Data and tracking. Metabolic health is fully quantifiable. And what you can measure, you can manage…or better yet, what you can measure, you can optimize. As you can tell, I am a believer. I want you to be a believer too because I am convinced it will transform your health.

We can do it together! Anjali Dsouza, MD Founder and Medical Director of the District Center for Integrative Medicine. I am a board-certified physician specializing in Integrative Medicine, Palliative Care, and Psychiatry. My approach to healing prioritizes the whole person, rather than a specific system or organ, always honoring the importance of the relationship between you and me.

I utilize evidence-based research to guide our clinical decisions, and draw on therapeutic interventions to maximize your overall well-being. In addition to my conventional medical training, I have spent the last ten years studying Integrative and Functional Medicine.

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Request Appointment Patient Portal Blood, Sugar…Magic? menstrual cycles protect yourself from or actively dial back the top chronic health burdens in our country: diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmunity.

What is this magic I speak of? TTU-NMHI OPTIFAST® Total Meal Replacement Program 26 Weeks :. The science-based program that delivers weight loss for health gains. Scientifically proven medical weight loss program. The program utilizes a meal replacement plan that transitions to self-prepared "everyday" meals, in conjunction with comprehensive patient education and support.

The OPTIFAST® program is a structured approach to proven weight loss: Medical Supervision Nutritionally Complete Meal Replacements Nutrition Education Exercise Guidance Behavior Lifestyle Modification OPTIFAST® weight management program consists of 3 phases: Weeks Active Weight Loss with Full Meal Replacements Weeks 13 to Transition to Food or Food and Partial Meal Replacements i.

Health Monitoring: Body Fat Measurement, Laboratory Tests blood work and EKG before after and during the program as needed to track health progress and monitor safety. Communication with your healthcare providers as needed.

Detailed lifestyle curriculum. TEMPO PROGRAM 12 Weeks — Brief, Personalized, Individual Appointments. By appointment — In an out in 30 minutes or less! Designed for those with a little or a lot to lose. Partial Meal Replacement first 8 weeks : Structured choices from a specific list of mix and match food choices plus 4 delicious shakes a day.

Expanded meal plan last 4 weeks for sustainable eating. Food only no shakes option provides you with specific food choices in the first 8 weeks to match the nutrition program used in the meal replacement version Exercise, stress management and overall health coaching throughout.

We work with you to figure out the things that have caused you to not be successful in the past and we solve these barriers together. TEMPO Program includes: Body fat measurement BIA before and after the program.

Detailed educational handouts. NMHI Signature Program — U-Turn Diet 12 Weeks. Exclusive, one on one nutrition and health promotion counseling. Personalized program to fit your unique lifestyle. Your diet plan is created based on: Your current and past health conditions and metabolic profile Likes, dislikes, lifestyle, food preferences Daily energy requirement and activity level Dr.

Brief description of the treatment process: Dr. Parvo® Metabolic Cart to determine your daily caloric requirement metabolism pre- post- program.

Motivational Coaching. We have the solution! Includes: 1 hour initial assessment and planning session. Body Composition Testing. Takes only about 15 minutes, and provides fast, highly accurate results. Done in a private room while fully clothed.

Simply lay on the open table while the measurement arm passes over you. Note: DXA cannot be performed on individuals who have had a radionuclide procedure a procedure that involves injection of radioactive substance in the last 14 days.

Also those who are or may be pregnant cannot have this procedure. You will be provided these and additional screening questions before having the procedure along with additional information about the scan. This is not a medical diagnostic test.

Results are solely for the purpose of informing you about your body composition muscle and fat. Awards and Honors Staff Recognition. Spotlights Spotlight: Stanford Psychiatry at the Annual Meeting of AACAP Spotlight: World Mental Health Day Spotlight on YogaX: bringing yoga into healthcare, one teacher at a time Spotlight: Stanford Psychiatry at the Annual Meeting of AADPRT Spotlight: Project Purpose, focusing on the mental health impacts of climate change.

Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic. This clinic is not accepting new patients at this time. Conditions Treated. Weight gain Insulin resistance while on or not on psychotropic medications Emotional eating or binge eating Malnutrition Overweight or obesity High blood pressure, cholesterol Impaired glucose tolerance, or prediabetes.

