Mold Solutions Summit: 9 Reasons Your Clients Need You There

As you may have heard from our enthusiastic social media posts, the Austin Air National Mold Solutions Summit launches Tuesday, March 31. It’s a free, online educational event bringing together physicians, scientists, building experts, advocates, legal professionals, and detection innovators for a serious conversation about mold that is long overdue.

Maybe you even read our blog last week: “9 Reasons You Need the Austin Air Mold Solutions Summit.” Maybe you've already registered. Even better! Or maybe you forwarded it to a patient, a client, or a colleague and thought — that's for them, not necessarily for me.

If that's you, we have news: the Austin Air Mold Solutions Summit is poised to make a real impact on your professional life — across a surprising range of fields.

If your work touches the places people live, work, and breathe, this post is specifically for you. Because the summit wasn't built just for families navigating mold illness in isolation. It was built for the doctors who treat them, the contractors who remediate their homes, the inspectors who investigate their buildings, the agents who sell those buildings, and the legal professionals who fight for their rights when things go wrong.

Here are nine more reasons to join us.

1. Your Clients Are Already Asking Questions You May Not Be Able to Answer

Mold-related health concerns are showing up in more clinical consultations, home inspections, real estate transactions, and legal disputes than ever before — and the professionals on the receiving end of those conversations are often working without a strong knowledge base to draw from. 

That's not a criticism; it's a gap in how professional education has historically treated this subject. There are also genuine unknowns that remain across every field involved. The summit fills that gap directly, giving you the language, the science, and the frameworks to respond with confidence the next time a client brings mold into the conversation.

2. A Cross-Industry Conversation You Simply Can't Find Anywhere Else

Here's a question worth sitting with: when does a certified industrial hygienist, an integrative rheumatologist, a canine detection specialist, a building biologist, and a federal housing advocate all weigh in on the same problem — which is available to you online in the same convenient place, at the same time?

Until now, the answer has been never.

The Austin Air Mold Solutions Summit brings together fourteen separate expert interviews — each one a deep, dedicated conversation with a leader in their field — all dropping at once on March 31. Think of it less like a traditional conference and more like a full season of television landing in a single day: fourteen episodes, fourteen perspectives, one subject, all available the moment the summit goes live.

The interdisciplinary range here is unlike anything else in this space. Host and organizer Stacy Malesiewski spent months developing individual interviews that let each expert go deep — not squeeze their expertise into a panel sound bite. The result is a collection of conversations that, taken together, form something genuinely new: a 360-degree, cross-disciplinary portrait of the mold problem and the people working hardest to solve it.

For professionals, that means fourteen chances to understand how adjacent fields are approaching the same challenges your clients bring to you — and to recognize referral partners, knowledge gaps, and collaborative opportunities you didn't know existed.

3. For Clinicians: Interdisciplinary Insights You Won't Get at a Traditional Medical Conference

Standard medical conferences and specialty events tend to stay within their lane. The Mold Solutions Summit doesn't — and that's exactly the point.

The medical lineup spans mycology, integrative medicine, pediatrics, rheumatology, ENT, and environmental medicine. 

Dr. Anne Marie Fine and Dr. Lyn Patrick, co-founders of Environmental Medicine Education International, have spent decades training clinicians to recognize and treat mold and environmental toxin exposure. 

Dr. Andrew Heyman — Program Director of Integrative and Metabolic Medicine at George Washington University, founder of his own practice, and co-founder of Beyond Mold, a program dedicated to helping people fully recover from mold injury — brings deep, practical expertise in biotoxin illness recovery. 

Dr. Sheila Kilbane, a board-certified pediatrician and integrative medicine physician, addresses the mold-related health challenges children face — a clinical area that is chronically underserved. 

Dr. Tim Guilford, a Johns Hopkins-trained Ear, Nose, Throat doctor and pioneer in glutathione research, brings decades of work on detoxification, and immune function. 

And Dr. Lindsay Ledwich, an integrative rheumatologist who came to mold specialization in part through her own family's experience, offers a perspective that bridges clinical rigor with hard-won personal understanding.

Together, they cover the full spectrum of how mold illness presents, how it gets missed, and how professionals across specialties are approaching treatment and recovery. For any physician seeing patients with complex, unexplained symptoms, this lineup is required viewing.

4. For Contractors and Remediators: Learn What Your Clients Are Going Through — and How to Serve Them Better

Remediation professionals are often the first point of contact after a devastating discovery — and the last line of defense for a mold-affected family. Understanding the health stakes for your clients, the heightened sensitivities that mold-affected individuals often develop to common building materials, and the standards that distinguish genuinely safe remediation from work that leaves families worse off — that knowledge makes you a better, more trusted professional.

John C. Banta, an author and a retired Certified Industrial Hygienist with over 35 years investigating health-compromised buildings, and Andrew Pace, founder of the Green Design Center, will both be sharing expertise that contractors and remediators can bring directly back to their practice. 

Marilee Nelson — certified Building Biology Environmental Consultant, co-founder of Branch Basics, and materials specialist on the Professional Advisory Board of Documenting Hope — will speak to why the products used during remediation matter as much as the remediation process itself. For anyone working in construction, contracting, or renovation, this is the education the industry hasn't been offering — until now.

5. For Building Inspectors and Industrial Hygienists: The Detection Landscape Is Changing Fast

Canine detection. Bioluminescent fruit flies as mycotoxin indicators. Independent, DIY air testing kits that rival professional lab results. The tools available for identifying mold contamination are evolving rapidly — and so are the conversations around the reliability and conflicts of interest embedded in traditional inspection methods.

