There is a Tsunami of complex, scientific information flooding the clinics and overflowing the desks of today’s healthcare practitioners. Research has to be filtered, organized, and made relevant before clinical work can begin. It is the practicing clinician who must daily try to find the most useful answers—amid this flood of disconnected information—to the very specific and often perplexing questions that patients ask. The mantra guiding the organization of IFM’s teaching methods is: “From complex scientific research comes functional simplicity.” It is thrilling to be involved with the “re-enchantment” of medical practice as a profession, imbued with curiosity, critical thinking, discovery, compassion, and patient involvement.

We are pleased to share with you comments from individuals who are a part of the IFM community:

“You folks have performed a profoundly important role. The germination has surely felt lengthy but I feel certain the cotyledon is shooting forth.”
— B. Joseph Semmes, MD, Diplomate, ABIM and ABEM

“You guys just get better and better. You must be the "betterest" by now.”
— Kirk Whitten, DC (excerpt from a Symposium evaluation)

“You’ll find no better source for practical, science-based, clinically relevant information than The Institute for Functional Medicine.”
— Bethany Hays, MD

“I am passionate about the practice of functional medicine and I am dedicated to the growth of IFM.”
— Farid Wassef, RPh, CCN, author of Breaking the Age Barrier

“If you attend [AFMCP], I can promise it will be one of the most stimulating educational experiences that you could have. It certainly was for me.”
— Joseph Lamb, MD

“This is why I love fx med… we actually get to think and try to solve complex metabolic puzzles that markedly improve our patients’ lives.”
— Kim Webster, MD

“…feeling alone doesn’t feel good. Maybe that’s a part of why I’m on this Forum so much. We are not alone.”
— Kristopher Young, DC

“[I] have the wondrous privilege of being able to use the fundamentals of healing that I am learning through the IFM and elsewhere with my patients. What a blessing to practice medicine the way it is meant to be practiced—at last!”
— Penney Stringer, MD