Contributors

Dr. Rennebohm is a pediatrician and pediatric rheumatologist. He is currently largely retired. In 2018 he officially retired from the pediatric rheumatology department at Cleveland Clinic, where he was also the Director of the International Susac Syndrome Consultation Service (2012-2018). Prior to that, he was at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Canada, where he was Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Rheumatology (2008-2012); before that he was at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where he was Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Rheumatology for 21 years; and before that he was a pediatric rheumatologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He went to medical school at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), at La Jolla, where he graduated with an MD degree in 1972. He completed his Pediatric Residency training at IWK Children’s Hospital/Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He completed his Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship training at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center He has been a pediatrician for almost 50 years and a pediatric rheumatologist for about 42 years. Although he is no longer in clinical practice or affiliated with a medical school or health care institution, he has continued his intense interests in pediatric rheumatology, Susac syndrome, and now COVID. In fact, throughout the past 2 years he has spent many hours per day on most days of most weeks intensively studying and writing about COVID---because he has realized how profoundly important and complex the COVID situation is. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington. His clinical pediatrics activity is now limited to being on “first pediatric call” for his 9 grandchildren.

Dr. Jessica Rose is a Canadian researcher with a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics and a Master's degree in Immunology from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She also holds a PhD in Computational Biology from Bar Ilan University and 2 Post Doctoral degrees: one in Molecular Biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one in Biochemistry from the Technion Institute of Technology. She was also accepted for a 2-month program as a senior researcher at the Weizmann Institute prior to completion of her latest post doctoral degree at the Technion. Her more recent research efforts are aimed at descriptive analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data in efforts to make this data accessible to the public.

Christof Plothe completed two years of pre-clinical training at the medical faculty in Mainz / Germany and then studied Osteopathy at the University of Wales in Kent / England. As an independent Osteopath, he had worked for many years in Ireland and for some time in the United States and Spain. He is the author and co-author of several books, author of studies, articles, lecturer at national and international congresses and regular online speaker. His main medical topics have been shown on television, radio and in films. Through books and lectures he tried to integrate naturopathy, environmental medicine, holistic dentistry and conventional medicine. This, nutrition and pre- and perinatal medicine and psychology remain the focus of his work to this day. In order to integrate all of these approaches into osteopathy, he founded what he called biophysical osteopathy. He is co-founder and CEO of Millivital GmbH (www.millivital.de), which aims to offer new concepts for the development of natural food supplements (Food Synergy Booster) and the micro-fermentation that he developed. Together with his cousin, Martin Plothe, he wrote a book on this subject (Cultures for Life). He has been researching the subject of nutrition for 30 years and has developed an online nutrition course with Ingo Lienemann (Vital-Life-Food, www.vital-life-food.de) to offer people a balanced and delicious concept based on the latest scientific knowledge. His main goal is to bring people back into cooperation with their environment in order to create a sustainable future for us humans and our planet.