Panel on Interprofessional Developments 

Elizabeth (Liza) Goldblatt, PhD, MHA/PA has been involved in the Interprofessional Education/Collaborative Practice (IPE/PC) movement for over 25 years, including working with mainstream/conventional medical providers and the complementary and integrated health (CIH) care providers in collaborative research, educational and clinical settings. She served as the Acting Executive Director of the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH; formerly ACCAHC) from July 2015-April 2018.

Dr. Goldblatt is one of the founding members of ACIH. She was the first ACIH Vice-Chair. She then served as Chair of the ACIH board from 2007-2015. On behalf of ACIH, she serves on the National Academy of Medicine’s Global Forum for Global Innovations in Health Professional Education. She was on the leadership team of the University of Arizona’s HRSA funded project, the National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare. She teaches integrative health and medicine systems at several colleges. She is on the doctoral faculty at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM).

Audrey Brooks, PhD, has 25 years' experience in program evaluation, research methodology, and applied statistics. She is the Project Director on the HRSA-funded National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare. She is the evaluator/statistician on the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine education projects, designing evaluation strategies, analyzing and presenting evaluation findings, and working with leadership to utilize evaluation findings for program development.

Dr. Lebensohn is a board certified family physician that has additional training in psychiatry, family therapy and integrative medicine. She joined the Family and Community Medicine department in 1993 and has functioned in different roles, co-director of the Behavioral Health Program for the residency, Residency Program Director from 1999-2007 and Associate Head for Clinical Affairs 2003-2007. As the Residency Program Director, she helped develop the Sports Medicine and the Integrative Family Medicine fellowships, which she continues to direct. Since 2007 she has served as a mentor in the College of Medicine Societies program and has developed an online curriculum in Integrative Medicine this is implemented in Family Medicine and Internal Medicine in addition to continuing as faculty in the residency. Dr. Lebensohn continues to attend residents in the outpatient setting and MCH service. She has a special interest in maternal-child health, women’s health, behavioral health, integrative medicine and cross-cultural aspects of medicine. She is bilingual, Spanish and English. Outside of Medicine, Dr. Lebensohn enjoys spending time and traveling with her family and competing in triathlons and practicing yoga.

Myles Spar, MD is a leading authority in Integrative Men’s Health as an author, teacher, researcher, TED talk speaker, contributor to Men’s Journal and the L.A. Times, expert on Dr. Oz and The Doctors TV shows and a faculty member of University of Arizona.

Dr. Spar is board-certified in Internal Medicine, having graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed fellowships in Health Services Research at UCLA (where he earned a masters in public health) and in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Spar’s focus has always been about empowering men to achieve their goals through greater health. The men’s performance company where Dr. Spar oversees all clinical programs as Chief Medical Officer is called Vault Health. Vault brings men’s health to you, incorporating techniques to help men win at what matters to them.

An experienced naturopathic physician, educator, and energy medicine practitioner, Dr. Crouch has held senior academic positions in naturopathic institutions in the United States and Australia.
She has overseen program development and accreditation in Naturopathic medicine, Traditional Chinese medicine, Nutritional medicine, Herbal medicine, Musculoskeletal Therapy 
and Homeopathy. Additionally Dr. Crouch has developed programs and taught internationally 
in the field of energy medicine, and volunteered
in global health programs and on the Boards of Natural Doctors International in the US and One Health Organisation in Australia.