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Carlon M. Colker, M. D., FACN is the Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director of Peak Wellness, Inc. with centers in Greenwich, Connecticut and Beverly Hills, California. His practice specialties include internal medicine, sports medicine, and nutrition. Dr. Colker is an attending physician at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, and Greenwich Hospital, in Connecticut. As a special care physician, he has taken care of the most critically ill patients in the intensive care unit at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, as well as St. Joseph Medical Center and Stamford Hospital in Connecticut. In addition to his practice, through his non-profit Peak Wellness Foundation, Colker has made numerous contributions supporting the health, well-being, and safety of our nation’s young people. Colker is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and has a wealth of scientific research publications and articles to his credit. Having been a part of the health and fitness industry for over 25 years, to his credit in the late 80’s he helped to design and build the first wellness program on the East coast. He is an internationally recognized consultant in health and fitness and has worked with governments, large health systems, and private companies, as well as with Olympic and professional athletes and celebrities. He is widely recognized as America’s premier wellness coach. Marquee athletes and world champions from the NBA, NFL, MLB, USTA, UFC, and WWE credit Colker with improving their lives and performance. Colker is also a long time columnist and contributing editor for Muscular Development, and has appeared in such health magazines as Muscle & Fitness, Ironman, Mind & Power, Body, Runner’s World, Walking, Let’s Live, Self Magazine, Strive, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and Cosmopolitan, just to name a few. He has published a number of books on wellness matters and is a familiar person in the field of medicine, nutrition, and fitness. Colker has been a regular guest medical correspondent on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends”. Offering his expert opinion and advice, he has appeared on such shows as ESPN Outside the Lines, NBC’s Health Segment, Court TV, Bloomberg, and ABC’s World News Tonight. He has also been interviewed on national television over a variety of topics from the serious to the not-so-serious by everyone from Barbara Walters and Katie Couric to Jenny Jones, Montel Williams, and Roseanne Barr.
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Cherie Greer Brown is the President of Hill Ventures, Inc., the marketing company of NBA All-Star Grant Hill. Hill Ventures pursues the management of Hill’s business activities and marketing relationships. Formed shortly after he entered the NBA, Hill Ventures Inc. provides Hill complete oversight of his marketing, promotion, community service, foundation, web site, real estate investments and other professional activities. A three-time first-team All-American (1992, 1993, 1994) at the University of Virginia, Ms. Greer led her team to two NCAA Championships in 1991 and 1993. She was the 1994 NCAA Division I Defensive player of the year and the only lacrosse player to have her jersey retired at Virginia. The ceremony marked only the fifth time a female student athlete had her jersey retired at the University of Virginia. Ms. Greer was named a member of the Lacrosse Magazine All-Century Team (the youngest member of the All-Century Squad), and was selected as one of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Top 50 overall female athletes and to the ACC’s Top 50 Lacrosse Team. Additionally, she was inducted into her high school Hall of Fame and the Eastern Pennsylvania Lacrosse Hall of Fame. And in November 2009, Ms. Greer will be inducted in to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. In 2000, Ms. Greer received the Beth Allen Award as a highly skilled, creative and disciplined player who consistently makes a positive contribution to the team effort. She was a member of the 2000 US touring team to Australia. She traveled to Great Britain with the 1996 US Touring team as well as competing in 1995 with the US Team against Wales. Greer was the youngest and sole college student member of the 1993 US World Cup Team. Warrior Lacrosse Company sponsored Ms. Greer and she was selected to participate in their highly exclusive “Players Club,” which consisted of a team of the most experienced and accomplished lacrosse players in the world. The Club members work together to design equipment and products, test and improve revolutionary ideas and serve as teachers and ambassadors for the lacrosse way of life. In 2008, she married Winston G. Brown and resides in Orlando, Florida.
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