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Please note: Dates for Group Supervision sessions are subject to change. Any/all changes will be communicated to Fellows via email with as much advance notice as possible.

2023 Supervision Schedule (Winter Cohort)

Each month of your study, faculty hosts live group supervision discussions to review topics from the curriculum. These are held live via Zoom and recorded. Recordings are added to your Fellowship dashboard shortly after each supervision.

Month
Discussion Topic
Dates
January
Intro to Functional Psychiatry / Fundamentals of Lab Testing
January 19 & 25
February
Depression
February 1 & 15
March
Suicide Prevention
March 8 & 22
April
ADHD
April 5 & 19
May
Addiction
May 3 & 17
June
Infections
June 7 & 21
July
Anxiety
July 12 & 26
August
Self Injury & Aggression
August 9 & 23
September
Gut-Brain Axis
September 6 & 20
October
Cognitive Decline
October 11 & 25
November
Eating Disorders
November 8 & 29
December
Psychosis & Schizophrenia
December 6 & 20
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Explore the Core Curriculum

The PR Fellowship boasts over 200 hours of curriculum, more than 60 CME credits, exclusive PR conference recordings and more. Learn more about the core curriculum, supplemental courses and conferences below.

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Core Courses

Functional & Integrative Medicine for Addiction

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD & Arwen Podesta, MD (4 Hours)
This course, co-taught by Dr. James Greenblatt and Dr. Arwen Podesta, examines the biology underlying the phenomenon of addiction and integrative functional medicine strategies for addiction treatment. It explores exogenous and intrinsic alterations to the brain’s reward pathway, the role of serotonin and dopamine in reinforcing addiction, genetic influences in addiction susceptibility, and the ways in which psychosocial factors can precipitate abnormal neurobiology. From this functional perspective, the course then explores evidence- based interventions to support addiction recovery, ranging from medications and targeted nutritional supplementation to meditation, yoga, and acupuncture.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for ADHD *

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (3 Hours)
4.0 CME credits
This three-module course will introduce Dr. Greenblatt’s breakthrough Plus/Minus plan for ADHD and provide a comprehensive overview of the biochemistry ‘beneath’ the disorder.  Dietary interventions and augmentation strategies for the mitigation of specific nutrient deficiencies will be reviewed, as well as recommendations for going “beyond biochemistry” to enhance treatment outcomes.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for Anorexia Nervosa*

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (3 hours)
4 CME credits
Join Dr. James Greenblatt has he dives into the complex pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa (AN) and presents a clinically proven functional medicine model for testing, treatment, and support. This 3-module course examines intrinsic and exogenous factors that can impact metabolism, neurotransmission, and cognition, and together coalesce a robust, empirically validated biologic model of AN pathogenesis. Registrants will learn functional and integrative strategies to address underlying biochemical imbalances and appetite dysregulation, therapeutic steps critical to the lasting success of any personalized AN treatment program.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for Anxiety *

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (4 Hours)
5.0 CME credits
This four-module course provides clinicians of all specialties with a comprehensive introduction to Dr. Greenblatt’s integrative model for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Fellows will explore how nutritional deficiencies, neurotransmitter dysfunction, systemic inflammation, and other endogenous factors affect changes in cognition and behavior, with an emphasis on the practical ramifications of biochemical individuality.  Guidelines for testing will be offered alongside specific nutritional interventions to address anxiogenic physiology, and complementary strategies to support integrative treatments – such as exercise, yoga, and herbal supplements – will be reviewed.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for Binge-Eating Disorder

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (2 hours)
This two-module course taught by Dr. James Greenblatt explores the clinical challenges of treating Binge-Eating Disorder and illuminates an evidence-based functional medicine model for treatment. The New Hope Model integrates lab testing, nutritional supplementation, dietary modifications, and medication, and targets biochemical pathways that regulate appetite, allowing clinicians to address imbalances that perpetuate hunger and cravings and bring patients back into balance.

