The Story Behind Functional Medicine with Jeffrey Bland

By Integrative Practitioner Staff Jeffrey Bland, PhD, FACN, FACB, CNS, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss how he became the father of functional medicine and what he envisions for the future of integrative healthcare after being honored as a pioneer in the field at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium’s 20^th anniversary celebration. Dr. Jeffrey Bland is a personable and highly respected thought leader who has spent more than five decades focused on the improvement of human health. He is known worldwide as the founder of the Functional Medicine movement, which represents his vision for a care model that is grounded in systems biology and informed by research that he has a unique ability to synthesize. His pioneering work has created the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute, as well as the Institute for Functional Medicine, the global leader in Functional Medicine education. Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of healthcare practitioners have participated in PLMI and IFM programs, and this collective knowledge has positively impacted the lives of patients all over the world.