Trusted. Knowledgeable. Proactive.
We have assembled a cross-section of professionals to advise and assist us in our goal of bringing BabyPlus to expectant families around the world.
Scientific Advisory Board
Our advisors are carefully selected from the disciplines of medicine, child development, therapy and education. They provide perspective and proposals to further our understanding of the relationship between a child’s earliest auditory environment and its lifelong impact on cognitive development and critical thinking.
Education
Chair, Elizabeth Moore MD, FAAP
Bio
Liz is a pediatrician and has been in private practice for a decade. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and her medical degree from Indiana University in 2001. She completed her Pediatrics residency at Riley Hospital for Children and has been in pediatric private practice since 2004. She absolutely loves sharing in the lives of her young patients and their families. Dr. Moore has a special interest in childhood development and behavior, as well as asthma and allergy. She is married to a fellow physician and together, they are enjoying raising three very spirited, busy young children.
Karin Bell, RN
Bio
Karin is a native of New Jersey and graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing. For the past 14 years, she has been a nurse dedicated within the field of reproductive medicine. She and her husband Robert have five children, ages 2 to 14 years. As a family, they love the outdoors, athletics, and family vacations. Karin is very committed to ‘educating’ the prenatal caregiver community on the lifelong developmental benefits of the BabyPlus curriculum.
Education
Education
Gary Meunier, PHD
Bio
Gary Meunier is currently an emeritus professor of psychology at Ball State University and has also served as a clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine. He is now retired but was the founder and director of a private practice (Diagnostics, Inc) which focused on the assessment of adults and children for courts, medical providers, industry, and governmental agencies. In additon, he was board certified in forensic assessment by the Board of Forensic Examiners. Most importantly of all, Gary is the grandfather of two BabyPlus girls, now ages 8 and 10, both of whom have had markedly strong learning skills from an early age. He collected scientifically accurate measures of their progress and milestones during the corresponding early developmental years and established they were advanced beyond expectations for mental development while their physical development was exactly within the normal expectations. As a clinician, he has directly quantified the many beneficial effects of the BabyPlus prenatal curriculum.
Melanie Kingsley, MD
Bio
Melanie Kingsley MD, is a practicing dermatologist with extensive research and lecture experience in her field of specialty. She received her undergraduate degree and medical degree from Indiana University. Dr. Kingsley served as both a Chief Resident in dermatology, as well as being selected the Outstanding Dermatology Resident by I.U. School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology. She did her sub-specialty fellowship in Laser and Mohs Surgery in Massachusetts. She serves BabyPlus today as an advisor in the arena of transdermal acoustic vibration. Dr. Kingsley is currently the Director of laser surgery and Dermatology in a private medical practice. She is married to her college sweetheart and together they are raising two very beautiful daughters.
Education
Education
William Bean, MD
Bio
William Bean MD, graduated summa cum laude from Purdue University in 1997 with a bachelor of science in neurobiology and physiology. After completing his undergraduate education he attended Indiana University School of Medicine. He graduated from medical school in 2001 and did his residency at Methodist Hospital in Emergency Medicine. Bill started his career as a board certified emergency medicine physician with IU health. In January 2012, he was instrumental in forming Hamilton Emergency Physicians group, which is headquartered in Noblesville, IN. Dr. Bean has been married to wife Jennifer for fourteen years and they have four wonderful children, ages 10 months to 10 years. Bill looks forward to the day when he can enjoy some of his past interests, such as golf and traveling with his kids. His current interests include youth sports, G-rated movies, and amusement parks!
Jodi Davis, MA
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Jodi L Davis, is an elementary teacher in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she currently teaches 3rd grade. She is in her 15th year of teaching. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Indiana State University and a Master’s Degree from Ball State University in Elementary Education. Mrs. Davis’ husband, Nate, is also in education. He is an Assistant Superintendent in Indianapolis, Indiana. He holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership and Supervision, as well as his Educational Specialist Degree. Jodi’s interests include reading, vacationing, and spending time with her family. Jodi and Nate stay very busy with two elementary-aged daughters.
Education
Education
Dorinne S. Davis, MA CCC-A, FAAA, BARA
Bio
Dorinne S. Davis, MA, CCC-A, FAAA, BARA, is the President/Founder of The Davis Center, Succasunna,NJ. She is the author of 5 books: The Cycle of Sound: A Missing Energetic Link (an introduction to a new energetic link for making self-change), Sound Bodies through Sound Therapy (hailed as the primer for all sound therapies), Every Day A Miracle: Success Stories with Sound Therapy (16 heartwarming stories of sound therapy successes), Otitis Media: Coping With The Effects In The Classroom (A teacher’s compendium of classroom activities and responses), and A Parent’s Guide to Middle Ear Infections (An informational book for parents). She has written chapters in numerous other books. She has demonstrated the scientific principles behind the Voice-Ear-Brain Connection℠ in The Davis Addendum to The Tomatis Effect, and established The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy® from which her Diagnostic Evaluation for Therapy Protocol (DETP®) provides the correct administration of any sound-based therapy. Ms. Davis is credentialed in 21 different sound-based therapies and her background as an audiologist, educator and sound therapist provides the foundation to The Davis Center’s unique Total Person approach, called The Davis Model of Sound Intervention℠. The Davis Center is considered the world’s premier sound therapy center and Ms. Davis is recognized as the world’s leading sound-based therapist. She has worked with thousands of people, young and old, learning challenged and normal, making change with their response to sound using sound-based therapies. Her work today is focused on bridging the gap between sound healing and sound-based therapy.
Ms. Davis is an international speaker in the field of sound therapy. She was the Key Note speaker at the International Sound Therapy Association November 2011 and has presented at many sound healing conferences such as the International Sound Healing Conference in 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the World Sound Healing Conference in 2007 San Francisco, California, and the Global Sound Conference 2008 in Marina Del Rey, California and many conferences related to learning and medical challenges including issues of autism, AD/HD, Williams syndrome, learning disabilities, dyslexia, chromosome imbalances, adoption, and more. She has also presented to audiences in England, Australia, Korea, Spain, Austria, China, and Russia. The Davis Addendum to the Tomatis Effect was introduced to the United States in 2004 at the Acoustical Society of America and to Europe at the PAN European Voice Conference in the Netherlands in August 2007. At the ISSSEEM conference in 2011 she introduced the concept of an energy system between the voice, ear and brain. In 2012, she introduced her new concepts at the Making Sense of Sounds conference in Plymouth, England.