About the Doctor

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What would make a per­son become a natur­o­pathic doctor?

1. Severe atopic dermatitis from 12 – late 20’s
2. An inab­il­ity to sleep due to con­stant scratching
3. Con­cerns about the con­stant use of cortisone, pred­nisone, and Pro­topic without alle­vi­at­ing the symp­toms longer than sev­eral hours
4. A desire to learn and change the tra­ject­ory of my health so that I could have a “nor­mal” life

What did I learn?

I star­ted explor­ing foods as poten­tial causes of my flare-ups, and when I had my wis­dom teeth removed mid-university and could not eat many solid foods for sev­eral days, my eczema began to clear and I felt less inflamed. When I star­ted eat­ing again, I ate oat­meal and pasta, and began to itch within 30 minutes. I real­ized that my inflam­ma­tion was very much con­nec­ted to my gastrointest­inal tract and com­pletely elim­in­ated wheat glu­ten. It was the “tip of the ice­berg” for me, and I decided to delve deeper.

In my mas­ters degree at the time, I decided to change dir­ec­tion from becom­ing a der­ma­to­lo­gist in con­ven­tional medi­cine and pur­sued natur­o­pathic medi­cine. At the end of natur­o­pathic med­ical school, my eczema was 95% gone.

My spe­cial interests are obvi­ously skin and gastrointest­inal dis­orders and the unique con­nec­tion they can have in cer­tain indi­vidu­als. How­ever, my back­ground in autoim­mune dis­orders is always an interest. As a woman, I always endeav­our to improve women’s health and life­style overall.

Edu­ca­tion

Bach­elor of Sci­ence; Major Psy­cho­logy, Minor Biology

1998 – 2002 McMas­ter Uni­ver­sity, Hamilton ON

Mas­ters of Sci­ence; Spe­cialty in Beha­vi­oural Neur­os­ciences

2002 – 2004 McMas­ter Uni­ver­sity, Hamilton ON

Thesis: Rodent Mod­els of Lupus-like Dis­ease and their affect on social bond­ing hor­mones oxy­to­cin and vasopressin.

Doc­tor of Natur­o­pathic Medicine

2005 – 2008 (Accel­er­ated 3-year pro­gram), Cana­dian Col­lege of Natur­o­pathic Medi­cine, Toronto ON

State­ment of Intent

I do not pre­tend to know everything there is to know about medi­cine. That is why a prac­tice is called a prac­tice, and there is an art to con­tinu­ally learn­ing and expand­ing one’s know­ledge daily. I do how­ever, work very hard and tire­lessly to help to improve the face of each indi­vidu­als’ health as they would like improved, at the rate they are ready to see change.

The pur­pose of this web­site is to not only get to know a little about me, but for all of us to explore ideas in health and medi­cine ( con­ven­tional or altern­at­ive ) and gen­er­ate some dis­cus­sion. Often I can­not explore all of the inter­est­ing ideas about health while I’m in prac­tice, and some­times some patients get to know some aspects of health sup­port but not oth­ers simply because of what we’re work­ing on! Let’s learn from one another.