HENRY HAN, O.M.D., was born in 1958 into a family of doctors in China. His mother was a surgical/oncological gynecologist, his father a dermatologist, and his grandfather a Chinese herbalist. Dr. Han's pre-college education is mostly self-taught. At the age of 8, during China's “Great Cultural Revolution,” he was separated from his parents and sister. Unable to go to school, he continued his education on his own.
The Cultural Revolution officially ended in 1976 with the death of Chairman Mao, and Dr. Han was admitted to the prestigious Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.
From 1983 to 1985, he did a residency program in internal medicine in Beijing Dong Zhi Men Hospital, a hospital that specializes in the integration of Chinese and Western medicine. In September 1985, he was awarded one of two government scholarships to study psychology at the graduate level in the United States. Until June 1988, he studied clinical psychology and cognitive science at the University of California.
Since March 1989, he has been in private practice. He founded the Santa Barbara Herb and Wellness Center in 1998 and the Santa Barbara Herb Clinic in 1991. Over the years, Dr. Han has treated thousands of patients and is recognized as a master herbalist and diagnostician. He has a reputation for treating difficult and complex cases, and his practice attracts patients from all over the United States as well as other countries. He frequently gives talks and lectures and serves as an advisory or scientific board member of several companies.
GLENN E. MILLER, M.D., was born, raised and educated in the Midwest. Raised in a family of pharmacists, Dr. Miller has spent over twenty years developing and implementing professional and business models for a variety of medical and pharmaceutical ventures, as well as maintaining a private medical practice. He serves on the Board of Directors of Body Trends Health
and Fitness, Inc. (www.bodytrends.com); chairs the Professional Advisory Board of Desert Health Products, Inc., a Scottsdale, Arizona–based multinational nutriceutical company; has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons; has held an academic appointment with the University of California—Santa Barbara Graduate School of Education; and has served as an appointee of California Governor Pete Wilson from 1994 to 1997.
Dr. Miller received a B.S. Pharmacy degree with a minor in Business Administration from Drake University in 1978, and a Medical Doctorate from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1983, followed by a four-year residency at Northwestern University, McGaw Medical Center. Dr. Miller is a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Dr. Miller currently resides in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife, Marjorie S. Gies, M.D., Ph.D., their daughter, Margaret, and son, Dillon.
NANCY DEVILLE is a medical writer and author with a talent for educating the layperson on issues related to medical science, alternative medicine and wellness. Her books unravel the complicated and often contradictory health and medical advice that can discourage and confuse the average reader. She is the co-author of the bestselling The Schwarzbein Principle and two companion cookbooks, which have helped over two hundred thousand people reverse accelerated metabolic aging through a simple nutritional plan. She is also the co-author of Tired of Being Tired, which offers commonsense solutions to exhaustion, illness and weight gain inherent in our stress-filled society.
Nancy Deville lives with her husband in Santa Barbara, California.