Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier Speaker & Booking Information

Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier is a Clinical Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Professor of Public Healthat the University of Arizona School of Medicine; and, a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. At the University of Arizona School of Medicine, he is Director of the Corporate Health Improvement Program, which is a collaborative research program between CHIP and 15 of the Fortune 500 corporations including IBM, Ford, Dow, Prudential, Cisco, Pepsi, Mercer, Thomson Reuters, Walgreens, and NASA. Also, he is Chairman of the American Health Association and is a Vice President with American Specialty Health in San Diego, California. Prior to these positions, Dr. Pelletier served as Clinical Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; was Director of the Stanford Corporate Health Program; and, Director of the NIH funded Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program at Stanford. From 1974 until joining the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1990, Dr. Pelletier held a dual appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco (UCSF). In addition to his faculty positions, Dr Pelletier has served a member of the Board of Directors of the California Wellness Foundation, Foundation Health Systems, Health Systems International, Health Net, and the Social Venture Network. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland and has published over 300 professional journal articles in behavioral medicine, disease management, worksite interventions, and alternative/integrative medicine. At the present time, Dr. Pelletier is a medical and business consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization, the National Business Group on Health, the Federation of State Medical Boards, the American Board of Integrative Medicine, and major corporations including IBM, American Airlines, Medtronic, Disney, Merck, Ford, NASA, Microsoft , Blue Cross, Blue Shield, United Healthcare, the Pasteur Institute of Lille, France, the Alpha Group of Mexico, and the Singapore Ministry of Health. He also serves on the boards of the Healthtrac Foundation, Rancho la Puerta Spa, American Institute of Stress, International Spa Association, American Journal of Health Promotion, and as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Pelletier is listed in Who's Who in America and in Who's Who in the World. His research, clinical practice, and publications have been the subject of numerous national television programs including several appearances on the ABC World News, the Today program, Good Morning America, the CBS Evening News, 48 Hours, the McNeil-Lehrer Newshour, CNN, FOX News, CBS Sunday Morning,Hour Magazine, the Time/Life video series, the award winning BBC series The Long Search, and the five-part Blue Cross/Blue Shield sponsored PBS series Healthy People, Healthy Business.