Lyme disease, INK 2016, 2nd ed. 2018
• Textbook of Psycho-Kinesiology, INK 17th edition 2019
• Manual of Mental Field Techniques (with Amelie Schmeer-Maurer), VAK 3rd edition 2015
• Mental field techniques in a very practical way (with Amelie Schmeer-Maurer), VAK 3rd edition 2015
• Editor of the journal for neurobiology Hier & Jetzt (since 1999)

In America, Dietrich Klinghardt founded the "Klinghardt Academy", the "American Academy of Neural Therapy" and the "SophiaHealth Institute" in Woodinville near Seattle, in England the "Ki Science" institute. www.klinghardtacademy.com, www.sophiahi.com, www.kiscience.com

In recognition of his groundbreaking work, Dietrich Klinghardt received numerous awards in America:

• Twice the "Physician of the Year" award from the globally active Global Foundation of Integrative Medicine
• 2010 the "Physicians Excellence Award for the Treatment of Lyme-Induced Autism"
• 2013 and 2018 the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for Integrative Medicine

In 2017, Dr. Klinghardt and Prof. Marco Ruggiero published a study in the prestigious "American Journal of Immunology": "The Ruggiero-Klinghardt (RK) Protocol for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Conditions with Particular Focus on Lyme Disease".
This is the first time that the ART is presented to a large circle of scientists as a profound, scientifically verifiable methodology.

As a Doctor in Pharmaceutical Science Pol De Saedeleer received his degree and training at the University of Louvain, where he graduated from in 1991. He obtained his Master’s degree in Nutritional & Phytotherapeutical Therapies at IMPB in Louvain-La-Neuve and his Master’s degree in Homeopathic Practice at VSU in Ghent.

Pol is Scientific Director of Nutrined/Researched Nutritionals, located in the Netherlands and active all over the world. Nutrined/Researched Nutritionals develops nutritional compositions based on scientific research and publications.

Pol combines his activities in Nutrined with being the Director of a Belgian Pharmaceutical & Compounding Lab in Lier, close to Antwerp in Belgium.

As part of the Belgian medical community, Pol De Saedeleer was selected as chairperson for the first ever Belgian Lyme Committee that took place in Antwerp in September 2015.

In 2016 he accepted the position of Chairman of the European ILADS Committee. He was immediately looking forward to assuming that new responsibility and joining forces with this team of Committee members to focus on procuring information and education to medical professionals treating Lyme disease. Organizing transparent communication, supporting medical professionals and hosting conferences and workshops have since been key in the European ILADS Committee.

In 2018 he was chosen as Board Director of ILADEF, the foundation and scientific board representing Europe in the international medical association ILADS. ILADS’ goal is educating doctors in immune-related and multi-infectious pathologies by organising conferences and specific physician training programs.

Over the years, Pol has built an extensive network of medical professionals and his focus in all his professional activities has always been that of building bridges between different medical communities. Recently he accepted a seat in the educational Board of the BSEM, the British Society of Environmental Medicine.

Over the past years he has been invited to lecture at several conferences, among others the International Conferences organized by ECIM, PNI Academy Spain, The International Association of Functional Medicine in Italy, A4M, ILADS, the Swedish Society of Functional Medicine, The German Borreliose Society, The French Medical Association of Infectious Pathologies, The International Conference on Chronic Pathologies, …

As a result of his extensive experience of speaking at international conferences throughout the years, Pol has been asked to be on the scientific program chair of several conferences over the next years.

