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ABOUT ME

I am a board-certified family physician. I grew up in Canada, attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal, then completed family practice residency at Brown University. I also obtained a masters in public health from the University of California at Berkeley, and completed a preventive medicine residency there.

For 20 years, I worked within the conventional medicine paradigm. I am completely familiar with the sense of frustration shared by patients and physicians when the conditions they are dealing with cannot be cured, just managed.

But it turns out there is now enough knowledge to change the way medicine is practiced. I discovered this when I started looking into the field of "functional medicine" and the work of family physician Mark Hyman, M.D. I found that the Institute for Functional Medicine is fully accredited by the same organization that accredits cardiologists, and neurologists and immunologists. I saw that their recommendations are based on vast quantities of recent scientific research. I came to understand that this research has uncovered links that were not previously known, and that if one is serious about practicing evidence-based medicine, one must now reorganize the entire framework of how disease arises.

So I attended the Institute for Functional Medicine's core course, "Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice", as well as three advanced practice modules - gastrointestinal, hormones and immune system. I now practice science-based, individualized, wellness-oriented medicine. I incorporate an understanding of conventional medicine with the experience and research base of basic physiology, naturopathy and mind-body medicine.