These prominent doctors, nurses, authors, environmentalists, educators and
other experts have embraced a plant-based lifestyle and are willing to serve
as resources for VegMichigan. This list is a work in progress, so if you are, or know of others, willing to serve in this capacity please let us
know.
We wish to thank the people below for helping us to spread the veg message
to wider audiences.
Jim Corcoran
Co-founder of VegMichigan and past president. He has been leading programs on health, environment and ethics for many years and has teamed with Rae Sikora to broaden their outreach.
Phone: 248-219-3966
Email: Jim Corcoran
Website: www.plantpeacedaily.org
Rae Sikora
Founder/Creator/Facilitator of Simply Enough has been a spokesperson and writer for animals, the environment and human rights for over 30 years. She is also co-founder of the Center for Compassionate Living and the International Institute for Humane Education.
Phone: 248-219-3991
Email: Rae Sikora
Website: www.plantpeacedaily.org
Joel Kahn, M.D.
Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation
Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
Michigan Heart Group
4600 Investment Dr., #200
Troy, MI 48098
Phone: 248-267-5049
Dr. Mumtaz George, M.D.
Medical Director
Royal Oak Medical Center
5130 Coolidge Highway
Royal Oak, MI 48073
Phone: 248-288-9500
Mary Sue Sylwestrzak, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Infant, Child, and Adolescent Healthcare
Robert R. Roman, M.D., P. C.
30335 13 Mile Rd., Ste. 103
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
Work Phone: 248-855-4144
Email: Mary Sue
Gary Shapira, M.D.
Pathologist
St. John-Macomb Hospital
11800 East Twelve Mile Road
Warren, MI 48093-3494
Phone: 586-573-5020
Kerrie Saunders, MS, LLP, PhD
Bluewater Sports & Fitness Dome, Port Huron, MI (810) 622-8687
Functional Fitness & Inspired Wellness, Birmingham, MI (248) 988-8098
Author of the book, The Vegan Diet: As Chronic Disease Prevention
"Dear Dr. Kerrie", VegNews Magazine
www.DrFood.org
Caroline B. Trapp, MSN, APRN, BC-ADM, CDE
Nurse Practitioner/Director of Diabetes Care
Premier Internists and Northwest Internal Medicine
A Division of Millennium Medical Group
29201 Telegraph Road, Suite 404
Southfield, MI 48334
Phone: 248-355-0880, Ext. 384
Email: Caroline
Kathryn Nicolai, RYT (Registered yoga teacher)
Prana Yoga
11522 S Saginaw St.
Grand Blanc, MI 48473
Phone: 810-287-0467
Email: Kathyrn
Columnist of Give Peas a Chance for alternative paper The Uncommon Sense
www.theuncommonsense.com
Ed McArdle, Conservation Committee Chair
Southeast Michigan Group (SEMG) of the Sierra Club.
Formally Executive Committee Chair for SEMG.
Has worked on, and is familiar with, many pollution- and food-related issues such
as mercury and dioxin
contamination of food, organic farming, Confined Animal Feeding Operations
(CAFO's),
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's), etc.
Phone: 313-388-6645
Email: Ed
Website: michigan.sierraclub.org/semg/
Kim Korona
Community Humane Initiatives Coordinator
Michigan Humane Society
Phone: 248-799-7400, Ext. 127
Email: Kim
Website:
www.michiganhumane.org
Lesley Demos
Author of Factory Farming...The Gateway To Hell,
lecturer on the exploitation of factory farm animals,
advocate for the Federal Animal Welfare Act for factory farmed animals.
Help Little Bing, Inc. (a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization)
P.O. Box 1072
Fenton, MI 48430
Phone: 248-328-0828
Email: Lesley
Sheri Hearn Lazar, Personal Chef
Owner, The Blissful Palate Vegan/Vegetarian Personal Chef Service
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105
Phone: (734) 904-2895
Website: www.blissfulpalate.com
Part-Time Baker for Whole Foods Market
Graduate of the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York, NY and the Culinary Business Academy of the US Personal Chef Association in Atlanta,
GA
