Board Of Directors
Luke Weil - Co Founder
Luke is Chairman & Founder of Andina Acquisition Corp., a publicly-traded investment company focused on midsized companies in the americas. He is also founder of LIMPIA, an environmental organization in Long Island, New York. He has served on the boards of the Fortune Society, a service and public policy organization focused on criminal justice reform and supporting formerly incarcerated members of society, as well as Lazy Days, a distributor of recreational vehicles in the US. Luke discovered amazonian medicine nearly a decade ago as part of a personal healing process that had a profoundly transformational effect on his health and well-being. It simultaneously afforded him the opportunity to witness first-hand evidence of Traditional Amazonian Medicine’s ability to cure the sick and suffering. These experiences, coupled with his own treatment — wherein he was cured of Epstein-Barr Virus (a common condition generally considered incurable by Western medicine) — fully convinced Luke of the imperative to create an institution dedicated to the study, practice and preservation of Amazonian medicine.
Reid Carolin - Co Founder
Reid is a Peabody Award winning screenwriter, film producer, and President of Free Association, the production company he co-founded with actor, Channing Tatum. Among Reid’s credits are Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL (Warner Bros), 22 Jump Street (Sony Pictures), Logan Lucky (Bleeker Street) and Earth Made of Glass (HBO). Reid has been studying and working within the world of Amazonian Medicine since 2014. In 2017, his cousin (who had been battling a life-threatening auto-immune condition for over a decade) participated in the first PlantMed patient study, and one year later her illness was in complete remission. This formative experience helped shape Reid’s passion to assist in an effort to put Traditional Amazonian Medicine firmly on the radar of the Western medical community.
Channing Tatum - Board Member
Channing is an actor, producer, and director known for his leading role in Magic Mike, and its sequel, Magic Mike XXL. He also starred in the action-comedy, 21 Jump Street, and its 2014 sequel, 22 Jump Street, as well as films such as Dear John, The Vow, White House Down, Foxcatcher, The Hateful Eight, Hail, Caesar!, and Logan Lucky. Since 2015 he has been an advocate and fundraiser for the scientific study of Amazonian Medicine and its ability to treat severe and chronic illness.
Our Medical Advisors
Andrew Weil, M.D. - Integrative Medicine
Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology, and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health. Dr. Weil is an internationally recognized expert for his views on leading a healthy lifestyle, his philosophy of healthy aging, and his critique of the future of medicine and health care.
Mikhail Kogan, M.D. - Integrative Medicine
Dr. Kogan currently serves as medical director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine and associate director of the Geriatrics Fellowship Program. He is the founder and director of the George Washington University Integrative Geriatrics Fellowship Track and the director of the Integrative Medicine Track program at the George Washington University School of Medicine, as well as serving as part-time faculty member of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, and the GW Center for Aging, Health and Humanities.
Mauro Zappatero, M.D., PhD - Neurology & Stem Cells
Mauro Zappaterra obtained his MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School. He completed his PhD doing work with neuronal stem cells and the effects of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in brain development. He is published in numerous scientific articles on the CSF and his work was chosen as the cover image for the prestigious Neuron Journal. He was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for teaching medical students about living with life threatening diseases.
Roman Raju, M.D. - Radiologist
Dr. Raju received his MD and MBA from Columbia University, was a fellow at Duke University Medical Center, and is currently a radiologist at West Houston Radiology Partners in Texas.
Gerald Valentine, M.D. - Psychiatrist
Dr. Valentine is a psychiatrist and lecturer in psychology at the Yale School of Medicine.