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Michael W. Loes, M.D. M.D. (H) completed medical school at the University of Minnesota, followed by a fellowship in clinical pharmacology. His residency training was in Internal Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. Loes is certified by boards or qualifying exams in Internal Medicine, Pain Medicine, Pain Management, Alcohol and Chemical Dependency, Acupuncture, Clinical Hypnosis. Homeopathy and Disability Medicine. He is on the Board of Directors for the National Pain Foundation, and Arizona Teen Challenge. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, and currently the Director of the Arizona Pain Institute in Phoenix. He is a consultant for SW Pain Management and Southwestern Center for Pain.
Co-authoring with David Steinman, he wrote Arthritis: The Doctor's Cure, Healing Sports Injuries Naturally, The Aspirin Alternative and Inulin: The Antibiotic Companion. All of these books have their roots in traditional medicine, but their heart in functional integrative medicine.
Dr. Loes is a popular national speaker usually addressing audiences on strategies to Prevent & Heal Pain. He has been involved in pain research for nearly 20 years and has authored multiple professional articles. Writing and speaking have always been a primary thrust of Dr. Loes' endeavors, having started at age 18 being the senior editor for his high school newspaper in St. Cloud, MN. He then went to University of California, Berkeley and where he graduated with honors in linguistics, writing his honors thesis on language acquisition in autistic children.
Today, he lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife Lauren and 5 daughters. His oldest, Jaspar, wants to be a writer and is studying English and music at Bethel College in St. Paul, MN. His other children (Kaelyn, Gina, Andrea & Janelle) haven't declared their interests beyond childhood as of yet but they all have that glint in their eye forecasting bold things to come. Dr. Loes still sees private patients, but devotes more than half of his professional time to education and research.
Visit his website at www.The Healing Response.com
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