Professor Dr. Asmita Wele is the head of the Department of Rasashastra and Bhaishajya-Kalpana (Ayurvedic pharmacology) at the College of Ayurveda Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University in Pune, India. She has obtained international career exposure over the past 35 years in the field of Traditional Complementary Integrative Medicine. Her deliberations with international stakeholders since her student years have honed her interpersonal and administrative skills. She completed a 3-year tenure as chair and professor and was awarded Honorary Professorship at the University of Debrecen, Hungary.

Presently working as a member of the Board of Ayurveda NCISM, Ministry of Ayush Government of India.

A renowned Ayurveda physician, academician researcher, and motivational speaker.

Ex-member Governing body and SFC, CCRAS, New Delhi.

During 26 years of teaching, he guided 17 MD (Ay) students and visited all over India as an examiner, trainer, and expert member of different committees.

Organized 10 national seminars, four national workshops, and 50 webinars. Got 1Patent and published 22 papers—53 lectures delivered in different CME and Seminars.

Founding Secretary of the Academy of Roga Nidan and life member of All India Ayurved Specialist (PG) association, National Academy of Panchkarma and Research, Indian Society of Parasitology, Vigyan Bharti, Vishwa Ayurveda Parishad.

Born into a family of a Rasa Vaidya, Dehradun-based Vaidya Balendu Prakash practices one of the eight classical forms of Ayurveda called ‘Rasa Shastra’.

During his nearly four decades of clinical experience, Prakash has conceptualized and developed research-based products, all based on classical references mentioned in Ayurvedic texts, including a few developed by his father Vaidya Chandra Prakash, who was also a Vaidya. These products have been based on clinical evidence created by Prakash following good clinical practice.

Chandrabhushan Jha has practiced clinical Ayurveda using rasa-aushadhis for over 45 years.

He has published over 200 papers, formally guided 24 MD theses and 16 Ph.D. theses of rasa shastra, and served as external examiner for hundreds of examinations, meeting most of the notable faculty and students of rasa shastra in India.

He served as the only Professor Emeritus of Rasa Shastra at Banaras Hindu University after working in the Department of Rasa Shastra for 34 years. He also served as Head of Department four times, superintendent of the Ayurvedic Pharmacy for over a decade and Dean of the BHU Faculty of Ayurveda from 2011 until 2014.

He has been a senior CCIM advisor for the Government of India, deputed for events throughout India related to Ayurvedic education on a regular basis. He is also a Professor at the BHU Bharat Addhyaan Kendra (Center for India Studies), where he leads programs and content on ancient Indian chemistry focusing on rasa-aushadhis and basic and clinical aspects of bhasma preparation and use.

Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) is a Vedic teacher (Vedacharya) and author of over fifty published books on Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedanta, and Vedic studies translated into twenty languages worldwide.

Vamadeva received the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award of the government of India, in 2015, for his Vedic educational work. He has a Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from S-VYASA and Ram Manohar Lohia Ayodhya University.

He has been one of the primary teachers bringing Yoga and Ayurveda to the West, helping to found Ayurvedic programs, schools, and associations in North and South America, Europe, and Russia.

AYUSH in India has honored his work on both Ayurveda and Yoga on several occasions. He has lectured on Ayurveda in universities and Ayurvedic schools throughout India.

Vamadeva is the director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies in the United States, which offers resources and courses in Vedic knowledge systems of Yoga, Vedanta, Ayurveda, and Jyotish.

Dr. Gallo is an American oceanographer and science communicator. For more than 35 years, Gallo has been at the forefront of deep oceanic exploration, participating in development of new technologies and scientific discoveries that shape our view of planet earth. He is described by TED as “an enthusiastic ambassador between the sea and those of us on dry land.” With more than 18 million views on his TED talk, “Underwater Astonishments” is among the top TED Talks to date; he has given more than 10 TED and TEDx presentations and has appeared in numerous documentaries.

