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27 years of private practice, 16 years of Academic Family Medicine, 12 years of Managed Care activities, 6 years of integrative holistic medicine and nutrigenomic consultations
I have been President of the American Academy of Family Physicians, served on the Health Reform Task Force at the White House, Have Chaired 2 University Depts of Family Medicine, Have practiced private family medicine for 30 years and University family medicine for 12 years. I am board certified in Family Medicine, Holistic Medicine and managed care. I am consultant for several pharmaceutical companies,past Medical Director of two managed care companies. I have 4 children, 3 in medicine, 2 are family physicians, one in sports medicine, one in internal medicine residency and 6 grand children.
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Excellence in Clinical Medicine Award Best Doctors, 2004-present
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Integrative Family Medicine deals with all of medicine, health, nutritionals, herbs, supplements and especially wellness.
I am teaching medical students and residents how to be successful in practice and life, how to do Integrative Medicine(Holistic Medicine)as well as how to effectively work with managed care.
Family Medicine deals with the quality of life and wellness versus just life saving illnesses. Holistic or Integrative Medicine deals with the mind, body, and spiritual components of health as well as to the best way to integrate complementary and alternative medicine into the field of traditional medicine.
As a Medical Director of two managed care companies and an educator with a private practice I experience both sides of managed care conflicts on a daily basis. As a Holistic Integrative physician I experience the anguish of my patients in trying to incorporate complementary and alternative treatments into their traditionally treated and not treated medical and psychosocial problems.
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