Today, medicine has become separated from its roots of caring, and engaging with patients to meet their real needs. As science has expanded the role of the physician has transformed from being the one family doctor we saw for everything, to one of specialization. And with increasing specialization in medicine, physicians now spend more time working on small parts of an individual with little or no focus on the whole person.

The University of California San Francisco Medical Center Osher Center for Integrative Medicine offers a real partnership with physicians as well as access to modern medicine and to established practices from around the world.

In 2007 Althea joined the Osher Center leadership board and helped develop their strategic plan. We then went on to provide seed capital for a new media campaign to generate awareness of integrative medicine and raise a $25 million Endowment Fund to support the long term sustainability of the center.

http://www.osher.ucsf.edu/