Our Approach to Care

At the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, we offer a dynamic approach to health, healing and prevention by integrating modern medicine with established health practices from around the world. Unlike the rushed, revolving-door feel of hospital medicine, our patients spend an average of 90 minutes in their first visit with doctor. We assess your individual needs and listen to your concerns and goals for well-being.

Our mission is to support your health and healing by offering:

Exceptional Care

Our licensed and credentialed practitioners have extensive skill, training and experience. The UCSF Medical Center is one of the nation’s top 10 premier hospitals (for ten consecutive years) and best in the Bay Area (US News & World Report 2010).

Communication

We practice relationship-centered care in which the patient and practitioner form a partnership to help promote healing. Our practitioners carefully listen to your concerns and work with you to develop a healing plan specific to your needs.

Collaboration

Our practitioners work with you and with each other to determine the best treatment programs for you. When appropriate, our practitioners also collaborate closely with clinicians from other departments and institutions.

Personal Sustainability

We focus on prevention, health maintenance and early intervention. We provide you with information, exercises and self-care techniques to empower you to take control of your own health and support lifelong, whole-person healing.

Why Integrate

Your Life

You are unique. You are the one person on the planet who knows your body like no other, and we think it is fair to say that healthcare should reflect that simple fact.

You have specific needs and goals and most importantly, you have choices: how to live your life, how to remain in tune with your body and how to take an active role in maintaining it.

Providing the finest care requires a more complete approach to health - one that focuses on the whole person.

Because of this, our patients participate actively in their treatment. Our practitioners listen carefully to your concerns and develop a partnership with you. We believe this therapeutic alliance is essential to your healing.

Your Health

The UCSF Osher Center offers individualized care. Our mission is to support your health maintenance and healing by focusing on:

Exceptional Care
Communication
Collaboration
Personal Sustainability

Your Choice

Understanding the whole person is at the center of Integrative Medicine and enables one to truly follow a path of complete care.