This Clinic Provides. Clinical Trials. Investigator Shebani Sethi MD, ABOM. Not accepting patients at this time View Details. Clinic Director. Shebani Sethi MD, ABOM. Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Faculty and Staff Consultants.

Debra Safer. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult.

Provides personalized weight goals using years of trends and data that have been collected by Geisinger. Our research focuses on the genetic, environmental, social and behavioral contributors to obesity. We are re-engineering care to improve screening and risk assessment, tailoring preventive counseling, and using systems design to direct families to multi-disciplinary, treatment programs when indicated.

We are training primary care providers and support staff to use motivational interviewing skills, utilizing tele-health, predictive analytics, and coordinating care between clinics and community agencies and schools to help families identify and act on solutions that make better health easier.

This cluster randomized controlled trial compares three types of well-child visits for preventing obesity among preschool-aged children in rural areas. Participants are children aged years and their families who receive an annual well-child visit at Geisinger.

Contact Us: encircle geisinger. edu or , option 2. Reversing Metabolic Syndrome: Eat, Love, Move: A multi-site Randomized Controlled Trial PI: Lisa Bailey-Davis, DEd, RD Funder: William G.

This is a multi-site randomized controlled trial of a lifestyle intervention designed to reverse metabolic syndrome. The project enrolled persons with metabolic syndrome at 5 sites across the US including Geisinger.

Learn more at www. Contact Us: ELM geisinger. The Early Intervention to Promote Cardiovascular Health of Mothers and Children multicenter trial aims to test the effectiveness of an intervention designed to promote cardiovascular health and address cardiovascular disparities in both mothers and children years old.

ENRICH is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in collaboration with several federal partners. Geisinger is part of the Penn State Clinical Center, one of seven clinical centers in the trial.

Contact Us: enrich geisinger. edu or Longitudinal Cohort Studies. Central Pennsylvania Rural Birth Cohort PI: Lisa Bailey-Davis, DEd, RD Dates: — present. Child and Adolescent Trend CAT Data Registry PI: Lisa Bailey-Davis, DEd, RD Dates: — present.

The Childhood and Adolescent Trend CAT data registry includes a subset of the Geisinger electronic health record EHR and collects data on , Geisinger patients with a pediatric BMI measured with a same day height and weight at age 20 years or younger between and refreshed annually or on-demand.

In August , the CAT cohort had a median age of 18 years min 0 years, max 45 years, mean: The CAT registry is a collection of EHR data demographics, vitals, encounters with diagnosis, problem list diagnosis, labs, social history, medication history, and referrals as well as custom data including adult BMI, CDC and WHO BMI percentiles, BMI Extended, Family Nutrition and Physical Activity FNPA and Early Healthy Lifestyles EHL behavior and home environment data, food insecurity, and youth Blood Pressure Percentiles.

PREVENT PI: Lisa Bailey-Davis, DEd, RD Dates: — present The goal of this prospective, longitudinal cohort study is to determine if the pediatric care redesign with evidence-based screening using the Family Nutrition and Physical Activity, FNPA, tool , patient-centered education, negotiated decision-making and health information technology to reverse childhood obesity clinical improvement initiative is improving the quality of care by examining process and outcome measures associated with parent-child exposure to PREVENT.

FNPA is collected as a patient-reported outcome measure at annual well-child visits for children aged 2 to 9 years , 2 to 12 years present and years beginning Findings from this longitudinal study are used to continuously improve the value of and quality of care for the primary prevention of pediatric obesity and related comorbidities.

Our team collaborates with National FNPA Leaders myfnpa. org to facilitate dissemination and implementation of the tool to clinical sites globally. This project engages community partners in 5 central Pennsylvania counties for an Upstream Planning Initiative to Improve Response to Child Maltreatment.

Community-engaged planning is focused on identifying solutions that will alter the health trajectories for patients and families affected by or at risk for child maltreatment. Contact Us: unity geisinger. The project aims to create a Council of patients with maternal health lived experiences, maternal health clinicians and researchers, and maternal health community partners guided by a shared vision to improve maternal outcomes for patients of racial and ethnic minorities and rural residency.

