Aunna Herbst, DO, ND, CFMP

Aunna Herbst, DO, ND, CFMP is an author of a book titled, Functional Medicine in Primary Care, because she has a desire to help healthcare professionals incorporate personalized medicine into their practice. She believes root cause investigation for preventive wellness and chronic disease management is the future of medicine. She has worked in solo cash-based practice, hospital employee settings and a combination of both over the years including recruited in 2015 to help start the Center for Functional Medicine at Cleveland Clinic where she was clinical operations director support and a physician seeing patients and a research team member. Before she attended medical school, she had a business of lifestyle counseling that included nutrition consultation and naturopathic medicine in 1999. She also fulfilled an understudy with infectious disease and has been an integral practitioner of genomic medicine since 2011. She has two children, 27 and 25 years of age. Public speaking and teaching are her passions. She enjoys yoga, outdoor activities such as kayaking and hiking, and reading.