Interview with a Visionary in Health and Wellness

I believe wellness goes beyond an absence of disease. My mission is to educate and help the patients re-create wellness, enabling a life full of happiness, health, and vitality. Together, we must uncover the root causes of your health problems to achieve long-term wellbeing.

Can you share the most interesting story that happened to you since you started your career?

For more than 25 years, I am honored and humbled to have the privilege of doing what I love every day: practicing medicine. But my journey didn’t start this way…

Can you share a story about the biggest mistake you made when you were first starting?

During one of my first on-call shifts of my internship, my attending doctor tasked me with taking care of his ICU patients overnight…

When it comes to health and wellness, how is the work you are doing helping to make a bigger impact in the world?

I started Wellness at Century City with a unique, integrative approach to medicine that blends in Western Medicine with Eastern medicine…

Can you share your top five “lifestyle tweaks” that you believe will help support people’s journey towards better wellbeing?

(1) Deeper, more REM sleep which will reset, restore, and replenish you and more…

If you could start a movement that would bring the most amount of wellness to the most amount of people, what would that be?

If I could start a movement, I would revamp the American healthcare industry…

What are your “5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started” and why?

(1) Don’t be pressured to know your passion in your life…

Sustainability, veganism, mental health and environmental changes are big topics at the moment. Which one of these causes is dearest to you, and why?

Mental health is dearest to my heart. As someone who has been treating successfully mental health for past 24 years…

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