Dr. Russell John Kort is an author, public speaker, chiropractor, and lead clinician of the Doctor EMF treatment and research team. He is the Chairman of DefenderShield medical and science advisory board and was the 2019 Innovator Of The Year for Brain Tap Technologies. He is also a faculty member of the Sleep Balance Academy. Dr. Kort has over forty years of medical experience. For the past five years, he has focused on the concussion-like symptoms associated with EMF Exposure (AKA “Havana Syndrome”). It is estimated over 100 million people in North America are suffering from similar symptoms including: Sleep, Brain Fog, Heart, Eye, and Balance Issues; Headaches, Hypersensitivity to light, sound, smell, touch, taste, and vibration; Tinnitus, Pain, Chronic Fatigue, Agitation, Anxiety, and Depression. For over two decades, Dr. Kort has suffered from the symptoms of EMF Hypersensitivity (EHS). This has driven him to dedicate his life to help those who have suffered, just like him. His pioneering work on the concussion-like symptoms of EHS has uncovered an innate sequence to healing, which starts in the brain.
DoctorEMF™ provides education, products, personalized comprehensive diagnostics, telemedicine (restorative sleep and concierge programs).
Dr. Skinner is the creator of the Portland Protocol system for treating sleep apnea and snoring in a minimally invasive way.
Recipient of the Invisalign Doctor of the Year Award.
Dr Skinner is regularly invited lecturer at the American Academy of Clear Aligners and the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine. He is also on the American Academy of Clear Aligners board.
He is a Key Opinion Leader for both CandidPro Clear Aligners and Fotona Lasers.
Having one of the world’s most advanced dental aesthetic lasers, the Fotona laser, allow him to do restorations without anesthetic, reduce snoring, reverse sleep apnea, and even reverse facial aging!
Dr Skinner is founder of the Portland Protocol that he co-created to include in the AIR Institute (Airway, Invisalign, and Rejuvenation Institute) with other world-class dentists and medical professionals. The AIR Institute is an educational institution that educates and teaches other doctors around the World to help patients reverse sleep apnea and snoring and even look and feel younger.
He has educated and lectured to over ten thousand other dentists and ear, nose, and throat doctors, at all of the top conferences in the US and Canada on the most effective and latest techniques and procedures for implants, clear aligners, as-well-as sleep apnea.
His training in dentistry started at The University of Iowa, which is widely regarded as one of the best dental schools in the world.
Joanette Biebesheimer, MS
Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH
Kandra Sellers RDH
Dr. Downs formed a company for sleep dentistry social media marketing, under the umbrella and doing business as Designs4dental, spawning the website and training center for dentists at www.dentalsleepbalance.com and another related site for dentists working with chiropractors called the Dental-Chiropractic Collaborative at www.dentalchirocollaborative.com. These sites are being brought together into a comprehensive professional training CE qualified education center called Sleep Balance Academy with our educational PACE approved partner at Wizdom at www.sleepbalanceacademy.com and are forming a new alliance of chiropractors, nurse practitioners, functional sleep medicine, and other allied healthcare professionals and dentists for the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. This collaborative site is being co-administrated with a double board-certified sleep medicine practitioner and educator, Dr. Joseph Zelk, DNP, FNP, BC, CBSM, DBSM.
Dr. Downs’ most recent projects include spearheading the building a charitable dental implant teaching and treatment clinic in Haiti called the Haiti International Dental Institute and an online sleep apnea testing website and store at www.onlinehomesleepstudy.com.
Dr. Downs is also the co-founder of a successful dental products company called Oracare at www.oracareproducts.com.
Dr. Downs is the founder of the nasal products company www.usa-guard.com
Dr. Shane Smith, DC
Bachelor of Science at Chico State University
Doctor of Chiropractic from Life Chiropractic College West
Founding Franchisee of The Specific Chiropractic Centers
Field doctor for upper cervical outreach program in El Salvador
Graduate of That Something upper cervical training series
Dr. Smith has lectures for the Air Institute and teaches specialized upper cervical vertebral care, as-well-as shockwave therapy for TMJ and autonomic nervous system health essential for sleep apnea patient care. He is a top educator of the chiropractic division of Sleep Balance Academy.