Gallo earned his BS and MS in geology from SUNY-Albany and his PhD in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, then worked at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a preeminent, globally-recognized scientific laboratory, with Professor and Navy Commander Robert Ballard, discovering the RMS Titanic in 1985.

Gallo has participated in expeditions to all of the world’s oceans and was one of the first scientists to use a combination of robots and submarines to explore the deep seafloor. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a National Fellow of The Explorers Club, and a recent recipient of the Lotus Club Distinguished Achievement Award in Science. In recognition of his role in exploration and communications, David is the co-recipient of a Computerworld-Smithsonian Award. He is a member of the XPrize Deep Ocean Advisory Board and James Cameron’s Deep Ocean Task Force.

Gallo is outspoken about the relationship between humanity, the sea, the microbiomes in different ecosystems, and the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. He discovered ayurveda when he was in India exploring his love of aachar. Like ayurveda, oceans hold the clues to our past, currently unexplored and misunderstood.

Divya Alter is a certified nutritional consultant, educator, and chef in the Shaka Vansiya Ayurveda tradition. She’s the co-founder of the Divya’s brand, which includes a plant-based restaurant in New York City, retail food products, and educational videos.

Alter is also the co-founder of Bhagavat Life, a nonprofit Ayurvedic culinary school. Alter is the author of What to Eat for How You Feel and Joy of Balance.

Dr. Harish Verma is a 4th generation ayurvedacharya from Punjab, as well as a teacher and successful entrepreneur.

Currently living in Toronto, he earned his BAMS degree with Gold Medal as first in university from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. As a physician, he is famous for research and ayurvedic treatment of ulcerative colitis, chronic hepatitis, kidney stones, and rheumatoid arthritis.

He is co-author of Secrets of Ayurveda and founder of Best Ayurveda Limited in Canada, Canadian College of Ayurveda & Yoga Inc, as well as a powerful community organizer of several international initiatives in Ayurveda.

Ismat Dhala focuses on Traditional Indian Medicine as a whole with her expertise in the art & science of Marma-Nadi, which has been an extremely valuable contribution to Canadian Natural health care.

With three decades of experience, she has spearheaded a social impact organization, Centre for Ayurveda & Indian Systems of Healing (CAISH), carefully guiding its growth since its inception in 2002.

Most importantly, she makes Ayurveda & Marma Chikitsa accessible and relevant to modern Canadians. She has been featured often by the media in Canada & the UK and appeared in Forbes Magazine in 2022.

Professor Kuldeep Kr. Pandey began his career at Banaras Hindu University in 1988, earning his MD (Ayu) in Shalya-Shalakya Tantra in 1991, then serving as Senior Resident in Sangyaharan (ayurvedic anesthesia) at the Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, and completing his PhD in 1994.

He currently serves as Head of the Department of Sangyaharan. He focuses his research on pain management, modernizing historical methods of anesthesia found in ancient texts of Ayurveda, palliative care, clinical treatment of cancers, and medical aspects of Sangyaharan.

In addition to his expertise in anesthesia, he uses marma therapy in clinical practice. He has a Diploma in Yoga and a BSc in sciences from the University of Allahabad and four years’ training as the Medical Officer of modern Anesthesia at IMSS Hospital of BHU.

He has guided 11 PhDs, with eight current PhD students, and 28 master theses in related subjects.

Dr. Naik is Board certified in obesity and emergency medicine. She is also certified by the Institute of Functional Medicine and the Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine.

After practicing acute care medicine at the busiest trauma centers in New York, she pursued Holistic Medicine for her own healing journey. Her practice, Spectrum Integrative Health,  focuses on blending ancient healing modalities with evidence-based western medicine to help people heal with various conditions with a focus on obesity, metabolic/hormonal health, and longevity medicine.

Dr. Madan Thangavelu is a genome biologist living in Cambridge, UK, with a diverse academic background and range of research interests. He is a native of Kerala and has a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and a Master’s in Plant Breeding and Genetics, both from Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana.

