Comprehensive Evaluation and Integrative Medicine Counseling
We provide an hour-long evaluation and counseling program to help patients match integrative medicine offerings with individual needs. This involves assessing medical problems, coping resources, family and social support, and evaluating patient goals, abilities, and opportunities.
We help patients evaluate available non-traditional treatment options. We help patients to combine "alternative" techniques, including acupuncture, hypnosis, mindfulness, therapeutic massage, and information regarding dietary supplements, with traditional medical care.
Our evaluation and counseling staff includes a physician-naturopath, an internal medicine/psychiatrist, and a psychiatrist.
To schedule an appointment for a medical evaluation or counseling, please call us at (650) 498-5566. The first step will be to check out your insurance benefits and your registration in the Stanford Hospital & Clinics computer system, so please have your insurance card handy when you call.
Evaluation and Counseling Staff
- Brian Karvelas, MD
Brian Karvelas is a 1996 graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin. He did his internship at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Stanford. He received a doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from John Bastyr University, and graduated from the San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Dr Karvelas specializes in musculoskeletal medicine, general health enhancement, and the complementary use of natural therapies for the treatment of internal disorders.
- Manuela M. Kogon, MD
Manuela Kogon is a 1989 graduate of the University of Basel Medical School in Switzerland. She did her internship at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, and her residency at the Univesrity of Utah School of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and has completed a Fellowship at Stanford University in Medical Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. Her areas of work include medical psychotherapy, hypnosis, guided imagery, gestalt therapy and compliance as well as other established medical and psychiatric modalities.
- David Spiegel, MD
David Spiegel, Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is Director of the research-focused Center on Stress and Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has authored more than 375 research papers and chapters in scientific journals and books, and numerous awards for his research on mind/body medicine. He co-authored Trance and Treatment (2004), a standard textbook on the clinical uses of hypnosis. Dr. Spiegel was featured on Bill Moyer's ground-breaking PBS series Healing and the Mind.
Dr. Spiegel is a 1971 graduate of Harvard University Medical School. He did his residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Cambridge Hospital.