Meet Our Team
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Barbara Cordell, Ph.D., RN, President
For the last fourteen years Dr. Cordell has studied and specialized in auto-brewery syndrome. In 2017, she retired from being the Dean of Health Sciences at Panola College and formed the non-profit ABS advocacy organization and wrote the first modern book on auto-brewery syndrome. Barbara co-conducts research, authors papers, and consults with patients, providers, and lawyers. She welcomes suggestions, questions, and any ideas that will help us advocate for people with auto-brewery syndrome.
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Michelle Giannotto, Vice-President and Patient Advocate
Michelle spends countless hours talking to patients who have or think they may have auto-brewery syndrome and their caregivers. She works around her full-time job hours to help everyone she can have the resources and information they need about ABS. Michelle sends providers information and makes sure they listen. She earned her stripes by caring for her late husband, Danny as he struggled for years with ABS and other health issues. Michelle is our “Ask Abby”!
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Joe Bartnik, RN, Secretary/Treasurer
Not only is Joe a Registered Nurse but he is also an ABS survivor of six years of searching for answers with multiple doctors and tests. Finally, Dr. Justin McCarthy (now retired) diagnosed him and Joe got the treatment he needed. Joe was our “patient zero”.
Joe has been well from ABS for over 13 years and is very tuned in to the needs and struggles of patients. He helps raise funds and keeps the non-profit on track.
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After medical school, Dr. Kanodia learned how stress could destroy a person’s health and that yeast overgrowth is the silent demon robbing thousands of people of their health. For the undiagnosed who had tried everything, he learned there were solutions. It was in this body of work that his patients began to get well, stay well, and live well. His mission became clear: dig for the root cause, identify it, treat it, and eliminate it.
On this journey, he has become an expert at diagnosing and treating ABS. He has treated dozens of patients with auto-brewery syndrome and has been a partner with our non-profit since day one. We are blessed to have him on our team!
Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University; Family Medicine Residency: Mayo Clinic; Fellowship: Harvard Medical School Complementary and Integrative Medicine Fellowship; Masters in Public Health: Harvard; Certified in Functional Medicine
https://kanodiamd.com/
After medical school, Dr. Kanodia learned how stress could destroy a person’s health and that yeast overgrowth is the silent demon robbing thousands of people of their health. For the undiagnosed who had tried everything, he learned there were solutions. It was in this body of work that his patients began to get well, stay well, and live well. His mission became clear: dig for the root cause, identify it, treat it, and eliminate it.
On this journey, he has become an expert at diagnosing and treating ABS. He has treated dozens of patients with auto-brewery syndrome and has been a partner with our non-profit since day one. We are blessed to have him on our team!
Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University; Family Medicine Residency: Mayo Clinic; Fellowship: Harvard Medical School Complementary and Integrative Medicine Fellowship; Masters in Public Health: Harvard; Certified in Functional Medicine