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Contributors

As part of our commitment to changing the relationships that underpin health-care, we are pleased to announce that we have an unbelievable opportunity to gain skills as patients.

Members of our Medovate community are invited and encouraged to join us for free for our monthly improv lessons with an instructor from Second City©, Jonny Nelson. Additionally, we invite you to join our mindfulness leader, Ellen Katz (a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), every Wednesday at 9 AM CST for I AM Meditation. We also are in the midst of implementing a monthly Tai Chi class with the help of a Tai chi master, Yang Yang, PhD. 

We invite you to read and learn about some of the key contributors to Medovate’s mission of changing health-care:

Ellen Radha Katz, MS, LMFT

You can experience the wisdom of Ellen Radha Katz, MS, LMFT every Wednesday at 9 AM CST for I AM meditation. Ellen Radha Katz brings her extensive career as a psychotherapist, as well as the nuances of communication and a hybrid of approaches, including integrative mind-body-energy methods, to the Medovate community. In addition to serving as Medovate’s mindfulness leader, she seamlessly weaves together her wide range of training when working with clients and patients including Internal Family Systems, Holographic Memory Resolution, Eriksonian Hypnotherapy, Somatic Experience and more. With undergraduate degrees in both Religious Studies and Ethnomusicology she has a foundation that extends far beyond traditional psychotherapy. In keeping with the contemporary wisdom for the treatment of addiction, Ellen has spent most of her career investigating how recovery, spirituality and creative expression are integrally related. She is an invaluable member of our team who has continually passed on wisdom from herself and her many mentors to our budding, young staff.


You can find Ellen Katz here: https://www.ellenradhakatz.com/

Dr. Antoanella Calame, MD

Dr. Antoanella Calame is a fellowship-trained dermatopathologist who combines the latest scientific advances with the clinical art of medicine. She serves as a leader in our Medovate community and also as the Medical Director for Compass Dermatopathology, who is our chosen partner for all pathology at Medovate. She has expertise in Mohs surgery and is board certified in dermatology. Dr. Antoanella Calame received her MD degree from University of California, San Diego (UCSD) after graduating Summa Cum Laude from California Lutheran University. She holds over thirty active state medical licenses. She is the author of a book on cutaneous manifestations of HIV disease and has published numerous peer reviewed scientific papers.


You can find Dr. Calame here: https://www.compassdermpath.com/

Master Yang Yang, PhD:

Yang Yang, PhD, is recognized in the traditional tai chi and qigong community as a master practitioner and teacher, as well as a pillar of our Medovate community. He is also an academic researcher interested in applying the highest standards of the Western scientific process to explore and promote evidence-based Eastern philosophy and wellness programs. Yang is author of the highly acclaimed book Taijiquan: The Art of Nurturing, the Science of Power, and in 2006 he was honored as the Qigong Master of the Year at the 9th World Congress on Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Founder of the Center for Taiji and Qigong Studies and former researcher and instructor of Tai Chi and Qigong at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Yang has more than 30 years’ experience teaching tai chi and qigong in China and the United States. He has influenced our Medovate community to begin learning about tai chi and how it can affect and improve the lives of those who learn it.


You can find Master Yang here: https://wa-qi.com/

Jonny Nelson

You can experience the improv expertise of Jonny Nelson on the first Thursday of every month in our Buffalo Grove office at 6 PM CST. Jonny Nelson is an improviser and teacher. He has been performing in improv shows for 13 years. He is proud to be a teacher at the world famous Second City where he teaches improv, advanced improv, sketch comedy, and improv for anxiety. He was one of the teachers who helped certify Dr. Mann during his Second City conservancy. Jonny teaches improv monthly with our Medovate team and patients to facilitate the experience of understanding emotions and practicing “saying yes to life.” Additionally, Jonny also teaches fast paced short form improv at Comedy Sportz Chicago. In addition to teaching Jonny is a veteran performer. He has performed musical improv with Second City’s Infinite Sunday’s, long form improv with the ensembles of Juneboy & Berserker at the iO theater Chicago, short form improv at Comedysportz Chicago, improv and sketch with Eisbär a two man show, his solo show Social Science at iO, and much more. He has also teaches improv workshops for business such as LinkedIn, The Federal Passport Agency, Dev Boot Camp, and Cannonball Productions. He graduated from Grand Valley State University with a double major in Philosophy and German.


You can find Jonny here: https://www.secondcity.com/people/jonny-nelson