As an Inlaks Foundation Scholar at the University of Cambridge (1982 Trinity Hall), his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics focused on the genes for the cytoskeletal protein actin, and his post-doctoral research experiences span areas in plant, fungal, bacterial, and human cancer genomics.

He is the inventor of the Molecular Copy Counting technique, and his current primary research interest is the development of single DNA molecule and single cell techniques for genome analysis. These techniques provided unusual insights into genomic variation, the highly plastic nature of the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, and the epigenome and uncertainty in biology, leading him to study deeper concepts of Ayurveda.

He is the General Secretary and Research Director of the European Ayurveda Association. He is Honorary Adjunct Professor at the TransDisciplinary University, Bangalore, India, Center for Functional Genomics & Bioinformatics.

Melina Takvorian-Mishra (Ph.D.) was working on completing her inter-disciplinary doctoral dissertation on the transgenerational transmission of trauma when she discovered Ayurveda in Rishikesh, India, during a backpacking trip in 1998.

Upon returning to the USA, she consulted with Vaidya Ramakant Mishra. She could immediately see how the ayurvedic dietary and herbal protocols had a tremendous impact not just on her physiology but on others. She decided to leave academia behind and delve into Ayurveda.

Thus began her business and educational partnership with Vaidya Mishra. Together they established two companies – one for pranic formulations and another for ayurvedic consultancy and education.

Melina has been running the companies on her own since Vaidya Mishra passed away in 2017.

Professor Pallatheri Nambi Namboodiri is a fourth-generation ayurvedic physician growing up in a household filled with elephants living around his grandfather, one of Kerala’s great hasta-vaidyas, ayurvedic veterinarians.

He is the Director and Senior Physician of Nagarjuna Ayurveda Centre (a 70 bedded hospital) as part of his family heritage group of companies, Nagarjuna Ayurveda. He travels between his clinics in Chennai and Kochi.

Dr. Nambi received a BAMS degree as Ayurvedacharya from The Venkataramana Ayurveda College, Chennai, and an MD (Ayurveda) Vachaspathi in Dravya Guna from BRKR Govt. Ayurveda College, Hyderabad in 2004. He was a Professor and Head of Department at Agada Tantra, Sri Sairam Ayurvedic Medical College in Chennai. He has traveled to teach ayurveda in the USA, UAE, Malaysia, Singapore, Egypt, France, and Italy, and is senior faculty at the DINacharya Institute in New York. He is fluent in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Sanskrit, and English.

Dr. Diaz is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine who spent ten years in Asia and Europe searching for renowned traditional healers, doctors, and gurus who could teach her lesser-known methods of the healing arts.

Her medical knowledge began with Chinese acupuncture but then branched out to several of the world’s oldest medical systems, such as Tibetan, Indian, and other ancient healing traditions. She traveled to over 25 foreign countries and apprenticed with master healers such as Yeshi Dhoden, the personal physician to the Dalai Lama.

She trained as an Ayurveda therapist in India. She noticed that the Indian God of medicine, Dhanvantari held a leech in one of his four hands, which led her to become an expert in Medicinal Leech Therapy. She is now one of only a handful of physicians who practices in the United States.

She gained Leech Therapy certification and first-hand experience in Germany, Russia, and Turkey to become a highly skilled leech therapist who brings several healing traditions together for optimal results.

Her greatest achievement as a doctor is being a part of the world-renowned Ripley’s Believe It or Not 100-year anniversary hardcover book edition featuring Cleopatra’s beauty secret, the blood facial.

Dr. Partap Chauhan is an Ayurvedic physician, author, public speaker, TV personality, and the pioneer of Ayurvedic Telemedicine.

He started the world’s first Ayurvedic website, jiva.com, in 1995 and is the only Ayurvedic doctor to have won the prestigious “World Summit Award” given by United Nations Organization. He is the founder and director of Jiva Ayurveda, a company that runs a network of 80 clinics all over India and the world’s largest Ayurvedic Telemedicine Center, consulting 8000 patients daily.

