As a woman, I understand women’s hormone health issues keenly. I understand how traditional insurance- based medicine fails to address issues in a holistic manner. I understand how Functional Medicine without a solid traditional Endocrinology training is inadequate in understanding the complexities involved in women’s hormone health

I have walked the road untraveled- all my life. Long before the term Integrative Medicine was being bandied about in common parlance, long before the first residency program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson under the auspices of Dr Andrew Weil had opened, way back in 1995, I had begun to synthesize my ides on healing the “whole patient”. The fractured template on which western medicine is based had hit me like a bullseye in 1993 when I walked into the SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. As a fledgling doctor, I carried my discomfort tucked deeply within, too young to even begin to fully fathom the truth of what I was dealing with. 

The disconnection was so wide between understanding the true underpinnings of common disease and addressing them in a manner that would lend to healing- not merely symptom band aid offerings designed to keep people coming back with more, a revolving door of illness that never got solved. That was just the body. The body-mind disconnect was entirely another topic. The spiritual was completely oblivious.