Douglas Amis, Ed.D. is a Co-Founder of Health Zone Life and creator of the Health Zone Life Model along with Dr. Pankaj Vij. Dr. Amis set out on this project with the objective of providing an open source model that medical professionals could freely use both as and educational tool and in their practice. The website’s goal is to provide platform for professionals who are leading the efforts to improve the health of individuals in the face of epidemic levels of diabetes and related diseases. Dr. Amis talks about health, aging and describes in detail his model which illustrates the lifespan and the impact of the Standard American Diet (SAD) and lifestyle on the arch of a lifetime. The intention for the model to illustrate that there is another way to live where the quality of life can be recovered and extended to near the end of life; that the last half of life can be as full and rewarding as the first, and finally that the body has natural ability to heal itself if only we would stop repeatedly injuring our self by our diet and lifestyle. To review the model and for other resources please visit: Healthzonelife Model: http://healthzonelife.com/health-zone-life-model/ Healthzonelife on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthzonelife/ Healthzonelife on Twitter:https://twitter.com/amisco12
Douglas Amis, Ed.D. is a Co-Founder of Health Zone Life and creator of the Health Zone Life Model along with Dr. Pankaj Vij.
Dr. Amis set out on this project with the objective of providing an open source model that medical professionals could freely use both as and educational tool and in their practice. The website’s goal is to provide platform for professionals who are leading the efforts to improve the health of individuals in the face of epidemic levels of diabetes and related diseases.
Previously Founder and President of Amisco Consulting Group, to provide management consulting services for start up through mid-sized companies. With over 25 years of experience in the electronics industry, Dr. Amis brings a comprehensive background in management, human resources, communications, media, compliance issues and organizational development to his roles as consultant and advisor with companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Silicon Valley.
As one of the principals of Semiconductor Systems Inc., Dr. Amis was instrumental in the achievement of a successful leveraged buy out of SSI from General Signal Corporation in December 1990. The results of this team was to create a company which would reinvent itself as a leading and innovative supplier of capital equipment for the Semiconductor, Flat Panel Display and Multi Chip Module industries. Growing the company from $14 million to $32 million before merging the company with FSI International in 1996.
He holds four masters degrees from the University of San Francisco in Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Marriage and Family Counseling, Life Transition Counseling, an M.F.A. from the School of the Arts at New York University, and doctorates in Business Administration from Western Colorado University in Organizational Behavior and Management, Educational Psychology/Counseling from the University of San Francisco. Dr. Amis is a Life Clinical Member of the California Association for Marriage and Family Therapists and has been a licensed to practice in California since 1981, a Life member in with the American College of Forensic Examiners. He is a Life Diplomate in Counseling Psychology from the American Psychotherapy Association and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Counseling.
Early in his career Dr. Amis was both a professor and administrator at the University of San Francisco founding both the Mass Media Studies Program and the Gerontology program. He has provided consulting services internationally to multiple public and private sector organizations including high growth startup operations and Fortune 100.
For more resources, please visit:
Healthzonelife Model: http://healthzonelife.com/health-zone-life-model/
Healthzonelife on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthzonelife/
Healthzonelife on Twitter:https://twitter.com/amisco12