In Dr. Jeff Egler’s talk, “A Doctor’s Journey,” he speaks about his experiences as an educator at a prestigious medical school. In this module, he discusses how these experiences have shown him that the current medical system is broken and how he found himself moving toward a more functional and personalized medicine approach. Dr. Egler considers Functional Medicine to be a solution to a broken system.
Originally aired May 3, 2018
View NowJeff Egler, MD is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and has completed the certification training with the Institute of Functional Medicine.
He graduated from Drexel University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and completed his residency training at the University of Colorado in Denver. He subsequently completed a Fellowship in Academic Medicine/Faculty Development at UCLA before practicing the full spectrum of Family Medicine in a group practice in South Lake Tahoe for five years.
Dr. Egler was an assistant clinical professor and residency director of Health Information Technology at the University of Southern California for five years while obtaining a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology.
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