Stephen Dahmer, M.D.
Dr. Dahmer is a Board Certified Family Medicine physician whose passion for health and healing has taken him around the globe. His medical experience has included work with the Maori in New Zealand, Umbanda faith healers in Brazil, traditional healers in Palau, war veterans at the San Diego Veterans Hospital, and most recently the Navajo (Dine) in the Four Corners region of the United States. His travels have further reinforced his beliefs that medicine is a method not only for eliminating symptoms but also for achieving increasingly higher states of health for the unique, whole individual.
Dr. Dahmer is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school and completed his residency training at Beth Israel Residency in Urban Family Medicine in New York City. He was one of the earliest graduates of the Integrative Family Medicine Fellowship with Dr. Andrew Weil. His postgraduate training has included work as a Fountainhead Scholar with The Institute for Functional Medicine, ethnomedicinal research with The New York Botanical Garden, and homeopathic training with the Center for Education and Development of Clinical Homeopathy. He has published articles in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing as well as American Family Physician, the most widely read medical journal in the nation. Dr. Dahmer has special interests in nutrition, indigenous healing systems, mind-body therapies, acupuncture, botanical therapies, nutraceuticals and homeopathy. His clinical interests include preventive medicine, stress reduction, travel medicine, and men's health. His professional interests include public health and integrating technology in the office.
Dr. Dahmer spends his free time trying to create new dishes in the kitchen, learning new scores on the keyboard, and taking deep breaths. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
Content last modified on Jul 17, 2009
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