Peter Elste has been a Police Officer for 21 years. He started his career working four years with the NYPD 73rd Precinct in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

During his short time with NYPD, he was part of the Street Narcotics Unit and Community Conditions Unit.

He is currently serving with the Danbury Police Department where he is a Field Training Officer, Crisis Intervention Team Coordinator, and a member of the Emergency Services Unit and Peer Support Team.

Pete also serves on the Executive Board of Responder Wellness Inc., a non-profit organization that works to support First Responders in the State of Connecticut.

Dr. Sean Mc Millan is a board certified orthopedic surgeon with specialty certification in orthopedic sports medicine (CAQ). He is the Chief of Orthopedics at the Virtua Health Willingboro and Camden Campuses and serves as the Director of Orthopedic Sports Medicine at Virtua Medical Group.  Dr. Mc Millan lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on a variety of orthopedic sports medicine topics and is affiliated with the Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine and Inspira Health orthopedic residencies.  Dr. Mc Millan currently serves on the Board of Directors for the AOAO as the 3rd Vice President and is a past recipient of the AOAO Emerging Leader Award.

Dr. Sean McMillan is an orthopedic sport medicine specialist, and one of the nation's few doctors performing reverse total shoulder replacement surgery.  He is Fellowship-trained in arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder, hip, and knee.

Experience

Dr. Sean McMillan is the Chief of Orthopedics and Director of Orthopedic Sports Medicine at Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County.  Additionally, he is an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Rowan University- School of Osteopathic Medicine (RU-SOM).  He lectures throughout the country, teaching arthroscopic and orthopedic procedures to his peers.

Previously Dr. McMillan worked as a team physician within the Boston Red Sox organization, focusing on the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox.  He has covered professional, collegiate, and high school sports.

Publications

Dr. McMillan’s endless dedication to the field orthopedic medicine has earned him recognition as a published author.  He has been published in book and online articles alike pertaining to:

-Hip Arthroscopy

-Muscle Injuries and Avulsions

-Arthritis of the Hip

-Hip & Thigh Muscle Strains and Contusions

-Lateral Hip/Snapping Hip

-Reverse Shoulder Replacement

-Meniscal Repair

Awards & Honors

Dr. McMillan has been honored to receive recognition from the communities he's served as well as his peers.  Some of his recent awards include:

-Selected 2013 TOP DOC for KIDS: SJ Magazine

-Leading Physicians of the World: Class of 2012

-(NYOORF) Outstanding Orthopedic Resident Scholarship

Education

Undergraduate:

The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

B.A., Psychology Major, Chemistry Minor 1996-2000

Medical:

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

DO 2001-2005

Internship:

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey: Kennedy Health Systems, Stratford, NJ

2005-2006

Residency:

Peninsula Hospital Consortium- North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems, Long Island, NY Orthopedic Surgery 2006-2010

Fellowship:

University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA

Arthroscopic Sports Medicine: Shoulders, Hips, Knees and Elbows 2010-2011

DNM ND CFMP BCND

Holistic Family Practice

Denise Schonwald has been practicing as a licensed spiritually-based mental health counselor, a medical intuitive and has been a registered nurse for over 30 years. She is a certified family and eldercare mediator and has helped families navigate through highly contentious situations.

Thanks to her deeply insightful and caring nature, Denise is known for helping clients learn how to care for themselves in ways they couldn’t even imagine prior to working with her. Her kindness, compassion and open-hearted approach allows you to feel safe in exploring (and releasing) what’s held you back from living your fullest life.

Denise is an avid tennis player, enjoys practicing yoga and meditation and loves to travel to Italy. She’s a Reiki master and a certified hypnotherapist. She is recently published her first book, Healing Your Body by Mastering Your Mind, you can find it on Amazon. Her therapy dog, Henry, works alongside her in the office offering support and comfort.

