The Natural Nurse and Dr. Z - Dr. Kara Fitzgerald - 07/23/12

Host Dr. Eugene Zampieron, ND, MH, www.drznaturally.com interviews Dr. Kara Fitzgerald. Dr. Fitzgerald  received her doctorate of naturopathic medicine from National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She completed the first CNME-accredited post-doctorate position in nutritional biochemistry and laboratory science at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory under the direction of Richard Lord, Ph.D. Her residency was completed at ProgressiveMedicalCenter, a large, integrative medical practice in Atlanta, Georgia under the direction of Cheryl Burdette, ND and Susan Tanner, MD. Dr. Fitzgerald is lead author and editor (with J. Alexander Bralley, Ph.D.) of The Metametrix Institute’s Case Studies in Integrative and Functional Medicine, a contributing author to Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine and the Institute for Functional Medicine’s updatedTextbook for Functional Medicine. Dr. Fitzgerald is on faculty and a Curriculum Advisory Committee member at Institute for Functional Medicine. She is an adjunct faculty member at University of Bridgeport in the school of Human Nutrition and a member of The Institute for Therapeutic Discovery. She is on the editorial review board of Alternative Medicine Review. Dr. Fitzgerald regularly lectures internationally for several organizations. Formerly atAdvancedDiagnosticPainTreatmentCenter at Yale-New Haven, she is now in private practice in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. On today’s show she will discuss Case Studies in Integrative and Functional Medicine.  Contact: http://drkarafitzgerald.com