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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. 

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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           

© 2017 by Andrea Carter Best, MD. All rights reserved. 
Updated February 2024
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