Dr. Iris Bell, MD, PhD has been a researcher, consultant, and teacher in areas related to holistic, complementary and alternative/integrative medicine for over 30 years. She was chosen as one of the Best Doctors in the Pacific region of the US in 1996 and in the US in 1998.

She has published over 150 professional papers and dozens of book chapters.

Her clinical expertise is in the areas of personalized individual environmental health, food intolerances and food addictions, nutrition and nutritional supplements, diet, biofeedback, and homeopathic medicine with a focus on disease prevention and health maintenance.

She serves as a health educator and self-care coach for people with whom she consults in group and individual programs.

Dr. Bell does not offer treatment with any psychedelic drugs or hallucinogens. She requires people for whom she consults to have their own primary care provider and to discuss any possible changes in their treatment plan with their own health care providers.

As an evidence-based researcher and health educator/coach, she Her current area of research is on the nanoparticle nature of homeopathic medicines and the interaction of alternative therapies and treatments with the person as a complex adaptive system.

Currently Professor Emeritus of Family & Community Medicine, Dr. Bell has served on the faculties at Harvard Medical School, University of California San Francisco, and the University of Arizona. She graduated magna cum laude in biology from Harvard University and then received her PhD in Neuro- and Biobehavioral Sciences and MD from Stanford University. Her psychiatry internship and residency were at the University of California–San Francisco, and she is Board certified in Psychiatry. For ten years, she also held Added Qualification in Geriatric Psychiatry. She is licensed to practice conventional medicine in Arizona and California. She was also nationally certified in biofeedback, a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and is a licensed MD(H) physician by the Arizona Board of Homeopathy and Integrated Medicine.

You can also find some of Dr. Bell’s professional paper publication listings at:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Bell+IR

Dr. Bell’s award-winning book for consumers is Getting Whole, Getting Well: Healing Holistically from Chronic Illness. She has published scores of professional papers and book chapters on her clinical research in addition to a monograph on environmental illness.

On a lighter note, she wrote the funny, touching, inspirational and award-winning books, Chew on Things – It Helps You Think: Words of Wisdom from a Worried Canine, and The Chew on Things Workbook for Fellow Worriers, to celebrate her beloved soft-coated wheaten terrier Casey’s life and help people with stress and anxiety disorders find ways to cope with humor and a touch of courage.

Her passion is to teach people who find themselves with a chronic illness and are at the start of their own difficult journey home to themselves and to better health — a learning experience for us all. She is especially focused on using integrative approaches to help people with multi-system conditions such as multiple chemical sensitivities, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome, including issues with brain fog, concentration, and memory problems.

She herself has been a Type 1 diabetic for over 25 years and knows personally the day-to-day medical and emotional ups and downs that anyone with a chronic health challenge can face.

She does research, teaches, writes, coaches, and lives in Tucson, Arizona with her rescue dogs.

Please note that Dr. Bell offers self-directed self-care educational online courses and programs at https://dynamicselfcare.com/school

She also offers a limited number of openings for individualized integrative self-care coaching via tele-health.

Dr. Bell does not accept insurance but will provide receipts that clients can submit to their insurer to determine if they can receive reimbursement.