Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACP, FACPM
Director, Integrative Medicine Center

Dr. Katz is a nationally renowned authority on nutrition, weight control, and the prevention of chronic disease. He has practiced primary care/Internal Medicine for over 15 years, and early in his career worked part-time as an emergency physician during a 6-year period.

He is an Associate Professor, Adjunct, of Public Health, and formerly the Director of Medical Studies in Public Health, at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Katz directs the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center which he co-founded in 1998. As director of this clinical research laboratory dedicated to chronic disease prevention, Dr. Katz has served as Principal Investigator for numerous community and clinical trials.  More.

 

Ather Ali, ND, MPH
Co-Director, Integrative Medicine Center

Dr. Ali is Co-Director of the Integrative Medicine Center where he oversees Naturopathic care and education. He is also Assistant Director of Complementary/Alternative Medicine Research at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. He is an Associate Reserach Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine and co-chair of the Research Working Group of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Ali completed a B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA, doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in Seattle, residency in Integrative Family Medicine from Griffin Hospital and the University of Bridgeport, and a Masters of Public Health in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health. He completed a 3-year NIH/NCCAM National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship and is part of the leadership board of Integrative Medicine at Yale. He is licensed by the Connecticut Department of Public Health and credentialed by Griffin Hospital.

 

Holly Major, MSN, APRN-BC
Nurse Practitioner

Holly Major is an Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 23 years experience in healthcare. She obtained her RN degree at Southern Connecticut State University and her Masters degree in Nursing at Western Connecticut State University. In addition to seeing patients at the Integrative Medicine Center, Holly sees patients in her Griffin based Primary Care practice in Oxford, Connecticut. Holly is the Manager of Evidence Based Care and Therapeutic Touch Coordinator at Griffin Hospital and is the previous Education Trustee for Nurse Healers - Professional Associates International. Holly has a holistic approach to patient care with a special interest in stress management, meditative practices and energy medicine.

 

 

Lisa Rosenberger, ND, MS, LAc
Staff Naturopathic Physician and Licensed Acupuncturist

Dr. Rosenberger is a graduate of the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She graduated with a Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine, Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine and Honors in Research in 2008. She is currently licensed in Oregon and Connecticut as a Naturopathic physician and in Florida as an Acupuncture physician/Doctor of Oriental medicine. Dr. Rosenberger’s undergraduate studies in Biology were started at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania and completed at the University of Maryland.

She has a special interest in understanding and treating chronic disease. She believes in reestablishing balance in the body by assessing the body's organ systems from both Naturopathic and Chinese medicines perspective. Her areas of specialty are drainage therapies, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, nutrition, acupuncture and Western and Chinese herbs. She recently completed her first year residency in Internal and Integrative Medicine at the Center of Natural & Integrative Medicine with Kirti Kalidas MD, ND in Orlando, Florida.

 

Michelle Pinto-Evans
IMC Coordinator

Mrs. Pinto-Evans coordinates activities at the Integrative Medicine Center and has a dual role as Grants and Center Coordinator at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. She has worked at the Integrative Medicine Center since 2006 and at the Prevention Research Center since 2000. She is happy to answer any questions about the center and can be reached at (203) 732-1370.