Amy Nett, MD
On Life’s Unexpected Twists
The call to healing arrives differently for every doctor. For me, it took hold during my college years at UC Santa Barbara. It was there that I became a student of nutrition and pharmacology, a nationally ranked competitive cyclist, and first discovered the beauty of a local farmers market. This interest in health and fitness, combined with my love of science, paved the way to Georgetown University School of Medicine, where I completed my M.D. with an additional year devoted to clinical research.
After graduation, I returned home to California, immersing myself in post-graduate training during an internship in internal medicine at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, followed by a residency and fellowship in radiology at Stanford University Hospital.
But something was missing. As a practicing board-certified radiologist, I missed working directly with patients, and knew I could offer more to patients seeking answers along their paths to healing. I realized that successfully addressing their needs required a deeper, more personal connection.
Motivated and informed by my own health struggles, I started to read intensely about functional and integrative medicine. Over the next year, I made the difficult decision to leave radiology, and started training under a variety of functional and integrative medicine experts and mentors. In late 2014, I began treating patients through a functional medicine approach at the California Center for Functional Medicine.
In early 2019, I completed the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM) Certification Program, and in September 2020 I completed a two year fellowship program with the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM). This education paved the way for my board certification through the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABPS) in 2021.
Each step along the way has allowed me to carefully blend my conventional medical training with a sound functional medicine approach, relying on evidence-based medicine and research when possible, while also incorporating healing practices from various traditional medical practices.
And now, in private practice since 2019, I continue to be as excited about learning more alongside, and often from, my patients. I’ll never stop growing as a physician, and am eager to continue this journey, seeing what unfolds in this next chapter of my career.
With Gratitude,
