Dr. Aaron Hartman, MD, FAAMFM, ABAARM
Dr. Hartman graduated Summa Cum Laude in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995, earned his MD from Medical College of Virginia in 2000, and then completed his residency in Family Medicine at the Hanover Family Practice residency program of the Medical College of Virginia in 2003. That same year he earned his first board certification in Family Medicine through the American Board of Family Medicine. In 2006 he earned the honorary degree of Fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians and became a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine.
From 2003 to 2007 Dr. Hartman served in the United States Air Force while earning the rank of Major and holding multiple command positions including Clinic Director of Kleber Clinic and medical staff member at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. He was also Medical Director of the MacDill Air Force Base Brandon Community Clinic, and supervising physician of the MacDill AFB cardiopulmonary clinic. From 2005 to 2007
Throughout this time Dr. Hartman has remained active in the local scientific community. In 2010 he started Virginia Research Center, a clinical research center which offers the most up to treatment options to his patients through FDA approved medical trials. In May 2011 he was appointed to the position of Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine which he still currently holds.
Dr. Hartman’s interest in integrative & functional medicine began after he and his wife Rebekah adopted their first daughter Anna in 2007. The medical system didn’t offer much hope for Anna’s medical condition and they were forced to explore alternative treatments. Over time, Aaron began to apply the new concepts and treatment modalities he was learning to his clinic patients as well as his own family. In 2012 he formalized his commitment to exploring new and advanced treatment opportunities through his membership with the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine and then the Institute for Functional Medicine. In 2015 he received his second board certification in Integrative and Holistic Medicine through the American Board of Physician Specialties and in 2016 earned the recognition as a Certified Practitioner in Functional Medicine from the Institute for Functional Medicine. That same year he began a fellowship in metabolic and regenerative medicine with A4M and finished the fellowship training in 2019. In 2020 he earned a board certification in Antiaging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine, being his 3rd board certification.
In 2012, Aaron and Rebekah’s commitment to their family’s health led them to move to a little farm outside of Richmond Virginia. While researching how to care for their land, animals, and livestock, Aaron and Rebekah learned about the intricate connections between their health, that of the land they cultivate, the animals they care for, and the food they eat. This led to Dr. Hartman’s intense interest in nutritional medicine as well as ecological medicine and toxicology.
Dr. Hartman opened Richmond Integrative & Functional Medicine in 2017. His mission at RIFM is to apply the sum total of his scientific research, medical knowledge, clinical experience and continuing studies to his patients in an individualized manner. This new field of medicine has been called Functional Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Translational Medicine, Systems Biology Medicine and Root Cause Medicine. At its core is the application of the sum total of current and ongoing scientific knowledge in the context of modern medicine, allowing for the appropriate integration of other healing traditions as appropriate, in an individualized manner.
