Join the Women's Division group as we hear from three women's health specialists & doctors about the importance of your health and what to look out for so we can continue to work better together!
Speakers
Melissa Caldwell Engle LPC, ATR
Melissa is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 30 years? experience in the mental health industry. She has created ?functional? treatment protocols and programming for all levels of care including private practice, in-patient psychiatric hospitals, addiction facilities and IOP?s. She has had a front row seat in observing the collective psychological and emotional changes in individuals, families and society for over 3 decades. During this time, she has identified how specific personality traits, unresolved trauma and unhealthy stress response patterns, if not addressed, lead to chronic mental health struggles, and addictions that can have devastating effects on a person physically, psychologically, and spiritually.
Melissa is an internationally recognized speaker and teacher. She has a very down-to- earth presentation style that allows her to reach a broad range of participants. She has an uncanny ability to take the most complex psychological architecture and communicate it in a relatable and meaningful way. Her workshops help individuals, of all ages, to recognize their own emotional vulnerabilities and patterns of unhealthy stress response patterns that interfere with their ability to reach their full potential- both personally and professionally. Her humor, case examples and personal experiences make her a highly entertaining and sought after speaker in the industry.
Melissa currently is a co-owner and EVP of Clinical Programming at Healing Springs Ranch and maintains a private practice. She has an MS in clinical psychology and an MS in art therapy from Emporia State University. She resides in the Dallas/Fort Worth area with her husband who is a retired firefighter/paramedic and their children.
Dr. Phyillis Gee
Phyllis J Gee MD is founder and medical director of Willowbend Health & Wellness, where she now provides holistic integrative health services to men, women, and adolescents, utilizing functional medical principles to uncover root causes of symptoms and disease while offering alternatives to conventional treatment options. This is accomplished by utilizing comprehensive diagnostic and lab testing along with a thorough history and timeline with a focus on the patient?s whole health. This care stresses prevention and patient education while combining herbal and botanical therapies and when necessary conventional medical care with functional medicine and other integrative modalities to facilitate the healing process.
This philosophy is rooted in a comprehensive approach that combines both physical, mental-emotional and lifestyle medicine. As such, Dr. Gee has adopted her 10 Steps to Optimal Health as the foundation for her functional medicine practice, to teach patients that the fastest way to recovering their natural health and vitality is to return to a way of eating and living that more closely matches their genes and biology, while recognizing that their environment is key.
After many years of suffering with digestive issues and developing severe allergies and sinusitis followed by hormonal imbalances, fatigue and weight gain, having seen many of these problems in her patients, Dr. Gee sought out non-conventional solutions to these mounting medical problems. In so doing, she found herself returning to her educational roots in nutrition. She was surprised to find growing evidence to support these non-conventional practices. After becoming aware of the limitations of conventional medicine, Dr. Gee began her journey studying herbs and supplements that were known to improve digestive and hormonal health and then went on to train as a Kresser Adapt Practitioner.
Dr. Gee is a board-certified gynecologist who has practiced in the Dallas area since 1986 and still provides a full range of progressive gynecologic care in Frisco, Texas where she has a focus on women?s health and wellness, including advanced minimally invasive surgery. She has been nationally recognized for her involvement in clinical research in women?s health. Dr. Gee has also been actively involved in raising awareness and educating other practitioners about hereditary cancer syndromes with a focus on hereditary breast, ovarian, and colon cancer.
Dr. Gee earned her BS degree in nutrition from Cornell University. She is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. She began her career serving in the National Health Service Corps in Harlem, NY as a member of the faculty of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, before relocating to Dallas to work for a large HMO, then subsequently establishing her private practice. Dr. Gee completed comprehensive functional medicine training while enrolled in the Kresser Institute Adapt Practitioner Functional Medicine Training program, which has provided her a broad base, upon which to continue learning about evidence-based functional medicine principles and practices.
Having been actively involved in several hospital, civic and community organizations Dr. Gee is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Collin County and an active member of the Plano North Metroplex Links Inc. She is married with one daughter and spends her free time volunteering in her church and community and traveling.
Dr. Jill Waggoner
Dr. Jill Waggoner holds a Medical Degree and a Master's Degree from the University of Oklahoma. She has certifications in both Preventive Medicine and Wellness Coordination from the prestigious Cooper Institute. Dr. Waggoner is a residency trained, board certified Family Practice Physician, with nearly 30 years of experience.
She has studied Functional and Integrative medicine for the past 15 years; an approach that seeks to find the cause of disease and uses multiple healing modalities to help patients obtain optimal
health. Most recently she received a certification in Plant Based Nutrition from Cornell University. She has dedicated her life to teaching her patients how to flourish and embrace better living through better health.
Dr. Waggoner has authored eight books, the latest of which is Maddie on a Mission, a children's book. She has also served as a national medical expert for both television and radio for NBC, ABC and Fox affiliates, and has been selected as D Magazine's Best Doctor for five consecutive years. Her most rewarding accomplishment is that of wife to her husband Mark, and mother to her two daughters Jillian and Uriah.
Dr. Jill Waggoner is dedicated to the cause of giving individuals the tools needed to step beyond the traditional approach of early detection of disease, to the futuristic reality of prevention of disease! Her personal mission is to diminish suffering, foster healing, and prevent disease through connection, compassion, enlightenment, education, and love.