Finding Bridges

Interview(Part 2): Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, MPH, MD, HHC, AHWC

Finding Bridges between allopathy and “alterna-

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Bhaswati Bhattacharya, MPH, MD, HHC, AHWC is a holistic physician and the Director of the Dinacharya Institute. She served at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn from 2001-2011, as Director of Research and as Director of the Division of CAM, and also worked as an attending physician in family medicine, internal medicine, and ob/gyn. She has been Clinical Assistant Professor in medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She has held faculty positions at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, The Graduate Institute (CT), Sai Ayurveda College of Miami, and Georgetown University. She has formal degrees from UPenn, Columbia, Harvard, and Rush. She provides care to underserved patients and teaches holistic medicine in her private practice (www.drbhaswati.com). She has over 25 years of experience in clinical research, primary care, clinical

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organizations, and the corporate world. Her ongoing training in Ayurveda is both traditional - through gurukula in India since 2001, and contemporary / Sai Ayurveda. Her clinical work has been featured in a documentary called Healers: Journey into Ayurveda, playing worldwide since 2003, on The Discovery Channel. She is the recipient of several awards in health, medicine, and Ayurveda. She was recently awarded as a Fulbright-Nehru Teaching/ Research Scholar for 2013-2014, and has been accepted as a PhD student of Ayurveda at BHU upon completion of her Scholar year. 8

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I do not think that the people creating policy have bad intent: I think they just have not gone through the processes of designing a proper health care system for India based on its resources: the knowledge of biodiversity in its flora and the Ayurvedic wise men who know how to combine plants and minerals for therapeutic use

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