Chris Kilham

Called “The Indiana Jones of natural medicine” by CNN, Chris Kilham is a
medicine hunter, author, and educator. Chris is Explorer in Residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he teaches ethnobotany through the Department of Plant & Soil Sciences.

He has conducted medicinal research in over 20 countries including India, China, Siberia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Vanuatu South Pacific, Lebanon, Syria, Ghana, Austria, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia, Morocco, and the U.S.

Chris in the host of Medicine Trail, a series of television specials on medicinal plants shot on location around the world. The first two programs, shot in Peru and Malaysia, are currently in international distribution. He also conducts botanical educational programs for the natural products trade.

A dedicated adventurer and scientist, Kilham is an advocate for holistic health and warns of the serious impacts of climate change, deforestation, and species depletion on potential life-saving cures found in nature. As a
speaker, he discusses medicine hunting, traditional botanical medicines, nutraceuticals, environmental
protection and cultural preservation and other related topics.

Chris has worked with numerous companies to develop and popularize traditional plant-based food and
medicinal products into market successes. These successes include kava, maca, horny goat weed, catuaba,
tamanu oil, herbal beverages, and dozens of other plants.

Author of 14 books, Chris also writes articles on plant medicines for several publications. He lectures
extensively on holistic health and botanical medicines throughout the United States and abroad.
A regular on “The Dr. Oz Show”, Kilham also appears currently on FOX News-New York. He has been
featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Parade, Boston Herald, Vogue, Psychology Today, Natural Health, and Men’s Health. Kilham has appeared as a
guest expert on several hundred radio and television programs from America’s major networks to CNN,
MSNBC, and the BBC to NPR.

Chris lives and works in Massachusetts with his wife Zoe Helene.

TOPICS:
· Medicine Hunt – The Search for Cures Tour of the world via images, stories, and introduction of a wild world of medicinal plant discovery.

· The Shaman’s Pharmacy A deep journey into the medicine, magic, and mystery of the Amazon rainforest.