Redefining Medicine

Dr. Ginsberg completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Bowman-Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina before Houston’s sunny climate and the world renowned Medical Center brought her to Texas. Dr. Ginsberg has broad and deep experience providing comprehensive obstetrics and gynecology treatment, which is the basis of her special interest in optimizing methylation and prenatal genetics.

As an Obstetrician/Gynecologist for over twenty years, Dr. Ginsberg has witnessed many negative trends in the health and wellness of the general patient population. She has become most concerned about the increasing levels of toxicity observed in both men and women of preconception age, which seems to be coupled with less awareness surrounding the importance of genetic health, diet, and lifestyle in preconception and pregnancy. These evolving negative trends have resulted in her integrating functional medicine into a clinical setting, while still ‘delivering babies’. With over 20 years of experience in the medical field, Dr. Ginsberg has created ways to combine the research and benefits of functional medicine into practical strategies to share with practitioners that treat women in preconception and pregnancy. Her goal is to empower practitioners and patients with the knowledge that can have a profound effect on future fertility, and improve the health of future generations.

Dr. Erin Amato, MD, was raised in Billings, Montana and attended medical school at the University of Nevada School of Medicine.  Upon graduation from medical school, Dr. Amato was awarded the Lillian Orchow Prize for Outstanding Student in Psychiatry and was designated as an AMA Foundation Rock Sleyster Scholar.

She completed her internship and residency in General Psychiatry at Long Island Jewish Medical Center-Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, New York.  She then pursued fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry through the NSLIJHS-Albert Einstein College of Medicine program in New Hyde Park, New York.  She served as the chief fellow during her second year of the fellowship and was awarded the Clinical Excellence Award upon completion of her program.

After finishing her Child Psychiatry fellowship, Dr. Amato returned to Billings with her family to start clinical practice.  She founded Montana Psychiatry in 2009 along with Drs. Deborah Malters, MD and Belinda Hartley, MD.  She is currently the Medical Director of YBGR’s residential campus and community-based services. Dr. Amato has double board certification in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Amato is passionate about finding cutting-edge, innovative ways to prevent and treat mental health disorders that have not responded to traditional interventions.  She received training in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and other non-invasive brain modulation techniques at the Brain Stimulation Laboratory of Medical University of South Carolina and has been providing TMS to patients in the region since 2015.  She has been providing IV ketamine therapy for treatment of depression and other mental health conditions since April 2016.  She is an integrative psychiatrist who looks to blend traditional treatment tools, like medication and talk therapy, with specialized integrative medicine testing, genetics, nutritional supplementation, and lifestyle education and interventions to design personalized treatment approaches that target the root causes of illness.  She is certified as a health care provider for FirstLine Therapy® through Metagenics and is participating in the Advanced Fellowship in Anti-Aging, Metabolic and Functional Medicine through the Metabolic Medical Institute of A4M.

Dr. Amato believes that early intervention is critical when people are affected by emotional, behavioral, cognitive and learning disorders.  Mental health should be looked at in the context of an integrated mind-body approach.  Especially in cases of children and adolescents, early diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders is essential in promoting healthy development.

Dr. Tara Scott first became involved with hormone and integrative medicine while practicing as an OB/GYN. Her empathy for patients experiencing hormone related issues led her to become trained and certified by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. The evidence-based practices she employed helped many patients conquer chronic wellness issues, and word quickly spread. It soon became clear that a practice devoted strictly to evidence-based regenerative medicine, highly focused on hormone-related issues, was needed in the medical community. Revitalize was born. Dr. Scott is passionate about educating the medical community on the advances in evidence-based hormone therapy. She is a national speaker on the subject and would welcome the opportunity to speak with your group, or answer your specific questions.

Dr. Cristina Persa is a Washington State Board Certified Naturopathic Physician. Dr Persa's clinical interests are chronic and autoimmune conditions (in both adult and pediatric population) using evidence-based complementary medicine. Some of the most common conditions she treats on a regular basis are: environmental and food allergies, digestive disorders, adrenal and thyroid disorders, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, female disorders (PMS, menopause, PCOS, uterine fibroids, fibrocystic breast disease), male disorders, skin disorders (acne, eczema, psoriasis), alopecia, asthma (in children), sinusitis. I believe that good medicine is based on good science! Her treatment protocols are designed using nutraceuticals, botanicals, bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), diet and lifestyle recommendations, and stress management techniques. Dr. Persa's practice integrates the proven protocols of Dr. Wright along with her own experience and education. She feels fortunate to have a strong academic background in both allopathic and naturopathic medicine, which ideally trained her to have a true holistic approach and to guide her patients in choosing the best therapies for their needs (be those natural, conventional or both). There are many factors, such as genetics, diet and lifestyle, environmental toxicity, emotional/psychosocial trauma that may contribute to a particular disease and each person may react differently to those factors.

Join Drs. Heyman and Swidan as they discuss the transition of education in the world of Anti-Aging, Integrative and Functional medicine.

Dr Swidan is President and CEO of Pharmacy Solutions in Ann Arbor, MI and Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Research and Leadership at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy at Wayne State University. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree and completed a 3-year research Fellowship in Bio-Pharmaceutics and Gastroenterology at the University of Michigan. Following her fellowship, she was Director of Pharmacy at Chelsea Community Hospital and the clinical pharmacist for the inpatient head and chronic pain service. Dr. Swidan is board certified and an advanced fellow in anti-aging and regenerative medicine. She is an internationally renowned speaker in the areas of pain management, headaches, and HRT. She has authored several book chapters, articles, and patient education material in head and general pain management and personalized medicine.

