Ms. Smith is the Director of Educational Programs for Duke Integrative Medicine (Duke IM), a Physician Assistant, and the founder and director of Duke's Integrative Health Coach Professional Training (IHCPT). As one of the founding executive team members of Duke IM, she is a core collaborator in bringing the vision of this new field of medicine to fruition at Duke from conception through operational planning and program development.
For more than 30 years, Ms. Smith has worked as a trainer, facilitator, designer and director of health and wellness programs. She is a member of the MINT and a corporate retreat trainer in motivational interviewing, mindfulness, stress management, resiliency and personal health planning for maximum wellness.
Ms. Smith is a member of the leadership team developing national certification standards for the field of health coaching. She is a chief medical editor for the book The Duke Encyclopedia of New Medicine: Conventional & Alternative Medicine for All Ages.
Erin Gunter joined Duke Integrative Medicine in 2010 with a background in instructional design and public education. Since beginning her work at Duke Integrative Medicine, Erin has managed the conversion of existing curricula into online courses for a number of professional training programs. Erin is responsible for overseeing the development of media-rich, online course materials as well as planning ways to offer education and training programs through online or blended online/face-to-face formats. Erin liaises with various units and individuals at Duke to ensure that online learning products are culturally and pedagogically appropriate, reliable, supported, and sustainable. In addition, Erin guides faculty, students, and alumni through the utilization of the online learning management system by providing training resources and individualized support.
Cynthia is founder and CEO of Being in Balance Coaching and Artemis Health Care Communications. She offers health, personal, and executive coaching to individuals and groups on a private practice basis. A pharmacist by training, Cynthia held senior staff positions at several national pharmacy associations before starting Artemis Health Care Communications in 2002. Since then, she has developed and managed continuing education and professional development programs for clients that include the American Pharmacists Association, the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, and Procter & Gamble. Cynthia also holds an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor appointment at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy.
Cynthia is passionate about deepening her understanding of mindfulness and meditation. She has completed trainings and attended workshops with leading practitioners including Jon Kabat-Zinn, Saki Santorelli, Thich Nhat Hahn, Sharon Salzberg, and Pema Chödrön.
Since 2010, Rachel Kuliani has managed program logistics and administration for a number of programs at Duke Integrative Medicine. Chief among these is the Integrative Health Coach Professional Training (IHCPT) Program’s Certification Course – an intensive training for integrative health coaches wishing to develop advanced coaching skills and earn a certification. Rachel is responsible for managing the development of course curricula and providing individual assistance to support students throughout the learning process.
Another primary area of focus for Rachel is working directly with organizations to develop customized programs that are tailored to a group’s professional or personal needs on a variety of health related topics. For these programs she works collaboratively with the organization’s leaders to determine the goals and to design a program utilizing the faculty, staff, and amenities at Duke Integrative Medicine.
Aili is a change expert with over a decade of experience helping people rise to their potential. She is a coach, yoga and meditation teacher, speaker, workshop facilitator, and an instructor for the Duke Integrative Health Coach Professional Training Program.
As a coach, Aili partners with clients to help them become the person they’ve always wanted to be. She is the creator of programs that help people live with greater intention and fulfillment, resolve issues related to self-image, identity, and lifestyle, and experience deeper levels of confidence and inner peace.
Aili started her career in the corporate world as a management consultant, where she worked with clients on business transformation programs. In 2011, she shifted her focus to support her clients in personal transformation.
Aili is also an active volunteer at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, where she is the Vice President of the Association of Volunteers.
Deborah has worked in a variety of health care settings throughout her 30-plus year career. Her roles have spanned working as a hospital and home care nurse, researcher, university professor, public health professional and health care administrator in the U.S. and Canada. She is the co-creator of programs providing integrative health coaching with mindfulness practices for workers in hospital settings, workshops that assist in the development of self-compassion skills, and courses for mindful eating that combine integrative health coaching with mindfulness meditation practices. She provides integrative health consultation for medical practices and maintains a private health coaching practice. Deborah spends her time between Franklin, TN and Naples, FL.
