Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine

Imagine if the next two years of your clinical career were spent with a small online cohort of practitioners who feel the same way you do.

While continuing your practice, you learn the evidence and mechanism of action behind integrative medicine and whole-person care, applying new approaches throughout the program.

You see a change, not only in your patient care but in the way you care for yourself and your family.

A few months in, your passion for medicine is reignited. You have a clinical mentor and you meet faculty from all over the globe.

Three times over these two years, you head to Arizona for a CME experiential. These weeks will be formative.

You will make connections in your cohort that become your closest colleagues. You will experience integrative medicine, hands on. You will dive into the latest research, learn from indigenous healers and physicians, eat the most delicious anti-inflammatory meals, ask questions during patient panels, and get to know a faculty and staff who understand the commitment you’ve made to healing-oriented, patient-partnership medicine.

Imagine if the next two years of your career were spent with a small online cohort of practitioners who feel the same way you do.

While continuing your practice, you learn the evidence and mechanism of action behind integrative medicine and whole-person care, applying new approaches throughout the program.

You see a change, not only in your patient care but in the way you care for yourself and your family.

A few months in, your passion for medicine feels reignited. You have a clinical mentor and you meet faculty from all over the globe.

Three times over these two years, you head to Arizona for a CME experiential. These weeks are formative.

You make connections in your cohort that become your closest colleagues. You experience integrative medicine, hands on. You dive into the latest research, learn from Indigenous healers and physicians, eat meals that reset what you thought healthy food could taste like, ask questions during patient panels, and get to know faculty and staff who understand the commitment you’ve made to healing-oriented, patient-partnership medicine.

When you graduate, the last of your three in-person weeks in Arizona, you are ready to practice integrative medicine in your field. For a moment, you might wonder what you’re going to do without this cohort, this connection.

Then you learn about the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine’s alumni program and the annual Integrative Medicine Conference, and you realize, this isn’t the end. It’s the beginning of community as medicine.

: The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine Join the internationally recognized Integrative Medicine Fellowship—a transformative, two-year online program that empowers practitioners to apply integrative medicine from day one.

Please join us in welcoming Denise Millstine, MD, as Associate Director of the Fellowship.

A graduate of the program, Dr. Millstine joins the University of Arizona to lead educational programming for healthcare professionals in integrative medicine and whole-person care.

AWCIM Appoints Denise Millstine, MD, as Associate Director of Integrative Medicine Fellowship: The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine The University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (AWCIM) has appointed Denise Millstine, MD, as associate director of the , the center's flagship physician training program and one of the world's leading educational programs in integrative medicine.

What does health look like for the people running some of the most demanding operations in the country?

This weekend, Stephen Dahmer, MD, Mari Ricker, MD, and George Schatz, MD closed out the Eller Executive Education High Impact Leadership program, bringing integrative medicine into a room of senior executives in the mining industry.

ASARCO and Eller College of Management created space for conversations that don’t always make it into the boardroom: mind-body approaches to stress, anti-inflammatory nutrition, sleep science, brain health, and breathing techniques for recovery.

High Impact Leadership: An Integrative Approach to Nutrition and Wellness for Executives shifts mindset and performance company-wide.

Interested in bringing AWCIM faculty to your organization? Reach out at [email protected].

A condition affecting millions of women worldwide is hiding in plain sight.

Its symptoms are all too often dismissed as weight gain, attributed to lifestyle choices or a hormonal shift.

As integrative care providers, we are trained to look closely and listen carefully. A lipedema diagnosis can offer relieved and an integrative care plan hope.

For those living with lipedema, a comprehensive, individualized plan can include manual lymphatic drainage, compression therapy, aquatic exercise, targeted nutrition, herbal medicine, acupuncture, and mental health support.

This Lipedema Awareness Month, we are working with Lipedema Foundation to spread awareness.

➡️ Swipe to learn the signs of lipedema.
➡️ Head over to AWCIMagazine to read an evidence-informed review of integrative approaches to lipedema.
➡️ Visit lipedema.org to download free resources for patients and clinicians.

Special thanks to Alyssa Zaffiro of Upsilon Theta Sigma for her research and work on this article.

June is Men’s Health Month and men’s health is something AWCIM Fellows walk away treating with a whole different approach.

When it comes to chronic stress in male patients, integrative medicine looks at the whole person: mind, body, spirit, lifestyle, relationships, meaning, and purpose. Not just the presenting symptoms.

When you understand the mechanisms — how chronic stress activates the HPA axis, how testosterone interferes with oxytocin’s calming effect, how the male stress response presents differently in the clinic — it changes how you practice. And your treatment plan.

Mind-body medicine is part of the whole health approach. Learn a little more here and then explore the Fellowship at awcim.arizona.edu/fellowship

Retirement is bittersweet. It marks the close of a meaningful career and the beginning of a new chapter. It is also a reminder of how much the people we work alongside shape our days, our culture, and our community.

Devorah Coryell spent the last decade bringing integrative medicine to medical students and residents across the country through the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine elective rotation.

She did more than facilitate a program. She changed perspectives, built confidence, and reminded young physicians of the great responsibility and capability they have.

Prior to her work with AWCIM, Devorah established the wellness programs at Pritikin Longevity Center and Canyon Ranch. A long time colleague of Andrew Weil, M.D. , her presence will be missed and her impact long lasting.

Happy retirement, Devorah!

Medical schools across the country are expanding their focus on nutrition, lifestyle, and whole-person care. The next frontier is residency.

This week, the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine met with CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz to share a model that is transforming residency training across the country.

Integrative Medicine in Residency (IMR) is a 100-hour, on-demand curriculum already embedded in more than 160 residency programs nationwide, including Stanford Children’s Hospital, UC Davis, Scripps, and Hennepin Health.

IMR prepares physicians to meet the realities of modern practice, where chronic disease, mental health concerns, and lifestyle-related conditions account for much of the care patients need.

Through training in nutrition, lifestyle medicine, integrative approaches to chronic disease and pain, and mind-body medicine, residents gain practical tools to deliver more effective, preventative, healing-oriented, patient-centered care. The IMR curriculum also supports physician well-being during one of the most demanding periods of medical training.

The future of health care will depend on more than new technologies and treatments. It will require physicians trained to prevent disease, address its root causes, and care for the whole person.

Residency is where that transformation begins.

Learn more about IMR at https://awcim.arizona.edu/education/imr.html

Awe is medicine.