A Life Course Approach to Mycotherapy – Combating Chronic Disease with Mushrooms
27 April 2019, Cavendish Conference Centre, London.
A Life Course Approach to Mycotherapy – Combating Chronic Disease with Mushrooms
27 April 2019, Cavendish Conference Centre, London.
Grow your knowledge of Mycotherapy at a one-day conference organised by the team behind the IHCAN Conferences
From early life and immunity, through to chronic conditions and inflammation The Mushroom Conference brings internationally-recognised experts together to discuss Mycotherapy solutions to modern day health issues.
We have a packed day of education
in store for you
We have a packed day of education
in store for you
The Speakers
Our expert speakers take the stage for a full day of education. All sessions will be recorded and sent to attendees after the event.
Catalina Fernandez
Catalina Fernández de Ana Portela is a biologist expert in Mycology and founder of Hifas da Terra. She has built a life and business around the beneficial properties of medicinal mushrooms studying their composition and creating innovative products. It is her ambition to create awareness of the healing properties of mushrooms on our well- being. Her continuous investigations further confirmed these living organisms to be powerful adaptogens capable of regulating the immune sys tem and protecting the body from a large variety of diseases and health issues.
Catalina has been presented with a number of awards for her remarkable work and visionary approach by creating biotech products of high added value from a natural resource: mushrooms.
Pere Gascon, M.D., Ph.D
Dr. Pere Gascón Vilaplana, has been a lecturer in the University of Barcelona since 2009 and coordinator of the Oncology Clinic since 2003. He is also the director of the Medical Oncology and Scientific Coordinator of the ‘Clinical Institute of HematoOncological Diseases (ICMHO) at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. In 1974 he obtained the title of Graduate in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona and is named Non-permanent Professor in the Chair of Pharmacology and Clinical Therapeutics of the Faculty of Medicine of the same institution.
Jo Gamble
Jo turned to a career in nutritional therapy after her daughter became very poorly.
Conventional treatment was not enough, so she went on a mission to find the answers, discovering them in naturopathy.
Jo has been a behavioral therapist for the last 15 years where she has specialized in children with autism and complex learning difficulties. Jo uses her skills and experience to compliment her nutritional therapy; this is particularly beneficial for the children she works with.
Jo is now a certified functional medicine practitioner and board certified with the Academy of Anti Aging Medicine in the USA, where she has received her fellow in ICT.
Linda Sims
Linda Sims, is a registered nutritional therapist (Dip CNM, mBANT, CNHC), a nutrition lecturer at the College of Naturopathic medicine in Bristol. She is a senior nutritional therapist at Hifas Da Terra UK and runs her own busy practice in Bristol. Linda has a special interest in supporting cancer patients, this has lead her to discovering the benefits of medicinal mushrooms, not only in cancer, but in all aspects of nutritional therapy.
Book your place
All bookings are managed by Target Publishing, organiser of the IHCAN Conferences
Organised for Hifas Da Terra by Target Publishing, the organiser of the IHCAN Conferences.
