Jon Cox

Jon Cox is a National Geographic Explorer, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design and Project Liaison in the Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories at the University of Delaware. He also serves as a Board Member of the Dorobo Fund for Tanzania and Board member of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research. Cox’s latest published work was a six-year collaborative documentary book project with hunter-gatherers in Tanzania titled Hadzabe, By the Light of a Million Fires. Cox has directed over twenty photographic study abroad programs across the globe including destinations to Antarctica, South East Asia, Tanzania, Australia, Tasmania, Argentina and Peru. He was a pioneer in the field of digital photography, served as the adventure photographer/writer for Digital Camera Magazine and authored two Amphoto digital photography books. Cox is a co-recipient of a National Geographic – Genographic Legacy Fund Grant to support his current collaborative cultural mapping initiative with the Ese’Eja hunter-gatherers living in the Amazonia basin of Peru. A traveling exhibition to accompany this project titled The Ese’Eja People of the Amazon: Connected by a Thread is currently on tour.

Dr. Roger Mustalish, MPH, PhD.

Dr. Roger Mustalish is past President and current Chair of the Board of Directors of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation (ACEER). ACEER is a 501c3 with US headquarters in West Chester, PA, and a field offices in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. The ACEER Foundation designs and implements transformative, experiential learning that develops local and global environmental leaders who work to conserve and restore functioning landscapes in the Amazon Basin. ACEER’s award winning programs have touched the lives of more than a million individuals world-wide.

Dr. Mustalish earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Pennsylvania, a masters in zoology from Michigan State University, and a master of public health and Ph.D. in environmental health from the University of Minnesota.

Under Dr. Mustalish’s guidance and with support from dedicated staff, board members, volunteers and interns, ACEER pioneered the scientific and educational applications of canopy walkway systems in the rainforest where new species of plants and animals have been discovered; created medicinal plant gardens that have yielded successful new medicines; and offered creative educational programs that won Peru’s top environmental award.

Dr. Mustalish is also Professor Emeritus at West Chester University of Pennsylvania where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in botanical medicine, integrative health, and mind/body medicine; served as Interim Dean of health sciences; and was Chair of the Department of Health for 16 years.

Having traveled to the Amazon rainforest more than 80 times, Dr. Mustalish has conducted field courses, research, workshops, and training programs as part of ACEER’s capacity building programs. He was also instrumental in securing over $12 million for ACEER operations and programs.

Dr. Mustalish resides on his farm in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Antonio Montero Pisco, Master Shaman, Amazon Rainforest

Shaman Antonio has been a shaman in the Peruvian Amazon for more than 50 years. When he was only 5 years old, his grandparents, who were shamans in a northern Peruvian Amazon village, recognized that Antonio had a “gift” regarding healing plants. To develop this “gift” they took Antonio deep into the forest where he could learn directly from the forest spirits. Being so young, he was reluctant and scared at first. But his grandparents persisted and eventually Antonio accepted his calling and learned about medicinal plants and ceremony. In his young adulthood, Antonio worked with a number of government and non-government agencies seeking to chronicle medicinal plants in the Amazon. After moving to Iquitos, where he still lives with his family, Antonio took work at an eco-tourism lodge to make extra money. It is there that he met renowned ethnobotanist Dr. James Duke. They soon formed a life long friendship. In 1996, Antonio became curator of the medicinal plant gardens created by the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER). He worked with Dr. Duke to create the ReNuPeRu ethnobotanical garden where hundreds of individuals have studied medicinal plants and benefited from the passion and knowledge that Antonio offers. Antonio continues his shamanic practice in Iquitos, and welcomes opportunities to share his wisdom with others in health and healing workshops offered by the ACEER.

Dr. James Hawver

DR. JAMES HAWVER, is a Doctor of Natural Medicine and educator with over 40-years of experience in the natural health care field. Having graduated from the First National University of Naturopathy in Chattanooga, TN, USA, he is committed to finding better health assessment alternatives than what is available in the traditional medical community. Thus, Hawver headed up the development of the computerized stress assessment system on the cutting edge of Electro-Dermal Screening and provides the natural healthcare practitioner with an incomparable health-issue assessment tool.

In his ongoing efforts to provide effective and high quality treatment solutions his company, Standard Enzyme Company of North America, LLC, established in 1985, has become a leading distributor of vitamin and mineral supplements, herbal remedies and homeopathic formulations/combinations to health care professionals. All of the SEC products are of the highest purity standards in the industry and are produced under the most stringent of criteria. For this reason, they have become a widely respected and utilized product line in the United States and abroad.

Hawver has facilitated well over a 1000 health care professionals to become certifi ed in Electro-Dermal Screening. His training facility, located in Bremen, Georgia, conducts bi-annual Certification courses which cover basic anatomy and physiology, hand and foot acupuncture methodology, homeopathy, homotoxicology, and, of course, EDS Technology.

He is also President of the much respected Bremen Health Clinic, established in 1995, which specializes in Electro-Dermal Stress Analysis and Chelation Therapy. This Clinic leads the field in providing natural health care providers and patients with quality alternative medical solutions for oftentimes, very serious healthcare concerns. Breman Health Clinic is also attended to by a medical staff including a medical doctor(MD), a nurse care practitioner, a chiropractor, and amassage therapist, among others. A wide variety of additional health care services are offered at Hawver’s clinic including Lymph-Star Decongestive Therapy, Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, and Detoxifying Footbaths. As an avid advocate for Naturopathic Medicine and natural health care in general, Hawver’s enthusiasm for alternative medical care has taken him all over the world. He has articipated in numerous research and pro-bono medical treatment expeditions to the Amazon jungle and various towns of South America. His educational seminars and speaking engagements on natural health have taken him to Austria, Greece, the Canary Islands, South America, and Jamaica.

Hawver sat on the Medical Advisory Board of the Amazon Herb Company and has ongoing interests with the development of new herbal health solutions, most notably the new Rainforst Blends. He feels passionate about these outstanding products and the difference they’ve made in the lives of so many of his clients. Hawver is a key board member of the Association of Natural Health which empowers natural health care practitioners within their businesses, practices, and communities to be able to practice more freely and effectively. As an accomplished speaker and educator, as well as healthcare practitioner, his mission remains to open the eyes of the public to the natural alternatives that exist and to teach them how to utilize them for optimum health.