Professor David Peters

David Peters is Professor of Integrated Healthcare and the Clinical Director of the University of Westminster's School of Integrated Health. He is a GP, an osteopath and a homeopath. He directs an R&D programme for complementary therapies at Marylebone Health Centre (MHC) and chairs the Advisory Group on Service Delivery for the Prince of Wales' Foundation for Integrated Healthcare.

Dr William House

William House is a retired general practitioner interested in understanding health and illness in non-medical ways, especially philosophy and the arts. He does research into holistic care, teaches at the University of Bristol Medical School and writes absurd plays.

Dr Sibani Roy

Sibani Roy is a complementary therapist whose fields of expertise include: meditation; elder care; cancer and palliative care. Other fields of interest include: ethical living; hindu medicine and community work. She is a member of the Keele Society Advisory Committee, a trustee for the North Wales Racial Equality Network and a member of the European Society for Medical Philosophy and Social Health Care. She lives in North Wales and has a passion for Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging.

Peter Donebauer

Peter Donebauer has had a life long commitment to holistic life views. He is a full-time moving image artist (again) after 22 years running Diverse Production Ltd, one of the UK's most respected producers of broadcast factual programmes. He is currently a non-executive for Historyworld Ltd and Zamyn Ltd.

David Balen

David Balen is an adviser to Professional Bodies on Insurance and Practice Management Issues, and lectures and writes articles for journals regularly. He is a third-generation Insurance Broker and Independent Financial Adviser, whose Grandfather ran a successful Brokerage in the West End for many years. Having started life as a musician in the 1960s, he later joined the family business in 1970 after debating for some time whether to become a Health Professional himself. David was a Yoga Teacher for 7 years, and also qualified as a Healer, and has been involved in the Natural Health movement since the early 1970s.

Dr Su Mason

Su Mason has been a practicing spiritual healer for 12 years and is Chair of Leeds Healing Centre. She is Director of a Leeds-based charity 'The Positive Care Programme' (which provides a 24 week programme of complementary therapies and motivational workshops for people with long-term illness and carers). Su has a healthcare and research background (She used to be Senior Nursing Sister in a regional children's burn unit, has a PhD in nursing and was Joint Head of the Clinical Trials Research Unit at the University of Leeds until she resigned to set up the above charity).

Mr Simon Mills

Simon Mills has been a leader, writer, researcher and practitioner of herbal medicine since 1977. He is now Project Lead for a DH research project Integrated Self Care in Family Practice at two large NHS practices. He set up innovative postgraduate programmes in complementary health care at the University of Exeter, integrated health at Peninsula Medical School, and the first MSc in Herbal Medicine in the USA. He is Managing Director of SustainCare Community Interest Company, a non-profit body that is integrating a new evidence-base and educational program for the use of plant remedies with other user-directed approaches to self care.

Craig Brown has been a full time NHS general practitioner in Rustington, West Sussex for 25 years. He has a long standing interest in holistic medicine and has trained as a spiritual healer. He has published a book "Optimum Healing' which outlines a practical spiritual approach for people to take towards their illness. Over the last 4 years he has been part of a core group of the Janki Foundation designing and piloting a training program for healthcare professionals called, 'Values in Healthcare, a spiritual approach' published in September 2004.