As a Cuban-Cambodian immigrant whose father fought to ensure his family had a better life, Karla Paez, COO at Truecare Wellness, became familiar with compassion, sacrifice, and struggle at an early age. She spent her youth watching her father practice holistic medicine and acupuncture for animals and after relocating to Miami at the age of
“When you have seen one child improve so profoundly with nutrition and with this integrated process, you can’t not do this.” Dr. Sheila Kilbane, FPC veteran practitioner and owner of Infinite Health, just finished launching her first book with the intention of reaching as many people as possible. Her hope is to give parents and
“Figure out what your core values are and hire people who have the same core values.” With the help of the FPC hiring process and his coach, Forrest Norman, DDS, has zeroed in on his core values and has assembled an outstanding “A team” at Queens Road Dentistry. The team of seven have been hitting
As a highly competitive collegiate athlete, Vince Taylor, DC at Tennessee Center of Integrated Medicine had a natural interest in the human body and its development into optimal performance. During college he explored various realms in health and medicine before ultimately pursuing a career in chiropractic where he was able to nurture his passion of
For several years prior to joining FPC, Jeff Hunter, NP at Upstream Functional Medicine, was practicing in a traditional model, growing increasingly tired of feeling constrained by the system, and searching for a better way. Everything changed the moment he discovered functional medicine. He had finally found the path towards providing people with adequate care
“My father was an Irish immigrant, who by his upbringing did all of the work on the house or cars by himself. Since I was usually holding the light or assisting in some way, I watched him go through the process of figuring out what was wrong so that he could fix it. It was
After nearly 20 years of thriving as conventional practitioner, Julianne Arena, MD, had an “awakening” that completely changed the trajectory of her life and career. Her renewal sent her down a path that involved advanced education, research, a resignation, and the ultimate birth of her own practice; Waves of Awakening Center for Personalized Medicine. “In
“Functional Medicine is like a dance and your patient’s body is in the lead. As you improve one area, you see things change in another. It’s a constant moving scenario.” Troy Spurrill, D.C. at Synapse: Center for Health and Healing, had been “dancing” with functional medicine for nearly three years before being introduced to FPC;
Kori Feldman, M.D., has cultivated a rock-solid “A-team” at Vitality Family Health and Vitality Wellness Partners that is infused with trust, commitment and an innate capability to prevail in any given situation. Together, they are impressively powerful and wildly dedicated. Though they are mighty, even the strongest are susceptible to experience times of struggle and,
For nearly a decade, Farah Sultan, MD at Vitalogy Wellness Center, spent hours on end speaking with patients about their health and trying to convince them to live a better life. A life of wellness. She was working in a conventional model for an underserved population and knew there had to be more to practicing