Dr. Chauhan has traveled to more than 40 countries spreading the knowledge of Ayurveda to common people. He has established Jiva Ayurveda Schools in Japan, France, Poland, and Lithuania and is a Lifetime Ashoka Fellow. He has published the first-ever Big Data analysis on Ayurveda.

Dr. Garodia is quadruple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine and is a nationally board-certified Health & Wellness Coach. She has also trained extensively in Functional Medicine, Ayurveda, Yoga, Acupuncture, Mind-Body techniques, Positive psychology, Biofeedback, and clinical Hypnosis.

Dr. Garodia serves as the National Education Champion for Whole Health at the VA, Whole Health Section Chief, and Clinical Medical Director at Miami VA, has published several papers and co-authored book chapters.

Dr. Garodia is an avid Master gardener and loves traveling, nature, hiking, and creating delicious plant-based Āyurvedic recipes for her loved ones.

Vaidya Priyanka Ingle-Jadhav is a Physician trained in Ayurveda and Pharmaceutical Medicine through a Graduate degree (BAMS), Master’s, Ph.D., and post-doctoral research focusing on translational and integrative aspects of modern and traditional science. She has contributed to research and patient healthcare in academia, industry, and practice throughout her career.  She focuses on integrating traditional wisdom with conventional science to holistically support health goals for nearly two decades.

Rajiv Vasudevan is the Founder & CEO of AyurVAID Hospitals. AyurVAID is India’s first NABH-accredited Ayurveda hospital and the first and only National Quality Award winner from the Ayurveda sector. AyurVAID has recently become a subsidiary of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd., India’s biggest integrated healthcare enterprise.

Rajiv holds a B.Tech(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, and a P.G.D.M. from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Rajiv is a Member of the Ministry of AYUSH’s National Advisory Committee, a Member of Niti Aayog’s Expert Committee on Integrative Medicine, and a Member of the Ayush Grid Expert Committee.

Lived since childhood the Ayurveda way and trained through the gurukul of Rasa Vaidya Ayurvedaratna BSVPandit, Dr. Rangesh Paramesh completed his formal degrees BSAM and MD(Ayurveda) in Dravyaguna, Rasashastra, and Bhaishajya-Kalapana.

After working as a university teacher at Government Ayurveda Medical Colleges in Bengaluru and Mysuru in Ayurvedic pharmaceutics, as well as a research guide to more than 20 post-graduates for over 15 years, he joined The Himalaya Drug Company 25 years ago and rose to Global CSO. He is currently Director – Intellectual Property.

He has co-authored several chapters, worked as an Ayurveda consultant helping to establish Ayurveda clinics in the EU & UK, and conducted Ayurveda seminars worldwide.

Ranjit Puranik is Managing Director of Shree Dhootapapeshwar Limited, a family-led enterprise over five generations and 150+ years, manufacturing Ayurvedic formulations.

Ranjit also serves as President of Ayurvidya Prasarak Mandal, a 65-year Ayurvedic College and teaching hospital campus. He serves as a Trustee of the World Ayurveda Foundation and the All India Ayurveda Congress. He has represented the AYUSH industry for almost 25 years advocating for medicinal plants, regulatory reform, traditional medicines, and classical syntax as represented in Ayurveda.

Rohit Gandhi is the Founder and Former Editor-in-Chief WION and DNA Newspaper. He is an award-winning international journalist, documentary filmmaker and news manager with over 32 years of experience across 40 nations.

A Columbia Dupont and Emmy recipient with multiple Emmy nominations, including one for investigative journalism. Rohit Gandhi is a specialist in creating news organizations from scratch. He creates a vision and then creates news organizations. He has spent most of his time as a journalist in the War Zones of the world, including Afghanistan and Iraq, and is known in the business for his war frontline coverage.

His master’s degree is dedicated to the mental health and PTSD in journalists on the front lines of the world. He is setting up a new global news network and creating a documentary from Kashmir. The documentary is expected to be released next month. The working title is Kashmir vs. Kashmir.

Dr. Rohit Sane is a Managing Director & CEO of Madhavbaug Clinics & Hospitals in India. Dr. Sane is MBBS (Medicine and Surgery) and has a fellowship in cardiac rehabilitation.

Shashank Sandu, is the Director of 123-year-old Sandu Brothers Pvt Ltd, founded in 1899, and also a Director of Sandu Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Both companies manufacture and market Ayurvedic formulations. 

He holds a MBA and Masters in Commerce was selected for the unique course in Entrepreneurship Development, “Management of Family Business,” by the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India-Ahmedabad 

• Treasurer-Ayurvedic Drug Manufacturers Association (ADMA), a Pan India body representing Ayurveda Industry
• Member of Confederation of Indian Industry.
• Life Member of World Trade Center, Mumbai

He has traveled to over 25 countries for the promotion of Herbal Medicines. 

He is a keen sportsman interested in Cricket and Golf. He was a Professional Cricketer in the Lancashire minor county League in the United Kingdom and represented the West Zone Universities Cricket Team at All India Rohinton Baria. Was Golf Captain of the Bombay Presidency Golf Club, one of the oldest golf clubs in India.

He is an Ex-Professor of the National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur. He has a rich 40 years of experience as a Consultant Physician, an Academician, a Mentor, an Author, a Researcher, and a Counselor. Currently, he is a Director of ArogyaLaxmi, Jaipur.

He has guided eleven Ph.D. theses and co-guided six. He has delivered over 400 Extension Lectures, Guest speeches, Keynote addresses, lectures at CME at various prestigious Institutions, and National & International Seminars. Also, 57 Research papers were published in various National Journals/ Souvenirs.

His love for teaching and spreading the treasure of Ayurveda has blossomed in more than 5000 UG, PG, and Ph.D. scholars.

Dr. Khalsa has had a life-long interest in mindful living as the basis for the long-term vitality of mind, body, and spirit.

She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at The Mayo Clinic in 2005 and is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and Hospice/Palliative Medicine. Dr. Khalsa has deepened her studies on health and healing by participating in a 2-year full-time program on Ayurveda at The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque and India. She has dedicated her career to promoting an increased understanding in clinical medicine of the link between long-term vitality and the daily choices we make.

Smrita Choubey is the Founder & CEO of Veda Farms, a vertically integrated Ayurvedic wellness company headquartered at a 254-acre farm in New Jersey.

Smrita started her career in healthcare investment banking and realized that the American healthcare system had many systemic challenges preventing our society from being happy and healthy.

She decided to use the knowledge she gained studying economics at the University of Chicago and getting her MBA at Columbia Business School, along with the healthcare and corporate strategy skills she gained from working at J.P. Morgan and American Express, to start an alternative healthcare company rooted in Ayurveda.

She started Veda Farms to grow, research, and formulate plant-based alternatives to mass-marketed pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Sukumar Sadanand Sardeshmukh, BAMS, MBA, hails from a continuous 11-generation lineage of Ayurvedic physicians, specifically acclaimed for their expertise in nadi pariksha to accurately diagnose illness. Alongside his father and ancestors, Dr. Sukumar practices ayurveda with cancer patients at India’s first Integrated Cancer Research Hospital in the Wagholi district on the northeast outskirts of Pune, integrating panchakarma, the use of bhasmas, and individualized drug formulations based on handmade products made by the family company, Atharva Nature Healthcare.

Dr. Usha Peri is double board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology.  She has been the founding partner of NTKDA, a private nephrology group practice in the Lewisville-Flower Mound area of Texas, for the past 20 years.

She holds a master’s in healthcare management for physicians from UTD  Navin Jindal school of management. She held and continues to hold many leadership roles in her practice as well as in affiliated hospitals.