The American Health Council is proud to elect Dr. Sara Stein, Medical, Functional and Bariatric Psychiatrist and Assistant Clinical Professor at University Hospitals of Cleveland, to its Board of Physicians. University Hospitals is one of the nation’s leading healthcare systems, providing high-quality, patient-centered medical care at locations throughout Northeast Ohio. Committed to advanced care and advanced caring, University Hospitals offers the region’s largest network of primary care physicians, outpatient centers, and hospitals. With more than 25 years of experience in mind-body medicine, Dr. Stein provides a honed expertise in Medical, Functional and Bariatric Psychiatry, as well as years of innovative leadership experience and teaching. Dr. Stein brings a unique blend of cutting-edge and evidence-based treatment for chronic disease remission and reversal, integrating evidence from both brain and body. She is a strong proponent of small lifestyle and clinical interventions adding up to major shifts in health, even in serious illness. She was an early adopter of healthcare social media as a teaching platform.
Obtaining her Medical Degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1988), Dr. Stein went on to train in General Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and completed her Psychiatry Residency at Case Western Reserve University and Stanford University, followed by a fellowship from the National Institutes of Mental Health at Stanford. She is certified in Psychiatry, Functional Medicine, Obesity Medicine, Bredeson Protocol for Reversing Cognitive Decline in Dementias, Walsh Protocol of Advanced Nutrient Therapy for Brain Diseases, Integrative Medicine Leadership and Physician Leadership.
Dr. Stein is the author of the award-winning “Obese From The Heart” (2009) and is the recipient of the 2011 Crain’s Cleveland Health Care Physician Hero. She is the former Chief of Behavioral Health at Kaiser Permanente Ohio, where she was presented the 2010 Kaiser Permanente Humanitarian Award for Community Service for her groundbreaking Obesity Clinic based on a blend of Functional Medicine and Integrative Psychiatry.
At University Hospitals of Cleveland, Dr. Stein brings her unique blend of Functional and Integrative Medicine into the inpatient milieu, specializing in consultation-liaison and geriatrics with a special interest in encephalopathies and delirium treatment.
She is a member of both The Institute of Functional Medicine and The Obesity Society. Her goals within the next five years include ongoing care and treatment of critically and chronically ill patients, reversing cognitive declines, publishing her new book, and building a functional medicine clinic for brain and psychiatric health.
She is charitably associated as a trustee with Menorah Park Senior Living, one of the pre-eminent and innovative senior living centers in the nation, and previously was a trustee of the David and Robert Stein Foundation.
In her spare time, Dr. Stein enjoys swimming, practicing yoga, Cleveland sports, arts and culture, reading, writing, and spending time with her family and friends and three Newfoundland dogs.
Sara Stein
MD, ABPN, ABOM, IFMCP
Functional Medicine: Bariatric Psychiatrist and Assistant Clinical Professor at University Hospitals of Cleveland
- University Hospitals, one of the nation’s leading health care systems, focuses on providing compassionate, quality medical care to patients at convenient locations throughout Northeast Ohio. The system includes a major academic medical center, community hospitals, outpatient health centers, outpatient surgery centers, urgent care centers, cancer centers, rehabilitation facilities, pediatric specialty centers and mental health facilities, as well as joint venture and partnership hospitals and health centers
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