Brief Biographies for BCIM Directors:
Dr Mark Atkinson MBBS, BSc (HONS), FRIPH, HPC
Dr Mark Atkinson is an Integrated Medical Consultant and one of the UK’s leading experts in integrated medical approaches to mental health and emotional wellbeing.
After graduating in medicine from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, and having spent a number of years working as a hospital doctor, Dr Mark took the decision to deepen his understanding of complementary and alternative approaches to healing. Traditional medical education, while enjoyable and valuable, didn't provide him with the knowledge and tools to address the underlying emotional, psychological, spiritual, environmental and social challenges that were so obviously influencing the health and wellbeing of so many of his patients. This realisation sparked a transformation in the way he worked with his patients. He now champions a personalised, person empowering whole-person approach to well-being, one that is committed to helping individuals experience their fullest potential for health, healing and personal growth from a place of self-acceptance and self-awareness.
Dr Mark has a busy private practice in Farnham, Surrey from which he provides personalised, integrated medical programmes to his patients. In addition to his clinical work, Dr Mark is the Founder and Co-Director of The British College of Integrated Medicine, Chairman of The British Society of Integrated Medicine, Founder of The Academy of Human Potential, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Royal Institute of Public Health, and a member of the British Medical Association and the British Holistic Medical Association. He is also an award winning writer, author of The Mind-Body Bible, a lecturer and an experienced workshop facilitator.
Dr Mark Atkinson can be contacted either by calling his receptionist on 0845 0946450 or by e-mail via his personal website www.drmarkatkinson.com
Dr Rosy Daniel – Integrated Medicine Consultant 
Dr Daniel works as an Integrated Medicine Consultant at the Apthorp Centre in Bath. She was former Doctor and then Medical Director of Bristol Cancer Help Centre (1993 to 1999), and served as Chief Executive Officer between 1985 and 1999. She is currently Medical Director of her own organisation, Health Creation, set up in 1999 to develop and provide holistic health care products and health
coaching services. Through her innovative Health Creation Programme, people become more involved in the creation of their optimum health, whether they are currently suffering from illness or seeking to prevent it.
Dr Daniel addresses conferences and seminars nationally and internationally, and is a regular broadcaster on radio and television. She is also is an established contributor to journals and periodicals and frequently sought for comment by radio and television journalists. She is a published author of the Cancer Lifeline Kit and five other books and her most recent book, The Cancer Directory (published by Harper Thorsons, June 2005) is rapidly becoming known as the definitive guide to integrated cancer medicine and essential reading for everybody affected by cancer.
The hallmark of Dr Daniel’s work is a combination of total commitment to high quality individualised help for those in her care developed over 20 years’ medical practice, and a passionate determination to develop integrated and preventive medicine that is effective and accessible to everyone. In this way she aims to make a positive difference creating innovative systems to reverse the growing pandemic of serious western lifestyle diseases such as cancer, obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Her current project Health Creation at Work is aimed at employers who wish to become involved in proactive health care in the work place. This corporate change programme enables organisations to achieve reduction in sickness costs, a happier more energised workforce whilst delivering improvement to the bottom line.
In 2007 Dr Daniel co-founded the Integrated Health Trust with the aim of setting up an Integrated Medicine health park in the Bath area combining a residential IM clinic and IM medical school to train the next generation of Integrated Medicine Doctors and Nurses. Longer term the site will also provide Health Creation Recreation facilities for the young of all ages and also holistic assisted living for the elderly. The Trust itself will become a large membership organisation and become the public voice for those who believe in proactive health creation to protect and promote positive health.
Contact Dr Rosy Daniel via her PA on: - 0044-1225 745737
For further info see:
www.HealthCreation.co.uk and www.IntegratedHealthTrust.org