Dr. Wayne Jonas is the executive director of Integrative Health Programs at Samueli Foundation and is a board-certified, practicing family physician. He is the former director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine and the World Health Organization Center for Traditional Medicine. With more than 40 years of experience, Dr. Jonas incorporates evidence-based healing into his patient care and is dedicated to helping other clinicians find ways to incorporate self-care into their own lives.
Covid-19 exposed how unhealthy we are as a nation making the case for whole-person care even stronger. All we need now is to focus on redesigning our health care system to deliver this type of care—and muster the courage to do it.