Dr Isaac Golden
Ph.D, D.Hom. , N.D. , B.Ec(Hon)

Isaac Golden has been a homoeopathic practitioner since 1984. He was President of the Victorian branch of the Australian Homoeopathic Association Australia 's largest national organization of professional homoeopaths - from 1992 to 1998.

In March 1999 he was awarded the Association's Distinguished Service Award for his 'many years of service to the Australian Homoeopathic Association and for his significant contributions to the homoeopathic profession in Australia'.

Isaac has been teaching homoeopathy since 1988. He is founder and Director of the Australasian College of Hahnemannian Homoeopathy which has offered distance education courses in homoeopathic medicine since 1990, including an RTO/Austudy accredited Advanced Diploma of Homoeopathy. He was Faculty Head of Homoeopathy at the Melbourne College of Natural Medicine from 1995 to 2004. He has recently been appointed as Adjunct Professor of Homoeopathy at ACNM.

Isaac is the author of nine books on Homoeopathy.

Isaac is a world authority on homoeoprophylaxis - the use of homoeopathic medicines for specific infectious disease prevention, and has undertaken the world's largest long-term study of parents using such a program. In 2004 he completed a PhD research program at the GSIM, Swinburne University, Melbourne, studying homoeoprophylaxis. This is the first time a mainstream Australian University has accepted such a topic for orthodox research.

 

Anita DiStasio
BHSc(Comp.Med), ND, Dip. Herb Med., RN, Cert IV Workplace Training and Assessment. Member of ATMS.

Anita has been in practise as a Naturopath for over 18 years, and combined with 26 years experience as a Registered Nurse, she has considerable practical experience of both orthodox and complementary medicine. She has taught Health Sciences with the ACHH since 1998, and lectured in Health Sciences and Nutrition at Holmesglen TAFE 2008 and 2009. Along with being a Naturopath, Anita works as a Diabetes Nurse Educator in a Medical Clinic one day a week. She has always had the enthusiasm to help others help themselves, and focus on the prevention of disease. She is committed to continually upgrading her skills through courses and regular seminars.

Apart from taking a thorough case history, which includes looking at your diet and lifestyle habits, Anita may use a number of tests as required (see below) to provide her with a lot more information to facilitate the development of individual treatment programs to improve your health. Any treatment program takes into account what the client is realistically able to manage at that time.

Anita is especially interested in educating and providing you with an understanding of the influences affecting your health and gives you the necessary tools to enable you to achieve optimal health and wellbeing. These changes are supported by dietary and lifestyle adjustments, exercise and herbal, nutritional remedies and flower essences.

Her clinical experience covers a wide range of disorders from acute to the longer term chronic patterns of illness. However, Anita specializes in:

• diabetes/blood sugar problems, including prevention of same
• weight control
• high blood pressure
• gastrointestinal problems
• hormonal imbalances such as thyroid
• stress, anxiety and nervousness
• fatigue.