Kevin Barrows, MD, has been appointed as director of Clinical Programs for the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.
Margaret A. Chesney, PhD, director of the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, recently announced the appointment of Barrows, an associate clinical professor at UCSF and graduate of the UCSF School of Medicine.
Barrows completed his family practice residency and board certification in 1996 and received board certification through the American Board of Holistic Medicine in 2004. He completed a two-year fellowship in integrative medicine through the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.
Barrows finds inspiration in the field of integrative medicine, which combines modern medicine with established healing practices from around the world for which there is evidence of their effectiveness.
As its name implies, integrative medicine, works to “integrate” these healing approaches in a way to optimize their effectiveness in promoting health, healing and wellbeing.
“Integrative medicine increases the breadth of what I can bring to a patient encounter,” says Barrows. “I still have my wonderful conventional training and we have expert specialists here at UCSF that I can refer people to, including surgery and ancillary programs. But now I can also offer other things like acupuncture, Ayurvedic medicine, massage, biofeedback, integrative psychotherapy and so many other things that we can bring to bear in integrative medicine.”
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