Honorary Advisory Board Members

Frank Cousineau

Chairman of the BAO Health Resources Advisory Board

Frank Cousineau is President of the Cancer Control Society and President of the Cancer Victors Society. He is also the author of several books on successes in alternative medicine, including Cancer Defeated: How Rich and Poor Alike Get Well in Foreign Clinics and Cancer Breakthrough USA: The Little-Known American Clinics That Turn Around Even “Hopeless” Cancer.

Dr. Vaja Khositashvili, PhD

Research and Development

Dr. Vaja Khositashvili brought vast technical expertise from more than forty years of professional experience. He published 85 articles, many of which include detailed results of empirical studies and clinical trials of the company’s new product.

From 1961 until 1987 he worked in the biochemistry department of the Horticulture, Viticulture and Winemaking Scientific Research Institute, rising over 25 years from laboratory assistant to senior research scientist. From 1987 he was chief research scientist for the Radiology and Ecology Institute of Georgia. He was multilingual, held three Georgian patents from 1999, and was a graduate of the Tbilisi Agricultural Institute, earning a Doctorate in Technical Sciences in 1966.

Dr. James Privitera, M.D., H.M.D.

Dr. James R. Privitera, M.D., graduated in 1967 from the Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He interned at Providence Hospital in Seattle, Washington, and completed a residency in internal medicine at Presbyterian Hospital in San Francisco. He was later a Clinical Fellow in Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California. In 1970 he began the private practice of allergy and nutrition in Covina, California, where he practiced for the rest of his life.

Dr. Privitera was professionally affiliated with the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), the American College of Sports Medicine, the International Academy of Preventive Medicine, the International Academy of Applied Nutrition, the Northwest Academy of Preventive Medicine, the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the American Academy of Allergy and the National Health Federation. He was a consultant to some of the nation’s leading supplement manufacturers on their vitamin and mineral formulations, advised physicians around the world on the use of darkfield and live cell analysis, and wrote numerous peer-reviewed publications.

He was a keynote speaker on health and nutrition across the U.S. and the author of several books, including Silent Clots, which was translated into Japanese and became a bestseller in Japan.