East West School of Herbal Studies Advisory Board

Roy Upton

Roy Upton is the Executive Director and Editor of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of quality control standards for botanical products. The AHP monographs have been regarded by many as being among the most comprehensive and critically reviewed works on herbal medicine worldwide. Roy is trained in both Western and Traditional Chinese herbalism and has been working professionally as an herbalist for more than 25 years. He is the past president and current vice-president of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG), the Staff Herbalist of Planetary Herbals, a member of the Standards Committee of the American Herbal Products Association and botanical expert advisory committees of AOAC International, NSF International, and the United States Pharmacopoeia. Roy also lectures nationally and internationally and is visiting faculty at Tai Sophia, East-West School, University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, among others. Roy has also authored several books including St. John's Wort and Echinacea in the Good Herb Series of Keat's Publishing and the Botanical Safety Handbook published by CRC Press.

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Dr. Len Saputo M.D.

Len is a board-certified internist with 30 years of experience. He has pioneered the development of an integrative, holistic, person-centered, preventive healthcare model called “Health Medicine.” He is the founder and medical director of the Health Medicine Forum, a non-profit educational foundation, and the Health Medicine Center in Lafayette, CA. Len is an author, motivational speaker, television and radio personality, and two-time world senior singles tennis champion

Alan Keith Tillotson, R.H., Ph.D.

Nai-shing Hu, OMD, L.Ac.

DOCTOR OF CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE AND ACUPUNCTURIST Nai-shing Hu Tillotson (Naixin) is the co-director of Chrysalis. Before emigrating to the United States in 1991 and receiving her national acupuncture certification and license, Nai-shing received her medical degree from the West China University of Medical Sciences and taught Chinese herbal medicine and Acupuncture in Sichuan Province at the Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the third largest traditional medicine center in China. Her past accomplishments include being a member of the Executive board of the American Herbalists Guild, and working as acupuncturist for the family of President Mubarek of Egypt. Her background as a faculty member at one of China's largest and most prestigious Traditional Medicine Universities brings the wealth of Chinese Medicine--universally acknowledged as the most advanced natural medicine system in the world today-- to her patients at Chrysalis. More About Acupuncture

Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa, D.N.-C., R.H.

Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa, D.N.-C., R.H., has over 35 years of experience in alternative medicine, and is one of the foremost herbal experts in North America. He is a long serving national officer of the American Herbalists Guild, and a respected teacher, writer and lecturer who has presented at over120 national conventions and conferences. He has authored or edited 26 books, including The Way of Ayurvedic Herbs, with Michael Tierra, and Body Balance. K.P. Khalsa is a faculty member in the Botanical Medicine Department of Bastyr University, in Seattle, Washington, where he trains naturopathic medical students. He also serves as Senior Research Scientist and Chief Medical Formulator for Yogi Tea.

On a personal note, let me express my love and respect for Michael and Lesley Tierra, who are my good friends and long time colleagues. It is my pleasure to be associated with them and their top notch school.

 James Reinhart RPH

 Jim Reinhart graduated from Oregon State University school of pharmacy in 1972 and practiced in the hospital environment for over 30 years.  In the 1990's Jim became interested in alternative ways in treating health issues.  He enrolled in and graduated from the East West School of Herbology and in 2003 became a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild.  He practices Chinese herbal medicine utilizing water based decoctions as his mode of treatment.  He has continued to study Chinese medicine completing advanced training in Chinese medical herbology and Chinese medical gynecology (Blue Poppy).  He has also studied with Roger Wicke PhD at the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute and has a special interest in blood stasis and its pathomechanisms in geriatric patients.  He and his wife Karla, who is a nurse practitioner, reside in Astoria, Oregon. 

Aviva Romm

Aviva Romm has been an herbalist and midwife for over 20 years. the author of numerous books on natural pregnancy and children's health, she is currently a medical student at Yale School of Medicine, the President of the American Herbalists Guild, and director of Herbal Medicine for Women Certification Program, a comprehensive distance learning program. she is also the mother of four incredible children.

Candis Cantin Kiriajes

Candis Cantin Kiriajes is an herbalist living in California’s High Sierras. She is a senior graduate of the East West Herb Course and presently is a member of our distinguished faculty. She holds degrees from the American Institute of Vedic Studies and in Naturopathic medicine from the Native American Studies Institute. She is the author of the Pocket Guide to Ayurvedic Healing, co-author of The Spirit of Herbs, and over 200 hundred articles published in leading health magazines. She is current author of the East West Ayurvedic Course. Candis has traveled to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia summers of 2003 and 2004 to teach Herbalism to the villagers in the Tien Chen Mountains. She is a founding professional member of the American Herbalists Guild and a much sought after teacher and lecturer at international herbal symposiums.  

Whilst working in conservation and lecturing in ecology and the eco-crisis for the University of Wales, the author became convinced that to heal the world, to embrace planetary wholeness and responsibility for it with hope, he as an individual had to be whole within himself. This moved him to start exploring herbal medicine as a truly ecological healing for the body as well as the spirit. To this end he studied four years with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. He also co-founded a spiritual community in the Preseli Mountain area of West Wales, which is deeply involved in the birthing of the New Age in the hearts and minds of all, especially children. He has been practicing as a consultant medical herbalist for six years, has lectured widely on holistic herbalism, as well as personal and planetary transformation, and has been doing television work and writing as well. He has been active in the environmental movement, standing for Parliament in the 1983 election as a representative of the Ecology Party.

In 1987, after a year long journey embracing North America, China, Russia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, he moved to California and has become deeply involved in the herbal renaissance that is underway in North America. He was appointed to the post of Director of the California School of Herbal Studies, North America's premier centre of herbal education, as well as being elected President of the American Herbalist Guild. He regularly teaches in Canada, the USA and New Zealand.

His commitment to herbalism is a reflection of a deep involvement in transformation - both personal and planetary.