Clinical Advisory Board
The Women’s Hormone Network is honored to introduce our
exceptional Clinical Advisory Board
There is a lot of misinformation about hormone replacement therapy, which has caused confusion to both doctors and patients alike. We have carefully chosen our CAB because of their extensive knowledge and longtime clinical expertise working with bioidentical hormones especially Physiologic Restoration. Each is committed to assist WHN in a variety of ways according to their proficiency -- such as assisting with educational growth, advising on and fine-tuning our research studies, as well keeping us abreast of the most advanced science of Physiologic Restoration. One of the most important roles of our esteemed CAB is to provide support and advice to new and existing prescribing professional members only on dosing and patient responses.
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Dr. Brooke Azie-Rentz, or Dr. Brooke, as she’s affectionately known by her patients, founded, owns, and directs the medical operations of Alpine Integrated Medicine, in Redmond, WA. With a focus on Women’s Health and Hormone Therapies, AIM started as just Dr. Brooke’s private practice, and over the last 8 years has grown into one of the premier Integrative Medical Clinics in the Puget Sound.
Dr. Brooke serves on the Board of Directors for the WANP (Washington Association of Naturopathic Physicians), has been named one of the best doctors in Washington, and is also an active mentor for ND graduates, with AIM hosting two Residents each year as part of the prestigious INM Residency Consortium. In her off time, Dr. Brooke enjoys live music, getting outside, skiing, and playing with her husband, two children, and their dog, Huckleberry.
Dr. Banyas is a physician, teacher and healer. She has dedicated her career to integrating the modalities of Traditional, Eastern and Functional Medicine with newer techniques that cater to natural healing, longevity and resilience.
She lectures and gives workshops on topics including psychiatry, nutritional supplementation and energy medicine. She has authored and co-authored book chapters in medical text books on "Geriatric Depression" and "The Origins of the Frontal Lobes of the Brain." She has also published numerous articles on medication management in Geriatric Psychiatry.
Over the past nine years Dr. Banyas has implemented a more holistic approach to mental health and wellness. She continues to explore and expand new frontiers into the cause and treatment of disease on an energetic level in combination with natural medicine, nutraceutical supplementation, homeopathics and bio-identical hormone replacement in her private practice. With this more holistic approach she helps people come off of psychotropic drugs and uses more natural alternatives to medication.
Dr. Banyas utilizes her specialized credentials to listen, educate and provide true healing by teaching everyone how to optimize health and prevent and/or eliminate disease, restore vitality and to tap into their body's dynamic ability to heal itself.
Gretchen Jones, PA is a certified physician assistant specializing in hormone therapy and internal medicine. Along beside her internal medicine clinical experience, she has helped thousands of women effectively and safely manage hormone deficiencies. A recognized expert in the use of bio-identical hormones for treating ovarian dysfunction, menopause, peri-menopause and low testosterone in women and men, Gretchen Jones is a leading advocate for changing the way in which hormone therapy is understood and managed by physicians. She provides the expertise, the experience, and the energy behind bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.
Having completed her medical degree in physician assistant studies at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, she then worked in a rural town of Wilmington, Illinois for over 7 years which later became a life changing event for her and the beginning of her experience with rhythmic hormone therapy.
Gretchen Jones, PA is a certified physician assistant specializing in hormone therapy and internal medicine. Along beside her internal medicine clinical experience, she has helped thousands of women effectively and safely manage hormone deficiencies. A recognized expert in the use of bio-identical hormones for treating ovarian dysfunction, menopause, peri-menopause and low testosterone in women and men, Gretchen Jones is a leading advocate for changing the way in which hormone therapy is understood and managed by physicians. She provides the expertise, the experience, and the energy behind bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.
Having completed her medical degree in physician assistant studies at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, she then worked in a rural town of Wilmington, Illinois for over 7 years which later became a life changing event for her and the beginning of her experience with rhythmic hormone therapy.
Dr. Banyas is a physician, teacher and healer. She has dedicated her career to integrating the modalities of Traditional, Eastern and Functional Medicine with newer techniques that cater to natural healing, longevity and resilience.
She lectures and gives workshops on topics including psychiatry, nutritional supplementation and energy medicine. She has authored and co-authored book chapters in medical text books on "Geriatric Depression" and "The Origins of the Frontal Lobes of the Brain." She has also published numerous articles on medication management in Geriatric Psychiatry.
Over the past nine years Dr. Banyas has implemented a more holistic approach to mental health and wellness. She continues to explore and expand new frontiers into the cause and treatment of disease on an energetic level in combination with natural medicine, nutraceutical supplementation, homeopathics and bio-identical hormone replacement in her private practice. With this more holistic approach she helps people come off of psychotropic drugs and uses more natural alternatives to medication.
Dr. Banyas utilizes her specialized credentials to listen, educate and provide true healing by teaching everyone how to optimize health and prevent and/or eliminate disease, restore vitality and to tap into their body's dynamic ability to heal itself.
