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I am a graduate of UCSF Master's/NP program and most recently completed a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.

I started in pain management as the nurse manager in 1999 when the clinic first opened at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento. I came to realize the importance of self management along with guidance/expertise from caring professionals as the key to optimizing chronic pain management. My passion is teaching members how to best care for themselves from a nutritional, emotional, physical as well as spiritual perspective. This passion for teaching about health is enhanced given the resources that Kaiser has provided to all its members and employees.

CREDENTIALS:

• 2011- completed an Associate Fellowship in Integrative Medicine from the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson, a program developed by Dr. Andrew Weil for physicians and nurse practitioners

As defined by the University of Arizona, integrative medicine (IM) is healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative.

I believe that the patient and practitioner are partners in health. All factors that influence health and wellbeing as well as disease are considered including mind, spirit, body, and community.

The use of more natural, less invasive approaches to health are considered where possible while “neither rejecting conventional medicine nor accepting alternative medicine uncritically.”

• Graduate UCSF Master's/NP program - 2002 with focus on Integrative complementary Healing. Part of my education at UCSF provided awareness of various healing techniques including Naturopathy,Ayurvedic healing,Homeopathy,Acupuncture and Spiritual Healing
• Bachelor's degree from Holy Names College - 1998
• Diploma RN graduate in 1977 in Massachusetts
• Started with KP as RN in the Emergency Department in 1991

The Defining Principles of Integrative Medicine

1. Patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
2. All factors that influence health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including mind, spirit, and community, as well as the body.
3. Appropriate use of both conventional and alternative methods facilitates the body's innate healing response.
4. Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive should be used whenever possible.
5. Integrative medicine neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative therapies uncritically.
6. Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms.
7. Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
8. Practitioners of integrative medicine should exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.

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