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Shilpa P. Saxena, MD, IFMCP is a Board-Certified family physician whose passion and purpose come to life through an uncompromising dedication to the 'health' and 'care' aspects of healthcare. Her commitment for professional growth is evident. In addition to over 15 years of progressive patient care in her successful medical practice, Dr. Saxena is Faculty with the Institute for Functional Medicine, Fellow & Guest Faculty of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Faculty with George Washington University's Metabolic Medicine Institute and Volunteer Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. But more importantly to her, she understands that the brightest of physicians or educators is of little value to the patient who cannot be empowered by that knowledge. As a consummate teacher, she is on a mission to get simple, actionable, lifestyle-based solutions to patients interested in helping themselves heal. She is internationally known for her contributions on the development and institution of the lifestyle-based group medical appointment model and has been awarded for her work with her online patient university, Living Wellness University. By marrying the science of healing with the art of patient education and partnership, she is creating opportunities for patients and healthcare providers to get back to the sacred healing relationship that was once a vital part of her noble profession. Dr. Saxena graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine through the prestigious Junior Honors Medical Program, completed her Family Practice residency training at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida while serving as Chief Resident and receiving additional Certification in Low Risk Obstetrics. She solidified her understanding of the continuum of health and disease but saw so many missed opportunities for disease reversal when caring for the rural and urban underserved families of North Jacksonville. Inspired to create a doctor’s office that offered all the meaningful components of good patient care, she opened the SevaMed Institute, applying her core principle of ‘Patients Powered by Knowledge.’ Her practical approach, then and now, focuses on treating and reversing the root causes of illness, the obvious solution to the chronic disease epidemic. Her extraordinary patient outcomes have attracted the attention of local, national and international patient and physician communities who are equally motivated to transform healthcare. ​ The SevaMed Institute incorporates a fitness facility with fitness staff (home of the Total Body Shred program) and a teaching kitchen in its lobby to support the lifestyle therapies being prescribed. She enjoys supporting her local community through her cutting-edge corporate wellness programs, free community workshops, and her group medical appointments. Whether she is teaching her own patients or other patients' healthcare providers at conferences, collaborating with pioneering physicians like Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, it is evident Dr. Shilpa P. Saxena is 100% devoted to both service and excellence as her privileged role as physician, educator and innovator. Her latest service offering, Destination Health, expands her ability to provide her functional medicine expertise to her clients from around the world, as well as the healthy savvy clients in her local community who desire more from their healthcare experience. By supplementing their current primary care services with the technological conveniences of telemedicine and the health-generating power of functional, integrative and lifestyle medicine therapies, clients are able to get better and get back to living vibrantly. This is her mission.