Jason Earle, one of the country's leading voices in mold detection innovation and creator of the GOT MOLD? Test Kit will be addressing exactly this at the summit. 

Dr. Joan Bennett, the Ida A. Richardson Chair of Botany at Tulane University, distinguished professor emerita at Rutgers, and member of the National Academy of Sciences, will bring the frontier science — including her pioneering research using bioluminescent fruit flies to detect mycotoxin exposure. 

And Lindsay Reeves of Home Safe Mold Inspectors of NWA, alongside Hope — her Jack Russell Terrier with over 1,000 hours of elite detection training — round out a conversation that covers the full spectrum of cutting-edge lab science to the field. If you work in inspection or industrial hygiene, these sessions alone are worth showing up for.

6. For Real Estate Professionals: Mold Is a Disclosure Issue, a Liability Matter, and a Client Trust Challenge

Real estate agents and brokers are navigating mold-related questions more frequently than ever — in listings, in inspections, in negotiations, and in the aftermath of transactions that go sideways. Understanding what mold exposure actually means for a home's occupants, what remediation should realistically look like, and what your clients need to know before and after a sale puts you in a position of genuine expertise in a market where most agents are still winging it.

The summit gives you that foundation — across medicine, building science, detection, and law — for free. That's a continuing education opportunity with no registration fee, no travel, and no scheduling conflict that can't be worked around.

7. For Legal Professionals: The Policy Landscape Around Mold Is Actively Shifting

Jackie Talarico's advocacy work helping shape the Military Occupancy Living Defense (MOLD) Act is a signal of something larger: mold is increasingly being framed as a housing rights issue, a public health crisis, and a matter of legal accountability. Legislation is being drafted. Existing frameworks are being tested. And clients — in housing, personal injury, tenant rights, and environmental law — are arriving more informed and more frustrated than ever before.

For attorneys, advocates, and policy professionals, the summit offers a rare opportunity to get up to speed on the medical, scientific, and legislative dimensions of mold exposure — from the people who are actively shaping them. The MOLD Act, if passed, would represent a meaningful first step toward federal recognition of mold as a health hazard, with protections that extend well beyond military housing. Getting ahead of that shift now is a strategic advantage.

8. The Mold Conversation in Your Field Is Going to Change — and You Can Be Ahead of It

Mold illness is moving from the margins of medical and professional discourse toward the center. Research is accelerating. Patients and clients are arriving better informed, more frustrated, and in greater need of professionals who actually understand what they're dealing with. The Austin Air Mold Solutions Summit is an early, substantive look at where this conversation is going — across medicine, law, building science, and public policy.

Attending doesn't just add to your knowledge base. It puts you ahead of a curve that, one way or another, is coming to your field.

9. Your Host Has Done the Homework — So You Don't Have To Start from Scratch

Most summits are typically organized by event professionals. This one was organized and hosted by Stacy Malesiewski — Austin Air's Director of Marketing and Communications, certified health and wellness coach, mother of four, and mold survivor whose entire family was impacted by mold exposure.

That personal history shaped every interview she conducted. Stacy didn't hand off the hosting to someone else — she spoke with all of the experts herself, asking the questions that come from years of lived experience, deep research, and genuine urgency. The result isn't a collection of polished presentations. It's fourteen real conversations, steered by someone who understands both the science and the human stakes behind it.

This summer, she'll be releasing her book, Rebuilding Your Temple After Mold — a practical and deeply personal guide drawn from her own recovery journey. Taken together, the summit and the book represent something rare: a resource built by someone who has been in the room with the best experts in the field and lived the experience those experts are working to address.

For professionals who want to serve their clients better, that combination of insight and credibility is exactly the right guide.

Ready to Join Us?

The Austin Air National Mold Solutions Summit is free, online, and launches March 31, 2026. All fourteen expert interviews drop at once — watch on your schedule, share with your colleagues, and return to specific sessions as your work evolves. It will remain available online permanently.

Register at TheMoldSummit.com before March 31 and you'll be automatically entered to win an Austin Air HealthMate air purifier — the unit recommended by clinicians, trusted by families, and used in homes and healthcare settings across more than 100 countries.

Register free. Show up informed. Serve your clients better.

Austin Air Mold Solutions Summit Experts 

(in alphabetical order) 

John C. Banta, author of Mold Controlled and Indoor Environmental Consultant for RestCon Environmental

Dr. Joan Bennett, Ida A. Richardson Chair of Botany at Tulane University

Jason Earle, developer of the GOT MOLD? Test Kit 

Dr. Anne Marie Fine, co-founder of Environmental Medicine Education International

Dr. Tim Guilford, developer of ReadiSorb® Liposomal Glutathione

Dr. Andrew Heyman, Program Director of Integrative and Metabolic Medicine at The George Washington University and co-founder of Beyond Mold

Dr. Sheila Kilbane, Board-Certified Pediatrician and Integrative Medicine Physician

Dr. Lindsay Ledwich, Integrative Rheumatologist and Osteopathic Physician

Marilee Nelson, co-founder of Branch Basics 

Andrew Pace, a.k.a. the “Health Home Concierge,” founder of the Green Design Center, and host of the Non Toxic Environments podcast

Dr. Lyn Patrick, author and co-founder of Environmental Medicine Education International 

Lindsay Reeves, co-owner of Home Safe Mold Inspectors of NWA and handler of Hope the Mold Dog

Jackie Talarico, housing advocate with Military Housing – Catalysts for Change

Organized and hosted by Stacy Malesiewski, Austin Air Director of Marketing and Communications, and certified health and wellness coach