Vimal R. Patel is the Founder and Director of Time4Health, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mr. Patel is a Registered Pharmacist, a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist and a Certified Addictionologist. He also holds a diploma in Homeopathy with additional certifications from the Health Trust Alliance and the International American Association of Clinical Nutritionists.
Mr. Patel is a third-generation Asian Indian and was born in Zambia, Africa. He was educated in the United Kingdom and the United States and attended Ohio Northern University earning degrees in Pharmacy and Biology with distinction.
Mr. Patel’s specialization is in personalized, client-centered health care that is supportive and an adjuvant to current medical protocols. His unique approach lies in his ability to assess underlying issues with respect to restoring the complex balance of the body, mind and spirit.
As an innovator and sought-after consultant in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical compounding, Mr. Patel has been instrumental in developing ground-breaking products for these industries. He has also developed a line of his own, proprietary clinical grade supplements and protein shakes that are sold exclusively through health care professionals.
We honor the legacy of Dr. Gladys McGarey, Founder and Founding President of the Foundation for Living Medicine, whose vision continues to guide our work.
Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey is internationally recognized as the Mother of Holistic Medicine. Dr. Gladys, as she is affectionately known, is board certified in Holistic and Integrated Medicine and has held a family practice for more than sixty years. She is the co-founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, as well as the co-founder of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine. She was the first to utilize acupuncture in the U.S. and trained other physicians how to use it.
Dr. Gladys is a pioneer. She has tirelessly pioneered work in holistic medicine, natural birthing, and the physician-patient partnership. Among Dr. Gladys’ innovations for natural birthing was the Baby Buggy Program founded in 1978, featuring a fully-equipped paramedical and emergency transport vehicle for home deliveries. In 1970, she co-founded the A.R.E. Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, where she and her former husband pioneered the integration of allopathic and holistic medical practices, laying the groundwork for the cultural shift of recent years that recognizes alternative and holistic medical modalities. Her efforts worldwide continue to receive international acclaim.
Betsy Bombeck is a well known community leader with considerable experience in diverse fields. One of her primary interests is in the field of substance abuse. Currently, she is the Program Supervisor for East Valley Access Point of Community Bridges, working with patients with substance abuse, mental health, and/or co-occurring diagnoses. She is a board member of South of the Salt Board guiding the functioning of 4848 AA Meeting facility. Betsy is also the owner of BOMBECK DESIGN GROUP, where she is Involved in all aspects of operating a contracting company, from initial customer consultations, design of home remodels, to successful completion of construction.
As a community leader and in addition to her tireless work in the field of substance abuse, she has served on a number of boards that address issues she is also passionate. She was a Triple R Behavioral Health Board Member from 2006-2011 and currently is a Community Housing Board Member. She was a board member of the Phoenix Women’s Sports Association from 2002-2009, served as its Vice-President from 2006-2008 and also was the Annual Dinner Chairperson twice.
She has been a Charter 100 Member since 2006 and was an Executive Committee Board Member in 2009, responsible for salon committee and yearly activity planning. She works to continue her mother’s legacy through her efforts with the National Kidney Foundation of AZ Organ Donor Project, working to promote organ donation since 1997.
Hollis H. King, DO, is a board-certified osteopathic physician. He has a whole-body approach to medicine and is highly experienced in osteopathic manipulative treatment, a type of hands-on care that diagnoses and treats illness and injury by moving a person’s muscles and joints to ease pain and increase mobility.
His research interests include Alzheimer’s disease, autism, glaucoma, migraine headaches, traumatic brain injury, gastrointestinal diseases, metabolic disorders, pediatrics, psychiatry, and sleep research. He has been published in numerous medical journals, including The Journal of American Osteopathic Association and Lymphatic Research and Biology.
Dr. King earned his degree in osteopathic medicine from UNT Health Science Center Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Louisiana State University. Dr. King is board certified in family practice.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Osteopathy and member of several professional societies, including the American Osteopathic Association, Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California and the American Psychological Association. Dr. King also serves on the research committee for the Osteopathic Cranial Academy and editorial advisory board for The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
In 2002, Dr. King was awarded Physician of the Year by the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California.
Dr. Freilich is a psychiatrist, who has been a physician for 45+ years. She received her medical education at The Medical College of Pennsylvania, the same medical school that educated Dr. Gladys somewhat earlier.. She did several years of post-graduate training in OB/GYN and research in psychopharmacology before her residency training in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been Board-certified in Psychiatry since 1991.
In 1977, she began to be curious about holistic approaches to healing and has had experience and training in several, which she subtly brought into her work as a psychiatrist. She worked for many years with seriously mentally ill people in community mental health centers. Another area of interest is trauma, which led her to The Meadows in Wickenburg AZ, where for over a dozen years she treated patients with severe combinations of trauma, addictions and psychiatric illness.
Now retired from clinical practice, she is re-purposing her heart and life-long sense of service by finding new voice as poet and writer.
Dr. Arlene Dijamco mission is to help bring the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of health back to medicine in practical and tangible ways. She graduated from Harvard College and Emory University School of Medicine, completed a pediatric residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and is a fellow of Dr. Andrew Weil’s two-year integrative medicine program.
Dr. Dijamco studied with various energy healers before discovering her passion for cranial and quantum osteopathy. She and James Gaydos, D.O., co-founded The Dig On series of osteopathic courses to help explore consciousness through osteopathy. A seasoned innovator, she collaborates with many organizations including Dr. Gladys McGarey’s Foundation for Living Medicine, Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment, DO-Touch.net, The Osteopathic Cranial Academy and Foundation, and Hands of the Future.
She also founded the All Worlds Health family, which includes her practice in Roswell, GA, nonprofit foundation, publishing company and School of Stillness. Dr. Dijamco hosts The MultiDimensional MD podcast and co-hosts Edgar Cayce’s Creating Calm parenting podcast with Corinne Cayce.
Her book, I AM Intuitive: A MultiDimensional Guide to Embrace Your Inner Light, is available in print, e-book, and audiobook forms at many booksellers.
She is honored to be a part of this team of visionaries, having joined the Foundation for Living Medicine’s board months after our beloved Dr. Gladys McGarey transitioned to pure spirt. As the chair of the educational committee, she hopes to help bring Dr. Gladys’s dream of a curriculum in Living Medicine to fruition.