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Healing through evidence-informed and up-to-date best practices that combine preventative and curative approaches to care while utilizing the expertise of all healthcare professionals. Motivating lifestyle changes through health coaching and innovative technology. Advocating for psychologically safe and inspiring hospital cultures for trainees and early-career physicians.

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Wellness

Integrative approaches to well-being (sleep, nutrition, physical activity, purpose/spirituality, physical and social environment, and mind-body approaches) combined with equitable access to the social determinants of health (income, education, housing, employment, social support, food security, and high quality person-centered healthcare) for our local and global communities.

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From commentaries in peer-reviewed academic journals to reporting for the popular press, writing is a tool for: advocacy around complex issues, scientific knowledge translation, and advancing healthcare policy change. Ideally, it's best actualized through harnessing the power of fresh perspectives, including a diverse array of scientific experts, and, above all, compelling storytelling.

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Meet Amitha


As a physician, epidemiologist, and medical journalist with an interest in wellness, I've learned that we're moving further and further away from ensuring all of us obtain the highest level of health and well-being available. Much of this relates to the healthcare system, which is focused primarily on quick fixes, and a biomedical reductionist approach (without considering the social and lifestyle factors that determine much of our dis-ease risk).  The cultures in which we work and live also play a role: these environments, as I've experienced myself, can either be conducive to thriving or physical/mental/emotional depletion. 

As an optimist above all, I know that we can all be part of creating a healthier future for ourselves and our communities. Through my research, clinical work, writing/journalism (knowledge translation), and commitment to integrating multiple approaches to healing, Imove the needle forwards, and believe that, with your unique skills and experience, you will too. In that vein, I hope you find the information here both inspiring and motivating.

With a beginner's mind, many things spark my curiosity, but these are the areas I've formally trained in, and remain most engaged with: 

  • ~ Evidence-Based Medicine (for the New York Times, I wrote a guide on reading medical studies here)
  • ~ Health Innovation (a focus on digital health, healthspan/longevity)
  • ~ Integrative Medicine & Pediatrics
  • ~ Lifestyle/Wellness Coaching
  • ~ Medical Journalism
  • ~ Global Epidemiology
AMITHA

Latest Posts


On Mirrors, Teachers, Expanders

by Amitha on August 10, 2023

Adjustment Bureau - the issue of using 'race' to adjust medical care

by Amitha on August 7, 2023

Introducing...edible art (wellness as creative curiosity)

by Amitha on November 29, 2021

An Opinion Pandemic

by Amitha on October 28, 2021