Mrs. Blehle studied human medicine in Gießen and received her license to practice medicine in 1989. In 1995 she successfully completed her further training as a specialist for general medicine. Afterwards, Mrs. Blehle worked in various management positions as well as in consulting within and outside the health care system in Germany. In 2010 -2011 she successfully completed her studies in health economics, which she completed with the degree of health economist (ebs) and with the M.B.A. Health Care Management. Besides profound medical knowledge, especially in the field of rheumatology and autoimmune diseases, she brings in her profound management knowledge. Since 2017 she has been working in the field of tick-borne diseases, first at the BCA-Clinic in Augsburg and since 2018 she was a partner in the private practice of Dr. C.Nicolaus/S.Blehle. Since April 2020 she has her own practice alviasana. There she continues the support the patients of the fromer BCA-Clinic.
She is a member of the German Borreliosis Society and ILADS.

Doctor, dentist, oral and maxillofacial surgeon

• Study of human medicine and dentistry at the University of Mainz
• Specialist training as oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the University Clinic Mainz and the University Clinic Freiburg from 1983-1988

Key areas of activity

• Head and facial pain diagnosis and therapy
• non-invasive TMJ therapy
• Foot, bite therapy
• Cranial Orthopaedics
• Skull Architecture
• TMJ Surgery
• dental implantology
• since 1988 established in own practice in
• 1999 Foundation of the European Institute for Head and Facial Pain (EIC)
• 2004 Foundation of the Association for the Promotion of Diagnosis and Therapy of Children with Head and Facial Pain e.V.

Mission and Philosophy
It is an obvious secret that the causes of pain can depend on many different factors. This requires the diagnosing and treating physician to have extensive knowledge and experience in order to recognise the causes, which affect the most diverse disciplines, and to select the right path of therapy in each case.
A close involvement of different colleagues in the therapeutic and diagnostic process is therefore a basic prerequisite for optimal success. An essential goal is the reduction, whenever possible, the complete elimination of painkillers and other measures that burden the body.

Gilian Crowther is a fully qualified Naturopath and Nutritional Therapist. She specialises in complex multisystem disorders, and finds that her core focus “mitochondrial dysfunction” underlies much of today’s chronic disease.

Gilian studied complementary therapy in Germany for many years before completing her training in the UK, and is also a proficient and highly qualified translator and editor. She has been a senior member of AONM since 2010, and helps coordinate the Academy’s events and outreach.

She holds regular clinics in London, and is also very willing to make home visits if patients find mobility difficult. Her services are fully insured with Balens Insurers.

Apart from her membership of AONM, Gilian holds the following professional memberships, and complies with their strict codes of conduct and ethical standards:

British Association of Applied Nutritional Therapy (BANT)
Naturopathic Nutrition Association (NNA)
Full member of the General Naturopathic Council (GNC)
Registered practitioner with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)
Senior Associate of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)
Associate Member of the British Society of Ecological Medicine

Dr. Obiltschnig is a specialist in trauma surgery, as well as a sworn and court-certified expert.
After completing his studies at the University of Vienna and graduating summa cum laude with a doctorate in medicine, Dr. Obiltschnig completed his training as a specialist in trauma surgery in Klagenfurth. As a senior physician, he headed the trauma surgery/orthopedic department at that hospital.
Subsequently, Dr. Obiltschnig worked as an independent specialist for trauma surgery. Since 2001, he has also been providing support in the Elisabethinen Hospital as a hand surgeon, mainly in the field of nerve compressions with orthopedic hand surgery.
As a founding member and full member of the Austrian Society for Hand Surgery, Dr. Obiltschnig has organized various scientific congresses, including peripheral nerve surgery and Lyme disease.

As a Doctor in Pharmaceutical Science, Elise Thys received her degree and training at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), where she graduated in 2019.

She obtained her Master’s degree Pharmaceutical Care at a the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL).

In 2018, she made her dissertation in London in cooperation with the National Health Services (NHS). She worked in several hospitals in and around greater London, to lead an investigation on use of smart infusion pumps on the intensive care units.

In 2018-2019, Elise joined Pharmaceutica to fulfil her internship, which she successfully finished with distinction.

In July 2019, she started at the Pharmaceutica team of Pol De Saedeleer in Lier as a pharmacist. This is the ideal basis to further develop her skills in the pharmaceutical/
nutritional area. A young starter, eager to acquire and share knowledge.

2021, she started to work for Nutrined as a scientific advisor. She is coresponsible for product development, scientific research, answering research-based questions and providing scientific support. That way, she has a lot of contact with different medical professionals around the world.

She was one of the speakers at the International Conferences 2021 organized by ECIM. She will also attend at a conference in Barcelona in April 2023 (Conference in colors) where she will process and interpret recent scientific publications into clinically relevant information.

Elise plays competitive basketball and is an active member of the club where she actively shares her experience in nutritionals in cooperation with the medical staff and all members of the club.

Magdalena Cubala-Kucharska, MD, PhD

Dr. Cubala-Kucharska is Director of Arcana Institute of Integrative Medicine Poland. Dr. Cubala-Kucharska developed an interest in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in 2004, which led her to research co-morbidities in autistic patients, including Lyme disease. She has consulted for the Council of Natural Therapies in the Polish Ministry of Health, and at the Autism Treatment Trust in Edinburgh. Her practice is focused on ASD, tick-borne, autoimmune and environmental diseases. Her research, conducted in affiliation with the Medical University of Lodz and published in peer-reviewed journals, is in the field of autism and tick-borne infections.

Dr. med. Beate Jaeger is a specialist in internal medicine and laboratory medicine in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 1995, she opened her Lipid Centre to treat lipid and atherosclerotic patients with apheresis. She treated over 1500 lipid patients per year, with 100 continuous apheresis patients (2/3 Lp(a), 1/3 Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia). She also cooperated with surrounding hospitals to perform apheresis on the intensive care units for acute MACE stroke, pancreatitis, PAD, and after heart transplantation. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Jaeger started treating severe Long COVID patients with Heparin-induced Extracorporeal Lipoprotein/Fibrinogen Precipitation (H.E.L.P.) apheresis, and less severe cases with triple anticoagulant therapy. To date, Dr Jaeger has treated at least over 300 patients with H.E.L.P. apheresis, and has seen promising diagnostic and clinical improvements in most patients. Furthermore, many patients (some even bedridden after their acute COVID-19 infection) have been able to resume their work and usual exercise regime.

Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1997-2000
Rheinische Akademie Köln: Training as a pharmaceutical-technical assistant
2000-2008
Medical School (Universität Köln)
Promotion (M.D.)
2007-2008
Städtisches Klinikum Solingen: Residency paediatrics, internal medicine and surgery
1999-2015
Various assignments abroad, inter alia:
1999 Honduras, Central America: Participation in the voluntary medical catastrophe team
2005 Bloomington Hospital, Indiana, USA: Urgent Care and Internal Medicine
2008 Tamaulipas, north Mexico: Development aid with the voluntary medical team
2014, 2015 Xai Xai, Mosambik: Direction of a development project for the construction of a orphanage with medical assistance
2008-2015
Medical Center Cologne, Dr. R. Gorter: Physician with complementary-oncological, internal, neurological and radiological focus
2015-dato
Medi-Therm Kliniken GmbH & Co. KG, Klinik St. Georg, Bad Aibling: Medical Staff

Dr Andrew Greenland is a practicing medical doctor in London with 26 years’ of clinical experience. He currently works on the ‘front line’ of a busy London Hospital as a consultant Emergency Physician. He is extensively trained in Functional, Anti-aging, Preventative and Regenerative Medicine, Naturopathic and Herbal Medicine, and runs his own Integrative Functional Medicine Practice – Greenland Medical.

