Anatara Medicine

San Francisco, CA

Truly individualized medical care. Anatara offers the very highest level of integrative medicine with a multi-disciplinary team, including experts with more than 150 years of combined experience. Services include integrative medicine, cardiology, immunology, Lyme disease treatment, cancer therapy support, nutrition, naturopathy, five-element acupuncture, herbal medicine, chiropractic, fitness and mind-body medicine. Established in 2011. Anatara is derived from the Sanskrit meaning core. Founded by Dr. Ahvie Herskowitz, a Johns Hopkins trained cardiologist and immunologist and UCSF Clinical Professor of Medicine, specializing in Integrative Medicine. Dr. Herskowitz coined Convergence Medicine to refine a more systematic, rigorous, and collaborative approach to integrative care. Employing seven medical disciplines, Dr. Herskowitz has assembled a world-class team, powered by exceptional practitioners and a stellar advisory board who act as one for each client: developing truly individualized approaches to optimizing vitality, nutrition, performance; and preventing and treating of cardiovascular, immunologic and recalcitrant and undiagnosed chronic illnesses. One of our doctors will be delighted to speak with you about your specific concerns, and how Convergence Medicine might uniquely serve your needs. Dr. Ahvie Herskowitz is the Founder of Anatara Medicine. He was most currently Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer of The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first non-profit pharmaceutical company in the United States. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and trained in Internal Medicine at Yale. He completed his Cardiology Fellowship training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1986 and was on faculty jointly in the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Immunology and Molecular Microbiology in the School of Public Health and Hygiene until 1995. In 1995, Dr. Herskowitz assumed the Directorship of a cardiovascular research institute in San Francisco and has been Clinical Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco since 1999.