Ahvie Herskowitz, M.D., is Medical Director of the San Francisco Stem Cell Treatment Center, a subsidiary of Anatara Medicine. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Anatomic Pathology. He graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and for nine years following medical school, trained in Anatomic Pathology and Immunology, Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He studied Cardiovascular Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital where, after training, he was jointly appointed for nine years as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Medicine, and Immunology and Molecular Microbiology. At Hopkins, Dr. Herskowitz led an immunology and cardiology research team investigating mechanisms of vascular and cardiac injury and repair, heart transplantation, heart function and metabolism, and basic mechanisms of autoimmunity. He then relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area to become Director of a cardiovascular research institute, and was appointed Clinical Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco. In 2000, after publishing more than 115 peer-reviewed medical articles, he co-founded the Institute for OneWorld Health, a successful global medical philanthropy. Over the past four years, he founded Anatara Medicine, where he has developed a highly individualized form of integrative medicine, focusing on the root causes of aging and complex medical conditions. At the San Francisco Stem Cell Treatment Center, Dr. Herskowitz is now coupling this experience with state-of-the-art regenerative medicine techniques, offering patients novel options to achieve optimized healing and disease prevention.

 

Ahvie Herskowitz, M.D.

Board Certified in Internal Medicine
Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology

Education

1970-1974 Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, New York

1974-1977 Doctor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York

1977-1979 Resident in Anatomic Pathology, Albert Einstein Hospital, New York

1979-1980 Chief Resident in Anatomic Pathology, Albert Einstein Hospital, New York

1980-1982 Resident in Internal Medicine, Greenwich Hospital, Connecticut
Yale School of Medicine

1982-1983 Chief Resident in Internal Medicine, Greenwich Hospital, Connecticut,
Yale School of Medicine

1983-1986 Cardiology Fellow, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Maryland

Prior Practice

1999-2012 Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

1998-2012 Consultant Cardiologist, San Francisco VA Medical Center

Current Practice

2011–present Clinical Director and Founder, Anatara Medicine, San Francisco, CA

Prior Professional Experience

2009-2010 Chief Operating Officer, Senior Advisor, Medicines360

2000- 2009 Co-Founder, COO & Chief Medical Officer of the Institute for OneWorld Health

1995-1999 Director, Ischemia Research and Education Foundation (IREF), central analysis
unit for large consortium of major surgical centers and databases for perioperative
patient outcomes

1991-1995 Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Maryland
Attending Cardiologist, Cardiac Catheterization
Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene, Maryland
Director, Cardiac Pathology Core Laboratory for Specialized Center of Research
(SCOR), Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Maryland

1987–1991 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Maryland
Attending Cardiologist, Cardiac Catheterization
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, School of Hygiene
and Public Health, Maryland
Director, Cardiac Pathology and Immunology Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Maryland

1986-1987 Active Staff, Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Maryland
Research Associate, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene, Maryland

Areas of Special Emphasis

Personalized medicine; holistic, integrative medicine

Cardiovascular medicine

Immunologic Disorders

Acupuncture, Five Element

Pharmaceutical drug development

Global health; non-profit sustainability & strategic planning

Memberships

American College for the Advancement of Medicine

American Heart Association

Research Projects

Dr. Herskowitz has over 115 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews in the fields of
cardiology, cardiac surgery, immunology and virology. List of publications available upon
request.

Awards and Honors

2010-present; Appointed Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Rare & Neglected Diseases
Drug Discovery (iRND3), a non-profit drug discovery pharmaceutical company facilitating the
development of new medicines for rare and neglected diseases (www.irnd3.org).

2008; Rennebohm Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy

2008-present; Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute
(PVRI), a global non-profit clinical research organization devoted to increasing the awareness
and knowledge of pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, and to facilitating advances in the
treatment of affected people worldwide (www.pvri.info).

2006; Clinton Global Health Initiative Awardee — “Access to Cures”

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