After earning a degree in English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, I went back to Berkeley for pre-Med and then graduated from the University of California at San Francisco in 1979 and that campus' affiliated Family Practice residency in Santa Rosa in 1982.
Since then, I have had a full service family doctor private practice, served as a Medical Director to open a migrant farm worker clinic and worked in emergency rooms and rural community health clinics. My clinical experience taught me that there is a way to integrate conventional and complementary medicine into one effective, efficient and affordable whole. In my study of integrative medical treatments, I learned homeopathy at the Hahnemann College of Homeopathy, and studied nutrition through the Weston A. Price Foundation. In both office-based and hospital care, I have integrated conventional medicine, alternative care, nutritional and lifestyle education for all my patients. In many cases the results were truly remarkable and I learned that there are many different routes to healing.
DrDeborahMD is the result of that passion and it is my hope that through the website, I will be able to reach thousands more people than have attended my practice over the past decades and that they too will benefit from the many lessons I have learned in both my studies and my practice.
Many of the current medical practices--bio-engineered vitamins that do more harm than good, unnecessary operations, massive over-prescribing of expensive medicines--do real damage to our people and our planet. I'm convinced that the kind of medicine I practice--integrated, healthy, organic--will make a huge difference to your life as it has to mine. At the same time, together we will be changing our families, our communities and our world.
Outside of these grand passions, I help direct the Siskiyou Challenge, an Oregon-based annual sports event that raises money to educate children about life on the farm, and I row on a beautiful lake just outside my hometown of Ashland, Oregon.
