Bio

Pamela A. Pappas MD, MD(H) is a board-certified psychiatrist,  classical homeopath, author, and educator with over 30 years' patient-care experience.  She has been studying and practicing Classical Homeopathy since 1999.

After graduating from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Dr. Pappas completed a combined Internal Medicine/Family Medicine internship and Psychiatric Medicine residency at Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville, NC. She later served a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and has been psychiatric faculty at multiple medical schools. Academic duties have included training medical students, supervising psychiatric residents, and building psychiatric consultation services in large medical centers.

Over time, Dr. Pappas found that many patients -- especially those with mixed emotional and physical symptoms -- were not getting well through conventional treatments alone.  These patients often continued to suffer despite normal lab results and repeated clinic visits.  Multiple medications focused on symptom management alone seemed the rule, no matter what personal pain might be fueling these symptoms.

Seeking more effective treatments for her patients led to studying many alternative modalities,  particularly Classical Homeopathy.  She has found this to be a holistic, effective, and safe means of addressing suffering.  Graduating from the 1000+ hour Homeopathic Practitioner Program at American Medical College of Homeopathy in Phoenix, Dr. Pappas now serves on its faculty and carries both conventional and homeopathic medical licenses in Arizona. She has maintained board certification in Integrative Holistic Medicine since 2003, and is also a graduate of Dr. Andrew Weil's Program in Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Pappas additionally facilitates well-being in health professionals, as their health impacts the medicine they offer others. Having developed popular mental health services for medical students and residents, she often writes and speaks on physicians' own healing journeys. She enjoys supporting her colleagues through both private consultations and groups.  She maintains her own inner practices of mindfulness meditation and Ho'oponopono, the ancient Hawaiian process of problem solving and stress release she has learned from Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, Mabel Katz, and others.

Dr. Pappas continues post-graduate homeopathic studies with Dr. Rajan Sankaran of Mumbai, India, and with the California Center for Homeopathic Education in Escondido, CA -- from whose current Vital Sensation program she is also a graduate.   Her ongoing clinical work embodies the Vital Sensation method of Classical Homeopathy to understand each patient deeply, relieve suffering, and revitalize health.