People

Autoimmunity Research Foundation runs on the strength of a team of highly skilled volunteers. A variety of people contribute in various capacities.

Trevor Marshall, PhD (Thousand Oaks, California) - Trevor has training and experience in a wide range of disciplines including electrical engineering, statistics, biotechnology, software development, microchip development, and, of course, molecular biology. His first medical research was in the late 1970's, with Ted Keogh's infertility research team at the University of Western Australia, followed by study of diabetes at the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, in the early 1980's. This led to publications in the fields of both diabetes and infertility. For several decades, Trevor has pondered the pathogenesis of chronic disease. Several recent breakthroughs led to the development of the Marshall Protocol. Known for his distinctive yellow shirt and red tie on the conference circuit, Trevor has keynoted several international meetings and authored a number of papers. Trevor is adjunct professor in the School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Murdoch University, Western Australia.

• Timeline of the Marshall Protocol – includes more biographical details
• Wikipedia profile
• Personal website

Chris Benediktsson (Tiburon, California) – Chris is the Executive Vice President of ARF. Chris has over 30 years experience as a senior manager with both the private and public sector - ranging from operations management of an international media company, to senior staff with the State of Alaska Court System. He has a lifelong interest in practical science. He has prepared environmental assessments for the FAA, drafted municipal code for the regulation of recreational water resources for the Municipality of Anchorage, and has lobbied and presented technical testimony to the state legislature. He served as an accounting, business development and management consultant for various private and public sector organizations including the Municipality of Anchorage, Lottery Alaska, ABC Alaska, Builder’s Bargains Stores, and several Alaska Native corporations.

Frances E. (Liz) Marshall, GradDipPharm, RPh (Thousand Oaks, California) – Liz graduated Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Adelaide in 1969. After tenures at hospitals in South Australia and Western Australia she gained her Graduate Diploma of Pharmacy in 1980. Since moving to the USA in 1982, Liz has practiced as a pharmacist at Westlake Hospital and the Los Robles Regional Medical Center. She published her first paper, Quantitative prediction of concentration changes due to permeation of solutes through Polyetheylene containers during autoclaving, in 1970 (under her maiden name), and has subsequently published papers on “Microcomputer Capabilities for Pharmacy Inventory Control” and, most recently, on autoimmune disease.

Cathy Benediktsson (Tiburon, California) – Cathy has over 25 years of experience in civil engineering design and engineering management. During 1989-2000, she worked for the Federal Aviation Administration managing and executing a complex, ten year $120 million environmental cleanup/infrastructure renovation program. Cathy guided the removal, remediation and/or replacement of 429 large bulk fuel storage tanks, 13 pipeline distribution systems, fifty-two large scale asbestos abatements and 78 cleanup sites throughout Alaska. She has served as Chair for the National Steering Committee for Environmental Programs and Planning, served on the National Program Management Steering Committee, National Maintenance Engineering Committee, and was FAA representative for the Statement of Cooperation Federal Environmental Committee for Alaska. Cathy Benediktsson was the recipient of the “Reinventing Government” award from then Vice President Gore. She currently serves as an elected member of the Board of Directors for a public utility district in Northern California.

John McDonald, (Malibu, California) – John is an infrared physicist currently designing, manufacturing and marketing specialty microscopes for the semiconductor industry. John travels extensively, giving seminars and briefings in microscopy, photonics and infrared physics in North America, Asia and Europe. In his 25 year career he has designed, and fielded, biomedical and semiconductor microscopes, military night vision equipment, and commercial optical instruments. John is active in several community organizations, having been a member of the Board of Directors of the Road Back Foundation.

Captain Tom Perez, R.Ph., M.P.H. (Scottsmoor, Florida) – Tom Perez is a Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Services (headed by the Surgeon General). He recently retired from active duty after 25 years at the US FDA. Most of this time was spent in the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (FDA/CDER), the last decade in management of the CDER Drug Advisory Committees which approve new drugs for sale into the US marketplace. Tom spoke at the 2008 International Congress on Autoimmunity on clinical data collected from the MP cohort.

Paul Albert (New York, New York) – Paul Albert is Digital Services Librarian at Weill Cornell Medical College. Paul has several job roles including offering instruction to medical students and physicians in evidence based medicine and practice. Paul is expert in searching the biomedical literature. A long-time volunteer for ARF, Paul has contributed to several papers by the ARF research team and is the lead developer and manager of the Marshall Protocol Knowledge Base. Paul also maintains the website, Bacteriality.com. In his free time, Paul enjoys riding his bike. Read Paul Albert's interview on Bacteriality.com.

Greg Blaney, MD (Vancouver, British Columbia) – Greg Blaney, MD graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1974. Following internship at Edmonton General he joined a Community Health clinic in Ottawa. From 1987 to 1990 he was a teaching assistant in the College of Osteopathy of the CME program at Michigan State University, having trained in both conventional and manual medicine during the first two decades of his career. He went on to also gain competence in Acupuncture and Homotoxicology, was a medical advisor to the LaLeche league, the Childbirth Education Association, the RCMP and the Bank of Canada. He lectured in the University of Ottawa’s Residency program, and its Masters program in nutrition. Dr. Blaney is currently using Autoimmunity Research Foundation’s Marshall Protocol to treat hundreds of patients with a wide variety of chronic inflammatory diseases. Dr. Blaney's paper, Vitamin D metabolites as clinical markers in autoimmune and chronic disease has shed light on how autoimmune patients tend to have very high levels of the hormone, 1,25-D. Read Dr. Blaney's interview on Bacteriality.com.

