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Director of the Program in Integrative Medicine
College of Medicine, University of Arizona
Dr. Andrew Weil is director of the program in integrative medicine of the College of Medicine, University of Arizona — the first effort to change medical education to include information on alternative therapies, mind/body interactions, healing, and other subjects not currently emphasized in the training of physicians. He also holds appointments as clinical professor of medicine and clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine.
He is the author of many articles and seven books: The Natural Mind; The Marriage of the Sun and Moon; From Chocolate to Morphine (with Winifred Rosen); Health and Healing; Natural Health, Natural Medicine; and the international bestsellers, Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health. His most recent book is Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition. Dr. Weil also publishes a monthly newsletter, Dr. Andrew Weil's Self Healing, maintains a website, Ask Dr. Weil, (www.drweil.com), and appears in videos featured on PBS.
Dr. Weil received an A.B. degree in biology (botany) from Harvard and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He worked for a year with the National Institute of Mental Health. As a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, Dr. Weil traveled widely collecting information on drug use in other cultures, medicinal plants, and alternative methods of treating disease. He was also on the research staff of the Harvard Botanical Museum and conducted investigations of medicinal and psychoactive plants.