Karilee Halo Shames RN, PhD has been a Clinical Specialist in Psychiatric Nursing and a Certified Holistic Nurse with a PhD. in Holistic Studies. She has maintained a private practice in collaboration with Dr. Richard Shames for twenty years, specializing in comprehensive treatment aspects of energy-depletion illnesses. Karilee is Assistant Professor of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University. Previously she was California Coordinator, Director-at-Large, and Public Relations Chair for the American Holistic Nurses Association, and has written numerous health-related articles and several books, including The Gift of Health (Bantam 1982, co-authored with Richard Shames, M.D.), The Nightingale Conspiracy (Enlightenment Press, 1993), Creative Imagery in Nursing (Delmar Press, 1995) and Energetic Approaches to Emotional Healing (Delmar, 1997). Their newest release is “Thyroid Mind Power.”

Dr. Richard Shames, MD graduated from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, did research at the National Institutes of Health with Nobel Prize winner Marshall Nirenberg, and has been in private practice for twenty-five years. In addition to his medical office work, he has been a member of the Clinical Faculty of the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, a founding member of the American Holistic Medical Association, a participant in the Carl Menninger Foundation, and a member of Who’s Who in California as well as nationally. He has served as Adjunct Faculty at Florida Atlantic University. The author is well known for his prominence and pioneering work in the holistic field. Their newest book is “Thyroid Mind Power.”