Meet the Team
The High-Quality Chiropractic Care You’ve Been Searching For
Our Element Wellness Center team provides the highest quality, compassionate chiropractic care to our patients in San Diego County. Our focus is to provide a holistic approach for the prevention and treatment of disease, pain, and illness, combining the Elements of your life to ensure that you and your family enjoy a long, happy, and healthy life.
Our Team
Dr. Ryan Hummel, BS, DC
Dr. Ryan Hummel is a Chiropractor, serving patients within the Point Loma and Greater San Diego Area in California. He is a proud graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, IA, graduating in 2005. He graduated in 2005 with a passion for life-long wellness and preventative care.
After graduation, Dr. Ryan moved to Ireland to be part of their pioneering chiropractic industry. His mission was to spread the knowledge and power of chiropractic to underprivileged areas within Ireland. While living there, he was able to touch hundreds of patients and their families’ lives through preventative and natural care.
Dr. Hummel continually strives to provide his patients with the most up-to-date care. He exhausts himself traveling the world to further his education. He is currently at the finishing stages of becoming a wellness-certified chiropractor and a fellow in Chiropractic Biophysics.
He strongly believes that prevention takes precedence over treating disease and takes pride in educating his patients on how to accomplish this; eating well, moving well and thinking well are all cornerstones of his belief system. Through proper nutrition, exercise, adjustments, and positive thinking all of Dr. Hummel’s patients accomplish a truly holistic state of well-being. He not only helps them with current concerns but prevents new problems from surfacing.
Dr. Vince Bertolini, DC
Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Dr. Vince Bertolini has spent the last 12 years becoming one of the nations leading experts in health and wellness.
After acquiring his Doctorate from Palmer College in Iowa, Dr. Vince completed his post-graduate residency in Chicago, Illinois at one of the largest pediatric clinics in the world where he specialized in Pediatric and Family Care. Dr. Vince has gone on to pursue post-graduate training in the field of Sports Medicine and has developed a passion for helping athletes increase their performance and remain injury-free.
Dr. Vince has a true passion for helping people and is so happy to be serving the wonderful people of San Diego.
Dr. Jim Lopez, D.C
In his practice, Dr. Lopez provides a loving, compassionate, supportive environment to help his patients not only regain their health, vitality and youth but also to maintain their health once regained. He provides care for children, seniors and persons of all ages. Some of his patients come from long distances due to the unique approach he has to help restore health.
His patients often tell him that he is the best doctor they have seen because of the caring approach and the results he gets. This is perhaps due to the fact that he is constantly attending advanced programs of study on the latest and most innovative methods to help his patients. He is passionate about his work. He volunteers his time as a member of the distinguished non-profit Doctors Speakers Bureau, which is a national organization of health care experts who lecture free-of-charge in their communities.
Dr. Lopez wakes up with love and appreciation for being able to serve people through Chiropractic every day. Love, service and gratitude are the foundational principles that he builds into a daily activity at Element Wellness Center. He is thankful for a loving family, extraordinary friends, and a blessed life.
Griselda
My name is Griselda Banuelos and I’m from Tijuana, Mexico. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business at Cetys University. I'm very grateful to form part of the Element Wellness family. I have loved my job since the first day. I enjoy interacting with patients and educating them about chiropractic benefits as well as answering any doubts or concerns they may have during their treatment, especially Spanish speakers. It’s amazing what chiropractic care can do to make you feel better in all aspects of life.
I enjoy being physically active, especially practicing indoor cycling and boxing. I love spending time with my family and hanging out with friends. I also enjoy cooking for them.