Dr. Ki

I know chronic pain from the inside. I lived with it for 15 years. There was a time when I could not sit for more than 15 minutes without a pain attack. I became a doctor, and I still did not know how to help my own body.

So I studied anything that might help. That search took me through a fellowship in integrative medicine, medical acupuncture, and hands on osteopathic treatment. In the end, no single treatment changed things for me. Daily yoga, meditation, anti-inflammatory diet and the slow work of calming my nervous system did. For years I asked why this was happening to me. Now I believe it was teaching me what I would need to help other people.

I spent more than four years caring for veterans as a staff rheumatologist, and I began bringing these tools into rheumatology care. I built Newport Autoimmune to give people the kind of care I was looking for during those years: a full hour, treatment with my hands, and a plan you can carry out at home. Your path will not look exactly like mine. You should not have to find it alone.