Continuing Education!
A little happy announcement. Over the years some people have asked me why I don’t call myself a functional medicine doctor. Functional medicine, like integrative medicine, is extra training on top of a medical degree, such as MD, OD, or NP or chiropractic doctor, or similar–it is NOT naturopathy or homeopathy, none of which is medicine in most states in the US.
My field in neuroscience with a Ph.D. didn’t quite fit the mold in terms of what all functional medicine universities require. But I really wanted to get that education. Though I will never ever open a clinic, I wanted to have the official knowledge. I never tried applying before because I was intimidated by the requirements.
Functional/Integrative approach is what I have been practicing in my groups (all nutrition and nutrient based understanding of cellular functions rather than a medicinal approach) without the “medicine” term in it. See two of these group here and here.
I got the bug under my skin to see if any of these universities would accept me with my education “as is”, which also includes an fMRI (the machine everyone hates with a twist for experiments) certification from Harvard, so I crossed my fingers and contacted one of them that was online only and is exactly what I needed, no more, no less. They pulled their noses on the phone so they told me to email in all information and explanation of what, why and how. I also mentioned my work with migraineurs and others, also gave links to all my books–which, to my luck, includes being an invited author for the Encyclopedia of the Mind, so guess what:
I am accepted!! Yay!!
The program starts January 22nd, all online. I already started to receive case studies with test questions and answers on the next click (they assume existing clinical experience and knowledge) and so far I am doing pretty good. I am not sure how long the program will take me but I hope for a couple of years max and I can place functional medicine after my long list of degrees following my name. This will be awesome for my work and my personal reputation and will give more credence to what I do on Facebook and elsewhere. ❤
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About Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.
Angela A Stanton, PhD, is a Neuroeconomist focusing on chronic pain--migraine in particular--physiology, electrolyte homeostasis, nutrition, and genetics. She lives in Southern California. Her current research is focused on migraine cause, prevention, and treatment without the use of medicine. As a forever migraineur from childhood, her discovery was helped by experimenting on herself. She found the cause of migraine to be at the ionic level, associated with disruption of the electrolyte homeostasis, resulting from genetic variations of all voltage dependent channels, gates, and pumps (chanelopathy) that modulate electrolyte mineral density and voltage in the brain. In addition, insulin and glucose transporters, and several other variants, such as MTHFR variants of B vitamin methylation process and many others are different in the case of a migraineur from the general population.
Migraineurs are glucose sensitive (carbohydrate intolerant) and should avoid eating carbs as much as possible. She is working on her hypothesis that migraine is a metabolic disease.
As a result of the success of the first edition of her book and her helping over 5000 migraineurs successfully prevent their migraines world wide, all ages and both genders, and all types of migraines, she published the 2nd (extended) edition of her migraine book "Fighting The Migraine Epidemic: Complete Guide: How To Treat & Prevent Migraines Without Medications". The 2nd edition is the “holy grail” of migraine cause, development, and prevention, incorporating all there is to know. It includes a long section for medical and research professionals. The book is full of academic citations (over 800) to authenticate the statements she makes to make it easy to follow up by those interested and to spark further research interest. It is a "Complete Guide", published on September 29, 2017.
Dr. Stanton received her BSc at UCLA in Mathematics, MBA at UCR, MS in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, PhD in Economics with dissertation in neuroscience (culminating in Neuroeconomics) at Claremont Graduate University, fMRI certification at Harvard University Medical School at the Martinos Center for Neuroimaging for experimenting with neurotransmitters on human volunteers, certification in LCHF/ketogenic diet from NN (Nutrition Network), certification in physiology (UPEN via Coursea), Nutrition (Harvard Shool of Public Health) and functional medicine studies. Dr. Stanton is an avid sports fan, currently power weight lifting and kickboxing. For relaxation (yeah.. about a half minute each day), she paints and photographs and loves to spend time with her family of husband of 45 years, 2 sons and their wives, and 2 granddaughters.
Follow her on Twitter at: @MigraineBook, LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelaastantonphd/ and facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DrAngelaAStanton/
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