You have the right to receive a "Good Faith Estimate" explaining how much your medical care will cost. Clinic on Mondays from p. You typically spend 1 hour Start times vary by program phase. OPTIFAST® patients who actively participate in the week medically monitored weight- management program typically lose twice as much as those on a reduced-calorie food-based diet and maintain approximately twice as much weight loss at 52 weeks.

Less than most people spend on groceries and restaurants. Ard JD, Lewis KH, Rothberg A, et al. Effectiveness of a total meal replacement program OPTIFAST® program on weight loss: results from the OPTIWIN study. Ard JD, et al. Buy Now. The scientifically developed TEMPO meal plan uses Optifast® medical meal replacement shakes combined with carefully selected regular foods for maximum weight loss and health impact.

Or if you prefer a similar structured food only no shakes meal plan. Highly structured program is designed for busy people - takes the hassle out of eating healthy.

Brief, individual, personalized health coaching each week teaches sustainable habit change. Meal replacements purchased separately. Concierge-level obesity care from world-renowned specialist Dr.

Nikhil Dhurandhar. You will work closely with an internationally known obesity expert with 35 years of experience in counseling over 15, people for weight loss. This personally tailored, scientific weight management program provides a comprehensive care plan for lasting health improvement.

A diet need not be tasteless or leave you feeling hungry. Your diet plan is created based on:. Dhurandhar works closely with your medical provider in a comprehensive program aimed at total health.

In addition, we provide your healthcare professional with support should you wish to consider additional treatments such as obesity medications or surgery. The overall emphasis is to work with you in your weight management effort, by suggesting a lifestyle intervention that is developed specifically for you!

Dhurandhar understands that like any other chronic disease such as diabetes or high blood pressure, obesity is a serious medical condition and not a character flaw. Obesity management is not limited to only reducing weight, but involves care of multiple body systems that may be affected.

Dhurandhar coordinates obesity management treatment with each patient's medical care provider to treat the whole person. The nutritional counseling in his weight management program follows the CAP-Lifestyle intervention plan Compatibility based — takes your physical and mental health, lifestyle, dietary and other preferences, allergies, and culture into account, Allocation focused — guides you on what, when and how much to eat and what type and amounts of physical activity should be done based on your unique situation and careful Progress Monitoring with appropriate 'course correction' based on your response to treatment and changes in diet to keep your diet interesting and sustainable.

Whether you are trying to improve health, perform better at work, change careers, get better organized or find new direction in your life, we are here to help.

Our highly trained motivational coaches understand the complex process of motivation and how to empower you to achieve your life goals.

DXA is the most scientifically accurate method available for measuring body composition. It allows us to provide accurate measurement of overall body fat, bone, and muscle and also the distribution of these in specific body areas.

Whether you are an athlete wanting to fine tune your performance diet and workout or someone who wants to know more details about fat and muscle distribution or how your body composition is changing as you improve your health.

This is an accurate tool for you. The BOD POD® Gold Standard Body Composition Tracking System uses cutting edge, scientifically validated technology whole-body air displacement densitometry to determine body fat and muscle.

Note: People with an electronic medical implant, such as a pacemaker, and pregnant women should not use this method. Spotlights Spotlight: Stanford Psychiatry at the Annual Meeting of AACAP Spotlight: World Mental Health Day Spotlight on YogaX: bringing yoga into healthcare, one teacher at a time Spotlight: Stanford Psychiatry at the Annual Meeting of AADPRT Spotlight: Project Purpose, focusing on the mental health impacts of climate change.

Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic. This clinic is not accepting new patients at this time. Conditions Treated. Weight gain Insulin resistance while on or not on psychotropic medications Emotional eating or binge eating Malnutrition Overweight or obesity High blood pressure, cholesterol Impaired glucose tolerance, or prediabetes.

This Clinic Provides. Clinical Trials. Investigator Shebani Sethi MD, ABOM. Not accepting patients at this time View Details. Clinic Director. Shebani Sethi MD, ABOM. Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Faculty and Staff Consultants. Debra Safer. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult. Terence Ketter.