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Dr. Jill Carnahan emphasizes an integrative holistic approach to wellness using both conventional medicine and evidence based complementary and alternative therapies. Integrative medicine is healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. She emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between physician and patient and seeks to give her patients a full range of healing options with an emphasis on healthy living, nutrition, and disease prevention. Dr. Jill uses functional medicine to understand the cause and treatment of complex, chronic disease and biochemical imbalances that may be making you feel ill. Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with prevention and root cause instead of just treating symptoms of an illness. It involves using science-based laboratory testing to find and treat the underlying cause of your illness. Dr Jill will search for underlying triggers that are contributing to your illness and tailor the intervention to your specific needs as an individual. She may use diet, supplements, lifestyle changes or medication to treat your illness but will seek the most gentle way to help your body restore balance along with the least invasive treatment possible. She seeks to promote wellness and create hope, health and healing through collaboration with you! Dr. Carnahan moved Boulder Colorado in 2010 to join medical partner, Dr. Robert Rountree and practice Integrative Functional Medicine. She is accepting new patients at their offices in Boulder - Boulder Wellcare, Inc. & Flatiron Functional Medicine. Dr. Carnahan is board certified in both Family Medicine and Integrative Holistic Medicine. She founded the Methodist Center for Integrative Medicine in 2009 and worked there as Integrative Medical Director. She completed her residency at the University of Illinois Program in Family Medicine at Methodist Medical Center and received her medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Bio-Engineering at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
FLATIRON FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE
75 Manhattan Drive
Suite 1
Boulder, Colorado 80303
Location Phone: 303-443-9590
Location Fax: 303-443-9787
Board Certified - July 2006
Dr. Carnahan received her Bachelor of Science degree in Bioengineering with a minor in Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Carnahan completed her residency in Family Practice at the University of Illinois Residency in Family Practice. For more information on the program, click the following link: http://www.uicomp.uic.edu/Dept/FACM/famprac/home.htm
Appointment as faculty to the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, IL
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AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE The American Board of Family Medicine's objective is to encourage excellence in medical care and believes that its certified family physicians have successfully demonstrated their ability and have proven their commitment to the public, the specialty of Family Medicine and the profession. Through its certification and recertification processes, ABFM seeks to provide patients the assurance that its certified family physicians have completed the necessary training/experience to provide quality care to the individual and the family and that this commitment to excellence is maintained throughout the physician's years of practice. |
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American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine : 2005
AMERICAN BOARD OF INTEGRATIVE HOLISTIC MEDICINE
The goal of the ABIHM is to establish standards of care in the application of the body of knowledge encompassed by Holistic Medicine, so that these concepts can be fully integrated into medical practice, education, health planning and research.
As the recognized leader in integrative medicine education and advancement, ACAM focuses on scientific rigor, excellence in education, and compliance with all industry standards. ACAM's advanced approach to healthcare focuses on a patient-centered care model. We advance health outcomes through the clinical instruction of preventive medicine and safe/effective integrative treatment options offered in conjunction with current standard of care.
The purpose of the American College for Advancement in Medicine's (ACAM) educational program is to meet the educational needs of the lifelong physician learner by providing evidence-based educational activities to advance skills and knowledge in Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine (CAIM). The CME activity educates the physician learner on CAIM treatment options for the care and well being of the clinical patient.
WEBSITE: http://www.acamnet.org
Boulder County Medical Society : 2010
WEBSITE: http://www.bcms.net/
Colorado State Medical Society : 2010
WEBSITE: http://www.cms.org/
Institute of Functional Medicine : 2003
INSTITUTE OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE
What is Functional Medicine? Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease. It is a science-based field of health care that is grounded in the following principles:
- Biochemical individuality
describes the importance of individual variations in metabolic function
that derive from genetic and environmental differences among
individuals.
- Patient-centered medicine emphasizes
"patient care" rather than "disease care," following Sir William
Osler’s admonition that "It is more important to know what patient has
the disease than to know what disease the patient has."
