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Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder & Vice Chairman, Director, VP of Programming, Medical Director and Documentary Participant & President; Senior Internet Advisor

Management Team

Harold E. Morse
Leo Greenstone, M.D.
Hank Schlenker
Jerrold Schecter
Steven Schecter
Tom Des Jardins

Harold E. Morse, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Hal Morse is the chairman and CEO of The Health and Healing Network, an integrative medicine electronic platform He is also chairman and CEO of HMORSE INC., a management consulting company.

Dr. Morse is the former president, CEO and co-founder of OVATION, a television network dedicated exclusively to the arts. He was the driving force behind the idea to bring an all-arts network to television in the 1990s, much as he was in bringing an all-education cable network, The Learning Channel (TLC), to the marketplace in the 1980s. Dr. Morse founded TLC and served as its chairman and CEO, and under his leadership, it became one of the nation’s fastest growing cable networks. He also served as president and CEO of the American Community Service Network.

In 1989, Dr. Morse was appointed to a special State Department team to negotiate with the USSR to broadcast more television programs to the citizens of the USSR. Dr. Morse was a founding board member of Cable in the Classroom, a cable industry initiative designed to provide cable programming to the nation’s schools.

He received the Cable Industry's highest award, The Vanguard Award for his leadership in successfully developing The Learning Channel.

Dr. Morse began his career in education, teaching in public schools. As a Washington fellow during the Johnson administration, he helped create and implement the Developing Institutions Program for assisting black colleges and universities. As director of education for the Appalachian Regional Commission, he was responsible for building hundreds of vocational technical schools, university facilities, and teacher training projects throughout Appalachia.

A graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego, where he received his bachelor and master’s degrees as well as an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree. Dr. Morse also was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington in Seattle and received its Distinguished Graduate Award.

Leo Greenstone, M.D., Medical Director and Documentary Participant

Over the past 10 years, Dr. Leo Greenstone has been a leading teacher and practitioner in the field of Integrative Medicine. Dr. Greenstone received his medical degree from Yale University and his Internal Medicine training at the University of California San Francisco where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. In 1990, his interest in education led him back to his hometown of Chicago where he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. There he practiced and taught Internal Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Evidence-Based Medicine, and received numerous teaching awards for his efforts. In 1994, Dr. Greenstone and his family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan and he became an adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan and worked at its affiliate Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1999 he recieved a grant to open the Oakwood Complementary and Alternative Medicine Center. He served as its Medical Director from 1999-2004. He has authored book chapters and journal articles on numerous Lifestyle Medicine topics. Dr. Greenstone was appointed Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan and Associate Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care of the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System in April 2006. Since that time, he has taught in the University's Medicial School and overseen the outpatient operations of the Healthcare System which includes the VA Ann Arbor Hospital and Medical Center and its community-based outpatient clinics in Jackson, Michigan; Flint, Michigan; and Toledo, Ohio serving over 54,000 veterans.

Hank Schlenker, President

Hank Schlenker is President of RealNet Learning and former CFO of The Learning Channel. He began his career as a consultant with Deloitte Consulting, and then became part of the management group that created and developed The Learning Channel (TLC). After the sale of TLC to Discovery Communications, Schlenker co-founded RealNet Learning Services, which provides professional training over a variety of platforms, including satellite, classroom delivery and the Internet. He has more than 35 years experience in cable television, marketing and strategic planning.

Jerrold Schecter, Co-founder and Vice Chairman

Jerrold L. Schecter is a policy expert on Asia, Russia, and the Middle East, based on his prize winning career as a historian, journalist, government official and corporate officer. Through his extensive firsthand experience in Russia, Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia he has developed a comprehensive network of high level business, media, think tank and government officials in Washington and New York. After serving as a U.S. Naval officer in Korea and Japan, Schecter began his journalism career with the Wall Street Journal and then spent eighteen years with Time Magazine. He was a foreign correspondent covering Indo-China, Taiwan and China based in Hong Kong (1960-1963). After a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard he was bureau chief in Tokyo (1964-1968) and Moscow (1968-1970 where he was instrumental in the acquisition of Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs. He was Time’s White Housecorrespondent (1971-1973) and diplomatic editor (1973-1977). He served on President Jimmy Carter’s White House staff as associate White House press secretary and Spokesman for the National Security Council (1977-1980), headed by Zbigniew Brzezinski. From 1980 to 1982 he was vice president for public affairs of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. He founded Schecter Communications Corporation in 1982 . From 1994 to 2006 Schecter was Senior International Consultant for Cassidy & Associates, the Washington, DC public affairs company.

Steven Schecter, Director, VP of Programming

Steven Schecter, President of Schecter Films, Inc. is an award winning independent producer and director, cinematographer, editor, and writer. He began his career in film and video as an apprentice and production manager at Guggenheim Productions in Washington, D. C. Following an undergraduate degree at Harvard and three years of full-time Smithsonian work, which led him to shoot over 150 hours of 16mm film in Brazil, Micronesia, India, and Nepal, Schecter started his own company as an independent producer in 1983. Nationally broadcast documentaries and features which he produced, photographed, or edited include:

» 1999 - Mending Ways. The Canela Indians of Brazil. Broadcast by the Discovery Channel as Intimate Truths of the Canela Tribe. In the fall of 1997, 22 years after his first trip to Brazil, Schecter returned to shoot new material on the Canela Indians. A co-production of Schecter Films and the Smithsonian Institution, which premiered domestically on the Discovery Channel and internationally on National Geographic Channels in the fall of 1999. Credits: Producer, Director, Camera, Editor, and Co-writer.

» 1998 - Windhorse. Schecter worked in Nepal and Tibet as Director of Photography on Paul Wagner's dramatic feature about contemporary life in Chinese-occupied Tibet. The digitally-shot drama received the Best U.S. Independent Feature award at the 1998 Santa Barbara International Film Festival among other festival awards, and began its theatrical release in February, 1999.

» 1996 - With God On Our Side. Director of Photography for Lumiere Productions. A six part historical series on the involvement of the religious right in American politics. PBS.

» 1995 - MIR-18: Destination Space. National Geographic Explorer's documentary about the first American astronaut to blast off from earth on a Russian rocket. Credits: Field Producer, Additional Camera, and Translator. TBS.

» 1994 - A Forgotten People. The Sakhalin Koreans. Director of Photography on Dai Sil Kim-Gibson's award-winning documentary about the Koreans abandoned on the island of Sakhalin, in the Soviet Far East. PBS.

» 1990 - The Party Is Over. A Schecter Films production on the impending death of the Communist Party in the USSR. Credits: Producer, Director, Camera, Editor. Broadcast nationally on the PBS show The Nineties.

» Schecter was also director, cameraman, editor and writer of My Russian Friends, a one hour special on the search for spiritual roots by ordinary Russians, a co-production with WGBH Boston. Schecter's work in the nineties includes Preserving Our Global Environment, a one hour program for educational distribution completed for the World Resources Institute, hosted by Jessica Mathews and David Gergen.

Schecter's latest work is a feature documentary: an unconventional look at leadership through great works of literature for the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Professor emeritus James G. March. The program is called: Passion and Discipline: Don Quixote's Lessons for Leadership

Tom Des Jardins, Senior Internet Advisor

Tom Des Jardines is a specialist in online media, having founded, built and sold Lightningcast, the leading video ad company, to AOL in 2006. With decades in internet and streaming experience he is now advising Health and Healing Network, IPTV, video search and video ad companies on technology, revenue generation and distribution strategies.

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