About Me

As of July 1st, 2011 my practice in Sellwood transferred to Dr John Hardy (971-533-5840)

I am a board certified family physician with holistic approach. In anticipation of family related out of state move I sold my private practice (where I had been seeing patients 2008 to 2011) to Dr John Hardy as of July 1st 2011. In the end my move out of state was canceled and I am happy to remain in Portland, working for Providence. From 2006 to 2009 I worked at OHSU department of Family Medicine and was promoted from Clinical Instructor to Assistant Professor. Prior to that I worked in Salem, OR 2003 to 2006, doing a full range of family medicine including hospital medicine and obstetrics, which I stopped doing in 6/2008 as a lifestyle choice. I see adults and children, use both conventional as well as complementary medical modalities such as mental imagery and other techniques of mind-body medicine to treat physical, emotional, and mental illness. I try to minimize patients' reliance on medications, while encouraging personal transformation and a healthy lifestyle.

I was born in Odessa, Ukraine and came to the US with my family in 1988. In 1995 I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from New York University, cum laude. In 2000 I graduated Medical School at SUNY Downstate, also cum laude, and completed a Family Practice Residency Program at SUNY Stony Brook in 2003, receiving a Resident-Teacher Award.

I was first introduced to mind-body medicine by my uncle, Peter S. Reznik PhD, who was my first teacher of mental imagery and other phenomenological modalities. My uncle, a clinical psychologist, was also the one who introduced me to my subsequent teachers Colette Aboulker-Muscat and Dr Gerald Epstein.

A vital part of my education was my nine-year apprenticeship with a teacher of mind-body integrative medicine, Madame Colette Aboulker-Muscat (1909-2003). Colette practiced what we would now call mind-body integrative medicine for seventy years. She was a master of mental techniques that can effect profound changes in the mind and body. It is with her that I witnessed and learned how to facilitate profound changes in the mind and body through the use of creative imagination.

Following my experience with Colette I have been a student of Dr Gerald Epstein, the founder of The American Institute for Mental Imagery (a post-graduate training center in New York City, which teaches this method). My learning from Dr Epstein had led to my certification by AIMI in Imagination, Mental Imagery, and Phenomenology. I became certified by AIMI in 2006 and continued clinical supervisions and an apprenticeship till 2011. Under the guidance of Dr Epstein I was able to implement Mental Imagery and related phenomenological modalities into my everyday clinical practice. Dr Epstein continues to be an invaluable resource for me.

I spend most of my out-of-office time reading conventional, mind-body, and spiritual literature, and writing. I enjoy spending my free time with my wife and our children, going to the park, the beach, or just hanging out in the back yard.