Matol Health Board Members
                      
                      Kristine Clark, Ph.D., R.D., has been involved with Matol since 1991. First, as part of the original   Health and Nutrition Advisory Board and now as our own nutrition consultant. Her love for Matol stems  from a similarity in missions. Hers is to impact the health and well-being of all her clients and Matol  Distributors by promoting good nutrition and physical activity. Matol’s is to Impact World Health. Dr. Clark says that she relies on the knowledge of Matol Distributors to take her message to hundreds of others who need assistance changing bad health habits to good ones.

Dr. Clark is currently Director of Sports Nutrition at Penn State University. She counsels over 800 varsity athletes from 29 sports. She is also the spokesperson for the United States Soccer Federation and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the largest group of sports medicine professionals in the world. In 1998, she was elected as a Board of Trustee member to that group.


                            Georges Morisset, Pht. brings years of experience in     the sports medicine field to the table, and is an invaluable ally in the  mission to Impact World Health. His impressive resume includes having worked with professional hockey teams, as well as his work with athletes at the Pan-American Games and the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Thirty years of dedicated service to his profession has brought Georges credibility and respect. His advice has long been sought on a variety of health issues. Georges has had an interest in nutrition and supplements since he was a young man, and he is committed to helping Matol Distributors make sense of the wealth of information that exists in the industry today.



                             Dr. Victor Manuel Santander, M.D., Ph.D., received his M.D. in November 1958 from                             the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He also has three Ph.D.’s in Biochemistry (1960), Neurophysiology (1963), and Pharmacology (1965) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Dr. Santander has been in private practice for more than 40 years in the field of Endocrinology, Virology and Immunology. Dr. Santander was a past Researcher for the Department of Immunology (Tumors) at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, Germany. Currently, he is the Director of the Immunology Institute in Mexico City and a Research Professor for the Occidental Institute Research Foundation in British Columbia, Canada.

Dr. Santander is the author of many original research publications and has written various books focusing on Human Pharmacology and Neurophysiology.His first scholarly publication, Dolor y Conducta 1958 Libros de Mexico S.A., is still used by students as reference material for pain management. Dr. Santander was the first Latin-American to discover a new antibiotic and has given many medical conferences in various countries.


                           Robert A. Murgita, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert in immunology and immuno-therapeutic proteins. Dr. Murgita has held academic positions at the State University New York (SUNY) at Buffalo; the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; the University of Uppsala and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden; and presently McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Dr. Murgita holds the position of Full Professor of Immunology at McGill University and has held various important administrative positions at this institution, including 10 years as the Chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Scientist at McGill’s two major teaching hospitals (the Montreal General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital), and Director of the Office of Biotechnology.

He has held the Canadian Pacific Chair in Biotechnology, and as such, was the most prominent spokesperson for biotechnology at McGill and its affiliated research hospitals. As CP Chair, he created the first University-based biotechnology center in Canada: the Sheldon Biotechnology Center.

In 1994, he founded a successful U.S.-based private biotechnology company that focuses on the development of immuno-therapeutic drugs. This company currently has candidate therapeutics in human clinical trials. He is the author of more than 100 papers and abstracts in internationally recognized scientific journals and international conferences. Dr. Murgita has supervised more than 30 graduate students who have obtained Masters and Ph.D. degrees, and post-doctoral fellowships. Dr. Murgita is the named inventor on more than 20 U.S. and international patents relating to immuno-therapeutic proteins and their use in the treatment of various diseases.

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