MY PHILOSOPHY | BACKGROUND After several years in family practice, I opened my practice within the Seattle Healing Arts Center in fall of 2003. I have a longstanding interest in integrated medicine that incorporates conventional with complimentary approaches that predates my medical training, and I appreciate the opportunity to serve my patients from different angles.

I come from a diverse background, having been fortunate to grow up in both Alaska and England, returning to the US to work for Rodale Press, a health publishing firm in Pennsylvania. However, my interest in serving people as well as working in health care led me to medical school in New Orleans before moving to Seattle to work within the Swedish Providence system. I worked as a family physician and in obstetrics, and was a float physician in the Swedish Physicians clinics. During this time, I spent a year in naturopathic studies at Bastyr University and completed the UCLA program in medical acupuncture. My interests are broad and I welcome all ages and backgrounds.

Connection between different people through language and culture has been a passion for me since childhood. I have been fortunate to have lived in countries as diverse as England, Switzerland and Nepal, a country close to my heart for many reasons, notably being where I first learned vipassana meditation, a practice that continues to inform my life daily. My interest in cultural connections continues to express itself as ongoing concern for health care, equality and human rights as well as delight in world music and film.

I enjoy working with felt, a tactile and colorful form of art and spending time in my rustic (some say English) garden that is rich in local and medicinal plants. I feel blessed to have a close community in Seattle of family, friends and neighbors as well as a cat from New Orleans.