Meet the Team
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Richard Pitt, CCH --- Co-Editor
Richard has been practicing homeopathy since 1984. He initially trained and practiced in the UK and then lived and worked in the USA for 20 years. He was Director of the Pacific Academy of Homeopathy in San Francisco for 12 years and a founding member of the Council for Homeopathic Certification, serving on its board for 17 years.
He has lived for eight years in 4 African countries and was Education Director of the Kenya School of Integrated Medicine for 5 years where he was also project director of a 5 year European Union Public Health Project. He is the author of 5 homeopathy books and was Editor of the California Homeopath from 2006 to 2016.
Richard Pitt, His site are at:
https://www.richardpitthomeopathy.com https://www.thenaturalmedicineguide.com. -
Kirsten McGregor, CCH, AHC --- Publisher & Co-Editor
Kirsten McGregor, CCH, AHC, is a board-certified Classical Homeopath and Ayurvedic Health Counselor with an established international clinical practice based in California. She is the founder of Metta Integrative Health, where she integrates Homeopathy and Ayurveda as a coherent continuum of care addressing foundational, regulatory, and physical domains of health.
Kirsten brings years of advanced professional training in the healing arts, including full-time clinical education in Classical Homeopathy and comprehensive professional training in Ayurvedic medicine. Her scholarly and clinical work examines the thoughtful, disciplined integration of these two medical systems, particularly in the treatment of complex and chronic conditions, and reflects a commitment to depth, precision, and coherence in integrative medicine.
Her editorial vision for The California Homeopath is informed by decades of leadership in publishing, media, and organizational development, as well as by her experience working at the intersection of healthcare, academia, and global initiatives.
Kirsten McGregor, CCH, AHC
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Kathleen Scheible, CCH --- Team & CHMS Liaison
Kathleen Scheible, CCH has a classical homeopathy practice in San Francisco, California. She graduated from Pacific Academy of Homeopathy in 2009. Kathleen founded the Bay Area Homeopathy Association in 2007, and is the current President of the California Homeopathic Medical Society, the parent organization of the California Homeopath Journal.
Kathleen has served as the Homeopath Ambassador for the Integrative Healers Action Network non-profit dedicated to transforming trauma into resilience for those effected by climate disasters since 2018. Kathleen is the current Chairperson of the Board of America's first Homeopathic Medicine Political Action Committee, and is active in advocating for homeopathy and homeopathic medicine on a local, state and federal level.
Kathleen Scheible,
https://www.bernalhomeopathy.comhttps://www.homeopathywest.org
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Vijay Vaishnav, MD (Hom), CCH ---Team & CHMS Liaison
A former full-time Professor and Chair of Homeopathic Materia Medica at CMP Homeopathic College in Mumbai (India), Vijay Vaishnav, MD (Hom), CCH has over 40 years of clinical practice as well as teaching experience internationally.
He has been a resource-person and a subject matter expert for the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH), which is a federal body under the Dept of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Govt. of India, and has reviewed and contributed to many of its publications. He has also been a faculty for the Practitioner and Doctoral Programs in Homeopathy at the American Medical College of Homeopathy at Phoenix, Arizona, a Grand Rounds teacher at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon, and a visiting faculty at the Caduceus Institute of Classical Homeopathy, Santa Cruz, California.
He is currently practicing homeopathy in California, USA, and is on the Board of the California Homeopathic Medical Society (CHMS). He is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Integrated Standardized Homeopathy- a peer-reviewed journal.
Vijay Vaishnav, MD (Hom), CCH
https://drvaishnav.com
