Dr. Rossignol received his Doctorate of Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and completed his residency in family medicine at the University of Virginia.  He is Board Certified in Family Practice and is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.  Coming from an academic background, Dr. Rossignol searched the medical literature looking for a solution after both of his children were diagnosed with autism. He has made it his mission to research and publish in autism. In the last 6 years, he has published 23 articles and 3 book chapters concerning autism.

Richard Frye, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of Autism Research and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.  He specializes in pediatric neurology disorders, including learning disabilities and dyslexia, autism and developmental delay, speech and language delay, attention deficit, tics and Tourette’s syndrome, sleep disorders, and epileptic encephalopathy.

Dr. Frye is board certified in General Pediatrics and in Pediatrics and Neurology with special competency in Child Neurology.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  Dr. Frye is on the editorial board of several major medical journals.  He is also funded by the National Institutes of Health to study brain function in individuals with dyslexia.

Anju Usman, M.D. is director of True Health Medical Center in Naperville, Illinois.  She has a special interest in biomedical interventions for children with ADD, Autism and related disorders.  She has been involved in research involving copper/zinc imbalances, metallothionein dysfunction, biofilm related infections and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. 

She is also co-founder of ACE (Autism Center for Enlightenment), a non-profit organization which supports research, education and biomedical therapies for families in need.  Dr. Usman received her medical degree from Indiana University.  She completed a residency in Family Practice at Cook County Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois and is board certified in Family Practice.

Martha Herbert, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, a Pediatric Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and an affiliate of the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.  She is director of the TRANSCEND Research Program (Treatment Research and Neuroscience Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders).

Dr. Herbert earned her medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.  Prior to her medical training she obtained a doctoral degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz, studying evolution and development of learning processes in biology and culture in the History of Consciousness program, and then did postdoctoral work in the philosophy and history of science.  She trained in pediatrics at Cornell University Medical Center and in neurology and child neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she has remained.  She received the first Cure Autism Now Innovator Award and is now on the Scientific Advisory Committee of Autism Speaks.

Dr. Herbert is author of the forthcoming book, The Autism Revolution: Whole Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be, Harvard Health Publications and Ballantine Books.

Elizabeth Mumper, M.D, FAAFP, is a board certified pediatrician who practices an integrative approach with both her general pediatric patients (at Advocates for Children) and her patients who have autism spectrum disorders (at Advocates for Families) in Lynchburg, Virginia. She founded the Rimland Center in 2007 to mentor clinicians who were interested in learning about the medical needs of children with developmental disorders. For five years she was medical director of the Autism Research Institute where she was actively involved in clinician teaching and clinical research. She has lectured widely nationally and internationally about biochemistry, gastrointestinal pathology, and immune dysregulation as they relate to children with developmental disorders including autism.

Judy Van de Water, Ph.D. is a well-known immunologist whose primary interests for the past 20 years include autoimmunity, immunopathology, and molecular and cell biology.  Dr. Van de Water’s laboratory research programs include the identification of the various mechanisms associated with autoimmune and other immune-mediated disorders.  This includes the biological aspects of autism spectrum disorders including immune dysfunction and autoantibody production.

In addition, her current work involves the identification of maternal antibodies to fetal brain proteins found in some mothers of children with autism.  Moreover, Dr. Van de Water was the Core Director of the Molecular and Cell Biology Core for the NIEHS Center for Children’s Environmental Health, entitled "Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Autism", investigating potential environmental risk factors contributing to the incidence and severity of childhood autism.  This project has been renewed and Dr. Van de Water is now the P.I. of Project 2, the Immunological Susceptibility in Autism.

David Berger, M.D., FAAP, is a Board Certified Pediatrician who specializes in holistic pediatric primary care, nutritional and detoxification therapies for autism, ADHD and related disorders and immune dysregulation such as allergies, asthma and autoimmune disorders.  He also sees adults with these medical conditions. 

He graduated from The Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1994 and completed his Pediatric Residency at the University of South Florida. He started using holistic therapies at the Tampa General Hospital/USF Pediatric Clinic during his residency.  He has served as the team doctor for Tampa Catholic High School, the Medical Director for a summer camp run by the Tampa AIDS Network, and the Medical Liaison for the Palm Beach County Breast Feeding Task Force.  He has been in private practice since 1997, and in 2005 he opened Wholistic Pediatrics in Tampa, Florida.  Dr. Berger has been an advanced practitioner of the Defeat Autism Now!/Autism Research Institute philosophy since 1999. In 2010, he became an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida College of Nursing.

Dr. Quig received his Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of Illinois.  He recently co-authored and facilitated several studies pertaining to toxic and essential elements in children with autism and learning/behavioral disorders.  His current studies include, "“ Efficacy of DMSA suppositories to mobilize mercury and lead into the urine of young autistic children”; “The acute effects of fast-push Ca-Na2-EDTA on biliary/fecal and urinary excretion of toxic and essential elements”, and “Lack of effect of chlorella supplementation to enhance fecal excretion of mercury in healthy subjects with dental amalgams.”

Algis K. Augustine graduated from Notre Dame in 1966, and the Law School of the University of Illinois in 1969. After graduating from law school, he entered private practice as an associate of Crowley, Barrett and Karaba until August of 1974.

From August 1974 through May 1979, Mr. Augustine was the Chief Regulatory Attorney for what is now called the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, where he was responsible for regulating over 600,000 professionals. In May of 1979, Mr. Augustine founded the law firm now known as Augustine, Kern and Levens, Ltd. He also served for five years on the Inquiry Panel for the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission in Illinois, resigning in 1990.

Mr. Augustine currently represents primarily health-related professionals, such as doctors, dentists, nurses and so on, but has represented many different professionals with licensing and governmental problems in over thirty states and he is a nationally recognized speaker on professional disciplinary matters. He is an active member in good standing of the Illinois bar (1970) and is admitted to practice in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

 

Jeffrey B. Levens, earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1971 with distinction in political science and a minor in journalism, while working as a reporter for the student newspaper, the Daily Illini, and other papers. After graduation, Jeff was a legislative intern in the Illinois Senate; then attended Loyola College of Law (Chicago), earning his Juris Doctorate in 1975.

In the late ‘70s, Jeff prosecuted professional license violations for the agency now known as the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. His supervisor then was his partner now: Al Augustine.

In 1980, Jeff and his friend, the late Timothy D. Sturm, founded Sturm & Levens, a general practice firm in Springfield, Illinois. Jeff practiced administrative law and represented some of the most successful realtors in the city in real estate and licensing matters, while also representing clients in wide ranging legal matters. He has conducted many jury and bench trials and, ever mindful of the expense to clients and relative uncertainty of litigation, is a skilled negotiator.

Jeff chaired the Springfield Human Relations Commission and Fair Housing Board, and in 2009 successfully defended a large Illinois real estate agency against allegations of racial discrimination before the Department of Human Rights.

Jeff is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court (1986); the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (1983); the federal district courts for the northern (1987), central and southern districts (1978) of Illinois; the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1994); and the State of Illinois (1975). He is a Law Member of the American College of Legal Medicine. He has authored more than 150 appeals in Illinois, New York and Tennessee, has argued many of them, and twice successfully opposed petitions for writ of certiorari to the U. S. Supreme Court.

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