About the Speakers
MIND
Kourtney Osborne, MT-BC, (she/her/hers) is a Board Certified Music Therapist and graduate of West Texas A&M University. She completed her medical music therapy internship at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. She currently works at McConnell Music Therapy Services with patients and clients from all walks of life, from adult oncology to adult and adolescent inpatient mental health settings.
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Brooke Osborne, MT-BC, NICU Music Therapist, (she/her/hers) is a Board-Certified Music Therapist and graduate of West Texas A&M University. She completed a medical music therapy internship at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare in Tallahassee, Florida. Currently with McConnell Music Therapy Services, Brooke works at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento with pediatric, NICU, and adult oncology/bone marrow transplant patients.
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Tara McConnell, MT-BC (she/her/hers) brings with her over 29 years of clinical experience and a passion for the field of music therapy. Founder and CEO of McConnell Music Therapy Services, based in Sacramento and Pacific Grove, CA, she has seen firsthand how music experience creates connection between people of different abilities and different backgrounds while creating change and transformation. She is passionate about starting new programs in medical, educational and community settings while providing mentorship and support to new professionals and business owners.
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Join Brooke Osborne, Kourtney Osborne, and Tara McConnell for their presentation and interactive workshop on Introduction to Music Therapy and Clinical Applications
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BODY
Dr. Victor Nuño, DO, is a 2008 graduate of Touro University California – College of Osteopathic Medicine (TUCCOM) where he received honors as the “Outstanding Student in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.
Dr. Nuño completed his residency in Neuromusculoskeletal and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (NMM/OMM) in Southampton, NY in 2012. He accepted a faculty position at his alma mater, TUC-COM, in the OMM department starting in 2013. Along with his main teaching role at the university, he teaches clinical homeopathy through the Center for the Education and Development of Homeopathy (CEDH).
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In addition to his role as CEO, Dr. Nuño also sees patients for osteopathic manipulation and integrative medicine at Seek Optimal Health, PC.
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Dr. Nuño is Board Certifed in both NMM/OMM and Integrative Medicine.
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Dr. Nuño's practice interests include nutritional counseling and customized supplementation, clinical homeopathy, ecologic medicine, bioidentical hormone replacement, alternative lightwire functional (ALF) appliance, and oral heavy metal chelation.
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As the son of a U.S. airforce officer, Dr. Nuño lived in many different countries growing up (including Spain, Mexico, and Panama) before his family settled in the Monterey Bay area. He is fluent in Spanish as well as English.
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When Dr. Nuño is not teaching or seeing patients, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing ice hockey or disc golf, and expanding his influence in fantasy hockey through a weekly podcast.
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Join Dr. Nuño for his presentation on a "Homeopathic Approach to Common Musculoskeletal Injuries" as well as his workshop " Breathing Life into Cervical HVLA"
SPIRIT
Dr. Shipra Bansal, MD​
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Dr. Bansal is Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences and Community Health at Touro University where she leads Touro’s Lifestyle Medicine Certification program. In the summer of 2023, she published a fully open-source lifestyle medicine curriculum geared towards medical students. Prior to this, she was a physician at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute (SSIHI) and clinical professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, where she practiced and taught lifestyle medicine. She piloted successful diabetes group visits at the UCI affiliated federally qualified health center. Dr. Bansal was the Director of Osteopathic and Lifestyle Medicine at A.T. Still University - School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (ATSU-SOMA), where she led the implementation of a fully integrated lifestyle medicine curriculum. Dr. Bansal completed her training at Harbor-UCLA in 2008. She is dual-boarded in Family Medicine as well as Lifestyle Medicine. She is also a certified clinical health coach who enjoys cultivating empowering relationships with her patients.
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Join Dr. Bansal for her presentation: Together is Better: The Synergy of 1 + 1
Dr. Carmen Hering, DO​
Dr. Hering is a California licensed physician and surgeon board-certified in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and certified in Anthroposophic Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree from St. John’s College, majoring in physics and philosophy, and her medical training from Touro University, College of Osteopathic Medicine in California. She completed her residency at St. Barnabas Hospital in NYC, where she applied traditional osteopathy in a hospital setting.
In private practice in Albany, CA since 2006, Dr. Hering treats patients of all ages for acute and chronic illness and injury. She has a special commitment to child health, working with children with birth injuries and developmental challenges. Using osteopathy, anthroposophic medicine and therapies and conventional medicine when needed, Dr. Hering is continually astounded by her patients’ ability to overcome illness and expand their abilities.
