At UCI Health, gastroenterologist Kiran Sachdev, MD brings together 30 years of traditional GI experience with advanced training in integrative and functional medicine to treat the whole patient — not just the symptom.
Her approach addresses complex gut disorders by combining proven diagnostics with systems biology and lifestyle-informed care. For patients with unresolved GI issues, this model offers a new pathway to healing. Sachdev treats patients at the UCI Health Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute and at various locations of the UCI Health Chao Digestive Health Institute.
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Integrative Gastroenterology is a healing oriented medicine approach that takes into account the whole person, the mind, the body and the soul as well as their lifestyle. Since the lifestyle does definitely affect disease pathogenesis, it is a practice of medicine that incorporates elements of complementary and conventional medicine. It merges the most important appropriate conventional medical practices with complementary therapies to maximize health and Wellness. It neither diminishes. Conventional medicine and neither does it unconditionally accept complementary therapies. Instead it takes a scientific and evidence based approach treating disease and prioritizes preventive measures in treating disease and treating the whole body. It gets to the root of the problem that is manifesting as the disease process as opposed to traditional GI that is symptom focused and is an isolated approach to healing. And Kiran Sachdev, associate professor of gastroenterology at UCI and head of integrative medicine at Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute. I've been in practice in doing traditional medicine for almost 30 years in Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. I was the director of Woman's Digestive Disease Program and Co director of the motility program. Over the years, as I was taking care of complicated GI patients and teaching at the University of Connecticut Health Center, I grew increasingly frustrated within the realms of traditional medicine. I knew there were pieces of the puzzle in treating gut health that I was not aware of. Subsequently, I did a two year fellowship in integrative medicine and got board certified and in a very medicine in my 50s through American boards of subspecialties. I also did a year of health coaching through Institute of Integrative Nutrition and then I decided to do more training in through the Institute of Functional Medicine and became Functional Medicine certified. I bring to UCI a program which incorporates both traditional medicine as well as complementary. Medicine in treating gut microbiome. Gut health and it differs from conventional gastroenterology.
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