Wellness Mama®
Simple Answers for Healthier Families
Sheila Kilbane, MD is a board-certified pediatrician, trained in integrative medicine.
After realizing she didn’t fit into the “box” of conventional medicine, she broke free from big business medicine and disease management and sought additional training in nutrition and mind-body therapies with Andrew Weil, MD.
Today, she uses the best of traditional and integrative medicine to find the root cause of illness. Using her seven-step process, along with natural and nutritional therapies, Dr. Kilbane helps families significantly improve or resolve altogether, illnesses such as colic, reflux, eczema, recurrent ear and sinus infections, asthma, allergies, and stomach and GI issues such as constipation and abdominal pain.
In addition to seeing individual patients at her private practice in Charlotte, NC, Dr. Kilbane also gives educational lectures to parents and healthcare professionals around the world and offers online education courses. Her book, Healthy Kids, Happy Moms: A Step-by-Step Guide to Improving Many Common Childhood Illnesses, is available on Amazon.
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