Ron possesses over 30 years of basic science research laboratory experience within the university and medical field. His expertise surrounds: Microscopy and digital imaging of tissue and cellular biology; application sciences, equipment and facilities management, and systems operations. Among his forte is hands on teaching and training of faculty, students, and staff on the use of sophisticated instrumentation and implementation of standard operating procedures in the field of sciences.

Ron is a graduate of Louisiana State University and proudly served our men and women in uniform for 16 years as a Research Biologist at the Denver VA Medical center.

Ron is a co-author in over 41 peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications and has a wide range of understanding surrounding medical problems and diseases such as diabetes, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Loue Gehrig Disease) and Apoptosis (causes of cell death). Ron is a Constitutionalist and staunch supporter of individual choice when it comes to their health.

Ron is proud to offer his multitude of skills running for Arapahoe County Coroner. As per Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 30-10-60, as an elected official, Coroners are required by state law to determine the cause of death for those who pass suddenly, violently or in an unexplained manner. I pledge to the people of Arapaho County, that no unexplained death of any individual will go without a though investigation.

As your candidate for Coroner, I will stand for the following principles, “I represent the living but speak for the dead.” We are living in very challenging times. I wish to unify with one another to gain a firm understanding surrounding serious medical issues that have affected so many lives. We must elucidate the root cause of deaths associated with global COVID-19 pandemic.

Lieutenant Doug O’Rourke has been a member of the Hamden Fire Department for 17 years, and is a United States Navy veteran. Doug is a part-time farmer, PEER Support Advocate, Director of Hamden’s PEER Support Team as well as Director forCT Firefighter PEER Support Network.

Before I died I used to be a marketing executive for a Forbes Fortune 100 company, fly around in private jets, and have a very affluent lifestyle. Then life kicked me in the butt and my life of abundance turned into being homeless, having mental health labels (C-PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Agoraphobic), and an incurable heart condition- leading to losing my son in a custody battle.

That's when I died ~ this was truly a gift. Coming out the other side of this plasma-like experience of death, with full memory recollection. I ‘saw’ the essence of teachings like non-duality, the law of attraction, the metaphysical, and others as all aspects of one power. I saw the heart of them- and ended up writing a book about it.

I also started to see the ‘energy’ behind people and life and found that I could access deepened states of consciousness and from this state create things into the form magnetically and almost magically, people may call that the ‘Law Of Attraction’ I call it 'Conscious Creation!’ and I share with others how they can create via their being-ness.

Later losing my beautiful teenage daughter to a fatal car crash deepened my experience I saw when I died and allowed my heart to stretch even further to let in more light. This light coming through me propelled me to help thousands of other grieving parents beginning with the almost two-thousand attendees at my own daughter's memorial.

Eventually, this was channeled into my book Wholality®: The Missing Link to Love and has helped myself and my husband reach an estimated 1 million people to help them experience more inner unconditional freedom. We do this via our accredited training company based in Hawaii and we run retreats where people from all over the world join us to go back within- back to the universe within. Compassion.

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TARA KELLY

FOLK MUSIC, REDEFINED

Folk/Americana singer-songwriter Tara Kelly is putting a new spin on the cosmic country of Kacey Musgraves and Emmylou Harris, with a songwriting style that evokes a darker, more mysterious edge.

Hailing from a rural town in southern New Jersey, Tara Kelly moved to Los Angeles to write and perform, securing a show at the iconic Troubadour venue. Shortly after, Kelly was personally invited by Rhett Miller of Old 97’s to sing his hit duet “Fireflies” with him on a stop in Los Angeles after posting a cover of the song on her Instagram. 

Kelly’s sound is deeply influenced by cosmic American music, fathered by Gram Parsons in the late 1960s and popularized by the likes of Linda Ronstadt and Brandi Carlile. She also draws inspiration from bands like Fleet Foxes, The Civil Wars, and Mandolin Orange; while her songwriting is shaped by the word-play of Kacey Musgraves, the raw vulnerability of James Bay, and the unabashed and fierce-feminine power of Maren Morris. Her lyrics allegorize a gamut of lived experience from heartache to mental health awareness, creating modern folklore that is all her own.