Healthcare Professionals

To bring you the very best in wellness information and products, we created a special Medical Advisory Board. They play the key role of helping us discover and interpret the latest scientific research on nutrition and health, which allows us to help people like you live lives of greater wellness.

Quality Assurance: we’ve already done the work for you
We know that you want to be confident about the quality and efficacy of any health supplement you’re considering. And with all of the TriVita products you get that very assurance. That’s because every single one is physician approved, formulated with the highest quality ingredients, backed by the latest scientific developments and tests, and uses the most up-to-date standards.

TriVita’s Healthcare Professionals



Brazos Minshew
TriVita Chief Science Officer


Our team of healthcare leaders starts with our own highly accomplished Brazos Minshew. As Chief Science Officer, he uses his medical science education and extensive naturopathy experience to analyze society’s most pressing health problems and to seek out natural solutions from nature.

For Brazos Minshew, wellness starts with a simple human truth: We all have physical, emotional and spiritual needs that must be met if we are to be healthy. But that’s just the beginning. We must also have a sense of purpose. "In order to have a reason for wellness, we must claim our purpose -- and work to fulfill it."

One of Brazos' greatest accomplishments has been working with TriVita to find a natural solution to North America’s inflammation epidemic. "There are native people living among us who do not experience the diseases associated with inflammation," says Brazos. "My responsibility and great pleasure has been to find out what they eat that reduces inflammation and how it improves their quality of life." With the discovery of the health benefits of the Nopal cactus and the development of Nopalea, Brazos has fulfilled at least one of his personal destinies. He’s helping people everywhere to live healthier lives -- and to thrive.



Dr. Scott Conard
Medical Doctor


Dr. Conard’s passion is to help people live longer and better lives. A national expert on disease prevention, he is reaching out to the many Americans who are worried about their health, are concerned about their weight and are frustrated because prior diets and exercise plans have fallen short. He believes going to a health care provider should be an entertaining and educational "wow" experience.

The most rewarding part of Dr. Conard’s job is helping people improve the quality of their life by discovering for themselves improved health. He is an advocate for empowering people to take control of their health. Dr. Conard genuinely believes in his patients and is dedicated to sharing concepts that will change their lives.

Dr. Conard is the founder of the TienaHealth Medical Group and along with maintaining his private practice there, he is the Medical Affairs Director of MedicalEdge Healthcare Group, Inc.






Medical Advisory Board



Dr. Samuel N. Grief,
Medical Doctor, C.C.F.P., F.C.F.P.


Dr. Grief’s main specialties are obesity management, nutrition, diabetes and dermatology. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and works at the University of Illinois/Chicago in its Department of Family Medicine. He has authored research studies in a variety of professional publications.

Dr. Grief has also done extensive work with homocysteine management and antioxidants and has appeared on television and radio programs discussing health issues and preventive measures.

He studied at McGill University in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and holds professional associations with the American Board of Family Practice, American Medical Association, Society of Teachers of Family Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians and the College of Family Physicians of Canada and others.



Dr. Mark Mattie
Medical Doctor, Ph.D.


Dr. Mattie is currently the Director of Research at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He trained and practiced medicine at Yale New Haven Medical Center, where he played a lead role in developing PathMaster, an indexed, cell-image database system that can automatically compute descriptors for unknown cells.

He earned both his MD and Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology at Georgetown Medical School. In the charitable vein, Dr. Mattie is also a volunteer transport pilot who has donated his consultation fees to humanitarian relief operations.



Dr. Tammy Pon
Medical Doctor


Dr. Pon works with patients to enhance their health through whole food supplementation, nutraceuticals and homeopathy. She is a Functional Medicine Physician at Designer Health Concepts, P.A. in Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Pon is a practicing physician for over 13 years, working with patients of all ages. She was named Doctor of Medicine by the University of Texas Medical School/Houston and is Board Certified in Family Medicine.

Her studies have been published in Plasmid and the American Academy of Family Physicians Home Study Self-Assessment Program. Plus, Dr. Pon has lectured on topics such as the use of alternative medicine for menopausal patients and the teaching of children to develop life-long healthy eating habits.



Dr. Daniela Radulescu
Medical Doctor


Dr. Radulescu is a clinical research scientist in Sydney, Australia and holds an advanced degree in molecular genetics. In the broad sense, she has been involved in clinical research for investigational medicines across a wide range of disciplines such as Orthopedics, Genetics, Ophthalmology, Oncology, Cardiovascular, Pain Management, etc.

More specifically, she has conducted research on individual matters such as Treatment of Elevated Heart Rate in CAD Patients; Pain-relief Treatment Results in Chronic Knee and Back Pain; Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Results in Adult and Pediatric Population.

Her professional interests include nutrition in metabolic disorders, pharmacogenomics and clinical research.