David Kilgore, M.D.

Fellowship: University of Washington and University of Arizona

Residency: Glendale Adventist Medical Center Family Practice

Medical School: University of Southern California

Undergraduate: University of California, Berkeley

Hometown: San Francisco, California

My main professional interest involves Integrative Medicine – with a focus on health, wellness and prevention for underserved communities.  I am the director of our Integrative Medicine Program that started in 2012 that has educational, patient care and provider/staff wellness components. The educational program includes an Integrative Medicine Residency track (see details in our website), as well as a series of Integrative Medicine lectures, journal club and lunch and learn sessions open to all residents and medical students. Our Healing Environment program features a weekly Integrative consultation clinic in the Family Health Center, as well as various initiatives and projects supporting patient, resident and faculty wellness including weekly Yoga and Zumba classes, monthly diabetic classes (with focus on nutrition, healthy cooking, exercise and mind-body tools), staff and provider noon wellness series, including a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training for staff, collaboration with our nearby High School for the Arts to bring music, dance, art and poetry reading to our waiting rooms, and future healthy cooking and MBSR classes for patients. We are also currently working on negotiations for collaboration with Second Harvest Food Bank to bring free fruits and vegetables on site to improve the nutrition of our patients suffering from food insecurity. I have recently obtained certification for Acupuncture and hope to bring that along with additional mind body tools such as biofeedback to our underserved clinic.
 
I also teach medical students and recently received approval to add additional lectures in nutrition, exercise, motivational interviewing and mindfulness to their preclinical curriculum, and this spring we offered a hands on healthy cooking class, co-taught by a chef and nutritionist.  I strongly believe all physicians, but especially those dedicated to providing primary care to underserved communities should have a firm grounding in these foundational elements of health and wellness and look forward to continuing to collaborate with students, residents and faculty colleagues for the benefit of our patients.