- Dynamic balance of internal and external factors.
- Web-like interconnections
of physiological factors – an abundance of research now supports the
view that the human body functions as an orchestrated network of
interconnected systems, rather than individual systems functioning
autonomously and without effect on each other. For example, we now know
that immunological dysfunctions can promote cardiovascular disease,
that dietary imbalances can cause hormonal disturbances, and that
environmental exposures can precipitate neurologic syndromes such as
Parkinson’s disease.
- Health as a positive vitality – not merely the absence of disease.
- Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance health span.
Functional medicine is anchored by an examination of the core clinical imbalances that underlie various disease conditions. Those imbalances arise as environmental inputs such as diet, nutrients (including air and water), exercise, and trauma are processed by one’s body, mind, and spirit through a unique set of genetic predispositions, attitudes, and beliefs. The fundamental physiological processes include communication, both outside and inside the cell; bioenergetics, or the transformation of food into energy; replication, repair, and maintenance of structural integrity, from the cellular to the whole body level; elimination of waste; protection and defense; and transport and circulation. The core clinical imbalances that arise from malfunctions within this complex system include:
- Hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances
- Oxidation-reduction imbalances and mitochondropathy
- Detoxification and biotransformational imbalances
- Immune imbalances
- Inflammatory imbalances
- Digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances
- Structural imbalances from cellular membrane function to the musculoskeletal system
Functional medicine emphasizes a definable and teachable process of integrating multiple knowledge bases within a pragmatic intellectual matrix that focuses on functionality at many levels, rather than a single treatment for a single diagnosis. Functional medicine uses the patient’s story as a key tool for integrating diagnosis, signs and symptoms, and evidence of clinical imbalances into a comprehensive approach to improve both the patient’s environmental inputs and his or her physiological function. It is a clinician’s discipline, and it directly addresses the need to transform the practice of primary care.
American Academy of Family Practitioners : 1998
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS (AAFP)
The American Academy of Family Physicians is one of the largest national medical organizations, representing more than 93,700 family physicians, family medicine residents and medical students nationwide. Founded in 1947, its mission is to preserve and promote the science and art of family medicine and to ensure high-quality, cost-effective health care for patients of all ages.
Family medicine is the medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, both sexes, each organ system, and every disease entity.
WEBSITE: http://www.aafp.org/
Chrisitan Medical and Dental Association - CMDA : 1998
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL AND DENTAL ASSOCIATION
The Christian Medical & Dental Associations exist to motivate, educate, and equip Christian physicians and dentists to glorify God by:
living out the character of Christ in their homes, practices, communities and around the world; pursuing professional competence and Christ-like compassion in their daily work; influencing their families, colleagues, and patients toward a right relationship with Jesus Christ; advancing Biblical principles in bioethics and health to the Church and society.
WEBSITE: http://www.cmdahome.org/
American Medical Association - AMA : 1998
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Physicians dedicated to shaping the future of medicine
WEBSITE: http://www.ama-assn.org/
American Holistic Medical Association - AHMA : 1998
AMERICAN HOLISTIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
The AHMA is working to transform healthcare, to integrate all aspects of well being, including physical, environmental, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social health; thereby contributing to the healing of ourselves and our planet.
The AHMA was founded in 1978 to unite licensed physicians who practice holistic medicine. The mission of the AHMA is to support practitioners in their evolving personal and professional development as healers and to educate physicians about holistic medicine.
WEBSITE: http://www.holisticmedicine.org/
Scholarship awarded annually to Loyola Medical student who exhibits unique qualities seen in the late Dr Carlson - aptitude and intelligence in combination with caring and deep concern for every patient.
Illinois Department of Public Health : 1998-2002
Four year scholarship awarded to physician for committment to practice meeting the needs of minority, low-income, and/or underserved patients in Illinois
