The Kaiser Wellness Center is informed by a diverse staff. We are family-based, started with Kayla and Mike, but our network is rapidly expanding, which achieves the goal of the Kaiser Wellness Center....Spreading Knowledge!!!
Contributing Authors!
Author #1
Kayla Kaiser obtained her Ph. D. from the University of California at Riverside in 2012 in chemistry. Her major focus was the unraveling the metabolic response of flowering plants as a function of oxidative stress. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS) were used for dereplication of chemical signals in plant extracts. Kayla has developed many standard operating procedures (SOP) for analysis of metabolites. These analyses were extended in a range of plant tissues. She was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in 2011. She was a visiting professor in the W. M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College for two years. Currently, she is a lecturer at California State University, Northridge.
Author #2
John Michael Kaiser received his Ph. D. in chemistry at the University of California, Riverside in 2009. During his post-doctoral appointment at University of California, San Diego in the Center for NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging of Proteins he built instrumentation for studies of proteins intact in membranes through the use of magic-angle spinning. He is currently an instrument manager at California State University at Northridge(CSUN), which involves the training of personnel on a variety of instruments:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy(NMR), Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy(EPR), Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry(LC-MS), Gas Chromatography Spectroscopy hyphenated with a Mass Spectrometer(GC-MS), Inductively Coupled Plasma combined with a Mass Spectrometer(ICP-MS). Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy(UV/Visible), Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform -Infrared Spectroscopy(FT-IR), Raman Spectroscopy, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, X-Ray Diffractometer Spectroscopy, Gamma-Ray, Polarimeter, etc. Check out the equipment list at my department website at CSUN.
Author #3
Sepideh Yaghmaei received her Ph. D. in organic chemistry in 2008 from University of California, Riverside. Her research focused around the design of a model for a very strong hydrogen known as "low barrier hydrogen bond." In order to characterize these compounds properly required the replacement of atoms(Hydrogen with Deuterium) at very specific locations on the molecule--depending on the method of molecular characterization employed. Therefore, the molecule and conditions of synthesis required specific forms of molecular spectroscopy such as: Infrared Spectroscopy (IR), Raman Spectroscopy, Inelastic Neutron Scattering, Mass Spectrometry (MS), and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR). In order to confirm the measurement that each method of molecular spectroscopy produced with a given molecule that was synthesized and measured, a detailed Quantum Molecular (QM) simulation by computation was performed to verify a given molecular structure. After her doctorate, she taught general chemistry as an adjunct at San Bernardino Valley College for 3 years. In addition to teaching, she also took a part-time postdoctoral position at University of California at Riverside (UCR) performing molecular dynamic simulations of the nuclear Vitamin D receptor (VDR) and its interaction with various ligands. Her postdoctoral work led to new insights in agonist and antagonist binding to the VDR, mutation effects of VDR and functional implications. Dr. Yaghmaei has a skin care company called CT Organics (www.ctorganics.com) and a description of one of her new products is here.
Author #4
Sally Dyer received her nursing degree at Loma Linda University Medical Center School of Nursing and her Masters in Psychology at Cal State San Bernardino. She was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005 to a 12-person Task Force for the State of California to reduce the burden of stroke and heart disease on the State. The Inland Empire has the highest death rate from cardiovascular disease than any other county in the State of California; her passion is to help us NOT be #1 any longer. Sally is the RN Coordinator for Loma Linda University Medical Center’s Adult Cardiology Clinic and Community Education Programs. She is married to a psychologist, has 3 adult children, and 2 grandchildren. She loves to run, needlepoint, and read.
Author #5
Anne Hamersky is a visual storyteller whose portrait, documentary, and multimedia projects capture the humanity of her subjects with a vibrantly warm and graphically strong signature style. She specializes in photographing people who shape the social and cultural landscape of our times, showing us how they look, what they do, and the way they influence our world. Anne’s projects include commercial, editorial and non-profit clients, serving such fields as health, education, sustainable agriculture, green technology, travel, and entertainment. When she is not chasing the light, Anne swims in the San Francisco Bay. Without a wetsuit.
Author #6
Dr. Stacie Eldridge was educated at California State University, San Bernardino as well as the University of California, Riverside. She is currently Associate Professor of Chemistry at Riverside City College. The Analytical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society awarded Stacie Eldridge a graduate fellowship in a national competition during her fourth year, sponsored by Procter and Gamble. She was the first Donald T. Sawyer awardee in Analytical Chemistry for excellence in her research. Stacie's Ph. D. work involved development of methods to facilitate the identification and structure elucidation of heparin oligosaccharides. These methods included depolymerization, separation by Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) and Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry(LC-MS), further characterized via Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) pH titrations. She is a proud wife of Lynn and mother of Mason.