Lifestyle Medicine Physician

Emily earned her medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn, NY in 2016 with a focus on Medical Education, Ethics, and Clinical Neuroscience. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from Swarthmore College in Philadelphia, PA, where she studied the natural sciences, Spanish, and social movements. She has also studied Bioethics at the graduate level. Her areas of focus are Lifestyle Medicine and Women’s Health.

She is a physician who advocates for better health care for all people. Her respect for patient autonomy and her commitment to making a positive impact in others’ lives have served as guiding principles throughout her training and practice.

As an educator and advocate she has created a method of caretaking that respects all people as unique and whole. She believes that all people must be understood through their relationships: to themselves, to other organisms, their habitat, their social structures, ancestral lineage, and so on. Part of her work includes helping people strengthen these relationships with various techniques and tools.

Emily openly shares how her own experiences have influenced her medical decision making and regenerative health process. She believes that she has learned as much about health in her academic training as she has from cultivating inner awareness and resilience through self-led education and intuitive learning.

Yoga Practitioner

Emily is deeply invested in cultivating peace and joy, both personally and professionally. She began practicing yoga regularly in 2010 while working in a high-stress research position. She continued to practice through medical school and in 2017, she left her residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology to complete her yoga teaching training with yoga instructor Margherita Tisato at Loom Yoga in Brooklyn. She is currently studying Pelvic Floor Yoga with Leslie Howard, Traditional Chinese Medicine and its applications to Yoga through Yoga Medicine, with Tiffany Cruikshank, L.Ac, and is actively enrolled in Wisdom School with Embodied Philosophy,

She has dedicated years of study to understanding the role of the breath awareness and the breath cycle in physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. Informed by well documented scientific data and centuries of tradition, she is convinced that modern western medical approaches can be strengthened when used with systems such as yoga, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Clinical Herbalist

Emily is a clinical herbalist of the vitalist tradition. This means that she values herbs both as medicines for humans as well as vehicles of their own intelligence and evolutionary function. She studies esoteric traditions that inform her clinical herbal practice with Sajah Popham of School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Benebell Wen.

Emily has also studied herbalism in certificate programs through the Herbal Academy of New England and Rosemary Gladstar’s Science and Art of Herbalism. Her herbal training goes beyond the books and into the soil - she has also worked at Herrick’s Herbs and Heirlooms learning to grow herbs from seed to seedling and how to manage a certified organic herb garden. She enjoys maintaining her own medicinal herb garden at home where she continues to learn from the plants directly.

In her herbal practice she works with herbs from seed to harvest to medicine making. When appropriate, her recommendations include teas, tinctures, oils, essences, syrups, foods, and more.

Community Advocate

Emily immerses herself in community wherever she goes, insistent that her well-being is dependent on showing up for others. She. also believes in being a responsible and compassionate steward of land while being respectful of its history. She co-founded ONE HEALTH Culture with Sarah Mastracco to create a holistic interactive community experience that inspires change for the happier and healthier.

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