Who We Are
Felicia Brodzky-Jones, B.S., CHES
Founder & President of Integration Health, Speaker, Writer, Certified Health Education Specialist and Wellness Coach
Felicia Brodzky-Jones is the founder, CEO and President of Integration Health, a corporate health education seminar, health coaching and consulting company. She is certified Health Educator with a practice that offers assistance worldwide.
Felicia holds a bachelors of science in Health Science from Hunter College in New York City, and is certified through the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing.
She is a member of a number of professional organizations including AAPH-American Association of Public Health, SOPHE- the Society of Public Health Education, and the Association of Integrative Practitioners.
Felicia has created social marketing and educational programs for the NYC Department of Public Health, The March of Dimes and dozens of hospitals and businesses nation wide. Felicia has developed and led classes focusing on Nutrition, Family Health, Childbirth Education, Stress Management, Fitness, Relaxation Techniques and Work/Life Balance for over 15 years.
Her passion is assisting people to transform their health and wellbeing through the power of simple nutrition and lifestyle enhancements, often utilizing traditional approaches from around the world. Felicia is a yoga enthusiast and has traveled internationally studying the foods and healing arts of many cultures.
In recent years Felicia focus has been on building businesses and organizations that support the long-term health of human beings.
Alan Gass, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Medical Director and Speaker
Alan L. Gass, M.D., FACC, is Director of Advanced Cardiac Failure and Transplantation at Westchester Medical Center treating patients with end-stage heart failure, which he has done for most of his career. Previously, Dr. Gass served for 14 years as Medical Director of New York Mount Sinai’s Heart Transplant Program from it’s inception in 1991. He personally followed hundreds of patients in various stages of heart failure, achieving survival rates among the top in the country.
After completing a residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a Cardiology fellowship at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Dr Gass completed a fellowship in Cardiac Transplantation at Stanford University. He has written numerous articles in medical journals, and is an investigator in studies on transplantation and cardiac assist devices. His work in tailored, minimal immunosuppresion after transplant has gained international recognition. Dr. Gass’s research in this area has allowed post-transplant patients to be treated with a minimal amount of drugs, avoiding long-term side effects and improving their quality of life while maintaining excellent survival. He lectures at national meetings and academic centers, and is known to be a passionate teacher.
Dr. Gass has appeared in Life Magazine, The New York Times, and on CNN, NBC, CNBC, and local New York news affiliates as a medical expert. He also was featured in a one-hour documentary special of Dateline NBC called "A Change of Heart", which chronicled the emotionally moving story of several patients waiting for an acceptable donor heart. He is on the advisory board of HealthCorps, a new program whose mission is to combat childhood obesity through the empowerment of high school students to mentor children and raise awareness of the benefits of diet and exercise.
Dr, Gass sees fitness and nutrition as a way of life. After playing ice hockey in college, he continued a routine of daily exercise, which has included running, rollerblading, skiing, weight training, spinning and road biking. Throughout his career, he has been inspired by patients who have experienced dramatic recoveries through lifestyle changes. Achieving wellness is a team effort between patients and health professionals, incorporating diet, exercise, relaxation techniques, self-awareness and motivation into the healing process. He believes that ultimately the way to prevent disease and minimize the need for medical or surgical intervention is through exploring the connection between mind, body and spirit.
Michael Lechonczak
Director of Fitness & Relaxation
Michael Lechonczak is a nationally recognized yoga professional who has been practicing and teaching for over 20 years. Versed in the Iyengar, Astanga and Anusara schools of yoga, Michael's teaching style blends alignment, form and breathwork into a fun yet mindful approach to yoga. Michael collaborated on the best-selling book REAL MEN DO YOGA (Capouya, HCL), and sits on the advisory board for Rodale's online magazine iyogalife.com. Michael currently teaches at Equinox Fitness and Sports Club LA locations in Manhattan, leads retreats internationally, offers master classes at professional fitness conventions and manages a thriving private client base as a holistic fitness trainer. He is registered with Yoga Alliance as an ERYT500 (experienced registered yoga teacher with over 500 hours of instruction and over 5000 hours of yoga experience) and an ACE certified Personal Trainer.
Debi Silber MS, RD, WHC
The "Mojo Coach™"
Debi Silber is a Registered Dietitian with a Master's degree in Nutrition, a Personal Trainer, Whole Health Coach, Lifestyle Expert-just for moms, speaker, President of Lifestyle Fitness, Inc. and author of The Lifestyle Fitness Program: A Six Part Plan So Every Mom Can Look, Feel and Live Her Best (recommended by Parenting Magazine) and From Mom To Wow: Your Ultimate Body, Mind and Life Makeover Guide. Debi's branded "The Mojo Coach™" because for nearly 20 years, she's inspired unfit, overweight and overwhelmed moms to "get their mojo back" through gradual lifestyle change. Debi's a featured expert on numerous websites, providing information, articles and insight to thousands of struggling moms. She's a popular radio guest, is quoted regularly in print and online magazines, was recently featured as a successful "career-at-home-mom" in a new book and serves as a student mentor for the National Institute of Whole Health; the most highly accredited and widely respected Whole Health Coaching program in the U.S.
Debi also holds two certifications in pre/post natal fitness, with specialty recognition in weight loss and weight maintenance. She's the New York Ambassador for W.O.M.E.N. e.o (Women Own Mentor Empower Nurture Each Other). Debi's been honored for her unique charity program (2008), is a Madison Who's Who (2007), Notable American Woman (1992, 2000) and Outstanding Young Woman of America (1992, 1998).
Debi understands that moms needs a program which supports their goals, values their time, meets their specific challenges...and creates lasting results! She's a role model any mom can appreciate and relate to as she tends to her business, home, husband, four children, four dogs and her own self care!
In a warm, fun and "mom friendly" way, Debi can encourage ANY mom to find the balance between motherhood and womanhood…because it doesn't have to be a choice.
For more information about Debi Silber you may click the following web addresses:
www.LifestyleFitnessInc.com
www.AskTheMojoCoach.com
Integration Health is honored to partner with the National Institute of Whole Health www.niwh.org as our preferred provider of credentialed, professional health educators and wellness coaches. Since 1977, NIWH has pioneered Whole Person Health Care and Whole Health Education®, a transformational patient education model which has been nominated for the prestigious Norman Cousin's Award as a Best Practice in Relationship-Centered Health Education. The NIWH professionally accredited programs train credentialed health care providers in whole health education, whole health nutrition education and whole health coaching models crafted to facilitate lifestyle changes, improve the health and well-being of clients, as well as demystifying the cause and effects of health and disease.
