Positions held

President and a Founding Director of The Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, an organisation of doctors concerned with the dissemination of unbiased information on Nutrition to the medical profession (1979-2007).Chairman and a Founding Director of The Australian College of Herbal Medicine.Director of the original OMAA, the Orthomolecular Medical Association of Australia, founded in 1979 and which continued for a decade.Co-founder and Past Director of The Graduate School of Integrative Medicine. (A joint venture between ACNEM, Swinburne University and AIMA).Managing Director of Brighthope International Pty. Ltd.Founder, Director of and consultant to Nutrition Care Pharmaceuticals Pty. Ltd. Director of Ausnutria Pty. Ltd., a division of Ausnutria Ltd. Hong Kong and China. President and Director of Nutrition Care Asia Pte. Ltd.Managing Director of Nutrisearch Australia Pty. Ltd. (past)Managing Director of Biocentres (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. (Australia and Singapore)Past President of the Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia. (The peak body representing the Complementary Health Products Industry, now titled Complementary Medicines Australia).)Director and/or consultant to a number of Chinese and S.E. Asian Companies. Expert Member of the Central Chinese Health Think TankDirector of GeneCare and NutriGenomics Australasia Pty. Ltd.Director of GeneCare International Ltd. (Hong Kong)Board member of Medicinal Cannabis Education (ACNEM, NIIM and NICM)Board member of the National Institute of Integrative Medicine (NIIM).Advisory Board Member to the Global Health InitiativeChairman of the Australia China Nutrition and Health AssociationFounder and Director of Entoura Pty. Ltd. a medicinal cannabis company.

Awards

The Lady Cilento Award – In recognition of exceptional contribution over many years to the advancement and professionalism of the Health and Nutrition Industry in Australia, 2001. An award made by the Complementary Health Council of Australia which is the peak body recognized by the Commonwealth of Australia.The ACNEM Inaugural Award for over 25 years of outstanding service to Nutritional and Environmental Medicine as Founding President of ACNEM (1979-2007).Lifetime Achievement Award 2016 from the Indian Nutritional Medicine Association.Honorary Fellowship in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine of the Indian Nutritional Medical Association.National Institute of Integrative Medicine NIIM presented him with the 2018 Award in Recognition of his Outstanding Contribution and Accomplishments in the Field of Integrative Medicine.Invited to join the Functional Medicine Committee of the Shanghai Health Technology Association as an Expert

Publications

Nutritional Medicine – Australian Family Physician 1991.Vitamin C and Immune Nutrients – Bio Publishing 1985 (Book).The AIDS Fighters – Keats Publishing 1986 (Book).Sleep Soundly Every Night Without Drugs – Bay Books – 1988 (Book).A Recipe for Health – McCulloch – 1989 (Book).Fighting Fatigue – The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Allen & Unwin 1990 (Book).A Critical Guide to Nutrition and Dietary Supplements in Disease Management. Churchill Livingston 2003. Jamieson (Contributions).Lecture Notes on Nutritional Medicine – ACNEM Manual.Papers and Reviews on the Nutritional Influences in:- Diabetes, Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Leukaemia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Paediatric Disorders, Epigenetic’s and Nutrigenomics, Asthma, Dementia, Cancer, Autoimmune Diseases, Psychiatric Disorders, Learning and Behaviour Disorders.Listed in the International Authors and Writers “Who’s Who”.National Press Club Telstra Address “ Sustainable Health in an Ageing Population”.Regular articles for Australian Pharmacist, National Pharmacy group and many other publications.FoodMatters feature film and DVD. Appeared as the only Australian in this groundbreaking film, now in over 10 different languages.The Vitamin Cure For Diabetes – Basic Health Publications 2012 (Book)The Forces for and Against Health in Australia – OMNS 2012 (Paper)A chapter in Boundless Plains to Share.Fifty Unsung Business Heroes-Purpose Publishing 2015

Skills

An eminent medical professional specialising in preventive, personalised and predictive medicine and human nutrition. A founder of two medical organisations and advocate of nutritional and environmental medicine and optimal health.An advocate for and educator of doctors practicing Integrative and Orthodox Medicine.

