Contact and Bookings
Drs. Pert and Ruff enjoy speaking and sharing their work with audiences all over the world. However their speaking schedules are now subject to their new AIDS research activities. If you have an event or gathering that you wish to invite Dr. Pert and/or Dr. Ruff to address, please contact Kirk Schroder at kschroder@schroderfidlow.com with the details of your request. Kirk will handle all inquiries and work with you in the event Drs. Pert or Ruff are available. Drs. Pert and Ruff are grateful for all invitations and expressions of interest in their scientific work. They also appreciate your support and understanding as their speaking schedule becomes more limited while they work on a cure for AIDS.
Dr. Candace Pert is a frequent lecturer on the role of emotions in health and disease. In her new book, Everything You Need To Know To Feel Go(o)d Dr. Pert shares the answers she's found, both from her biomedical studies on the brain, neuroscience, and drug action, as well as from her own life experiences. Topics will include how to achieve psychosomatic wellness, the role of our thoughts, beliefs, and expectations in shaping our realities and controlling our physiologies, the importance of forgiveness, love, spiritual practice and joy in healing ourselves and in our relations to others. Dr. Pert will share insights into the poisoning of our foods and environments, the emotional causes of chronic degenerative illness and aging processes, and how positive affirmations, imagery, meditations, music, and bodywork create balance to optimize natural healing pathways.
Dr. Michael Ruff is Dr. Pert's long-term collaborator, colleague, and husband. Together they have written scientific articles on the mind-body connection, lectured on these topics to professional and lay audiences and conducted workshops. Dr. Ruff's specific expertise lies in the area of pathogenesis (the causes of disease), immunology, virology and the cellular receptors which govern the body's response to injury. Dr Ruff's lecture and workshop topics include the innate, emotional causes of disease, the physiology of natural repair and regenerative processes, and how emotions and their related neuropeptides can both interrupt and impede healing, as well as facilitate and potentiate these pathways.
Her scientific work in the 1980's while a Section Chief at the National Institutes of Health, led to her theory of how the "bodymind" functions as a single psychosomatic network of information molecules which control our health and physiology. She and close colleague Dr. Michael Ruff were among the earliest contributors to "psychoneuroimmunology."
Her original contemporary theories of the unconscious mind and its influence on psychosomatic illness, happiness, and wellness, led to her 2008 award of the Theophrastus Paracelsus Prize for Holistic Medicine at a recent ceremony in St. Gallen Switzerland.