Tracy Gaudet, MD

Tracy Gaudet, MD, of Duke Integrative Medicine, helps patients become fluent in the many effective approaches to health care -- from the West and around the world.

What is integrative medicine?

Integrative medicine is a broad approach to health care. It combines the best of Western scientific medicine with proven complementary therapies to address the whole person -- body, mind, spirit, and community.

Integrative medicine addresses all aspects of health to not only treat disease but to optimize health. It’s the best that medicine has to offer.

What’s special about Duke Integrative Medicine?

At Duke IM, we are practicing an innovative model of care. We offer multi-day health immersions, annual membership, and a broad array of clinical services, classes, workshops, and trainings.

Our interdisciplinary team of clinicians -- physicians, acupuncturists, health psychologists, mind-body specialists, massage therapists, exercise physiologists, and integrative health coaches -- work together in partnership with each patient.

And we built our facility from the ground up to be a one-of-a-kind healing environment that is really unlike any in the country!

Why do you feel so passionately about this field?

Working in integrative medicine is to me the best possible way to practice medicine. I get to know my patients deeply.

Whether I’m working with a healthy patient, someone dealing with a chronic disease, someone who’s facing a recent diagnosis of cancer, or someone who needs surgery, I have the time and opportunity to focus on healing and provide personalized, comprehensive support.

This approach helps my patients achieve enduring health benefits they never knew were possible. That is very rewarding to me.

Within Duke Integrative Medicine’s soothing, state-of-the-art facility, a team of board-certified Duke physicians and health care providers draws from the very best of conventional and complementary medicine to help you optimize your health.

To learn more about our offerings -- from classes to memberships -- call 919-660-6826 or visit www.dukeintegrativemedicine.org.