Integrity

Our treatment of data, confidentiality, and commitment to the scientific community is unassailable

Scientific Rigor

We follow the highest standards of scientific research, statistical analysis, and disclosure practices.

Patient Focus

The care and well being of patients who will benefit through pain relief and improved quality of life are the focus of our research and educational programs.

Board of Directors

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Joanna Zeiger, MS, PhD
Founder & CEO. President of the Board of Directors

Joanna Zeiger, MS, PhD, Founder & CEO. President of the Board of Directors. Dr. Zeiger is an epidemiologist with a strong background in study design and biostatistics, particularly questionnaire-based outcomes studies. Joanna\’s studies took her to Brown University (BA) and Northwestern University (MS). She did her doctoral and post-doctoral work at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a focus on gene-environment interactions in the etiology of birth defects. Upon moving to Colorado in 2003, Dr. Zeiger spent eight years at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado Boulder studying drug use and abuse in adolescents; her particular interest was on initial subjective effects to drugs and how they affect long term usage. In 2016, Dr. Joanna was the PI of The Sisu Study which examined mental toughness latent classes in 1250 athletes. The Athlete PEACE Survey, a study for which Dr. Joanna Zeiger was the PI, was completed in late 2018. This study examined cannabis use in athletes. In 2017, The Champion Mindset: An Athlete\’s Guide to Mental Toughness was published by St. Martin\’s Press. A 2009 bike accident left Dr. Joanna Zeiger, an Olympian and former World Champion in triathlon, with severe chronic pain for which she started using cannabis to mitigate symptoms and to aid with sleep. Learning more about cannabis and its medicinal possibilities, particularly in the climate of the opioid crisis, has driven Dr. Joanna Zeiger’s interest to study the plant; her emphasis is on patient outcomes and finding ways to improve the lives of those who suffer with pain.

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Robert Zeiger, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer

Robert S. Zeiger, MD, PhD, Secretary of the Board of Directors. Dr. Zeiger has been Senior Physician Investigator and Director of Allergy Research for Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC), San Diego, California, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine in La Jolla, California, and Deputy Editor for the Journal of Allergy Clinical Immunology: In Practice. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Allergy. Dr. Robert Zeiger was Principal Investigator (PI) for the UCSD/KPSC Clinical Center for the multicenter National Health Lung Blood Institute (NHLB)I sponsored Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) and Childhood Asthma Research and Education (CARE) Network. He is presently PI for the KPSC Clinical Center for the NHLBI funded Vitamin D Antenatal Asthma Reduction Trial (VDAART). He has recently explored the power of administrative data obtained from large computerized electronic pharmacy and healthcare databases to perform outcome studies on severe asthma, the clinical and cost burden of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic cough, and to conduct innovative clinical trials. “Given the disastrous and troubling opioid epidemic, the high prevalence of unrelenting chronic pain, and the lack of highly effective and safe treatments for chronic pain, there is a major public health need for novel effective medications. More definitive research needs to better understand the current use of cannabis for pain in the United States and to provide future evidence through rigorous clinical trials on the role of cannabis in the treatment of chronic pain, inflammatory conditions, and other chronic conditions.”

William Silvers
William Silvers, MD
Chief Scientific Officer

William S. Silvers, M.D. Chief Scientific Officer. Board of Directors, Director. Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine, Division of Allergy Clinical Immunology. Faculty affiliate of the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities. MD at Indiana University School of Medicine. Internship and residency at Emory University/Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta. Dr. Silvers did his Fellowship at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, then spent the next year doing research and starting an allergy clinic at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. He was past president of the Colorado Allergy & Asthma Society, and past medical director of the Colorado Children’s Asthma “Champ Camp” and Medical Director for Asthma Ski Day. Chaired the Sports Medicine committee of the ACAAI and the World Allergy Organization, and helped found the Integrative Medicine committees of the ACAAI and AAAAI. Listed in 5280 “Denver’s Top Doctors” for multiple years. Dr. Silvers retired from private practice after 35 years. Scientific interests include Integrative Approaches to allergies and asthma, exercise induced allergies, and “The Skier’s Nose” – cold induced rhinitis. Since the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana in Colorado, he has published and spoken on its allergic immunologic correlates.

Jonathan Bernstein
Jonathan Bernstein, MD
Chief Innovation Officer

Jonathan Bernstein is Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and a partner of the Bernstein Allergy Group and Clinical Research Center. He received his MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (1981-1985), completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital (1985–1988) and Allergy/Clinical Immunology training at Northwestern University (1988–1990). His has a spectrum of research interests including allergic skin diseases notably chronic urticaria, angioedema and atopic dermatitis. He is President-Elect of the AAAAI, a member of the AAAAI foundation, the Joint Task Force Guideline committee, a member of the WAO and Interasma board of directors, GINA advocacy council, and HAEA organization medical advisory board. Dr. Bernstein is the recipient of Distinguished Clinician Awards from the AAAAI and WAO (2019). He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is the editor of five books pertaining to asthma, rhinitis and immunodeficiency.

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Will Murray,
Secretary of the Board of Directors

Will Murray has more than 24 years of experience as a management consultant to non-profit organizations, mission-driven companies and government agencies. Will has worked with more than 600 organizations in 48 states & around the world. Will worked with The Nature Conservancy for 16 years, where he developed experience in volunteer program development, membership development, financial management conservation planning, training, land stewardship, community relations, public education and fund raising. Will served as interim executive director for Island Conservation for 1.5 years. Will has a bachelor’s degree in general biology and a teaching credential. Will serves as the training director for the Research and Recognition Project to train and certify licensed mental health professionals in the Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories Protocol, which results in elimination of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in more than 92% of clients.
Will is an eight-time Ironman finisher and is co-author, with Craig Howie, of The Four Pillars of Triathlon: Vital Mental Conditioning for Endurance Athletes and is the author of Uncle! The Definitive Guide for Becoming the World’s Greatest Aunt or Uncle. He has served on many non-profit boards and one corporate board. For a publications list and client list, please see http://willmurraycompany.com/