About the Center for Integral Health
The Center for Integral Health brings together practitioners dedicated to creating health in the whole person. Physical, emotional and mental wellness are all integral components of total well-being.
Homeopathic medicines are prescribed according to each person's unique requirements and integrated with all needed medical treatments. The experience of the Center's staff enables them to coordinate conventional medical treatments with complementary medical therapies. The goal of the Center is to work to establish an atmosphere where essential healing can begin in people of all ages.
Joel Shepperd, M.D.
Dr. Shepperd received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his M.D. from the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
His postgraduate training was at Cook County Hospital, Chicago.
He has been practicing homeopathic medicine in the Chicago area since 1976.
He is co-founder and treasurer of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association and author and lecturer on Homeopathic Medicine and Chaos Theory.
Dr. Shepperd has appeared on national and local television on the consideration of homeopathy in medical practice.
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Timothy Fior, M.D., D.Ht.
Dr. Fior has been practicing Family Medicine and Homeopathy in the Chicagoland area since 1988.
He is a co-founder, past president, and current vice-president of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association.
For many years he has taught the homeopathy section of the CAM elective at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School.
He has lectured on homeopathy to medical students at six of the Medical schools in Chicagoland.
He has been quoted in numerous national health magazines, and has had several articles published in the American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine.
He received his M.D. from the Michigan State University College of Medicine, receiving numerous commendations and honors while there.
He completed a residency in Family Practice in 1988, serving as chief resident his final year.
He is currently board certified in homeopathy, and is also board certified in Family Practice through 2007.
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Arup Das, M.D.
Dr. Das received his M.D. from the University of Calcutta, India.
He specialized in Infectious Disease and earned a graduate degree from the School of Tropical Medicine, University of Calcutta.
He was trained in Pathology at the University of Bombay, India, New England Center Hospital, Tufts University, Boston and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He earned a graduate degree in Pathology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He was Professor of Pathology and Oral Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He is Board Certified in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and in Oral Medicine.
He was trained in homeopathy under various teachers and in medical acupuncture at the University of California at Los Angeles and is a full member of the American
Academy of Medical Acupuncture.
He is a co-founder of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association.
He has been practicing homeopathic medicine in the Chicago area since 1985 and medical acupuncture since 1993.