Dr. Hering lectures nationally and internationally, trains medical students and physicians, and works with schools, teachers and therapists to support children’s healthy development. She is president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM), co-director of PAAM Training, faculty for Anthroposophic medical training and the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teaching Training (BACWTT), and adjunct medical faculty at Touro University, College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a current member of the American Osteopathic Association, American Academy of Osteopathy, the Cranial Academy, and the Physicians Association for Anthroposophic Medicine.
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Join Dr. Hering for her presentation on Introduction to Anthroposophical Medicine
ENVIRONMENT
Dr. Trina Mackie, PhD, MSPH​
Dr. Mackie is an Associate Professor in the Public Health Program at Touro University California. Her research looks at spatial distribution of risk to identify and address environmental injustice, community partnerships to work for climate justice, environmental education to support youth power and action, and the contributions of citizen science to quantify and reduce environmental exposures. She has worked on environmental health issues in the non-profit, private, and governmental sectors looking at pesticide health risks, bioaccumulation of pollutants in the food chain, air pollution and water pollution.
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Join Dr. Mackie for her presentation on Building a Healthy Environment Indoor and Out: Pollution Sources from Air to Noise and How to Mitigate Them
OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATIVE TREATMENT
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Dr. R. Mitchell Hiserote
Dr. R. Mitchell Hiserote D.O. is a California native and alumnus of Western University of Health Sciences - College of Osteopathic Medicine (Pomona CA) where he concurrently completed an Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. His post graduate training was completed at Arrowhead Regional Medical center in Colton, CA. His deeper exposure to Osteopathy first began in 1996 under Dr V. Frymann DO, and has continued to the present day as a course director, lecturer and/or table faculty for the Osteopathic Promise to Children, past faculty with the Osteopathic Cranial Academy, Western University of Health Sciences, and Southerland Cranial Teaching Foundation. Additionally, has served as clinical preceptor in his private practice. His ongoing enthusiasm for teaching, practice, and articulation of osteopathic medicine has earned him privileged lecture opportunities in venues that have included UC California at Berkeley, UC California at Davis, Paris France and Nagoya Japan. Dr Hiserote currently holds board certification in Neuromusculoskeletal & amp; Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine from the AOA Board of Neuromuscular Medicine, Certification of Proficiency from the Osteopathic Cranial Academy (OCA) and is a Costin scholar from the Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. His academic positions have included Adjunct, Assistant, and Associate Professor, with responsibilities that included Vice Chair and
subsequently Chair of Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine (TUCOM)’s Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Department. Dr Hiserote has served the Osteopathic profession through executive board contributions to the nonprofits Osteopathic Center for Children, Osteopathic Promise to Children, and Osteopathic Cranial Academy as well as NBOME item writer and Journal of the American Osteopathic
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Join Dr. Hiserote for his workshop on Osteopathic Palpation - Pathway to Health Vitality Assessment
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Sarah Barnes BscHons OstMed, DO (UK)​
Sarah Barnes is a registered osteopath with the General Osteopathic Council of Great Britain. She has been in private practice for almost 20 years serving a wide ranging patient population with a variety of complaints at different ages and stages of life. She strives to meet each person with integrity and a deep appreciation for the wholeness of every individual in their particular circumstances and state of health and disease.
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Sarah Barnes has taught internationally - lecturing and training osteopathic medical students since 2007.
She began her teaching career in London as curriculum lead for osteopathic principles and philosophy at the Surrey Institute of Osteopathic Medicine. Since 2011 she has been serving as adjunct faculty at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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She is passionate about osteopathy and its unique contributions to medicine.
Osteopathy has the ability to serve both patient and practitioner to achieve a truly holistic approach to healthcare - one that recognizes the integrity of Mind, Body and Spirit.
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Osteopathy’s unique philosophy provides a framework to further an understanding of each individual. It gives the tools to foster an environment that facilitates the body’s inherent healing capacities to return the person to optimal health.
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Sarah Barnes lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons.
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Join Sarah Barnes as our keynote speaker for her presentation on "Osteopathic, philosophy, principles, and practice". The fundamentals as touchstones for fostering a healing environment
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Symposium Faculty Supervisor
Dr. Nuno is Faculty Supervisor for the Integrative Medicine Club. He will be presenting "Homeopathic Approach to Common Musculoskeletal Injuries" in the Body Track, along with the opening and closing remarks at the Symposium.
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For more information on Dr. Nuño and his presentation, please see his bio above.
Meet the Students
Jaden McDonald, OMS 2
Symposium Co-creator
Kamila Hoenk, OMS 2
Symposium Co-creator
Disha Goel, OMS 2
Symposium Co-creator
