Biomedicine Allison Bachlet, Ph.D., N.D.Dr. Allison Bachlet completed her Honors BSc in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her passion for wellness started here and manifested as volunteer work at a pediatric hospital and as a peer wellness educator. She won a Rhodes Scholarship in 2000 and completed her PhD at the University of Oxford, England, in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, Department of Paediatrics. Her work in pediatric nutrition, gastroenterology and neurological disabilities won awards at several international conferences. The Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine in Vancouver, Canada, is where Dr. Allison received her ND and found her true calling. Dr. Allison combines her knowledge of clinical science with her passion for alternative healing methods to provide the best care possible for her patients.
Summer Baptist, N.D.Dr. Baptist is a licensed Naturopathic Physician, born and raised in Hawaii. She received her
Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from Bastyr University (2001) and her naturopathic medical
degree from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (2006). Dr. Baptist is an Adjunct
Faculty member at the Hawaii Medical Institute. She has developed interest in nutritional
counseling, women's health, and metabolic detoxification programs. Her enthusiastic approach
to practice is guided by her belief that education is the fundamental building block to optimal
patient care. Dr. Baptist has been in private practice since 2006.
Edmund Bernauer, Ph.D. Dr. Bernauer graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana with a Master’s in Physical
Education (1951), a Master’s in Physiology (1959), and a Ph.D. in Physiology in 1962. Dr.
Bernauer is a highly respected teacher and scientist, both directing the development of research
programs as well as publishing 76 scientific papers on his own research, over 100 abstracts and
limited distribution papers and videos, and supervising 39 Master’s and Doctoral theses. Dr.
Bernauer’s particular interest is exercise physiology and more broadly, the study of metabolic
physiology in man. Professor Bernauer has a long and distinguished career as an academic
administrator. He was a department chair at the University of California at Davis on two
different occasions, and chaired the Committee on Educational Policy of the Physiology
Graduate Group for 10 years. Bernauer also served as chair of the UC Davis’ Academic
Senate’s Committee on Privilege and Tenure for four years.
Elizabeth Chen Christenson, MD, L.Ac. Dr. Christenson graduated from University of Sienna School of Medicine, Siena, Italy with a M.D. Degree (1981) and is licensed to practice in Hawaii and Ohio. She also earned her B.S. in Biology (1973) from Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. Master degree in Bacteriology (1973) from Wagner College Graduate School, New York, NY. Dr. Christenson graduated with a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine (2006) from the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Honolulu, HI. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at the Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine.
Nancy Lamport-Hughes, Ph.D. Dr. Lamport-Hughes received her Bachelor's Degree in History and Social Science from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and then studied at the University of South Dakota, where she earned her Master's Degree in History and Social Science in 1970, and a Master's in Educational Psychology and Guidance in 1971. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Institute in 1991, where she also received the Fetzer/Saybrook Research Scholarship. Dr. Lamport-Hughes is currently a Licensed Psychologist in the State of Hawaii, and works as a staff psychologist with the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific since 1993, and with the Queen's Medical Center since 1997.
Tate Rolfs, D.C. Dr. Rolfs earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Tulane
University in 1970, and earned his Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College graduating
Magna Cum Laude in 1980. Dr. Rolf has served as Fighter Pilot for the US Air Force from 1970
to 1976. He is also licensed in Iowa and Kentucky. He specializes in musculoskeletal, low back
and disc disorders. He has been in private practice in Hawaii since 1980.
Robert Smith, Ph.D. Dr. Smith earned his B.S.(Engineering), California Institute of Technology 1951; Ph.D. (Physiology and Biophysics), University of Washington, Seattle, 1962. Professor Emeritus of Human Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, 1968-present. Dept. Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, 1963-1967. Various academic administrative positions, University of California, 1970-1992. Fogarty Senior International Fellow, ARC Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge, England, 1975-76. University Visiting Lecturer, Godfrey Higgins School of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe, Salisbury, Zimbabwe, 1980.
Craig Twentyman, Ph.D., MSOM, L.Ac. Dr. Twentyman received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Clinical Psychology (1978)
and a Master’s degree in Oriental Medicine from the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and
Oriental Medicine (2006). He has been on the faculty of several universities and founded a
child abuse treatment center at the University of Rochester. While at the University of Hawaii,
he received a five year research award examining psychosocial variables and coronary heart
disease. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and acupuncturist, certified substance abuse
counselor, and certified detoxification specialist.