About Me

I am a board certified family physician with holistic approach, in private practice in Sellwood area of Portland. From 2006 to 2009 I worked for 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. At my private office I see adults and children, use mental imagery and other techniques of mind-body medicine to treat physical, emotional, and mental illness and treat addictions. I try to minimize patients' reliance on medications, while encouraging personal transformation and healthy activities.

In addition, I am opening a first West coast branch of AIMI Oregon, a post graduate training center, offering courses for the general public and health professionals. The Institute will tentatively start offering classes in the Fall of 2009.

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, completed a Family Practice Residency Program at SUNY Stony Brook in 2003, receiving a Resident-Teacher Award.

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 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.

I am certified by The American Institute for Mental Imagery (a post-graduate training center in New York City, which teaches this method) in Imagination, Mental Imagery, and Phenomenology.

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 two boys, going to the park, beach, or just hanging out in the back yard.