Elson Haas, MD, is an integrative family physician with over 50 years of experience in patient care. He is the founder and director of the Preventive Medical Center of Marin in northern California, one of the very first independent integrative medical clinics in the United States, celebrating 40 years of service this year.

Considered to be one of the “Fathers of Integrative Medicine," Dr. Haas developed an approach to healing that incorporates Natural, Eastern, and Western medical approaches, or what he calls “NEW Medicine.” He is the author of 11 books, including his seminal work from 1981, Staying Healthy with the Seasons, which was one of the first books to integrate Eastern healing traditions with Western medical practice and Natural medicine.

Forty-three years after publication, Staying Healthy with the Seasons is still in the top 30 in Traditional Chinese Medicine on Amazon. When the 21st Century Edition was published in 2003, Andrew Weil, MD referred to it as "one of the classics in the field of Integrative Medicine.”

His other books include Staying Healthy with Nutrition, The Detox Diet, The False Fat Diet, Ultimate Immunity and Staying Healthy with NEW Medicine. All of these books combine nutritional guidance, lifestyle modifications, herbology, and mind-body healing to help people improve their health and prevent chronic illness.

Dr. Elson is a family doctor, who cares — he's been on a mission for over 50 years to help people stay healthy. One of his key maxims is “our health is much more in our own hands than we realize.”