Mario Martinez, PsyD, is a clinical neuropsychologist who lectures worldwide on the impact of cultural beliefs on health and longevity. His unique approach bridges the fields of psychoneuroimmunology, cultural anthropology, and cultural neuroscience. In 1998 he developed his theory of Biocognitive Science based on research that demonstrates how thoughts and their biological expression co-emerge within a cultural history.

Biocognitive theory integrates research in psychoneuroimmunology, neuroscience, and cultural anthropology to conceptualize and address the causes of health, the learning of illness, and the biocultural ingredients of longevity as integral bioinformational fields that cannot be reduced to their cognitive, biological or cultural components. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is the author the novel, The Man from Autumn, and The MindBody Code, to be published by Sounds True in November 2014. To learn more about Mario and his work, visit biocognitive.com.

Erin Olivo, Ph.D., MPH, is a licensed clinical psychologist, and has been an assistant clinical professor of medical psychology at the Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons since 2004.

She is the former director of the Columbia Integrative Medicine Program, which she headed in collaboration with Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Dr. Olivo lives in New York, NY. See her website for more.