Palo Alto Integrative Medicine

Dedicated to empowering you to achieve optimal health.

About

We are a team of experts dedicated to empowering you to achieve optimal health. All of our Physicians are faculty at the Stanford School of Medicine where they routinely teach in their areas of expertise. We practice Integrative Holistic Medicine, combining conventional medicine with the best evidence based alternative and complementary therapies. In addition to considering a variety of therapeutic modalities, we provide a unique blend of both Eastern and Western medicine where Traditional Chinese Medicine is integrated with conventional western medicine.

Our goal is to empower you to achieve optimal health. We provide a Holistic approach to your health and believe that you are much more than your medication list or medical diagnoses. We practice Mind-Body-Spirit medicine wherein we seek to return you to balance in all areas of your life. We believe in the therapeutic relationship between physicians and patients. Therefore, you will never feel rushed at our clinic as we spend ample time with you to get to the root of your health concerns, not just your symptoms. In this way, we seek to partner with you on your journey toward health and wellness. We will work together to discover the multiple factors such as your lifestyle, emotional and mental wellbeing, and diet that may be affecting your health. We will also communicate with your primary care doctor and other specialists, whenever appropriate, to develop a comprehensive and coordinated approach to your care.

Dr. Xu

Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Dr. Shad

Farshad Fani Marvasti, MD, MPH

Dr. LeBaron

Samuel LeBaron, MD, PhD

Dr. Meili Xu has completed doctoral courses and internships in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupunture in China. After completing Doctor of Science studies in Beijing, she passed both the California and US National Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Licensing Exams. She also completed a Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the United States.

She has received individual, advanced clinical training from teachers proficient in both Traditional Chinese and Japanese forms of acupuncture. She has also pursued specialized studies with Dr. Shi Xue Min at Tianjin University, considered to be an international expert on the use of acupuncture in stroke rehabilitation. She has also worked with Dr. Huang Wen Zheng at Tianjin University who has more than 40 years clinical experience and research in the use of TCM for the treatment of kidney disfunction; and with Dr. Wang Ju Yi, an expert of Classical Channel Acupuncture for gastrointestinal disorders. She was a special follow with Dr. Jiao Shun Fa and Dr. Fang Wen Zheng for Head acupuncture, another method for helping many patients with a variety of problems.

Her current clinical practice includes consultation on patients of all ages, with a variety of complex clinical problems referred by physicians at the Stanford School of Medicine. She also provides primary consultation and care for common health problems and health maintenance using an integration of the most up-to- date methods in acupuncture, acupressure, herbs, and Western medicine when appropriate.

Dr. Xu has extensive clinical training in a broad range of common primary healthcare problems, including women’s menstrual issues, infertility of both males and females, and complex pain syndromes. She has helped many patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction, migraine headache, sleep disorders and peri-menopausal problems.

Dr. Xu invites you to discuss your questions and concerns and to experience the range of Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge and techniques available for your benefit, adapted to American needs and preferences

Farshad Fani Marvasti, MD, MPH (Dr. Shad) is a board certified Diplomate of both the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) and the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (ABHIM). He currently serves as Adjunct Clinical Instructor and Educator 4 Care Associate at the Stanford University School of Medicine where he routinely lectures on public health, disease prevention and nutrition. Dr. Shad is a founding member of the Stanford Food Summit Advisory Board and helped to create the Stanford chapter of Primary Care Progress where he mentors Stanford students with an interest in primary care and public health.

Dr. Shad grew up in Arizona and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University. During medical school, he worked as a member of the College of Medicine Curriculum Committee in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Weil to contribute to curricular change and expand offerings for Nutrition and Integrative Medicine. He also took an additional year to obtain a Masters of Public Health with an emphasis on nutrition and a thesis internship project at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Dr. Shad then completed his residency in Family Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine program based at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose, CA. After completing residency training, Dr. Shad spent time as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and subsequently worked as a faculty consultant for Stanford Hospital and the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Shad has worked in a number of clinical settings and held administrative positions as Medical Director in addition to attending urgent care and primary care physician.

Dr. Shad has engaged in and published research in the fields of nutrition, public health and complementary and alternative medicine since 1997. He has been involved in research projects at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Arizona and Stanford University School of Medicine. His most recent article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine where he and his co-author make the case for redesigning medicine to create a prevention model. Based on his broad training and research experiences, Dr. Shad is unique as a physician who can serve as an educator, guide and life coach to help motivate and empower his patients to live healthier, more balanced lives. He will gladly consult with you on all of your therapeutic options including pharmacological medications as well as lifestyle changes such as mind-body therapies, food prescriptions and tailored exercise routines.

For more information, please visit www.doctorshad.com or follow on Twitter @DrShad9

Samuel LeBaron, MD, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. For the past two years he served as Professor and Chair of Clinical Medicine at the American University of Antigua. He completed a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Michigan State University in 1979. He conducted research and published numerous articles and chapters regarding physician-patient communication and mind-body approaches to managing chronic illness. After he became Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center he entered medical school, completing his MD training in 1989 at the University of Calgary in Canada, and his residency in Family Medicine in San Jose, California in 1992. He spent the next 20 years on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine, where he focused on improving medical student education and excellence in patient care. He organized the first course in the medical school on Integrative Medicine, and has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and for his clinical work. He was appointed Director of the Center of Education in Family and Community Medicine in 2002 for several years. He also completed additional training in medical acupuncture, which he incorporates into his clinical work.