Faculty

Angel Gregorio, CMT — Director of Education/Senior Instructor

A graduate of IPPT Career School, Mr. Gregorio has been the Senior Instructor at IPPT since 2005 and had previously been a member of IPPT Career School as an Instructor since 1999. He has extensive experience working with private clientele and working in a physical therapy/rehabilitation setting.

Andrea Cowles, BS/CMT — Student and Career Services, Instructor

Ms. Cowles earned her Biology Degree and Certification in Exercise Fitness in 1994 from Humboldt State University. Also certified with AFAA (Aerobics and Fitness Association of America), Andrea has been teaching a variety of fitness classes for over 15 years, both in the United States and Honduras, where she also taught Biology. Andrea earned her massage therapy license in 2006, after graduating from IPPT Career School. Andrea has considerable experience working in the spa atmosphere as well as in the health and wellness professions.

Jessica Kallio, DC — Director of Education/Program Director,

Chiropractic Assistant, Instructor

Jessica's previous clinical experiences include working as clinical coordinator and staff chiropractor for the physical therapy and rehab operations of a highly successful neurology and integrated pain management clinic in Southeast Georgia. The clinic served a patient base that ranged as far north as Savannah down to a large part of northeast Florida. A major segment of the patients were chronic pain sufferers, as well as personal injury or worker's compensation cases. Additionally, her clinic treated cases that involved patients who were post-surgical, post-stroke, suffering from neurological disorders, and other complex diagnoses. Many of the cases the clinic encountered dealt with symptoms arising from radiculopathic or neuropathic pain processes. Alternately, she has had extended involvement as a practitioner and practice owner in a multi-disciplinary alternative health center. She offered chiropractic services and co-managed mutual clients with other practitioners in fields that included naturopathy, herbalism, reflexology, quantum biofeedback, ionic foot detox, neuromuscular therapy and counseling services; all within a retail storefront that specialized in public education about natural healing and high quality herb and supplement sales.

Michele Martin, CMT — Instructor

Michele Martin has over 15 years of experience in massage therapy and related disciplines. Michele has a tremendous amount of knowledge to share with her students. Michele has a strong commitment and interest in Asian medicinal approaches. As such, she has studied Shiatsu, herb therapy, Thai Massage, Reflexology, Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Eastern philosophy. She has, in fact, spent some time in Thailand, studying the unique style of Thai Massage. Michele has a passion for teaching, a fact readily recognized in the classroom by her students. With extensive experience in the spa environment, Michele teaches, among other subjects, the unique Spa Massage seminar at IPPT Career School.

Genevieve Mack, CMT — Instructor

Genevieve Mack has been teaching in the Health and Wellness field for over 15 years and has been a licensed and certified massage therapist for 11 years. She also teaches yoga and is involved in spiritual support counseling. She currently holds certifications from ACE (American Council of Exercise), Muellers College of Holistic Studies and has obtained certifications from U.C. Santa Barbara in Exercise and Health & Wellness. As for massage she currently practices an intuitive style of massage that blends Swedish massage, Aromatherapy, Reiki, Acupressure, Yogassage and many more styles. Stones have always held a certain appeal to her which she relates back to as early as childhood and over the years her passion has only increased. Come and learn as she loves sharing her knowledge with others and helping them develop their own unique style. Her classes are theoretically based yet are balanced with creative spontaneity in order to allow personal intuition to come forth.

Michael Levi, MA — Instructor

Michael D. Levi, Ph.D. holds a doctorate degree in Health and Nutrition Education Instruction from the California Academy of Health, affiliated with UCLA School of Public Health. His specialty is Ortho-molecular Nutrition. Dr. Levi started his Nutrition practice in 1980 and has been a practicing deep tissue massage therapist for more than 30 years currently located at Gold’s Gym in Long Beach, California. He was a pioneer for developing accessory use massage and seated chair massage permits in California and served on the California State Board of the AMTA from 1986-88. Dr. Levi was a professor of health science from 1986-1996, taught nutritional biochemistry and traditional health therapies to UCLA medical students, in addition to teaching upper and lower division humanities students nutritional pharmacology at California State University, Los Angeles. A California certified state massage instructor for 16 years, he has been a sought after speaker for statewide massage conventions, and a popular radio and cable television talk show host on health topics. He has worked with athletes from the Anaheim Rams and Los Angeles Dodgers in addition to semi-professional athletes and weekend warriors.

Noel Norwick, CMT MBA — Instructor

Noel Norwick is a certified Shiatsu Anma and Z-Health Performance Solutions instructor. In 2000, Noel began supervising the intern clinic and teaching clinical practice classes at the Shiatsu Massage School of California in Santa Monica, CA. He is also a test question writer for the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards’ MBLex exam, an American Tang Soo Do Black Belt and an MBA.