Benton Integrative Medicine

I graduated from Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina in Greenville, NC in 2000.  With plans to do Family Medicine, I opted to do an additional Transitional Year in Baltimore due to personal beliefs that it should be a four year residency.  I completed the three years of Family Medicine residency at UNC Chapel Hill in 2004.

Once working in a group practice, I realized there must be more to medicine as I felt I was doling out pills just for an ill. The list of pills were growing to cover up side effects of other pills. For my specialty under the holistic umbrella, I completed my functional medicine certification with the Institute of Functional Medicine in 2016.  Functional medicine searches for the root cause of disease and determines a solution by looking at all the systems in a person using the latest in science.

I also have some training in Ayurveda. This practice from India is four thousand years old and is similar to the eastern version of functional medicine.