Amy Proal (New York, New York) – Amy Proal graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with a degree in biology. While at Georgetown, she wrote her senior thesis on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Amy founded her blog Bacteriality.com in 2007. Bacteriality has become an excellent source to learn more about the science behind the Marshall Protocol and the Marshall Pathogenesis – and has served as the inspiration for the Marshall Protocol Knowledge Base. It also contains several dozen interviews with patients who have recovered using the MP. Amy has spoken at several international conferences and authored several peer-reviewed papers on the intersection of bacteria and chronic disease. She is currently enrolled in a PhD program, and studying hard…

Janet Raty (Portland, Oregon) - Janet graduated from BYU (UT) with a BFA in Illustration and holds an MsEd in Supervision and Administration from Bank Street College of Education (NY). Her career has been varied, but dominantly features educational leadership and assisting C-level executives and strategists visually describe and achieve the type of change that others must understand for a successful future. Janet's illustrations and PDF publications of Autoimmunity Research Foundation concepts and presentations have been submitted to the FDA and notable medical industry stakeholders. Since 2005, she has read hundreds of medical articles and research studies. Serving the community she is a member of continues to be an important part of her life and she has logged over 4,000 support posts in online MP communities. In the 2010 International Autoimmunity Congress held in Slovenia that year, Janet actively contributed to research and the main author assigned her to present the Autoimmunity Research Foundation's Bipolar Comorbidity poster.

Joyce Waterhouse, PhD (Pasadena, California) – Joyce Waterhouse, PhD, graduated from the University of California, Irvine, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a bachelor's in Biology. Joyce received a PhD in Systems Ecology with a minor in Statistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She then pursued postdoctoral research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Since 1997, she has written for and edited an online newsletter, focused on chronic illness, CISRA's Synergy Health Newsletter. She has written a number of articles for peer-reviewed journals, and has recently written a chapter in the book, Vitamin D: New Research.

Gene Johnson (Allen, Texas) – After receiving his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1964, Gene worked over 30 years in various capacities for the Construction and Mining Group of Ingersoll Rand Company, fourteen years of which were as Production Engineering Manager of the Rotary Drill Division. Since retirement, Gene has received an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Biotechnology, magna cum laude, at Collin College, Plano, TX. His poster presentation at the 9th Annual Biotechnology Conference titled: “Sub-Inhibitory Concentrations of the Beta-Lactam Antibiotic Carbenicillin Interfere with Top 10F E. coli Cell Division” won 4th place at the conference. Read Gene's interview at Bacteriality.com.

Dody (New England, USA) - Dody has a BA in Geography. She has a grown son, and with her life partner of nearly two decades is a Certified Indian artisan and adopted member of the Herring Pond Wampanoag tribe. Her love of nature has manifested in landscape designing, mountaineering, farming and kayaking. She sings in her church choir and an acapella jazz-pop performing group. She worked for many years in a non-profit health management organization on work process analysis, imaging protocols, quality control and clinical accreditation. She is currently a geographic information systems specialist. She has been recovering on the Marshall Protocol since early 2007.

Keith Waterhouse (Australia) - Keith is a retired career electrician with a speciality in repair and renovation which he now applies to people since encountering his own health challenges with acute and chronic illness. He says that being married to a retired career nurse with both practice nurse and pathology management qualifications helps too.



Marysue Mistler (Gainesville, Florida) – Marysue graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982 with a B.S. degree in Physical Science. Her years on active duty included assignments in administration, communication and information technology, satellite intelligence and operations, aviation maintenance, and multiple executive and joint staff positions. She received a M.S. degree in International Affairs and Strategic Planning from the U.S. Naval War College in 1994. Following an early retirement in 1997, she and her husband traveled full-time throughout the continental U.S. before settling on a horse farm in central Florida in 2002. Since then, Marysue completed advanced certification in Interactive Guided Imagery and works part-time as a life coach, helping people work through major life transitions. She also serves as a local Hospice volunteer.

Ron van den Dungen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) - Ron van den Dungen holds a B.Sc. in Electronics and has worked for more than two decades in the ICT industry. He has gained broad experience in designing and building secure and reliable large scale Internet-systems. These skills come in handy in supporting the systems run at the ARF. After having immersed himself in the science, Ron has written several Dutch articles on the MP and regularly organizes local meetings to spread the knowledge in his region of the world. Ron is also co-founder and board member of the European Autoimmunity Research Charity that was formed in Heidelberg, Germany.

Joyful (USA) - With an unusually strong interest in the relational aspects of project development (at least for an electrical engineer), Joyful has enjoyed the transition from technical project lead to volunteering with the Autoimmunity Research Foundation. Her skills and experience in technical R&D have transferred nicely to the domain of studying recovery from chronic illness. She enjoys participating in discussions within the MP support community and constantly dreams of ways to try to “make things better” for our members.