After graduation from Internal Medicine Residency, I worked as a primary care physician starting in 2006. However, I was forced to look for more tools to deal with my own debilitating gastrointestinal symptoms. I found helpful information by studying nutrition, supplements, and functional medicine. I then opened my own functional medicine clinic in 2016. However, challenging patient cases taught me that I needed to consider how additional factors, like dental issues, an overactive bodily stress state, personal emotional trauma, and intergenerational trauma can interfere with the healing process. This led to the current holistic approach that is utilized at Gut Mend.

Credentials:

  • Bachelor of Science – St. Mary’s University in San Antonio
  • Medical Doctorate – UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • Internal Medicine Residency – Austin Medical Education Programs
  • Basic & Advanced Functional Medicine Training – Kalish Institute
  • Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice – IFM
  • GI and Detox Modules – Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM)
  • Of the Earth Healing Indigenous Medicine certification
  • Acupuncture Meridian Assessment training
  • The Center for Education and Development of Homeopathy training