Pamela Yee, MD
Pamela Yee, MD is board certified both in Internal Medicine and Holistic Medicine. She combines her medical training with evidence-based integrative modalities for the treatment of a variety of conditions including, but not limited to, cancer, digestive disturbances (IBS), chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, infertility, rheumatologic and neurodegenerative disorders. Supporting her patient's goals, treatment can co-exist with their conventional management to enhance effectiveness, reduce the reliance on pharmaceuticals, or, to otherwise take control over a treatment by involving different modalities such as nutritional intervention. Many of the issues that Dr. Yee treats don't simply fall into diagnostic check-boxes; illness and disease are often the manifestations of complex interactions between many biologic processes and systems. Complex and difficult to diagnose and difficult to treat conditions are the standard cases Dr. Yee welcomes.
"What is extremely fulfilling to me as an integrative physician is being able to see each and every one of my patients as an individual outside of their particular illness or diagnostic label they may have been given. Taking into account the unique genetics and potential lifetime exposures for each person, a tailored treatment plan can be devised for them and can vary between patients that I see with identical diagnoses. This is what I think of as the true definition of holistic medicine - the evaluation of every person as a distinctive individual and being able to creatively think outside of the box that oftentimes limits conventionally trained medical doctors."
Dr. Yee received her education at Barnard College at Columbia University and State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine and trained in Internal Medicine at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in California where she also served as Chief Resident. She also completed a prestigious fellowship in Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. Her diverse training includes clinical hypnotherapy through the Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis and medical acupuncture through the UCLA School of Medicine. She and her husband manage an organic micro-farm at home and frequently write and speak on the topic of nutrient dense farming and local and sustainable food practices. She is also on the advisory board of Women's Health Magazine.
Content last modified on May 24, 2011
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