Institute for Progressive Health Sciences Launch New Pillars for 2027

Science Institute Pillars Connect Research, Education and Responsible Innovation

A six-pillar framework for advancing evidence-informed health sciences

August 16, 2026- The Institute for Progressive Health Sciences (IPHS) is launching as an interdisciplinary initiative designed to connect scientific investigation, professional education, emerging technology review, and public engagement. Established as a program within the Brainwave Wellness Institute, IPHS aims to address a persistent challenge in healthcare: moving promising ideas through responsible evaluation and translating scientific knowledge into information that professionals and communities can use.

Led by founder Lennard Goetze, Ed.D., the Institute brings together a developing network of clinicians, researchers, educators, innovators, and advocates. Its framework recognizes that scientific advancement depends on more than discovery alone. Progress also requires thoughtful investigation, collaboration across specialties, transparent communication, and opportunities to examine both the potential and limitations of emerging approaches.

Roberta (Bobbi) Kline, MD, serves as Science Officer. The Institute’s Clinical Research Advisors include Noelle Cutter, PhD; Leslie Vallie-Montoya, MD; and Paul Dreschnack, MD. Together, these appointments establish an initial leadership and advisory foundation for developing research priorities, educational initiatives, and interdisciplinary relationships. 

Why This Institute—and Why Now?

Healthcare professionals and the public face a rapidly expanding flow of scientific findings, new devices, wellness approaches, and health-related claims. Yet access to information does not automatically produce understanding. A preliminary study may be presented as a definitive answer. A promising technology may reach potential users before its limitations are adequately explained. Valuable clinical observations may remain disconnected from researchers who could help investigate them.

At the same time, expertise often remains divided among professional specialties, independent practices, research settings, technology companies, and advocacy organizations. These groups may be examining related questions without an effective structure for exchanging knowledge or developing joint initiatives.

IPHS is being established to help strengthen those connections. Its purpose is to create a collaborative environment where questions can be identified, evidence examined, qualified contributors connected, and findings communicated with appropriate context.

The Institute’s intended contribution is practical: helping participants determine what is known, what remains uncertain, and what further investigation may be needed before an emerging approach can be responsibly advanced.

THE EXPERTISE BEHIND THE MISSION
Introducing IPHS’s Scientific Faculty and Clinical Leadership

The Institute for Progressive Health Sciences brings together professionals whose backgrounds span clinical medicine, biological research, genomics, education, and health innovation. Working alongside founder Lennard Goetze, Ed.D., these leaders contribute complementary perspectives to the Institute’s mission: examining emerging ideas responsibly, strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration, and translating scientific knowledge into meaningful educational and research initiatives.

Roberta (Bobbi) Kline, MD — Chief Scientific Officer & Director of Education: Dr. Kline is a board-certified OB/GYN whose work encompasses functional genomics, epigenetics, and integrative personalized medicine. She has developed genomic testing and clinician education programs and taught healthcare professionals through faculty appointments, conferences, and workshops—experience that supports IPHS’s emphasis on scientific evaluation and knowledge translation.

Gurgos Mulenga, PhD — Director of Cutaneous Oncology & Translational Research: Dr. Mulenga is a Zambian researcher whose graduate studies at USC led to collaborations with independent clinical research facilities and pharmaceutical labs in the US, His focus is on skin biology & melanoma research, and how topical formulations interact with near-infrared laser exposure. His work connects investigations of skin cancers and subdermal responses with interdisciplinary research development, alongside clinical advisory contributions to the National Cancer Collective.

Noelle Cutter, PhD — Director of Biological Research & Scientific Development: Dr. Cutter is an Associate Professor of Biology at Molloy University whose research interests include cancer biology, viral and cancer genomics, women’s health, and breast density awareness. Her combination of laboratory research, student mentorship, and public health advocacy brings an academic research perspective to the Institute’s interdisciplinary initiatives.

Paul Dreschnack, MD — Director of Clinical Innovation & Surgical Research: Dr. Dreschnack is a plastic, hand, and reconstructive microsurgeon whose professional background includes clinical teaching appointments at LSU School of Medicine and SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn. His experience also includes clinical pilot studies in regenerative medicine and humanitarian surgical work, adding surgical and investigative perspectives to the Institute’s advisory team.

Leslie Valle-Montoya, MD, MBA — Director of Integrative Health & Clinical Research: Dr. Valle-Montoya is the founder of Brainwave Wellness Institute and Biomed Life, with additional training in Swiss Biological Medicine under Dr. Thomas Rau at the Paracelsus Clinic in Switzerland. Her work emphasizes nutrition, lifestyle, and integrative approaches for individuals facing chronic health challenges, contributing a whole-person perspective to IPHS’s research and educational interests.

