Medical Staff - Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Steven Tan, M.D., M.T.O.M., L.Ac.

Director of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Dr. Steven Tan is the Director of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for California Health & Longevity Institute. Dr. Tan is one of the country’s most comprehensively trained integrative physicians, and he has the rare distinction of holding medical degrees and board certification in both western and eastern medicine. A graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine and the UCLA Internal Medicine Residency Program, he is board certified in internal medicine. Dr. Tan completed his Oriental medical degree and internship at Emperor’s College in Los Angeles. While studying in China, he completed an externship in acupuncture and herbal medicine at the prestigious Hong Kong Baptist University Hospital.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Dr. Tan to the California Acupuncture Board, where he was eventually elected Chairman. As an associate faculty member for the UCLA Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Tan researches stress and integrative medicine. He previously served on the external board of advisors to the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition and Dietary Supplements Research.

Christina Kohler, L.Ac., M.S.

Staff Acupuncturist

Christina brings a special blend of expertise, warmth and caring to her position as the staff acupuncturist at CHLI. She studied International Health at the University of California Berkeley before completing her Master’s degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine at Emperor’s College in Santa Monica and Five Branches Institute in Santa Cruz. Her skills include acupuncture and eastern herbal medicine guidance to treat a wide range of health conditions and to promote wellness. Throughout her career, Christina has pursued special training in fertility acupuncture (having studied under Randine Lewis, L.Ac.) as well as addiction, pain, stress and orthopedic disorders. She has extensive experience in integrative medical communities, having worked at the Venice Family Clinic, physical therapy centers, and substance abuse treatment facilities.

Barbara E. Savin

Clinical Hypnotherapist and Healing Energy Specialist

Barbara E. Savin, author of “Reclaiming Your Health with Self-Healing” and “Reclaiming Your Power,” is the Clinical Hypnotherapist and Healing Energy Specialist for California Health & Longevity Institute, Inc. Her goal at California Health & Longevity Institute, Inc. is to help people through the use of preventive and natural health care methods. Barbara has many years of clinical experience as a natural healthcare practitioner. She is educated as a Gentle Energy Touch master/teacher, a certified Reiki master/teacher, a Magnified Healing master/teacher, a pranic psychotherapy practitioner, a healing touch practitioner, and a visualization and meditation instructor and is a certified clinical hypnotherapist. Previously, Barbara owned her own successful vitamin and supplement distribution company, and she also worked for Blue Cross and Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. As a regional sales director with General Nutrition Center, she won “Regional Director of the Year” for three consecutive years.

Barbara is a member of the National Guild for Hypnotherapists, the American Board of Hypnotherapy and the International Association of Counselors and Therapists. She is currently working toward certification in emotional freedom technique.

Steve Chopyak, D.C.

Chiropractor

Dr. Steve Chopyak brings 30 years of chiropractic clinical experience to California Health & Longevity Institute, Inc.  Inspired by the restoration of his own health with chiropractic techniques, he has directed his career to using the very gentle natural methods that worked for him and his own back pain.  Focusing on whole person balance and health, Dr. Chopyak is experienced in many advanced techniques including low force Vector Point cranial treatment.  After receiving his Electrical Engineering degree from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, Dr. Chopyak specialized in controls engineering, working in research, aerospace and rocketry.  He is co-holder of patents on a discrete frequency spectrophotometer.

He completed his chiropractic education at Northwestern Health Sciences University in Minneapolis Minnesota.  He has been in private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Santa Monica, California and Bozeman, Montana and is a former member of the teaching staff of the Cranio-Facial Pain Clinic at White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles.  Dr. Chopyak is also two-term past president of the Santa Monica Chapter of the California Chiropractic Association.