Dr. Swidan co-edited and authored a book with many thought leaders from around the globe titled Advanced Therapeutics in Pain Medicine which aids clinicians in advancing their current toolbox in the treatment of various pain syndromes.

Andrew Heyman, MD, MHSA is an internationally recognized expert in Integrative Medicine. He is currently the Program Director of Integrative and Metabolic Medicine at The George Washington University. Prior to assuming this role, he spent 16 years at the University of Michigan, serving to build one of the largest and most successful academic-based Integrative Medicine programs in the United States.

Dr. Heyman has held several leadership positions in the field of Integrative Medicine. He was the national clinical working group co-chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine for 4 years, a collaboration of 57 North American universities involved in Integrative Medicine. He is the online editor for the Journal of Men's Health in the section of Integrative Medicine, and he also holds the position of Editor-In-Chief of the Internet Journal of Anti-Aging and Aesthetic Medicine. His research interests include the Stress response and NeuroEndocrinology, Cardiometabolic Disease, Men's Health and clinical outcomes research methodologies. Dr. Heyman remains clinically active as well, as the owner of a four-physician integrative medicine practice in Northern Virginia at the Virginia Center for Health and Wellness. He is also the President of Integrative Health Resources, a small group of clinical experts that consults to physicians, health systems and public health professionals seeking to develop wellness, lifestyle and nutrition programs.

Dr. Muñoz is a Board Certified Internist and Board Certified Rheumatologist. He is the first known Integrative Rheumatology fellow trained in the United States and personally possesses a wide skill set of trainings including TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine-Acupuncture), Homeopathy, Energy Medicine and martial arts disciplines.

Dr. Muñoz is a world class renaissance type of practitioner bridging the worlds of esteemed traditional institutions as a Harvard trained Rheumatologist to the wild Amazon jungles and untamed Andes. He is a national speaker on topics including nutrition, arthritis and inflammation. He is a futurist, with visionary personal, community and global goals relating to health and balance in these spheres. As a martial artist and energy master, he blends the conventional with non-traditional experiential universal knowledge base to elicit the best possible outcomes for his patients.

Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra is a board-certified cardiologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. He is certified as a bioenergetic psychotherapist, and nutrition and anti-aging specialist. He is the founder of www.heartmdinstitute.com, an informational website dedicated to promoting public awareness of integrative medicine as well as www.vervana.com a website focused on high vibrational living and foods.

Dr. Rosenberg has been involved with drug research since 1991. Having studied the mechanisms of cancer treatment failure, the following concept has become blatantly apparent to Dr. Rosenberg.

There are many substances that are toxic to cancer cells in vitro (outside of the body, in a culture medium), including chemotherapy and intravenous antioxidant therapy. These therapies, however, are more often then not, ineffective in vivo (inside the body). The primary reason for the ineffectiveness is that tumor blood flow is poor, resulting in a tumor that actually receives very little of the cytotoxic therapy that is being administered. In addition, poor tumor blood flow is associated with higher grade tumors and greater incidence of metastasis.

Dr. Rosenberg has since concentrated his efforts on improving blood flow to the cancer, while administering cytotoxic intravenous antioxidant therapy. In addition to using vasodilating therapy such as carbogen and isosorbide dinitrate, Dr. Rosenberg has just been granted approval status for an IND (investigational new drug) using Angiotensin II. Angiotensin II is frequently used in Japan in conjunction with chemotherapy to improve tumor blood flow.

Dr. Rosenberg recently appeared on Fox News in 2006, for inducing remission on a patient with metastatic lung cancer (to liver and spine) that was refractory to chemotherapy.

Dr. Jaclyn Chasse is a licensed naturopathic physician dedicated to helping couples conceive naturally. Her practice, Perfect Fertility, is dedicated to fertility, sexual health and family wellness.

Dr. Chasse is a graduate of Bastyr University, an avid writer, and international speaker who has taught thousands of doctors the Perfect Fertility methods. She is Immediate Past President of the both the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians and the NH Association of Naturopathic Doctors. She's served on several boards including the American Herbal Products Association and many others.

In addition to doctor, Dr. Chasse's proudest role is of Mother, to a bustling houseful of children and slobbering dogs. They enjoy any family time that includes cuddles, laughter, cooking, gardening, and travel!

Since practicing Anesthesiology for nearly 30 years, Dr. Yale R. Smith has in depth knowledge of anesthetic medications and techniques used in General and Regional anesthesia surgery procedures. He understands the drug effects on patients and diseases. Working with challenging Cardiac Anesthesia cases and having to perform thousands of anesthetics on patients; newborn to elderly, Dr. Yale R. Smith tailors methods used to a patient’s whole-body physiology.

Dr Yale has transferred this knowledge from Anesthesiology to his Integrative and Functional Medicine Practice at C.A.A.R.M. He combines his knowledge with a gift for problem solving to implement research to discover root causes of diseases. Dr. Smith works with his patients to re-build their own unique physiologic pattern to better health and longevity using micronutrients, nutrients, diet, exercise, life-style adjustments along with more advanced techniques.