Extensive experience in Crisis Management, Risk Management and Public/Government RelationsOver forty years’ experience as a medical practitioner and educator in the fields of nutritional and environmental medicine.

An expert in Nutritional Immunology for both the prevention and treatment of infectious diseasesEstablished Integrative Medicine in Australia.

My lifelong ambition is to change the way medicine and healthcare is practiced for the benefit of the the individual and the public and to see nutrition, nutritional and environmental medicine as the foundation for world health and peace.

Strengths include

The ability to observe trends and predict future outcomes in the fields of health and disease care.

Able to focus on the available scientific evidence and translate it into practical clinical uses and forecast the most useful areas of research for better health outcomes.

Building bridges between different interest groups.

Communicating clearly and succinctly the important messages in the fields of nutritional, environmental and integrative medicine.

The creation of successful organisations, both profit and not-for-profit.

Planning for long-term future change.

Work history includes

A founder of two medical organisations and advocate of nutritional and environmental medicine and optimal health.

An advocate for and educator of doctors practicing Integrative and Orthodox Medicine. Extensive experience in Crisis Management, Risk Management and Public/Government RelationsOver forty years’ experience as a medical practitioner and educator in the fields of nutritional and environmental medicine.

An expert in Nutritional Immunology for both the prevention and treatment of infectious diseasesEstablished Integrative Medicine in Australia

Professor Ian Brighthope graduated in Agricultural Science in 1965. His research interests were in the fields of agriculture and veterinary nutrition, including the nutritional health of cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, pigs and poultry.

In 1969 he entered medical school at the University of New South Wales and following three pre-clinical years, completed his clinical studies at Monash University in Victoria, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1974.

After completing his residency and a year of general medicine and anaesthetic practice, he travelled widely throughout Europe, North America and Asia searching for solutions to the problems created by the significant gaps he recognised in the normal medical training of doctors.

The Brighthope Clinics and Biocentres were developed in the 1970’s. They specialised in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine with particular interests in psychiatric diseases, learning and behaviour disorders, cancer patient care, heart disease, psychological disorders related to foods and chemi-cals, the chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis, asthma, food and chemical sensitivities, auto-immune diseases, diabetes and the treatment of acute viral illnesses and other conditions with megadoses of intravenous Vitamin C and other nutrients.

As president of ACNEM, Professor Brighthope pioneered the first post-graduate medical course in nutrition in Australia and remained on the faculty as one of its principle lecturers from 1980 until 2007. He also started the ACNEM newsletter which became the ACNEM journal.

Professor Brighthope has published extensively for the general public and has appeared regularly in the media as an advocate of nutritional and environmental health. He is the author of 5 books and many scientific and medial lectures and reviews.

In December 2015, he appeared in a chapter of a groundbreaking book launched by the Australian federal treasurer titled “50 Unsung Business Heroes”.

In November 2018, the National Institute of Integrative Medicine presented him with the 2018 Award in recognition of his Outstanding Contribution and Accomplishments in the Field of Integrative Medicine.

Reasons for founding World of Wellness

Professor Ian Brighthope founded the Not for Profit World of Wellness in 2022. This was in response to his pleading to Australian Government health ministers to promote Vitamin D, C and Zinc to the public, to protect the vulnerable and help those already sick.

All of his recommendations were ignored.

Australian politicians forced months of lockdowns and masks on healthy populations, decreasing their immune systems and destroying small business. Melbourne, the city that Professor Brighthope lives, had the longest lockdowns in the world.

Despite his repeated complaints the entire population of Australia was forced by the strictest mandates in the world to have an experimental, gene editing vaccine or face job loss, bans from all schools, hospitals, shopping centres and even beaches.

Australia now has some of the highest rates of death from both Covid and the vaccine side effects in the world.

The WOW is working long and hard to correct this catastrophic situation.

"My lifelong ambition is to change the way medicine and healthcare is practiced for the benefit of the the individual and the public and to see nutrition, nutritional and environmental medicine as the foundation for world health and peace."

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