Benes Companies

Announcing a second opportunity to be interviewed to support the research we are conducting with the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program for Tenay’s Masters Program at University of Colorado Boulder.

We are seeking:

1. Health and wellness professionals to find out:
   • how they receive referrals for patients/clients with chronic illness
   • how they intake those patients/clients
   • how they collaborate with other professionals to care for those patients/clients. 
   • Example professionals include:
     • priests and pastors
     • therapists and life coaches
     • doctors and other providers (in Western, Eastern, and Alternative health care)
     • massage therapists and personal trainers
     • health coaches and consultants (like a childhood diabetes support group leader)
     • health & wellness product distributors (like vitamins or water filtration systems)
     • social workers and community event organizers
     • urban planners and spa management company (with any wellness focus)
     • guidance counselors and professional coaches
     • parenting and health educators (including social media influencers)
2. Health and wellness researchers to find out:
   • how health care system, academic, or public health professionals find data to evaluate chronic illness treatment efficacy. 
   • Example researchers include anyone who uses data to make a decision for an organization, like:
     • a public health analyst at the CDC, FDA, HHS (Federal level), as well as their state and local equivalents;
     • a scientific researcher at a university who wants to know how chronic illness trends are developing in the US;
     • a hospital system analyst who is trying to understand how to provide better care to patients with chronic illness;
     • a professional association (for example, the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, AIHM) seeking to share best practices with their members

Interested parties can click the scheduler below to schedule a 30 minute interview at a time that is convenient for them between now and October 3, 2025. As a thank you, we will share our anonymized, aggregate findings with those who participated in these interviews at the end of our data collection phase.

This is an open invitation to anyone who might be interested in furthering chronic illness care and all are welcome to forward this invitation to their friends and colleagues, as well as share via social media.

Thanks so much for your abundant support of this effort!

– Brett & Tenay Benes