Dr. Brooke Azie-Rentz, or Dr. Brooke, as she’s affectionately known by her patients, founded, owns, and directs the medical operations of Alpine Integrated Medicine, in Redmond, WA. With a focus on Women’s Health and Hormone Therapies, AIM started as just Dr. Brooke’s private practice, and over the last 8 years has grown into one of the premier Integrative Medical Clinics in the Puget Sound.
Dr. Brooke serves on the Board of Directors for the WANP (Washington Association of Naturopathic Physicians), has been named one of the best doctors in Washington, and is also an active mentor for ND graduates, with AIM hosting two Residents each year as part of the prestigious INM Residency Consortium. In her off time, Dr. Brooke enjoys live music, getting outside, skiing, and playing with her husband, two children, and their dog, Huckleberry.
Anthony Llabres is a Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. Anthony graduated from USNY with a degree in the Biological Sciences and a Minor in Psychology. Anthony has several Functional Medicine Certifications from the nation’s top schools and serves as a Mentor and Consultant for the School of Applied Functional Medicine.
Anthony is a veteran of the Army and Air Force Reserves (Aerospace Medical Technician) and in 2014 retired after a distinguished 29 career with the Federal Aviation Administration.
In his spare time, Anthony enjoys playing ice hockey, weight training, and researching the world of health and wellness with a focus on hormone optimization.
Anthony’s practice now specializes in hormone counseling/consulting and assisting allopathic practitioners with their training and networking in Functional Medicine.
Dana Nelson is award winning Healthplus Pharmacy provided consistent stellar San Luis Obispo community services from 1987 - 2013; it included Skilled Nursing Facilities care consultation and featured principal participation upon various California Central Coast Medically Oriented Boards with professional recognition stretching from San Miguel to Solvang. Dana effectively revived and implemented improved modern long term care approaches, likewise praised for his notable rural Cambria Village Pharmacy operating from 1996 - 2013 as a small community outlet serving an isolated area—however offering practical urban efficiency providing everything from durable medical equipment and nutraceuticals to flu shot clinics through PT/INR consultation plus personalized prescription consultations.
Dana's innovative Healthplus Pharmacy leadership designed and instituted a successful Departmental Team Approach, therein recognizing and implementing professional staff independence for capable office nurses, nutritionists, acupuncturists and physicians. That goal as achieved represents a unique continuum of organized pharmacy specialist responsibility through acute, subacute, long term and ambulatory care.
Dana is credentialed in Sweet Success and gestational diabetes education, his Healthplus Pharmacy actively specialized in bioidentical hormone replacement treatment (BHRT) for men and women, and was appointed as the Pharmacist-in-Charge Trainer for Wiley Protocol Registered Pharmacies--a highly ranked and medically regarded clinical pharmacy approach working within collaborative agreements for various BHRT protocols from 2005 – 2013, In collaboration with T.S. Wiley he worked on and published “The Wiley Protocol Pharmacy Training Manual" © Copyright 2009.
Dana is currently on sabbatical.
Dr. Rebecca Provorse grew up in rural northern California and spent her adolescence wandering the hills, vineyards and orchards of Sonoma and Mendocino counties. Her innate love of the natural world became woven into her wonder of science and medicine. She was pre-med at UC Berkeley in California and completed her bachelor's of science from the University of Oregon. In 2004 she graduated from the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) with a doctorate in naturopathy (ND) and a masters in Oriental Medicine (MSOM). She has taught at the graduate level, spoken at numerous professional events and published herbal monographs for supplement companies.
For over 15 years, Dr. Provorse has been in private practice specializing in endocrinology (hormone-related disorders). She was the first rhythmic dosing practitioner in Oregon, blazing trails in this state using circannual rhythmic replacement. She continues to offer this revolutionary hormone therapy (as well as static HRT options) to cis- and transgender adults in her practice for optimal wellness. Many endocrine disorders have an autoimmune component, so Dr. Provorse has become well-versed in many of those conditions: especially Hashimoto's and Grave's disease. Dr. Provorse is a member of the endoANP (endocrinology association of naturopathic physicians).
Dr. Rebecca Provorse grew up in rural northern California and spent her adolescence wandering the hills, vineyards and orchards of Sonoma and Mendocino counties. Her innate love of the natural world became woven into her wonder of science and medicine. She was pre-med at UC Berkeley in California and completed her bachelor's of science from the University of Oregon. In 2004 she graduated from the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) with a doctorate in naturopathy (ND) and a masters in Oriental Medicine (MSOM). She has taught at the graduate level, spoken at numerous professional events and published herbal monographs for supplement companies.
For over 15 years, Dr. Provorse has been in private practice specializing in endocrinology (hormone-related disorders). She was the first rhythmic dosing practitioner in Oregon, blazing trails in this state using circannual rhythmic replacement. She continues to offer this revolutionary hormone therapy (as well as static HRT options) to cis- and transgender adults in her practice for optimal wellness. Many endocrine disorders have an autoimmune component, so Dr. Provorse has become well-versed in many of those conditions: especially Hashimoto's and Grave's disease. Dr. Provorse is a member of the endoANP (endocrinology association of naturopathic physicians).
