Speakers for Tucson, AZ Conference

May 16-17, 2025

Practical MitoCircadian Medicine – Josh Rosenthal, MD

Josh Rosenthal, M.D. is a Board-Certified Sleep and Regenerative Medicine Specialist.  In his dedication to understanding true health and wellness, he had to unlearn the current model of healthcare’s approach to holding off disease.  After using light and circadian biology to successfully treat his own weight and health issues, he continued studying biophysics and discovered why healthcare is failing miserably at helping the population who is increasingly getting sick and staying sick.  By integrating his expertise of circadian biology, mitochondrial medicine, and photobiomodulation, he now helps clients rebuild their mind and body health at the cellular and subcellular levels.

Dr. Josh does advanced, regenerative therapies and one-on-one integrative medical programs with clients in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania.  Attacking the subcellular root cause, his unique MitoCircadianä approach recreates optimal health by resetting the body’s clock, improving the environmental terrain, and repairing the bioenergetics for an integrative wellness approach.  He performs innovative and transformative mitochondrial therapies alongside his lifestyle, nutraceutical and electroceutical approaches for health and longevity.

Quantum Physics and the Human Body- We Are But Dust – Peter Guhl, OD, FAAO, FOVDRA, FVAO, CCII

This talk will be a basic overview of some of the concepts of quantum physics. It then follows up to explain not just how it applies to our bodies, but the world and our place in it. The field of quantum physics is not experiential, well understood, and is to the greater extent ignored in the medical model and our understanding of the body. Based on proven concepts from one hundred years ago, the science of physics opens up new understanding of our world, who we are, and how our bodies operate within this quantum physics model. Ancient traditions, recent discoveries and new studies provide interesting juxtapositions when viewed through this quantum filter. Explained by this branch of science, alternative therapies, including Optometric Syntonic Phototherapy, make sense. In fact, this perspective paints a different picture of what we really are doing during syntonic treatments and puts them in a whole different light.

Boosting Your Vision Therapy Procedures Using Brain-Based Syntonic Protocols – Amy Thomas O.D., FODVR

This talk will explore the critical role that brain regions play in vision therapy and how optometrists can use brain-based syntonic light protocols to enhance patient outcomes. You will learn how specific brain regions are activated during vision therapy activities and when these regions need additional support to overcome overstimulation or underdevelopment.
Through this course, you will gain insight into selecting light wavelengths that either stimulate or calm particular brain regions to help your patients’ therapeutic response. In addition, the session will cover strategies for connecting brain regions, using tailored wavelengths to improve the brain’s functional integration for more permanent and efficient results.

You will leave equipped with practical protocols to help you choose the most effective wavelengths, even when faced with uncertainty. You’ll also gain techniques for verifying your treatment approaches quickly and effectively, ensuring patient comfort and boosting compliance.
Lastly, the talk will provide methods for educating patients about the scientific basis of these protocols, allowing them to better understand and engage with their therapy. By the end of the course, you’ll have the knowledge and tools to enhance your vision therapy procedures, making them more comfortable, efficient, and long-lasting.

RECENT ADVANCES IN MULTISENSORY NEUROSTIMULATION – DeAnn Fitzgerald, O.D., FNORA, Chula Lerdvoratavee, O.D., FOVDR, FCSO, Anadi Martel, M.Sc.

There has been much interest within the neuro-optometric rehabilitation community about multisensory neuro stimulation techniques. A number of practitioners have adopted tools such as the Sensory Learning Program, a multi-modal sensory integration program that combine visual, auditory and vestibular stimulation, and have found them effective compared with purely visual stimulation.

New neurostimulation techniques have become available in recent years, which can be used on their own or coupled with existing sensory integration programs to further increase their efficacy. We will find out how some Syntonics practitioners have already successfully applied these techniques to expand existing treatment modalities.

In this talk three expert presenters will cover different aspects of the topic:

Anadi Martel (M.Sc.) will offer an overview, introducing a number of novel techniques including whole visual-field stimulation, lateral light therapy, vibroacoustic stimulation, and kinesthetic hand stimulation. He’ll also examine how various sensory gateways can be used to interact with the brain’s natural tendency to respond to rhythmic sensory stimuli, resulting in a process known as multisensory brainwaves entrainment.

DeAnn Fitzgerald (O.D.) will provide deeper insight on the neuroanatomical principles underpinning multisensory stimulation.

Chula Lerdvoratavee (O.D.) will present recent case studies illustrating clinical applications of the Sensora multisensory neurostimulation system.

The Eyes Have It: The Iris as a Window In for Evaluation and Treatment – Randy Schulman, MS, OD, FCOVD

This course will familiarize the practitioner with the basics of iris analysis and how to include it in an optometric evaluation, how to discuss insights with patients and how to
develop therapeutic interventions that improve the long term success and treatment of our patients within an optometric practice.

 Advances in Photomedicine by Dr. Cathy Stern, O.D., FOVDR, FNORA, FCSO and Dr. Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D., FOVDR, FCSO

Photobiomodulation (PBM) or modulated light therapy is being used to treat a wide variety of eye and health conditions. Today we have the opportunity to use devices that deliver modulated light through the eyes for macular degeneration, dry eye, myopia control, amblyopia, and other ocular conditions. In addition, treatment is available for photosensitivity, migraine headaches and some neurodegenerative condtions.

Dr. Gottlieb is a Graduate of the University of California, Berkley.  He has published numerous articles and books about vision therapy and phototherapy, including the book Attention & Memory Training (OEP 2005) & co-produced The Road Without Glasses Method DVD (Cambridge Institute for Better Vision) for presbyopia reduction.  He serves as the current Dean of CSO spending time in his retirement researching.