Dr. James Odell is the Executive and Medical Director of the Bioregulatory Medicine Institute (BRMI). BRMI is an international nonprofit, noncommercial institute for the promotion of Biological Regulatory Medicine. Its website is BRMI.ONLINE. Dr. Odell began his medical career as a hospital respiratory therapist during undergraduate studies in biology at Texas Tech University. Disillusioned with conventional medicine, he focused his attention on natural medicine where he attended and graduated with a doctorate in naturopathy in 1980 from US International University. After naturopathic college, he began studies of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese Mandarin. Having gained conversational fluency in Mandarin, he moved to China in 1986 where he completed a three-year post-doctoral program in traditional Chinese medicine at Shantou University Medical College, with medical residences at Shantou University Teaching Hospital, Shantou Central Hospital, and Shiwan Hospital. Upon returning from China, he completed several internships in European biological regulatory medicine at the Paracelsus Klinik in Lustmuhle, Switzerland.

Dr. Odell is a Certified Traditional Naturopath with the American Naturopathic Certification Board. He is certified in acupuncture with the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He is licensed in acupuncture in Kentucky, Colorado, South Carolina, and Utah. For over 15 years Dr. Odell was the education coordinator for the Biological Medicine Network which conducted conferences on the principles and practices of European biological regulatory medicine. He has recently published a 700-page reference text entitled Breast Cancer: The Rest of The Story, (a reference work 13 years in the making). It may be accessed at www.breastcancertherestofthestory.com.