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Biological Models for Suicide Prevention

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (2 Hours)
This three-module course will introduce an integrative model for suicide prevention, one in which the concept of suicidality as the result of underlying biochemical, nutritional, genetic, and environmental factors is explored. Research illustrating the benefits of nutritional supplementation to mitigate risk factors will be presented; evidence-based interventions will be described; and a treatment approach centered upon objective biologic measurement and a concept of biochemical individuality will be presented.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for Bipolar Disorder

A Course by Dr. James Greenblatt & Dr. Peter Bongiorno (3 hours)
This 3-module course illuminates a cutting-edge functional medicine paradigm for the treatment of one of psychiatry’s most challenging presentations. Elucidating an evidence-based approach inclusive of multiple treatment tiers – medication, testing-informed nutritional interventions, and natural therapies – this course provides registrants with a cohesive paradigm for the successful treatment of bipolar disorder.

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Functional Medicine Approach for Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (3 hours)
This three-module course illuminates a novel paradigm for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline based upon biomarker testing and preventative neuroprotection. It explores biologic and environmental variables that influence the trajectory of Alzheimer’s pathogenesis, and presents evidence-based interventions to mitigate biologic risk, support neuronal viability, and optimize long-term cognitive health.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for Depression *

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (4 Hours)
5.0 CME credits
This course is intended for clinicians of all specialties who seek to redefine the model by which they characterize, assess, and treat depressive illness.  Through four separate modules, an integrative functional medicine model of depression will be introduced, one in which depression is understood to arise from underlying biologic abnormalities associated with nutritional, metabolic, genetic, and environmental factors.  Recommendations for the implementation of testing and augmentation strategies will provided alongside research elucidating the roles that key nutrients play in maintaining neurologic health, providing registrants with evidence-based, integrative strategies that can be incorporated into existing therapeutic protocols.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for Irritability, Anger, Aggression and NSSI*

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (3 Hours)
2.5 CME credits
This three-module course evaluates irritability, anger, self-injury, and aggression from an integrative functional medicine perspective, illuminating key biochemical imbalances that can exacerbate these destructive and potentially dangerous behavioral phenomena. Focusing on the biologic mechanisms through which intrinsic and environmental factors may precipitate aggression, it also explores evidenced-based strategies for testing and integrative treatments such as nutritional supplementation, mindfulness and meditation practices, phytochemicals, and yoga.

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Low-Dose Nutritional Lithium

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (3 Hours)
This course offers an immersive look at one of the oldest elements in the known universe – lithium – through an orthomolecular lens, seeking to redefine its association with human health and illuminate its potentials as a treatment for neurologic and psychiatric ailments.  Over two modules, an empirically substantiated rationale for the incorporation of lithium into functional protocols for disorders ranging from depression to Alzheimer’s will be presented, along with guidelines for the safe and effective administration of low-dose nutritional lithium.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for Managing Medication Side-Effects*

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (2 Hours)
2 CME credits
This course offers practitioners a functional medicine model for the reduction and elimination of side-effects in patients taking psychotropic drugs. Fellows will be provided with an overview of pharmaceutical use in mainstream psychiatry, and the unprecedented steps some patients are now taking in order to get themselves off medication. Nutritional interventions with a proven track record of success in eliminating TD will be introduced, along with Dr. Greenblatt’s recommendations for dosing and titration. The course will conclude with an open-minded discussion about the role medications can and should play in today’s functional medicine practice, and a clarification of psychiatry’s most fundamental objectives in addressing mental illness safely, effectively, and ethically.

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Functional & Integrative Medicine for Schizophrenia and Psychosis*

A Course by James Greenblatt, MD (5 Hours)
5.75 CME credits
This five-module course incorporates the classical theories of orthomolecular medicine into modern nutritional psychiatry, presenting decades of research evidence supporting the utility and efficacy of integrated approaches to the treatment of schizophrenia.  Micronutrient deficiencies, toxic neurochemical aggregations, systemic inflammation, and other etiologic factors will be elucidated in regard to the mechanisms through which they precipitate neurologic dysfunction, and addressed through comprehensive functional medicine protocols for use in clinical practice.

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Supplemental Courses

Adaptogens in Psychiatry

A Course by Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc (1 Hour)
Presented by naturopathic physician Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc, and intended for healthcare practitioners, this two-part educational series devoted to adaptogens will focus on the history of adaptogens in medicine, the pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties of adaptogens, and recommendations for clinical intake and lab testing to inform adaptogen protocols for psychiatric illness.

