About Andrea Best, M.D.
Physician, teacher, speaker, holistic psychiatrist, chemist, and nutritionist --Dr Best is an expert in brain health and has been serving communities for close to 30 years. Her group workshops and retreats teach strategies for peak brain performance, executive functioning, focus, emotional intelligence and overcoming stress to feel and function at one's highest level.
Dr Best teaches brain techniques, food as medicine, supplements, meditation and traditional medicine when indicated to address the connected issues of the brain, gut, and adrenals. She enjoys sharing advanced methods of treating + preventing anxiety, with practical life-changing tools that serve one lifelong.
Dr Best teaches individuals and groups-- in person (at her Beverly Hills office) + virtually around the world. She teaches medical trainees, the integration of Western and Eastern Medicine/Global Medicine, involving all body systems. With her own training in General Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neurology, Holistic Medicine, Women's Medicine, Chemistry, and Nutrition, her wellness practice teaches methods from traditional medicine as well as Functional and Integrative Health. She offers treatment options such as nutrition, vitamins/supplements, plants/herbs/oils/teas, sleep treatment, meditation techniques that change brain waves, science-backed movement programs, brain maximizing exercises, relaxation techniques, and trauma clearing/thought reframing/cognitive boosting brain techniques.
The traditional and holistic integrated approach iis designed to lead one back to Full Wellness, Joy, Peace, Self Healing and Vitality... Less time in doctor offices, More time In Living Well.
***The workshops and retreats are Integrative/Holistic models of health and private pay/Not billed through any insurance. Dr Best does not provide direct, individualized medical treatment to individuals in workshop or retreat. In these workshops. Dr Best is not the treating physician for any participant, and instead shares with the group holistic principles and practical techniques that each individual may use on their own, along with their own treating physician.
***Workshops for corporations, entertainment industries, schools/universities, professional athletes/teams, health care providers /corporations are custom contracted.

Contact Dr. Best
8484 Wilshire Blvd #200
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Phone: 818-394-0894
DrbestIntegrative@gmail.com
Credentials
Degrees & Professional Experience
Bachelors Degrees/Double Major Chemistry and Nutrition/Food Science
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Doctor of Medicine Degree
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Internship in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics/Neurology
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles/Westwood, CA
Residency in Adult Psychiatry and Neurology
UCLA Medical Center and Neuropsychiatric Hospital
Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
UCLA Medical Center and Neuropsychiatric Hospital
Fellowships/Additional Training in Addiction Medicine, Women’s Health, and Integrative Medicine
UCLA Medical Center, Wadsworth VA
Board Certification Integrative Medicine, CIMHP
American Naturopathic/International Homeopathic Centers Global training South America, Asia, United States
Certified Functional Medicine and Nutrition
--CEO, Owner and Founder:
Center for Integrative Medicine, 2005-present
Andrea C. Best, MD INC
--Cofounder and CEO, Caerus LLC Travel Wellness
-Founder, Lightguide Productions
-Founder Sweetspotting Series.
Instructor, Western and Eastern Medicine:
medical students, residents, nurse practitioners
Group workshops, corporate
headquarters of Google, Microsoft, Kaiser Permanente/MidAtlantic Permanente
Virtual, Lockheed Martin
NAMI
Teacher of Science of Mindfulness, Quantum Physics and Healing: various colleges, elementary-high schools nationally
Consultant:
-Child and Family Guidance Center, Northridge CA
-Healme
-New Visions Medical Group, Beverly Hills CA
-Mission Harbor IOP, Santa Barbara CA
-Formerly, MindPath, Inc.
Collaborations, Workshops ongoing:
Royal Dynastics Organic Hemp Farm, NJ
American Holistic Health Association
National Medical Association
SPEAK, Board of Directors
Association of Black Women Physicians
Soulular Sisters Productions
The President's Lifetime Achievement Award, Awarded by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. July 2023
American Academic Excellence Scholar
Society of Physical and Mathematical Scientists Outstanding Service Award in Teaching
National Science Foundation Academics and Teaching Award
Sarah Kenan Leadership Award
Board of Governors Medical Scholar
American Psychiatric Association Research and Teaching Fellow
American Medical Association Fellow
American Medical Women’s Association Fellow
US Psychiatric Mental Health Congress Fellow
American Academy of Addiction Medicine Fellow
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow
