January Tuesday Topics - Dr. Russell Greenfield, Doctor of Integrative Medicine

TUESDAY TOPICS JANUARY: Dr. Dr. Russell Greenfield, Doctor of Integrative Medicine

Russell H. Greenfield, MD (Russ) is medical director of Novant Health’s Integrative Medicine initiative, where he focuses on Integrative Oncology. He was Conference Chair for the inaugural Novant Health Integrative Oncology Symposium in October, 2019.

Russ completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Harbor / UCLA Medical Center as well as a Chief Resident Fellowship at the same institution. After moving to Charlotte, NC he became involved in the Emergency Medicine residency program at Carolinas Medical Center and was subsequently honored as the inaugural recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. Russ was one of the first four physicians to graduate from the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1999.

Dr. Greenfield was founding medical director of Carolinas Integrative Health, a freestanding center owned and operated at the time by Carolinas HealthCare System, and a consultant in the development of U.S. national model guidelines for the use of complementary and alternative therapies. He has worked with a variety of organizations promoting integrative health initiatives including Harris Teeter supermarkets, the Veterans Health Administration, Levine Cancer Institute, and Wake Forest Baptist Health. He is co-author of Healthy Child, Whole Child, named “Best Parenting Guide 2001” by the editors at Amazon.com, and editor of Dr. Andrew Weil’s book, Mind Over Meds (2017). He was a consultant to the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) in 2018.

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