2020 Speakers

Elina Fedotova – LE

Elina Fedotova is the formulator and CEO of Elina Organics, an award-winning cosmetic chemist and celebrity aesthetician. Elina founded the Association of Holistic Skin Care Practitioners (AHSCP) in 2007. Coming to the United Sates from Russia, her passion has been green chemistry, holistic practices, beauty and wellness. She is a celebrated author for the esthetic industry’s top trade magazines, and frequently makes television appearances sharing her knowledge and expertise in holistic skin care. She has two acclaimed holistic skin care clinics in Kalamazoo, MI and Chicago, IL. Her Chicago skin care clinic was named one of the best spas by AOL, City’s Best Chicago and was also profiled in Les Nouvelles Esthétiques & Spa Magazine. Elina has been featured on NBC -5 in Chicago and WGN-TV and appears regularly on Elina Skin Cuisine segments on West Michigan TV stations. Her professional skin care products are available in spas and medical offices across the United States and abroad.

Tina Abnoosi – LE

Tina Abnoosi, co-founder, CEO, and president of TAMA Research. Tina is a licensed aesthetician and an electrical engineer with 30 years of experience in designing electromagnetic components, and patented instruments. She is a Reiki Master of 15 years and has more than 15 years of experience with micro current equipment, treatments, and techniques. Her groundbreaking and innovative micro current device designs and application techniques – engaged the esthetic industry into employing advanced anatomical study when using micro current in esthetics. Tina is considered an expert in esthetic sciences physiology and anatomical placement techniques for effective microcurrent facial rejuvenation.

Rebecca Gadberry

Rebecca Gadberry is a soothing, clear voice in the esthetics and wellness mindfulness movements. The 13th licensed esthetician in California, Rebecca is known as the leading ingredient authority in the U.S. beauty industry. Learning she suffered from severe burnout after a non-stop 45-year career, she found mindfulness and it changed her life. She is now certified to teach mindfulness, meditation and compassionate practices by the prestigious Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at the Norman Cousin’s Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA and is working on a second certification from the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. She is a member of the International Mindfulness Teaching Association (IMTA), the American Mindfulness Research Association (AMRA), the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM), and the Freedom To Choose Project, whose mission it is to transform through compassionate experiential education the lives of individuals impacted by incarceration. She currently teaches online mindfulness courses to seniors, estheticians, educators and others who want a calmer, more centered, more meaningful life. You can join Rebecca’s online community at Mindful People, a Facebook group.

Marie Johnson – Natural Health Practitioner

Marie is a certified Body Talk Practitioner and Energy Worker in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Body Talk is a gentle, complementary, energy-based approach to health and healing that can assist in bringing your body back to its natural ability to heal. It is successfully practiced in over forty countries.BodyTalk is intended to enhance relaxation, decrease stressors on the body, increase communication within areas of the body/mind and to educate you regarding possible energetic or emotional blocks that may create pain or disease. Marie has also studied Accunect, Iridology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, ZeroPoint Energy Visionquest, Tuina Acupressure, Access Bars and Spiritual Distance Healing

Keeley Lore – MA, CNHP, Nutrition Response Testing Practitioner and Health Advocate

Keeley Lore is a Licensed Master Aesthetician and owner of Naturally Radiant, LLC, located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She has extensive training in advanced face and body treatments and holistic skin care techniques. She is also a Certified Natural Health Professional, internationally trained in Medical Food Care, Reflexology & Massage Therapy, and provides clinically designed nutritional services as Response Testing Practitioner. She has a master’s degree from Western Michigan University.

Dr. Andrey Lutkovsky – MD, DO

A United States citizen who was born in Ukraine, Dr. Andrey brings many years of successful experience in Regenerative Medicine – including Prolotherapy, PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma), Stem Cell Therapy, and Neural Prolotherapy – to help patients with a variety of injuries and diseases. Dr. Lutskovsky received his medical degree (MD) upon graduation from Kharkov Medical University in Ukraine in 1987. After graduation, he worked as a general and trauma surgeon until 1994 when he moved to the States. In 2004, he earned his second medical degree (DO) from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Lutskovsky is an active member of the American Osteopathic Association of Prolotherapy Regenerative Medicine, International Fellowship in Advanced Aesthetic Science, Academy of Regenerative Practices, Institute for Functional Medicine.

Dr. Erin Madigan-Fleck NMD, CDT, LE, LEI

Dr. Erin Madigan-Fleck has decades of experience and expertise in dermatological skin sciences, integrative esthetics and wellness. She is a naturopathic doctor, certified natural health practitioner, licensed master cosmetologist, aesthetician, licensed aesthetic instructor and holds a certificate for dermatological technology studies. Dr. Madigan-Fleck has authored featured articles for over 18 years for the skin care industries top trade magazines, blogs, podcasts and websites and is a featured speaker frequently at U.S. trade shows for the esthetic, medical, and natural health industries. Dr. Madigan-Fleck serves on the advisory board for Skin Inc. Magazine, and is an advisory board member and an educational director for the Association of Holistic Skin Care Practitioners. Her teaching experience spans over 35 years where she has lectured, consulted and developed curriculum for esthetic, and post graduate training schools throughout the U.S. Dr. Madigan-Fleck is a graduate of Pastiche Medical and Technical Esthetic Training, Oncology Esthetics International, and was the lead aesthetician for the Center for Plastic Surgery in Atlanta, GA. She received her Naturopathic Doctoral Degree from the University of Science, Arts & Technology College of Medicine, and her Naturopathic Clinical studies at Progressive Medical Center in Atlanta, GA. She is a member of the American Society for Nutrition, International Association for Applied Corneotherapy, and the Society of Dermatological Skin Care Specialists. She is the CEO and owner of Naturophoria, a naturopathic and holistic skin care clinic in Atlanta, GA and DermaEducationTV postgraduate esthetic training.

Katerina Steventon – MSc, PhD

A scholar and skincare specialist – Dr. Steventon is an international consultant with substantial experience of working at the clinical, commercial and research interface. Dr. Steventon’s career began in Southern Bohemia, in the Czech Republic where she grew up discovering that plants would work wonders for teenage skin. She is a Senior Innovation Consultant for NBIC and runs an independent evidence-based skincare clinic in Beverly, East Yorkshire in the UK, addressing consumer needs in skin health and ageing, acne, skin barrier dysfunction, skin – brain connection in mental health and wellbeing. She holds an MSc in Clinical Biochemistry and a PhD in Transdermal Absorptions and sciences. Dr. Steventon has an in-depth knowledge of skin sciences in both healthy and diseased states, a comprehensive understanding of consumer perspective on personal care and the industry/academia engagement for translational research in the UK. She is a senior consultant to large and small skincare brands in product development; an international scientific speaker (six languages) presenting at skin science and beauty conferences globally.

Pia Kynoch – ND, BASc, Skin Therapist Naturopath, holistic skin therapist & educator, yoga & Qi Gong instructor – Pia has worked as a skin therapist for over 25 years and has trained under some of the foremost educators and skin therapists in the esthetic industry. She is a passionate practitioner and an inspiring clinic leader at the Inspiration Place Beauty & Wellness Center in Kew, Australia. Pia was awarded the prestigious Beauty Therapist of the Year award from Dermaviduals in both New Zealand and Australia in 2018. Pia’s work was published in the APJ journal and she has been a featured speaker at the APAN Global conference.She combines high science with holistic principles for an integral approach to skin health and uses the principles of corneotherapy to improve to improve the skin’s look, feel and function. Pia holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in naturopathy, graduating from the Southern School of Natural Therapies in Melbourne, Australia

Roz Zollinger – Clinical Aromatherapist, Reflexologist

Born in South Africa, Roz has an international reputation for her therapeutic work and instruction in Reflexology and Aromatherapy with decades of experience in the practice and teaching of these modalities. She completed her Reflexology studies in 1983 at the South African Institute of Reflexology in Johannesburg, and in 1984 trained in Aromatherapy with the Institute of Clinical Aromatherapy in London. She subsequently pursued advanced Aromatherapy studies with the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy in California and has taken the International Training Program in Essential Oils at Purdue University in Indiana, USA. In 1992 Roz founded the Heal Center, Atlanta, GA which has since gained a national reputation for its therapeutic services and instruction. She is the co-founder of the Georgia Reflexology Organization and is a regional director for the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA).

Linda Bertaut – LE

Linda Bertaut is an author, national speaker, award-winning Esthetician, Reiki master teacher, and beauty expert who specializes in bringing inner beauty to the surface through her healing makeovers. Linda’s lifetime passion for performing make-up and image makeovers began over 30 years ago, but as she worked with her clients on their outer beauty, she recognized that many had a profound need for a makeover that was more than skin deep. This led her practice to evolve into wellness and energy makeovers for body, mind and spirit. Known as the beauty industry’s Reiki master teacher, Linda helps clients to heal from limiting self-doubt, stress, depression, and anxiety so they can radiate their true beauty and share their gifts with the world. Her signature treatments and innovative techniques are being used in salons and spas throughout the country. Linda was the chosen expert to write about Wellness Therapies for Estheticians in the Milady Advanced Esthetics Textbook. She remains one of the pioneers in the merging of the wellness and beauty industries and is passionate about mentoring others to continue the advancement of these healing arts.

Dr. Yvonne M. Villarreal – MD

Dr. Yvonne M. Villarreal is a Board-Certified Family Physician, who is also Board, Certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine. She has been practicing family medicine and preventive care in the Stafford area since 2001.She received her medical degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine where she studied under Dr. Andrew Weil, MD, world-renowned for his theories on and practice of Integrative and Complementary Medicine. She served in the United States Navy from 1993 until 1997 as a Naval Flight Surgeon to the USMC helicopter squadrons in Kaneohe, Hawaii. She is also a residency graduate in Family Medicine from the University of Hawaii, John Burns School of Medicine in Mililani, Hawaii.

Dr. J.P. Yurgel – DC

Dr. J.P. Yurgel graduated from Life University of Chiropractic West, in CA. He is both a healer and chiropractor specializing in Bio-Geometric Integration. He educates his patients to understand their body’s innate ability to heal with an emphasis on mind – body integration. His approach to chiropractic care supports the mindset that nerve interference from either physical trauma or mental, chemical, emotional stress, will manifest into subluxation. Subluxation encourages misalignment of the vertebra which facilitates nerve dysfunction. This causes imbalance in your body and may affect your muscles, organs, tissues, your mental state as well as your emotional state.