The Bredesen Protocol – Reversing Cognitive Decline using a Personalized Precision Medicine paradigm _ Expert Talk by Dr Andrew Greenland

Dr Greenland will delve into the weeds of the protocol and demonstrate how it epitomizes the very best of Functional Medicine’s guiding principles i.e.:

1. Identifying the root causes of cognitive decline: The Bredesen Protocol looks for and addresses multiple underlying contributors to cognitive decline such as inflammation, nutrient deficiencies, toxins, hormonal imbalances, chronic infections, and nutrient deficiencies.
2. Personalized approach: Each patient's cognitive decline is unique, and the Bredesen Protocol tailors treatment to each individual's specific causes of cognitive decline.
3. Multimodal interventions: Multiple interventions, including diet and lifestyle changes, supplements, stress reduction, and exercise, are used to address the root cause of cognitive decline.
4. Monitoring and tracking: Patients' cognitive function and other health markers are tracked regularly to determine the effectiveness of the treatment and make adjustments as needed.

Overall, the Bredesen Protocol aims to address the underlying causes of cognitive decline, rather than just treating the symptoms. This personalised, integrative approach emphasises lifestyle changes, dietary interventions, and personalised supplementation to help patients combat memory loss and cognitive decline.

Dr. Lynn Klassen, ND

Dr. Klassen maintains a focused practice on Lyme disease and chronic illness. As a Lyme Literate ND (LLND), 
Dr. Klassen is trained in the latest developments in the testing and treatment of these difficult diseases. Dr. Klassen believes in combining traditional prescription based treatments with injection and IV therapies, herbal supplements, lifestyle counselling and individualized applications of various infectious disease protocols to improve outcomes for her patients.
Dr. Klassen also finds fulfillment in giving back to her community. She has been on the Board of Directors with British Columbia’s Naturopathic Doctors (BCND) since 2020, volunteered to take on the role of Vice-President that same year and was voted in as President of the Association in 2022. She also has served on the BCCDC’s Community Antimicrobial Stewardship program’s Advisory Committee since 2021. Dr. Klassen has also developed Canada’s first and only CNME accredited naturopathic Residency focused on Vector-borne Illness and Chronic Complex Disease. She also participates in training naturopathic students by hosting preceptors as well as externs from the CCNM-Boucher’s student clinic.

Dr. Carolyn Mukai, ND

Dr. Carolyn Mukai, ND focuses her naturopathic practice on complex chronic disease, including Lyme disease and associated illnesses.
Dr. Mukai is a graduate of Canada’s first and only ND residency program focused on Vector-borne Illness and Complex Chronic Disease. The foundation of her approach to Lyme disease and other complex chronic illnesses is to investigate the underlying causes or contributors including other infections, environmental exposures, and immune dysfunction.
Dr. Mukai believes that the best health care is individualized, transparent, and sustainable for the patient. She views her role in health care as an advocate, facilitator and educator so that ultimately the patient becomes well equipped to dictate their own health decisions and outcomes.
Dr. Mukai loves to collaborate with other health care practitioners who want to learn more about tick-borne illnesses. It is her mission to increase practitioner awareness of tick borne illness to facilitate earlier detection of these infections, access to evidenced based treatment, and prevention of long term illness.

Maja Obrovac Glišić is a leading nutritionist in the field of fertility in Croatia and the region. She graduated in human nutrition from the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb in 2009. Her approach to understanding nutrition regarding health and disease was always holistic.
After six years as the head of the Food and Dietetic Department at the Clinical University Hospital Rijeka and a lecturer at the Faculty of Health Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia, she moved to Germany where she worked as a nutritionist in Agaplesion Diakonie Klinikum, Hamburg. A year after, she started her own business consulting couples to optimize their nutritional status while dealing with infertility. Besides supporting her clients, she established a channel for teaching health professionals in the region to recognize the importance of nutritional status in achieving optimal fertility and treating infertility. Her main field of interest is PCOS, endometriosis, recurrent miscarriage, and adhesion-related issues. Her passion is to empower women to know their menstrual cycle and gain inner power through sympto-thermal methods and optimal nutritional status. Having enough energy for the day and trusting our body's ability to thrive, gives people the chance to chase their fertility dreams most often without invasive IVF technology.