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Hyla Cass M.D. is one of the country's foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine. A former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine she has incorporated nutrition and natural health techniques into her practice for more than 20 years.

• Television Appearances
• TV Demo
• Press Photos
• Philosophy
• Books
• Community
• Appearances
• Presentations
• Sample Topics
• Curriculum Vitae

Television Appearances

1. "The View - Special Edition"
   -Treating and Living With Depression
2. TV demo (highlights of TV appearances)
3. Interview on "The Wellness Hour"
4. Interview on "Antioxidant News": Discussion
   on Safety of Antioxidants

Philosophy
Dr. Cass' years of experience have yielded three guiding principles:

1. Treat the whole person - mind, body, spirit, and environment.
2. Look first for the deepest root problems beneath any symptoms.
3. Apply a continuum of treatments, always beginning with the safest, most natural, and most benign.

Books
Dr. Cass describes many of her clinical successes in her best-selling books:

• Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition
• 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health for Women
• Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind-Body Techniques to Feel Good All the Time
• The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health
• A User's Guide to Herbal Remedies
• A User's Guide to Vitamin C
• A User's Guide to Ginkgo
• St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster
• Kava: Nature's Answer To Stress, Anxiety And Insomnia

Community
Dr. Cass is a member of the Advisory Board of Health Sciences Institute, Taste for Life Magazine, and Total Health Magazine. She also serves as board member emeritus and past President of Nourish America which supplies nutritional supplements to children and adults at risk for nutritional deficiencies.

Appearances
Dr Cass appears regularly as an expert in the field, on radio, TV (including The View, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and MSNBC), and in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time Magazine, and People Magazine.

Dr Cass also maintains a busy schedule of speaking engagements at health-related events around the country, with topics ranging from complementary medicine and psychiatry, anti-aging, women's health (including natural hormone therapy), weight management, to stress reduction, and natural treatments for addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression.

Types of Presentations

    Keynote
         General Session
             Breakout
                 Workshop
                     Seminar

Sample Topics

• Natural Highs: How to Boost your Mood and Energy Naturally
• It's Not All in Your Head: A Complementary Medical Approach to Disorders of Mood, Memory, and Behavior
• Natural Alternatives to Prozac for Stress, Anxiety & Depression
• Natural Treatments for Addiction
• Herbs for Health
• Natural Health for Women
• Natural Treatments for Attention Deficit Disorder
• Anti-Aging: Nutrients and Hormones for Longevity and Rejuvenation
• Smart Drugs & Nutrients for Optimum Brain Power
• Integrating Alternative Medicine into Your Medical Practice

     To Book: Email  hyla@cassmd.com

Curriculum Vitae

Identifying Information: Born in Toronto, Canada

Occupation: Psychiatrist; integrative medical practitioner; author; consultant

Education: Pre-Medical and Medical Education: University of Toronto, School of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Internship: Los Angeles County-U.S.C. Medical Center

Residency Training: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, child and family psychiatry

Board Certification: Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Attending Staff Physician: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (1980-92)

Professional Memberships:

1. Orthomolecular Health and Medicine Society (OHM)
2. National Association of Medical Communicators (www.ibiblio.org/namc)

Board Member:

1. Board Member Emeritus and Past President, Vitamin Relief USA, providing vitamins to underprivileged children and other at-risk populations (www.vitaminrelief.org)
2. Board Advisor –American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM)

Academic Appointments and Professional Positions:

1. Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine (1979- 2005)
2. Psychiatric Consultant to the Independent Safety Committee, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Pacific Gas and Electric (1990–2002)
3. Advisory Board: Health Sciences Institute, Baltimore, MD (www.healthiernews.com)
4. Advisory Board: Taste for Life, Peterborough, Maine (www.tasteforlife.com)
5. Associate editor: Total Health Magazine, St. George Utah (www.totalhealthmagazine.com)

Author:

1. Supplement Your Prescription (Basic Health, Nov 2007)
2. 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health for Women (McGraw-Hill, 2005)
3. Natural Highs (Penguin Putnam Avery, 2002)
4. User’s Guides to Herbs (Basic Health Publications, 2004), Ginkgo (2003), and Vitamin C (2003)
5. Kava: Nature’s Answer to Stress Anxiety and Insomnia (Prima, 1999)
6. St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster (Penguin Putnam Avery, 1998)

Licensure: States of California, Delaware

Contact Information:
1608 Michael Lane, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
(310) 459-9866 • fax (310) 459-9466
hyla@drcass.com • wwwdrcass.com

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About Dr. Cass

Hyla Cass M.D graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine, interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and completed a psychiatric residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA School of Medicine. She was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine until 2005, and is in private clinical practice in Pacific Palisades, CA.

Dr. Cass is author of several popular books, including Supplement Your Prescription, 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Woman's Take-Charge Program to Correct Imbalances, Reclaim Energy, and Restore Well-Being (McGraw Hill,2005); Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind/Body Techniques to Help You Feel Good All the Time (Penguin Putnam, 2002; St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster (Penguin Putnam 1998); Kava; Nature’s Answer to Stress Anxiety and Insomnia (Prima, 2003);s User’s Guides to Ginkgo, to Vitamin C, and to Herbs (Basic Media Group 2002, 2003, 2004).

She is committed to improving the health of individuals and communities and dedicated herself as President of Vitamin Relief USA, and now, as Board member, to providing access to the benefits of nutritional supplements to children and adults at risk for nutritional deficiencies. This nation-wide program is currently serving 24,000 children soon to be 2.5 million (vitaminrelief.org). She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Health Sciences Institute, Taste for Life Magazine, and Total Health Magazine, and an advisory board member of California Citizens for Health. She consults to the supplement industry regarding formulations, and has developed several under her own label.

Incorporating nutritional principles and natural health techniques in her practice for more than 20 years, she is one of the nation's foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine. She regularly appears on radio, television (including the View, the CBS Evening News and MSNBC, where she successfully debated a “Quackbuster” physician challenger). She is quoted as an expert in the field in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time Magazine, and People Magazine. Her speaking topics to both lay and professional medical audiences include complementary medicine and psychiatry, anti-aging, women's health (including bio-identical hormone therapy), stress reduction, and natural treatments for addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression.