Trained as a scientist, international public health specialist, and primary care Clinician before gaining skills as a holistic healer, Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya practices and teaches holistic medicine in New York City. Bhaswati became interested in holistic & alternative medicines from her family ancestry of Ayurvedic and Sanskrit scholars, a biomedically-trained father, a clinician, scientist, and veterinarian, and herbalist mother.

Bhaswati serves as Director of the Dinacharya Institute for Wise Medicine, teaching workshops, seminars, and a training program for Ayurvedic Health Coaches. She is the former Director of Research and director of the Division of Complementary & Alternative Medicines and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Her academic training includes a baccalaureate (BA) in the Biological Basis of Behavior from the University of Pennsylvania; masters degree in pharmacology and neuroscience from Columbia University with 6 years of graduate work in biotechnology, biomedical sciences and laboratory work toward a PhD; a masters degree in international public health (MPH) from Harvard University; and a medical doctorate (MD) from Rush Medical College in hicago.

Bhaswati is the recipient of a 1998 American Holistic Medical Association national award. Bhaswati worked at the Office of Alternative Medicine in 1994. She was selected to the NIH Advisory Panel of the Complementary Medical Education Task Force in 1996. From 1995 until 1998, she served as the national co-coordinator of the Humanistic Medicine task force of AMSA.

She was selected from 4000+ graduates as the Commencement Graduate Orator at Harvard University in 1993. She received international coverage for her outspoken views alongside then Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell in a speech on blind traditions and the need for insightful healing as we shape policies. She was awarded the 2004 AMA Leadership Award for her work in holistic medicine and international health.
She received the 2008 award for Outstanding Services in Global Ayurveda from the Arogyadham Institute in India.

A trailblazer in the American publishing industry, Ketan Gandhi is the very first South Asian president and publisher of a mainstream American publication.

Mr.Gandhi is currently the publisher of Broad Street Publishing, which produces the Northeast Times, Trend newspapers, and the Star and Home News, Employment Weekly and Broad Street Magazines. Gandhi most recently was president and publisher of two Gannett newspapers in New Jersey, the Home News Tribune in East Brunswick and the Courier News in Bridgewater.

He previously had been group controller for Atlantic Coast Newspaper Group and a vice president at the Asbury Park (NJ) Press and the Home News Tribune. He succeeds John Ziomek, who retired. Gandhi began his career with Gannett in 1986 as an accounting manager at the Valley News Dispatch of Tarentum, PA. He also served as controller for Gannett newspapers in Elmira, NY, Warrendale, PA, and Binghamton, NY.

Gandhi received his undergraduate degree in accounting from Bombay University in India, a diploma of business management from K C College in Bombay and an MBA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Karim Rammal, President and founder of Unicorn Consulting Inc., is a senior, successful,
entrepreneurially spirited, international business executive based in New York City.
Unicorn Consulting Inc., is a business advisory firm that specializes in bridging global business opportunities.

Karim’s experiences over the years have positioned him as a talented entrepreneur with
significant business relationships in Europe, USA, East and South Asia, and UAE/GCC.
Being at a senior position at a very young age, he’s gained exposure to diverse international business experiences around the world, while managing the Pakistani market for WPP Marketing Communications as Group President and Country Manager, and built their Hill & Knowlton (PR), JWT (advertising), Contract Advertising (conflict business entity), Consumerlink (on-line research), Activ8 (activation) and TMedia (media buying house) operations.

Karim has worked on business strategies and marketing campaigns for top global and regional brands such as HSBC, De Beers, Pepsi, Nokia, Motorola, Unilever, Cadbury, BMW, Rolls Royce, LG, Philips, Shell, Levi’s, Habib Bank Limited (HBL), Engro Foods, Roshan Telecom, Warid Telecom, and a host of others including the Government of Pakistan (with President Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz).