Meet the team

Brian Clement Ph.D., L.N. Co-Director

Brian Clement, Ph.D., L.N., has spearheaded the international progressive health movement for over five decades. He is the Director of the globally renowned Hippocrates Wellness, West Palm Beach, Florida, the world's foremost complementary residential health center. Over the last half-century, he and his team have pioneered clinical research and training in disease prevention using hundreds of thousands of participants who provided volumes of data, giving Clement a privileged insight into the lifestyle required to avert disease, enhance longevity, and maintain vitality. Their findings have provided the basis for Hippocrates' progressive, state-of-the-art treatments and protocols for health maintenance and recovery – the Life Transformation Program.

Anna Maria Gahns-Clement Ph.D., L.N. Co-Director

Anna Maria Gahns-Clement, Ph.D., L.N. Is co-Director of Hippocrates Wellness. For more than 40 years, Dr. Anna Maria Clement has been an international leader in the progressive health movement. Prior to coming to the United States to join Hippocrates, Anna Maria was the Director of Sweden’s Brandal Health Center in Stockholm, an internationally recognized and highly regarded center for health recovery. She was also a member of the Natural Health Care Coalition, a government-supported effort to unify the field of complementary health care in her native Sweden.

Dr. Joshua Helman, MD Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Joshua Helman, MD is an Emergency Medicine physician licensed in fourteen states. “Dr. Josh” has two degrees in biochemistry, (bachelor’s from Harvard magna cum laude and master’s from the University of Cambridge, UK). His dual medical degree is from Harvard Medical School and MIT and he is board-certified by both the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. His areas of interest include vitality, longevity, toxins, exosomes, biofilm, chronic neurologic diseases, mold, Lyme disease and fasting. He is passionate about applying his biochemical knowledge to real-world challenges. As a plant-based physician, he embraces an integrative approach including the importance of diet and lifestyle for optimal health.

Dr. Janet Hranicky, MD, PhD Doctor

Dr. Hranicky is the Founder and President of The American Health Institute. She has been involved in health care delivery since 1972 when she interned at The University of Texas, Student Health Center in Austin, Texas. Dr. Hranicky has been a leading pioneer in developing the field of PsychoNeuroImmunology. For the last 25 years, she and her colleague, O. Carl Simonton, M.D., together have led the longest-running Psychological Intervention Program for cancer in the world.

Andy Roman, MS, LMHC, RN Psychotherapist

Andy has served as a mind/body psychotherapist at Hippocrates Wellness since December of 1990, using and teaching radical feeling-centered, body-focused awareness tools to help Hippocrates' guests discover the essence of their problems and arrive at solutions. He facilitates the ongoing Healing Circle therapy and support group on campus and created S.H.I.F.T (State of the Heart Integrative Feeling Therapy), simultaneously centering on body awareness, here-and-now encounters, cognitive coherence, and emotional charge.

Antony Chatham, LCSW, M.Th., M.Phil., MSW Psychotherapist

Antony Chatham is a Florida Licensed Psychotherapist and a member of the National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists, who has worked with Hippocrates' guests since 1994. He has 12 years of pastoral counseling experience and over 25 years of counseling experience and uses alternative modalities like guided imagery, hypnosis, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), EMDR, and regression in his work. He draws inspiration from Eastern and Western holistic traditions of healing and integrates the knowledge and experience from psychology, philosophy, and theology/spirituality, in which he holds Master's degrees and/or doctoral coursework.