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The Amuse System: Utilizing Laughter in Therapy*

A Course by Ralph Carson, LD, RD, PhD
1 CME credit
The use of humor and laughter in psychotherapy has great potential in a treatment setting, especially for eating disorders. Laughter provides levity in broaching sensitive topics, stimulating insights, diffusing anger, and relating to patients in a more intimate way. The intention of this course is to communicate the value of bringing humor into the therapy session, to provide an assortment of skills and tools to implement humor; and to promote humor as a technique for achieving recovery in the eating disorder population.

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Basics & Biochemistry: The Organic Acids Test

A Course by Jessica Perley, ARNP, FNP (1.5 Hours)
An exclusive course for PR Fellows & All-Access Subscribers

Learn about the OAT test, application in individualized medicine, how bio-individuality underlays practical application of biomedical testing, & discover what enzymatic pathways are involved with OAT measurements.

The Brainstem Control of Headaches & Sleep

A Course by Stasha Gominak, MD
This course will give you a new perspective on how and why headaches occur. Learn about the brainstem anatomy and physiology that inexorably link sleep and headache. Every person with frequent headaches has a treatable sleep disorder in the background and improved sleep can have a significant impact on headache, making it not just treatable, but curable.

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Broad-Spectrum Micronutrients

A Course by Judith Pentz, MD (1 Hour)
In this one-module course, Dr. Judith E. Pentz explores the role of micronutrients in mental health through the lens of cutting-edge scientific research, expanding horizons for the . treatment of psychiatric and neurologic disorders such as ADHD, OCD and depression. After elucidating current models for the pharmacodynamics of key micronutrients, Dr. Pentz presents research evidence supporting the efficacy of broad-spectrum micronutrient formulas as part of a personalized approach for mental health treatment.

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Hair Mineral Analysis: The Basics of Interpretation

An Exclusive Webinar by Jessica Perley ARNP, FNP-C (.5 Hours)
Learn how to differentiate heavy metals, essential elements and common patterns in hair analysis that are associated with psychiatric disorders.

Hormones & Mental Health

A Course by Peter Bongiorno, MD (2.5 Hours)
In this course, Dr. Bongiorno will take you through each major hormone, and connect each to neurotransmitter balance, stress response, and relationship to other hormones. He describes how different hormone scenarios can be effectively treated using naturopathic and functional medicine modalities, and you will obtain a clear understanding of hormonal balancing remedies you can use with your next patient.

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The Impact of Menopause on the Brain: A Focus on Mood

A Course by Felice Gersh, MD
When a woman transitions through menopause, every organ and system in her body suffers. One of the primary jobs of the ovaries is to produce estrogen, and so when a woman transitions through menopause, she loses her estrogen and all of the hormonal rhythms that are foundational to female health. This course will explore estrogren as an anti-inflammatory, and cardio- and neuro-protective hormone, along with the role it plays in proper immune system functioning, the gut microbiome, circadian rhythm, as well as the brain and mood.

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The Integrative Management of Stress & Anxiety: A Pragmatic Approach for Clinical Practice

A Course by Jonathan Prousky, ND, RP
In this three-part module course for clinicians of all specialties, Dr. Prousky, makes a case for moderating stress and anxiety symptoms by using a pragmatic treatment philosophy – derived from contemporary stress and neurobiological research – to support enhanced clinical outcomes. Protocols to treat stress and common anxiety disorders will enable you to maximize therapeutic interventions for your patients.

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Laboratory Testing: Mycotoxins, Organic Acids, Heavy Metals & Genetic Testing

Course Bundle by William Shaw, PhD
Presented by William Shaw, PhD, the founder of Great Plains Laboratory and a board-certified clinical chemist and toxicologist, these four courses will delve into the exciting field of biomedical analysis, and explore how objective laboratory testing for metabolic, nutritional, and toxic factors can help clinicians maximize therapeutic potentials in integrative functional medicine practice.

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Microbes & Mental Illness: What Every Mental Health Professional Should Know About Lyme Disease*

A Course by Dan Kinderlehrer, MD
1 CME credit
Lyme disease is an infection caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium. It is transmitted by the Ixodes tick and can generate multisystem complaints; these tick-borne infections often cause a host of psychiatric issues. In this course by Dr. Dan Kinderlehrer you’ll learn about the mental health disorders associated with lyme and tick-borne infections, their pathogenesis, clinical manifestations that lead a practitioner to suspect an underlying organic etiology, as well as testing.