Sergei Sorkin, PhD -  is a clinical researcher and professor of bioenergy science whose work examines the physiological responses and potential treatment effects of electromagnetic technologies. Following studies at the Columbia Institute of Biophysical Sciences, he joined the Front Range Bioelectromagnetics & Performance Laboratory (Denver, CO) , where his research explores effects of envrionmental PFAS, electromagnetic exposure, recovery, and human performance through controlled investigations and interdisciplinary collaboration.

One Connected Framework

IPHS organizes its activities around six core pillars. Each addresses a different requirement for turning scientific interest into useful knowledge, while supporting the others.

1. Research & Scientific Investigation: The research pillar supports the development and communication of investigations addressing emerging health questions. Potential activities include literature reviews, evidence synthesis, observational investigations, pilot studies, feasibility assessments, and research partnerships. An important objective is connecting clinical questions with appropriate scientific expertise. Rather than treating early observations as established conclusions, IPHS seeks to help shape questions that can be examined through responsible study design, appropriate oversight, and transparent reporting.  

 2. Education & Knowledge Translation: Scientific findings become more useful when their meaning, relevance, and limitations are understandable. Through this pillar, IPHS plans to support webinars, expert roundtables, workshops, instructional resources, research summaries, and patient-facing educational materials.Knowledge translation requires more than simplifying technical language. It involves preserving scientific accuracy while adapting information for different audiences. A clinician, patient, caregiver, and community advocate may need different explanations of the same finding. The Institute aims to make those explanations accessible without overstating the evidence. 

3. Health Technology Review & Innovation: Emerging health technologies create opportunities alongside questions about safety, effectiveness, accessibility, regulatory status, and appropriate application. IPHS intends to provide a collaborative framework for examining those questions.

Review activities may include assessing published research, examining manufacturer claims, consulting independent experts, identifying evidence gaps, and exploring opportunities for structured investigation. Areas of interest include medical imaging, physiological monitoring, rehabilitation tools, digital health platforms, and other developing technologies.  Participation in an IPHS review will not constitute certification, clinical endorsement, or proof of efficacy. The objective is informed examination that helps distinguish technological promise from demonstrated clinical value. 

4. Professional Networking & Collaboration: The collaboration pillar reflects the Institute’s belief that productive investigation frequently begins where disciplines meet. IPHS seeks to connect physicians, laboratory researchers, allied health professionals, educators, technology developers, entrepreneurs, patient advocates, and organizational partners. Working groups, professional introductions, roundtables, and joint educational initiatives can help participants identify complementary capabilities. These relationships are intended to support projects that individual professionals or organizations may find difficult to develop independently.. 

Its publishing framework emphasizes clear distinctions among peer-reviewed research, preliminary findings, expert interpretation, sponsored content, and general educational material. These distinctions help readers understand the nature and strength of the information presented.

5. Scientific Publishing & Knowledge Dissemination: Research and education depend on effective communication. IPHS plans to support research-informed articles, expert interviews, educational reports, technology assessments, white papers, newsletters, and multimedia programming. The goal is to contribute useful context and informed discussion while making relevant knowledge available beyond the immediate participants in a project.

6. Public Outreach & Community Engagement: The Institute’s sixth pillar extends its work into communities through educational campaigns, advocacy relationships, digital media, and collaborative programming. Patients, survivors, caregivers, and underserved populations bring perspectives that can help identify overlooked questions and educational needs. IPHS intends to incorporate those experiences into conversations about program priorities, health literacy, rehabilitation, prevention, and access to credible information.

Community engagement also creates a feedback pathway, allowing public questions and lived experience to inform future educational development and research discussions.

An Interdisciplinary Scope

The Institute’s areas of interest include cancer science and survivorship; preventive and predictive health; medical imaging and diagnostic innovation; women’s and men’s health; integrative and functional health sciences; neuroscience and behavioral health; rehabilitation and human performance; healthy aging and longevity; and digital health and emerging technologies.

This scope is intended to support focused programs and working groups as expertise, resources, and opportunities develop. It does not imply that every area will immediately have an active research program.

Building With Scientific Integrity

As IPHS begins its work, its central commitment is to responsible investigation and evidence-informed communication. Where applicable, research initiatives will require appropriate ethical review, informed consent, regulatory consideration, institutional oversight, and qualified clinical supervision. The launch establishes a framework for sustained collaboration: identify meaningful questions, evaluate available evidence, connect expertise, develop initiatives, publish responsibly, engage communities, and use new learning to guide the next inquiry.

IPHS welcomes inquiries about research collaborations, educational programs, emerging innovations, and clinical advisory support.

Contact: Catherine Crowley, Associate Coordinator
Bemore.editorsdesk@gmail.com | (516) 765-7713
www.IPHSResearch.org