Anthony Llabres is a Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. Anthony graduated from USNY with a degree in the Biological Sciences and a Minor in Psychology. Anthony has several Functional Medicine Certifications from the nation’s top schools and serves as a Mentor and Consultant for the School of Applied Functional Medicine.
Anthony is a veteran of the Army and Air Force Reserves (Aerospace Medical Technician) and in 2014 retired after a distinguished 29 career with the Federal Aviation Administration.
In his spare time, Anthony enjoys playing ice hockey, weight training, and researching the world of health and wellness with a focus on hormone optimization.
Anthony’s practice now specializes in hormone counseling/consulting and assisting allopathic practitioners with their training and networking in Functional Medicine.
Dana Nelson is award winning Healthplus Pharmacy provided consistent stellar San Luis Obispo community services from 1987 - 2013; it included Skilled Nursing Facilities care consultation and featured principal participation upon various California Central Coast Medically Oriented Boards with professional recognition stretching from San Miguel to Solvang. Dana effectively revived and implemented improved modern long term care approaches, likewise praised for his notable rural Cambria Village Pharmacy operating from 1996 - 2013 as a small community outlet serving an isolated area—however offering practical urban efficiency providing everything from durable medical equipment and nutraceuticals to flu shot clinics through PT/INR consultation plus personalized prescription consultations.
Dana's innovative Healthplus Pharmacy leadership designed and instituted a successful Departmental Team Approach, therein recognizing and implementing professional staff independence for capable office nurses, nutritionists, acupuncturists and physicians. That goal as achieved represents a unique continuum of organized pharmacy specialist responsibility through acute, subacute, long term and ambulatory care.
Dana is credentialed in Sweet Success and gestational diabetes education, his Healthplus Pharmacy actively specialized in bioidentical hormone replacement treatment (BHRT) for men and women, and was appointed as the Pharmacist-in-Charge Trainer for Wiley Protocol Registered Pharmacies--a highly ranked and medically regarded clinical pharmacy approach working within collaborative agreements for various BHRT protocols from 2005 – 2013, In collaboration with T.S. Wiley he worked on and published “The Wiley Protocol Pharmacy Training Manual" © Copyright 2009.
Dana is currently on sabbatical.
Native southern Californian and valedictorian of her graduating class at Mount Saint Mary's College, Julie Taguchi graduated from the USC’s School of Medicine. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology, Dr. Taguchi began her career at the City of Hope’s Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation and then relocated to Santa Barbara’s Sansum Clinic in 1993. She is the principal investigator for the oncology department’s clinical research programs with UCLA’s TORI network and US Oncology and is an assistant clinical professor of medicine for USC Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Taguchi is a co-author of the book Sex Lies, and Menopause (2003), information that supported the use of hormone replacement. She has spoken in many countries about hormone replacement in women with a history of breast cancer.
Gregory H. Wolf, M.D is board certified in Family Medicine, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice. He has been in private medical practice in Orange, CA since 1985.
Dr. Wolf received his B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1978. He went on to attend medical school at UC Irvine, receiving his M.D. from that institution in 1982. He completed his internship and residency specializing in Family Medicine under the auspices of USC and became board certified in Family Medicine in 1985. The Family Medicine Specialty Board has recertified Dr. Wolf three times since 1985, most recently in 2006.
Dr. Wolf has been practicing Anti-Aging and Integrative Medicine since 1993. He has an expansive expertise in the application of Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy for both women and men, which he has developed over a 30 year career. Dr. Wolf is a highly empathetic, compassionate and heart centered physician utilizing skills developed over a lifetime of working with master practitioners, healers, intuitive’s and depth psychologists. He brings a refreshing, open, non-judgmental and insightful perspective to each of his patients. He also brings wisdom.
Native southern Californian and valedictorian of her graduating class at Mount Saint Mary's College, Julie Taguchi graduated from the USC’s School of Medicine. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology, Dr. Taguchi began her career at the City of Hope’s Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation and then relocated to Santa Barbara’s Sansum Clinic in 1993. She is the principal investigator for the oncology department’s clinical research programs with UCLA’s TORI network and US Oncology and is an assistant clinical professor of medicine for USC Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Taguchi is a co-author of the book Sex Lies, and Menopause (2003), information that supported the use of hormone replacement. She has spoken in many countries about hormone replacement in women with a history of breast cancer.
Gregory H. Wolf, M.D is board certified in Family Medicine, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice. He has been in private medical practice in Orange, CA since 1985.
Dr. Wolf received his B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1978. He went on to attend medical school at UC Irvine, receiving his M.D. from that institution in 1982. He completed his internship and residency specializing in Family Medicine under the auspices of USC and became board certified in Family Medicine in 1985. The Family Medicine Specialty Board has recertified Dr. Wolf three times since 1985, most recently in 2006.
Dr. Wolf has been practicing Anti-Aging and Integrative Medicine since 1993. He has an expansive expertise in the application of Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy for both women and men, which he has developed over a 30 year career. Dr. Wolf is a highly empathetic, compassionate and heart centered physician utilizing skills developed over a lifetime of working with master practitioners, healers, intuitive’s and depth psychologists. He brings a refreshing, open, non-judgmental and insightful perspective to each of his patients. He also brings wisdom.