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The Neuroscience of Happiness: Providing Hope for Recovery from Disordered Eating

A Course by Ralph Carson, LD, RD, PhD
Over the last decade, new and improved brain imaging techniques have opened up novel opportunities to provide insight into what hope is and how therapy, nutrition, and drugs can catalyze the recovery process. Using a neuroscientific model, this unique course combines research and clinical knowledge with a patient’s perspective to demonstrate how hope is real, tangible, and even required in eating disorder recovery. An informative as well as entertaining presentation, this course provides a practical, neuroscientific explanation of hope, as well as concrete tools for helping clients to achieve lasting recovery.

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Optimizing Sleep as an Antidote for Trauma: Exploring an Underutilized Treatment Opportunity*

A Course by Ralph Carson, LD, RD, PhD
1.25 CME credits
Insomnia is one of the most common sleep issues related to trauma. More severe and persistent sleep disorders are associated with PTSD, and both are predominant in the eating disorder and mood and anxiety population. This course will provide an unlikely and underutilized treatment for trauma/PTSD and expound on the sleep dysregulation that trauma generates, covering exposure response prevention (ERP), relaxation therapy (ERRT), cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia (CBT-I), pharmacological therapy, and much more.

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The Oxytocin Paradox: Miracle Cure or Extraordinary Hype?*

A Course by Ralph Carson, LD, RD, PhD
1.25 CME credits
There has been increasing interest in the role of oxytocin in the development, maintenance and pathophysiology eating disorders. Oxytocin alters neural pathways that exert prosocial effects and modulates trust, fear, depression, anxiety, trauma, and neuroplasticity. Research supports the hormone reduces unconscious tendencies to focus on food, body shape and negative emotions. This course explores the potential of exogenous and endogenous oxytocin to improve the outcomes of eating disorder treatment.

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PANS/PANDAS: Infection, Autoimmunity & Mental Illness

A Course by Dan Kinderlehrer, MD
This course describes the clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, laboratory evaluation, and treatment protocols for patients with PANS. It will also detail clinical studies performed by Dr. Kinderlehrer that suggest this is a widespread problem.

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The Science of Sleep: How Much Snooze Can You Afford to Lose

A Course by Ralph Carson, LD, RD, PhD
It has only recently come to light the importance of sleep in expediting the recovery process for mental health and eating disorders, and its role in relapse prevention. Sleep is the time during which the brain heals. Therefore, not only is it important that one gets enough sleep, but the quality of that sleep is a key to long term recovery. This course addresses the challenges of sleep and therapeutic intervention that will assist those who treat mental health disorders and disordered eating.

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S.H.I.N.E.® Protocol for CFS & Fibromyalgia

A Course by Jacob Teitelbaum, MD (9 Hours)
In his 30 years of clinical experience treating CFS/FMS, and in his landmark published research on CFS/FMS (published in the Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Dr. Teitelbaum has found that his S.H.I.N.E.® approach is successful in the vast majority of patients. S.H.I.N.E.® identifies five key areas related to the body that, when addressed in combination, provide a blueprint for promoting optimal energy. Tending to these can help you maintain healthy energy levels when you are well, and can help support recovery when dealing with CFS and fibromyalgia.

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Conferences & Seminars

Well Women Conference: Functional & Integrative Strategies for Optimizing Women's Mental Health

Exclusive Conference Lectures (10 lectures)
Join our panel of experts to examine various aspects of treating female mental health and biochemistry, including hormones and the brain, sexual and reproductive health, perinatal and post-natal wellness, diet, menopause, motherhood, and more! Discover research and case studies showing the efficacy of functional and integrative medicine approaches to enhance mental health and vitality, along with the unique clinical science often overlooked in women when it comes to balancing hormones, nutrition and mood.

