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Dr Guarneri is Board-certified in cardiology, internal medicine, nuclear medicine and holistic medicine, President of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and is Senior Advisor at Atlantic Health for the Center for Well Being.

Dr Guarneri was an English Literature major as an undergraduate at New York University. Her medical degree is from SUNY Medical Center in New York, where she graduated number one in her class. Dr Guarneri served her internship and residency at Cornell Medical Center, where she later became chief medical resident. She served cardiology fellowships at both New York University Medical Center and Scripps Clinic. She is a fellow member of the American College of Cardiology, Alpha Omega Alpha, and the American Medical Women’s Association.

Dr Guarneri founded the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine and served as Medical Director for 15 years. She began her career at Scripps Clinic attending in interventional cardiology, where she placed thousands of coronary stents. Recognizing the need for a more comprehensive and more holistic approach to cardiovascular disease, she pioneered the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine where state-of-the-art cardiac imaging technology and lifestyle change programs are used to aggressively diagnose, prevent and treat cardiovascular disease.

Dr Guarneri is the author of The Heart Speaks, a poignant collection of stories from heart patients who have benefited from integrative medicine approaches. The Heart Speaks and her clinical work have been featured on NBC Today and PBS’s To the Contrary and Full Focus. Her work was also featured in a two-part PBS documentary, The New Medicine.

In 2009, Dr Guarneri was honoured as the ARCS scientist of the year. In 2011, Dr Guarneri was the winner of the Bravewell Leadership Award which honours a physician leader who has made significant contributions to the transformation of the U.S. health care system. Most recently, she received the 2012 Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute for Functional Medicine and the Grace A. Goldsmith award from the American College of Nutrition.

Dr Bradley received his PhD in Naturopathy from Bastyr University in 2003 and his Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Washington in 2009. He is currently the Director of the Center for Diabetes & Cardiovascular Wellness at Bastyr University, a center of clinical services, research and community education, focused on prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic disease through diet and healthy lifestyle choices.

He is also a Clinical Research Assistant Professor and Core Clinical Faculty member at Bastyr. Dr Bradley has published his research in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including foundational research on naturopathic medicine in cardiometabolic disease, as well as, research on mind-body interventions in diabetes and natural products. He is a frequent speaker for conventional and complementary health care providers on the topic of integrative approaches to reduce cardiometabolic risk.

Dr Oberg received her doctorate in naturopathic medicine in 2003 from Bastyr University, followed by accredited residency. She proceeded to fellowship training at the University of Washington’s Health Promotion Research Center, completing an MPH in Health Services with emphasis on the evaluation of complementary and alternative medicine professionals within the healthcare system and the science of health promotion and positive behavioural change.

Dr Oberg is in private practice with Guarneri Integrative Health at Pacific Pearl La Jolla, an integrative center for health and healing. She previously served as Clinic Director at Bastyr University California in San Diego, and before that, practiced Primary Care and Integrative Endocrinology for 10 years at the Institute of Complementary Medicine in Seattle.

Dr Oberg’s research has been supported by the NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the WA State Department of Health and numerous foundations. She currently serves on the Board of the Integrative Health Policy Consortium. She has taught Public Health and Nutrition to medical students and served as Director of the Bastyr Center for Health Policy and Leadership.