Our
Team

Bill Dennis, President & CEO

He currently serves as CEO of Plant-Based Sciences and Clinical and Herbal Innovations, companies at the cutting edge of alternative medicine, health, and wellness. Bill also serves as president of Practice Success, addressing the gaps between the fragmented disciplines in American Healthcare. Gradually interdisciplinary dinner groups appeared in and around greater NYC and Washington, D.C.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, he enjoyed all the city offer in sports, culture, and entrepreneurship. He completed a degree in psychology and humanities at Carnegie Mellon University, then worked as a biofeedback therapist, meditation teacher, and services coordinator at The Combined Therapy Program of The Himalayan Institute in Chicago, then returned to complete a Master's in Counselling Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

He acquired extensive training as a psychotherapist and stress management consultant while coaching executives and other professionals in Manhattan, NYC. He co-founded The Center for Holistic Medicine in 1978 with Rudolph Ballentine, MD. There, patients and students learned stress management, the importance of a plant-based diet, and meditation. After starting a family there, he began modernizing dental and medical offices with practice management software. He extended this practice into coaching physicians on improving their business models by focusing on integrative methods for success, such as 'client-centered communication.

He leads teams by offering workshops in stress management and practice building and facilitating our groups. He is passionate about supporting clinicians, leading our retreat program and workshops at our retreat center, Villa Serena. He also thrives on leading our team and in creating success for health and wellness providers.

Now, Practice Success is an effort to introduce integrative and collaborative coaching and consulting to innovative clinicians. He believed that the time had come to 'reinvent' the health industry by creating networks of like-minded, forward-thinking, diverse individuals - starting in greater D.C. and NYC with a dozen interdisciplinary collaborative dinner groups, now Zoom groups. Programs include Clinical Communications and Leadership, examining classics and cutting edge.

As they began to work together, these interdisciplinary, collaborative groups started to expand members' perspectives. This offshoot project eventually evolved into a thriving program, now known as Metro Collaborative. It has attracted health professionals looking for new techniques to expand their businesses and connect with other innovators. Psychiatrists, dentists, medical specialists as well as alternative practitioners collaborated.

Observing the notable progress members made within these forums, it quickly became apparent that these clinical and business groups were cutting edge for problem-solving, professional solidarity, and community. Indeed, these groups provide ways for business owners, physicians, dentists, and practitioners of all disciplines to learn, connect and collaborate to create cross-referral opportunities.

Over the last few decades, he has evolved his contribution to the healthcare community, always maintaining his leadership, technology, and team building. In the intervening years, as Vice President of the Seltzer Institute, President of Coaching Solutions, founded 2000, a collaborative practice management firm that implemented transformation with a broad team-based approach to complex business issues.

In the 1980s, he lectured on dental technology at The Academy of General Dentistry, Tufts University, NYU Dental Schools, and numerous study clubs in greater New York, greater D.C., and Philadelphia. He learned how to lead, collaborate, and connect in groups from participating at The Shalom Mountain Retreats and serving as President of The Stewardship counsel for The Center for Conscious Living and the Leadership Systems at Landmark Education.

Bill and his wife love leading retreats, wellness programs, and workshops at their center, villaserena.com, splitting their time between Maryland and The Dominican Republic, enjoying yoga, swimming, tennis, and spending quality time with his four sons.

For information on workshops, leadership programs, & executive coaching, contact bill@metrocollaborative.com

Dr. Carmel Wiseman, D.C., Director of Communications

With over a decade of experience taking care of a wide variety of patients, Dr. Carmel Wiseman is ready to bring her knowledge, her dedication and skills to you.

Dr. Wiseman is Nationally Board Certified, and holds a license to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Her speciality is caring for families and received post-doctoral training in Pediatrics and Perinatal care (Diplomate in Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics, 2008). In order to serve the varied needs of varied patients, she practices a variety of techniques. Several times a year she engages in continuing education seminars to provide the most effective and relevant care to her practice members.

She is one of the few Advanced Proficiency Rated Doctors in the area in Activator Methods Chiropractic Technique. Other techniques include CranioSacral, NeuroEmotional Technique, Webster's, and Kiniesology. She is an extraordinary communicator and leader. We are thrilled to have her on our team.

Ann M. Thompson, MA, CMRM, NCMT (Ret) is a Certified Medical Reiki Master, Reiki teacher, and professional writer-editor specializing in the health sciences. She serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Reiki Research – an international organization that collects, evaluates and summarizes peer-reviewed scientific research on Reiki.

Ann has practiced Reiki since the mid-1990s and was a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist for ten years (now retired). Today, she teaches and practices Reiki from her own studio in the Washington, DC area and is an on-staff Reiki Master for the Bethesda Salt Cave. Ann also is a Certified End-of-Life Doula, ordained Interfaith Pastor, and published poet/essayist (www.wellspringofwords.net).