• I take the time to understand your full story and health goals.

• I educate people thoroughly on their health, not just on their conditions.

• I focus on root causes, not just symptom management.

• I use advanced testing to help optimize health and wellness and also to dig deep into the “why” someone is unwell.

• I take time to thoroughly educate patients on their test results and do so in a way that makes sense.

• I believe that information and education about your health gives you the power to control it.

My work blends conventional medical training with functional and integrative medicine to explore root cause rather than isolated symptoms.

Care is collaborative, intentional, and adjusted over time as your body responds.

I use advanced integrative and functional testing to help better understand symptoms related to inflammation, hormones, gut health, genetics, metabolic health, environmental burden, and nervous system regulation.

We start with an initial hour long new patient visit

Thoughtful evaluation and possible advanced labs & testing

Follow up visit to determine personalized plan

Ongoing refinement & support

We will make a great team if -

• You’re interested in optimizing your health and learning what you can do to improve it

• You’re invested into diving deep into the “why” you don’t feel well

I began my medical career in conventional medicine, training and working as a trauma nurse and later as a family nurse practitioner in an outpatient practice at Duke University. Early on, I recognized something that would shape the rest of my career: while I was well trained to diagnose and prescribe, there was very little space—or guidance—around understanding why people became unwell in the first place, or how to truly help them heal.

Over time, that gap became harder to ignore. The questions that felt most important—nutrition, stress, sleep, trauma, mindset, and lifestyle—were often sidelined by time constraints and system limitations. I noticed that the patients who improved the most were those willing to explore these deeper factors, even when that exploration happened outside the exam room.

After relocating to Milwaukee 10 years later, I spent several years working in conventional gastroenterology, where I gained valuable experience caring for patients with complex inflammatory and autoimmune conditions. While the clinical exposure was meaningful, it reinforced my sense that the conventional model did not allow the depth of inquiry needed to address chronic illness at its roots.

Around this time, my professional curiosity became deeply personal. When my son experienced a sudden and severe neuroinflammatory reaction following a strep infection, we struggled for months to find answers. Being dismissed repeatedly—despite clear symptoms—fundamentally changed how I viewed medicine. It became clear that I needed a more comprehensive framework to understand complex, immune-mediated and neurologic illness.

That realization led me to pursue extensive advanced training in integrative and functional medicine. I completed fellowship-level education through the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine, trained through the Institute for Functional Medicine, became an ILADS-trained Lyme-literate provider, and pursued focused education in neuroinflammation, PANS/PANDAS, tick-borne disease, chronic infections, mold and toxin exposure, and immune-related conditions. Along the way, I also taught nursing students and volunteered in community clinics caring for underserved populations.

Today, I practice at BVital in Park City, Utah, where I’m able to take the time and depth this work requires. My approach integrates conventional, integrative, and functional medicine to explore the many factors that can drive inflammation and illness—whether hormonal changes such as menopause, concussion or brain injury, chronic infection, autoimmunity, trauma, or neurodegenerative disease.

I’m thoughtful about the role that stress and past adversity can play in physical health, and while I am not a therapist, I believe acknowledging the nervous system and lived experience is often essential to healing.

At the heart of my work is a commitment to listening carefully, asking better questions, and helping patients understand what their bodies are communicating—so we can move toward clarity, resilience, and meaningful healing.