For over 25 years, I have been a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist in Atlanta. Over the years, my personal journey for improved health and disease recovery led to practicing a whole-food plant-based, no oil eating style in 2021. Finding dramatic health benefits, I became increasingly interested in helping people achieve and sustain changes in their lifestyle to improve their health. Following my retirement from clinical psychiatric practice in 2023, I became board certified in Lifestyle Medicine. Partnering with our existing program, Kinetik Focus, we are launching Kinetik Health which focuses not only on education regarding the six pillars of lifestyle medicine, but also provides skills for behavioral change, accountability, coaching and community support to make the necessary changes for improved health.

Having practiced in trauma, general surgery and outpatient medicine, I’ve helped put bandages on problems without providing any long lasting relief until my colleague and mentor introduced me to lifestyle medicine and the whole, food plant based diet. Having a medication to treat a side effect of chronic illness falls short of most people’s goals in health whereas helping guide people to optimize lifestyle and diet trully has resulted in life changing benefits for the patients I’ve seen in my practice. Not only do I recommend changes, but I’ve made the changes in my life and my family’s life which means I’ve also experienced the challenges that comes with change. Working together with people to face those challenges is what drives my everyday interactions with patients.