EarthMed.com Announces Health Advisory Board; Internationally recognized leaders join EarthMed.com to provide strategic advice and encourage high standards.

Business/High-Tech Editors, Health/Medical Writers

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2000

EarthMed.com (www.earthmed.com), the leading source for online holistic health information and services for both consumers and practitioners, has formed a "blue ribbon" Health Advisory Board comprised of internationally recognized leaders from the health, business and government sectors.

The 20-member board includes physicians, scientists and practitioners known for their pioneering work in several of the more than 90 unique complementary healthcare specialties included on the Web site. These advisors will provide strategic advice to the company's senior management team and help ensure that EarthMed.com develops and encourages the highest standards in its field.

"The expertise and credibility of our Health Advisory Board members will prove invaluable to our planning process," says Rick Lippin, M.D., EarthMed's chief medical officer and chairman of the newly formed Health Advisory Board.

Joining Dr. Lippin on the board are:

-- Bernard (Bernie) Siegel, M.D. (New Haven, CT), a pioneer of

"humanizing medicine" and mind-body health who developed

practices 30 years ago that are now embraced by complementary

and mainstream physicians alike. A former general and

pediatric surgeon, Dr. Siegel trained at Yale New Haven

Hospital and Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. He authored

the best seller Love, Medicine & Miracles and served as

president of the American Holistic Medical Association.

-- Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. (Boulder, CO), co-founder and former

director of the Mind/Body Clinic at Harvard Medical School's

New England Deaconess Hospital. A Harvard trained psychologist

who authored The New York Times' best seller Minding the Body,

Mending the Mind, she is among the world's top authorities in

psychoneuroimmunology -- the study of how the mind affects

immunity.

-- C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. (Springfield, MO), founder of

the Shealy Wellness Center in Springfield, Missouri, and

chairman of the Department of Energy Medicine at Greenwich

University. Dr. Shealy is founder of the American Holistic

Medical Association.

-- Steven Rosenzweig, M.D., F.A.C.E.P. (Philadelphia, PA),

director of the Center for Integrative Medicine and a clinical

associate professor in the Division of Emergency Surgery at

the Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

-- Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H. (Bethesda, MD), senior scientist

with the National Institutes of Health and an assistant

clinical professor of medicine at the University of Maryland 

School of Medicine.

-- Tiffany Field, Ph.D. (Miami, FL), director of the Touch

Research Institute at the University of Miami School of

Medicine. She has authored three books on massage therapy and

more than 350 professional journal papers.

-- Lawrence Singerman, M.D. (Beechwood, OH), an ophthalmologist 

and international authority on retinal disorders who has

written for numerous publications. Dr. Singerman is president

of Retina Associates in Cleveland and a clinical professor of

ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University.

-- Davis S. Brody, M.D. (Philadelphia, PA), director of the

Division of General Internal Medicine at MCP Hahnemann

University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and a strong

advocate of holistic healthcare.

-- James Pennebaker, Ph.D. (Austin, TX), a professor of

psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of

Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions.

-- Eric Anderson, Ph.D. (King of Prussia, PA), president and CEO 

of Integra Inc., a nationally recognized behavioral healthcare

company in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

-- Thierry Boiron (Newtown Square, PA), president and CEO of

Boiron Homeopathic -- USA, a division of the world's largest

manufacturer of homeopathic medicines.

-- California State Senator John Vasconcellos (13th

District-Santa Clara County), an advocate for laws on

complementary healthcare practices.

-- George Anstadt, M.D. (Rochester, NY), senior physician

consultant at Kodak Medical Services in Rochester, New York,

and former president of the American College of Occupational

and Environmental Medicine.

-- Karen Wolfe, M.B.B.S., M.A. (Mission Viejo, CA), a physician

and highly acclaimed speaker who authored Awaken Your Healer

Within: Lessons for Mind-Body Health.

-- Barbara Levy, M.D. (Federal Way, WA), assistant clinical

professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Yale University School

of Medicine and advocate of holistic gynecology.

-- Guy F. Riekeman, D.C. (Davenport, IA), president of the Palmer

College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.

-- Marlene von Friedrichs-Fitzwater, Ph.D., FAAPP (Sacramento,

CA), an associate clinical professor at the University of

California, Davis, Center for Medical Informatics.

-- Ira Brind (Philadelphia, PA), an investment advisor and

chairman of the Board of Trustees at Thomas Jefferson

University in Philadelphia. He is a benefactor to integrative

medicine causes.

-- Janet Foerster, M.Ed. (Pittsburgh, PA), executive director of

the Society of Prospective Medicine.

EarthMed.com, is a trusted "infomediary" uniting consumers with a network of more than 100,000 practitioners in providing information, education and various services in a wide range of holistic health areas. Its mission is to provide holistic health practitioners with the services and products to help build their client base, lower their costs, develop their skills and connect with their community, while providing consumers with credible and medically accurate health information to empower them to make better informed decisions about their well being.

For more information, visit http://www.earthmed.com