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Effective Supplement Protocols for Clinical Practice Seminar

Seminar (2.5 hrs)
Explore nutritional and functional medicine approaches that are safe, accessible, and effective across a range of mental health diagnoses. Discover the research and evidence supporting nutrition’s role as an intervention for neurologic and psychiatric illness, more specifically how lithium, amino acids and plant polyphenols can impact treatment. Dr. Greenblatt will share protocol recommendations for the use of these supplements, providing you with clinical pearls that may be incorporated into existing therapy to maximize patient outcomes.

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Lithium Orotate Seminar: A Comprehensive Review for Prescribing Low-Dose Lithium

Seminar (2.5 hrs)
Lithium is one of the most promising mental health treatments available. Join functional and nutritional psychiatrist, Dr. James Greenblatt, to discover how this mighty mineral can treat mental illness and transform lives. Help your patients move from symptom management to lasting recovery with practical and evidence-based lithium recommendations. You’ll learn about the lithium dose-response curve, and defining dose parameters that are safe, accessible, and powerful across a range of diagnoses. You’ll leave this 2.5 hour seminar equipped with new skills and methodologies to utilize immediately with your patients.

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Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Redefined Symposium*

A 2021 online symposium hosted by Psychiatry Redefined
6.5 CME credits available

Watch a groundbreaking 2-day symposium from November 6-7, 2021, featuring renowned clinical experts as they share cutting-edge integrative research and evidence-based treatment protocols for conditions such as ADHD, Autism, Anorexia Nervosa, PANDAS/PANS and more. Treatment topics include addressing nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, micronutrients and macronutrients, gut flora problems and toxicities, and genetic defects.

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Ketogenic Diets in Psychiatry Conference*

A 2022 online event hosted by Psychiatry Redefined
5.5 CME credits available

Explore the science, efficacy and benefits of ketogenic diets as a therapeutic enhancement for psychiatric disorders. This event examines the evidence for the benefits of a ketogenic diet for brain health, including the potential benefits for those with cognitive decline, mood disorders, schizophrenia, neuroregeneration, and beyond. Expert speakers present both the research and case studies showing the efficacy of a ketogenic diet as it applies to psychiatry. They review the clinical science behind ketogenic diets for psychiatry, address therapeutic applications and outcomes, dietary concerns, and more.

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New Hope for Binge-Eating Disorder & Food Addiction Symposium*

A 2021 online event hosted by Psychiatry Redefined & Walden Behavioral Care
8.35 CME credits available

Explore the research, clinical challenges, and controversies associated with Binge-Eating Disorder (BED) and food addiction, and discover an evidence-based functional medicine approach to treatment. The New Hope Model integrates lab testing, nutritional supplementation, dietary modifications, and medication, and targets biochemical pathways that regulate appetite. The presentations in this symposium will give clinicians the tools to better support patients in mastering balance, and relinquishing shame and guilt associated with these conditions.

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Genetic Testing in Psychiatry Symposium

A 2021 online symposium hosted by Psychiatry Redefined and TEMPUS

Discover both the utility and limitations of genetic testing in psychiatric practice in this online event. Our expert speakers, both researchers and clinicians, share some of the scientific evidence for the role of pharmacogenomics in psychiatry, and review some of the most common genes associated with various psychiatric disorders. They present practical pearls so you may learn how to use genetic testing to improve patient outcomes.

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Low Dose Lithium International Symposium*

A 2021 online event hosted by Psychiatry Redefined
7.5 CME credits available

This online symposium is dedicated to the use of low-dose lithium as a safe, integrative treatment for psychiatric and neurological disorders. Lithium remains underutilized and misunderstood in the field of medicine, but using this mighty mineral may in fact be one of the most promising treatments available. This symposium features several international experts, such as Professor Anjum Memon (lead author of the groundbreaking study on lithium and suicide), Julie Andersen, PhD, De-Maw Chuang, PhD, and Dr. James Greenblatt. Learn from these global experts how to effectively integrate lithium into treatment for dementia, suicide prevention, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and more.

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The New England Conference on ADHD

Exclusive Conference Lectures from 2017 (5 lectures)
Held in Manchester, NH in 2017, the “New England Conference on ADHD” features a number of today’s most prominent experts on functional and integrative psychiatry. This webinar includes five lectures, including the Q & A portion, on the subject of functional medicine approaches to ADHD.

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Join a community of like-minded professionals transforming the field of psychiatry with personalized patient care.

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