Managing Board

Patrick Massey, MD, PhD

Dr. Massey is the past Medical Director of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for the Alexian Brothers Hospital Network and currently has an active medical practice, ALT-MED Medical and Physical Therapy Program, in Elk Grove Village IL.  Dr. Massey is board certified in both internal medicine and integrative medicine.  As a graduate of the first class at the Dr. Andrew Weil Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, Dr. Massey has specialty training in integrative medicine and has been a leader in clinical integrative medicine for over 25 years.  Dr. Massey lectures locally and nationally on various integrative medicine topics and is a reviewer for several medical journals. He is published in peer reviewed journals in both basic and clinical science.  For the past fifteen years Dr. Massey writes a biweekly columnist on alternative medicine for the Daily Herald, the largest Chicago suburban newspaper and is the author of  “Miracles or I Have No More Boils.”

Yalda Shokooh, PharmD, Ph.D.

Dr. Yalda Shokooh, the Natural Health Research Institute Executive Director, has more than 20 years of experience in natural products. She conducted research on botanicals for two decades and published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. She is a Pharm D as well as having a doctorate in Pharmacognosy. She had two fellowships in “Phytochemistry” and “Medicinal plants analysis”. Most recently, she was a full professor at Sonoran University of Health Sciences, where she researched herbs and taught Pharmacology. She is also the Director of Science and Nutrition at NOW Health Group. Dr. Shokooh has been in leadership roles for the last 11 years and has a passion for natural products.