Dr. Hatlestad states, ” For me, Integrative Medicine draws on the best aspects of different medical traditions and innovative practices to provide new ways of thinking about Health and Disease. This includes taking advantage of the best of what conventional medicine has to offer. I enjoy helping patients transcend a common understanding of their illness to achieve a new level of responsibility for their health; finding treatment plans that align with their agendas and empowering them a partner toward optimal wellness.”

Dr. Hatlestad takes an active interest in his three children, mountain biking, mountaineering, snowboarding, running, windsurfing, kayaking,  cooking and jazz.  He has a Black Belt in Aikido.

She is passionate about her work and is excited to be joining the Center for Environmental Medicine.  Specialties include cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal/digestive disorders, chelation therapy, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, functional medicine, IV therapies, nutrition, women’s health, and yeast syndrome.  Some of the treatment modalities that will be offered include: nutritional therapies, functional medicine laboratory assessments,  food/environmental allergy testing and treatment, applied kinesiology testing, hormone evaluation and IV therapies.

Dr. Kapadia co-authored a book that was recently published. It reviews the overall function of different organ systems in the body from a holistic perspective and then goes on to discuss the “root causes” of illness as well as steps that can be taken to prevent as well as resolve various health imbalances.  It can be a helpful and quick read to review some of the factors that contribute to health/illness. It can be found at the following websites:

www.bodyrestorationanownersmanual.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Restoration-owners-manual ebook/dp/B0050653C4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1305212415&sr=8-5

In her spare time, Dr. Kapadia enjoys bikram yoga, hiking, traveling and spending time with family and friends.

I would like to offer hope to those who have lost it, and let them know that, regardless of your “diagnosis,” it is possible for your body to restore itself with effort, time and perseverance.

“My own personal health challenges motivated me to seek alternative solutions to allopathic medicine. Starting over a decade ago, I began to suffer from severe headaches/migraines, food sensitivities and allergies, among other symptoms. After seeing some of the best specialists that traditional medicine could offer, I had at times lost hope for recovery and a normal life. For several years, my quality of life was severely affected, and my daily activities consisted of just trying to “get through the day.” It became difficult to make plans as I had no idea how I would feel from one day to the next, and when the next severe headache would strike.

I was fortunate enough to gain exposure to integrative medicine through a physician that became one of my mentors in medical school. As I sat in with him, and other practitioners in our community, I learned of new concepts such as dysbiosis and toxicity. I soon realized how my diet, my history of recurrent courses of antibiotics, living in a moldy apartment, and exposure to heavy metals were all contributing to my symptoms. In a quest to heal myself and to look for a better way to treat patients, I read and studied everything I could find related to these concepts.

As I started to see more of my own patients in my residency training, I realized that quite a few of them were likely suffering from the same sorts of root causes as I was. I was no longer satisfied to hand out a prescription for each different symptom that they described. My goals for patients changed from making symptoms tolerable with medication to figuring out the cause of symptoms so they could be addressed, resulting in an automatic improvement in symptoms and overall well-being.

I have seen how making lifestyle changes and discovering the causes of symptoms can result in significant improvement in the long-run. I have learned the importance of treating my mind/body/spirit with care, including the food I eat, the environment and people that I surround myself with and the thoughts that go through my mind. While staying balanced and healthy in our world today is quite a challenge, setting the intention to make this a priority is crucial to all of us.

Wishing you good health and happiness,”

Ami Kapadia MD

In her spare time, Cambor and her husband employ a great deal of energy raising their teenage grand daughter.  She also enjoys vacationing in Mexico, cooking, the study of ancient Jewish history as well as nutrition, gardening and visiting with friends.