Leonid Gordin, MD

Cambridge

Education:

MD, First Leningrad Medical School, Leningrad, Russia, 1973-9;
Medical Acupuncture for Physicians Training Course, UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA, 1993-94

Internship/Residency:

Intern in Internal Medicine, First Leningrad Medical School, Leningrad, Russia, 1979-80; Resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Advanced Training Institute for Physicians, Leningrad, Russia, 1980-82; Intern in Internal Medicine, St. Lukes Hospital, Cleveland, OH, 1990-91; Resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 1991-94

Fellowship:

Chronic Pain and Depression Management (Holistic and Conventional Approach), The Shealy Institute, Springfield, MO, 1995

Associations:

Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Acupuncture, Diplomat of the American Academy of Pain Management

Special Areas of Interest:

Holistic medical practice that focuses on health restoration, and subsequent improvement of chronic disease signs and symptoms.  This approach encourages active patient participation throughout the healing process, under the physician’s supervision and guidance.  Treatment modalities include individually tailored dietary plans, exercise prescription/physical medicine, mind-body programs, medical acupuncture/biopuncture, orthomolecular and botanical preparations / functional foods.

Food intolerence, Intestinal dysbiosis (altered bowel microbiota), Functional disturbance of hypothalmo-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis), Nonpharmacalogical approaches to persistent pain and tension, Medical acupuncture - both traditional corporal (body) and microsystem (auricular, scalp and hand) acupuncture, Injections of homeopathic preparations into acupuncture points and scars (biopuncture) and Mind-Body medicine

Philosophy of Care:

“I feel that my Philosophy of Care is well represented by a quote from Plato…”
“The part cannot be well unless the whole is well.”