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The Center for Health & Integrative Medicine

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital - WEST PAVILION

450 W. Highway 22, Barrington, IL 60010

Phone: 847.842.3140

Email: GSHP-Integrativemedicine@aah.org

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Schedule a Healthy Active Living Appointment

Chicagoland Children's Health Alliance

Pediatric Outpatient Center

3232 Lake Ave., Suite 300

Wilmette, Illinois 60091

Phone: 847.318.9330

Email: AMG-healthyactivelivingoaklawn@aah.org

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Insurance is accepted at both locations.

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OUR YEARLY EVENT

BARRINGTON HEALTH & WELLNESS SUMMIT

2026 Event Dates

Healthy Aging & Longevity: 10.22.25

Women’s Health Night Out: 02.11.26

Annual Health & Wellness Summit: 02.26.26

2025 Speakers & Topics

  • Ellen Vora, MD: The Inner Map of Anxiety: A Deeper Dive into Root Causes and Resilience

  • Ben Bikman, PhD: Why We Get Sick: Elevated Insulin and Its Impact on Obesity, Diabetes, and Dementia

  • Lara Adler: The Big Picture on Environmental Toxins: Understanding Their Impact and Taking Actions

  • Kelli Christiansen, MD: Oral Health and Sleep Apnea

  • Stephen Devries, MD: Preventative Cardiology

  • Austin Perlmutter, MD: Brain Wash: Strategies to Boost Neuroplasticity and Combat Neuroinflammation

  • Leigh Frame, PhD: Nutritional Immunology: Harnessing the Microbiome and Nutrition for Optimal Health

  • Akil Palanisamy, MD: T.I.G.E.R. Protocol to Treat and Heal Autoimmune Disease

  • Terry Nguyen, MD: From Inspiration to Action: Practical Strategies to Empower Your Health Journey

Books

  • Why We Get Sick, Benjamin Bikman, PhD

  • The Anatomy of Anxiety, Ellen Vora, MD

  • Brain Wash, Austin Perlmutter, MD & David Perlmutter, MD

  • The Tiger Protocol, Akil Palanisamy, MD  

2024 Speakers & Topics

  • William Li, MD: Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How the Body Can Heal Itself

  • Stephanie Strathdee, PhD: The Perfect Predator

  • Susan Hespos, PhD: Infant Cognition: What Babies Know

  • Lori Walsh, MD & Jessica Grelle: Culinary Medicine in the Kitchen

  • Leslie Mendoza Temple, MD: You as the Patient: How to Care for Your Body at Every Age

  • Ellen Vora, MD: The Anatomy of Anxiety

  • Christina Ciaccio, MD: Food Allergy & the Microbiome

  • Theresa Nguyen, MD: Navigating the Changing Parental Role with your Adolescent

  • Jennifer Knight, MD: Psycho-Oncology: Stress and the Connection to Cancer

  • Melinda Ring, MD: Women’s Health Night Out

Books

  • Eat to Beat Disease, William Li, MD

  • The Anatomy of Anxiety, Ellen Vora, MD

  • The Perfect Predator, Stephanie Strathdee, PhD

2023 Speakers & Topics

  • Lorenzo Cohen, PhD and Alison Jefferies, MEd: Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six

  • James Nestor: Breath, The New Science and Lost Art

  • Bonnie Kaplan, PhD: The Better Brain Through Nutrition

  • Darius Loghmanee, MD: Sleep & Airway Health

  • Stephen Devries, MD: Preventative Cardiology

  • Lori Walsh, MD: Culinary Medicine

  • Katherine Amato, PhD: Microbiome

  • Barry Rosen, MD: Breast Cancer Precision Prevention

  • Edie Zusman, MD: Brain and Spine Health

  • Sean Spencer MD, PhD: What the research shows us for humans

  • David Victorson, PhD: Practices for Whole Body Healing

Books

  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor

  • Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six, Alison Jefferies and Lorenzo Cohen

  • The Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition, Bonnie Kaplan, PhD and Julia Rucklidge, PhD

CONTACT ME

  • Integrative Medicine

  • Soil to Human Health

  • Culinary Medicine

Contact me for speaking engagements on the following topics:

  • Herbs and Supplements for Children

  • Integrative Medicine for Pediatric Mental Health

  • Pediatric Obesity Management