After being diagnosed with a chronic, lifelong disease in 2002 at the age of 50, Kathy Mackintosh took an inventory of all aspects of her health. The list of her problems included obesity, arthritis and sleep problems, many of which could be addressed by making important behavior changes. Over several years, she gradually lost over 100 pounds, and began a true exercise regime for the first time since college. She has completed eleven 50 mile walks for charity. These personal successes eventually led her to Duke Integrative Medicine’s IHCPT program, to now partner with others to realize their own personal health goals.
Her education background includes a BS and MEd from the University of Virginia and she is the founder and owner of Clear Path Health Coaching LLC in Raleigh. She does public speaking on wellness topics for the public and charities, facilitates positive psychology courses for MS patients, volunteers with wounded veterans, and supports new IHCPT students as a coach mentor.
With over 22 years of B2B sales and management experience, Kim understands the everyday challenges busy professionals face and is highly motivated to help them take action that supports their health and well-being. From a long career of marketing consulting with C-levels and coaching/training sales executives to founding Breakthrough Health LLC, her career has focused on helping others grow with intentionality and make skillful choices, both personally and professionally.
Kim is passionate about affecting change through individual and group health coaching, group facilitation, professional speaking, professional collaborations and student mentoring. She is also highly engaged in her community through Board service and committee work that supports women in their professional and spiritual development, addresses local food insecurity, promotes school wellness initiatives and establishes school gardens.
Andrea is a consultant and a Master Certified Coach (the highest designation awarded by the International Coach Federation), with extensive experience in health, leadership, and career coaching, as well as training and mentoring coaches. In 2002, Andrea joined the Health Coaching team at Integrative Medicine as the first coach in the department. She worked on the inaugural research project which emphasized coaching, and later moved into coaching C-suite executives in the clinic. She has been an instructor and mentor in the Certification arm of the Integrative Health Coach Professional Training Program since it began. Andrea has run a successful coaching and psychotherapy business since 1982. She works internationally with corporate and individual clients on communication skills, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, health and balance, career advancement and transitions, and reaching breakthrough performance goals. She teaches and mentors coaches privately, and for other institutions.
Jim holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Campbell University Divinity School, which he earned in 2008. While employed by Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina for 13 years, Jim filled the roles of social worker, pastor, and Director of Campus Enrichment. He retired from the ministry in 2010.
After receiving training as an integrative health coach through Duke Integrative Medicine, Jim founded Open Water Coaching and Consulting in January 2011. Open Water provides health, career, and family/parenting coaching. From 2011-2014, Jim served as the lead coach and trainer in Motivational Interviewing with the Heart-Healthy Lenoir Project, an NIH grant-funded research project providing telephonic health coaching for patients with hypertension. He is a trainer in motivational interviewing and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), providing training and workshops for healthcare providers and staff.
Susan has been active in the health care field for over 20 years, starting as a ski patroller, EMT and eventually landing as a primary care PA-C. Gradually, her focus began to shift from providing care for others to empowering others to take care of themselves through her coaching and mindfulness work.
Susan provides coaching, retreats, workshops, mindfulness and dance courses through her private coaching practice, partnering with local doctors’ offices, universities and corporations. She remains active in her community through volunteering at her children’s elementary school, helping with reading, nature courses, recycling, and farm to school initiatives.
Dr. Wroth practices at Duke Integrative Medicine as an integrative women’s physician and as the Associate Director of Educational Programs. As a clinician consulting on integrative approaches to women’s health, she works with patients to find out what is their greatest goal or concern, such as using integrative approaches to enhance fertility, manage menopause, heavy, painful periods, or menstrual migraines. Next, Dr. Wroth and her patients gather any needed data and develop an agreed on plan based on the best conventional and complementary evidence available, as well as the patients’ personal health values. Once they have a plan, they follow results to adjust and improve any interventions so optimal outcomes are obtained.
Shelley also enjoys working as the Associate Director of Educational Programs. In this role, Dr. Wroth designs and teaches integrative medicine trainings for health professionals, customized integrative health programs for organizations, and brief effective interventions for health behavior change for primary care providers. In addition, she serves as a senior instructor in the Foundation and Certification Courses of the Duke Integrative Health Coach Professional Training, and the Health Behavior Change Practicum.