J. David Forbes, M.D., ABHM, is the founder and director of Nashville Integrated Medicine and has had an intense interest on both a professional and personal level in holistic, alternative and complementary medicine since college and medical school. In addition to his practice in Nashville, he has also been named president-elect of the American Board of Holistic Medicine (ABHM).
Dr. Forbes, a native of Jackson, TN, received his M.D. from the University of Tennessee at Memphis in 1990. His internship and residency in Internal Medicine was completed at North Carolina Baptist Hospital/Bowman Gray School of Medicine (Wake Forest) in Winston-Salem, NC in 1993. Dr. Forbes is board-certified in Internal Medicine and has ten years experience in Emergency Medicine at Page Memorial Hospital in Luray, Virginia. In the year 2000 he became a board-certified Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine (ABHM), one of only a handful of board-certified holistic practitioners currently in Tennessee. He has also practiced primary care medicine at the Lewis Ambulatory Care Center in Hohenwald, TN.
During his years in ER, he pursued further study and education in various fields of integrative medicine. He is extensively involved with the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA), recently serving as co-chair for the annual conference in Albuquerque in 2004. Required training for doctors board-certified in Holistic Medicine includes natural, herbal, nutritional, body/mind, emotional and spiritual approaches to healing and their integration with traditional medicine. He is fully trained in PEER® Therapy (Primary Emotional Energy Recovery) by the founders Dan Jones and John Lee, and has continued study under their tutelage since 1993. On a more personal level. he has cultivated a meditation-based spiritual practice since the mid-80's that involves working with the energy of the body, developing intuitive skills, and allowing our internal spiritual energy to guide the healing process.
Dr. Forbes is available as a keynote speaker and as an expert in the field of holistic medicine.
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