ABOUT

INTEGRATIVE + FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

Your symptoms and your story are uniquely yours. Choosing to work with an integrative doctor means entering into a partnership with someone who gets to know your story and not just your lab results, imaging and diagnoses. The integrative approach prompts you to look at your symptoms from a different angle and challenges you to make life changes that can direct you on a healing path.

Whether you haven’t seen a doctor in 20 years, or you’ve seen every subspecialist in the phone book, Integrative Medicine is a personalized approach to your health challenges.

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What I Do

My job is to listen deeply to your story and answer one question – what are the modifiable factors interfering with your body’s innate drive to heal? I answer this question by taking the time needed to hear your story and focusing 100% on you during the visit. During our time together, I take notes on paper (not a computer). My attention is entirely focused on you.

The Power of Symptoms

At the initial visit, I record your symptoms and story on a timeline. Understanding the order in which symptoms and major life events unfolded is an important part of an Integrative/Functional evaluation. Symptoms are your body’s early warning system, directing you to examine areas of your life and lifestyle needing attention. Symptoms are signposts directing us towards root causes of imbalance. With the busy and overscheduled lives many of us live nowadays, it is easy to overlook these early warning signs of imbalance. Use of caffeine, over the counter medications, and/or prescription medication can suppress symptoms, but will not fix the underlying underlying problem. People often live with disregarded warning signs for decades, without realizing that small adjustments in diet, lifestyle, sleep, orodental health and environment can lead to a huge shift in wellbeing and vitality.

Dr Sharon Goldberg

About Me

I’ve practiced medicine since 2000. Initially, I spent over a decade working in acute care Internal Medicine in New York City and then Miami. During this period I had the honor of helping clinically train hundreds of medical students and residents while working as a Hospital Medicine Physician. As the years passed, younger and younger people were being admitted to the Internal Medicine wards with diagnoses that had previously been seen in mostly older patients. Genes do not change over a period of 15 years, and this got me interested in nutritional and environmental influences of disease, Integrative Medicine and clinical research. In 2015 I started an Integrative/Functional practice in Bay Harbor Islands, FL. Several years later, I moved to Santa Fe, NM, where I currently practice Integrative Medicine.

What I love most about Integrative Medicine is having the time needed to evaluate and care for complex patients, and being able to apply the tools/testing to consider personalized lifestyle, nutrition and environmental factors (chemical toxins, mold, electromagnetic fields) as part of diagnosis and treatment. Integrative Medicine offers the best of both conventional medicine as well as “complementary” therapies that are safe and effective. I get a lot of joy from applying the two approaches together in my practice.

Education/Training/Affiliations

  • Medical Education and Training
  • Medical School (Doctor of Medicine): Tel-Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1997
  • Internship: Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
  • Residency in Internal Medicine: Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, NY
  • Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Instituto De Medicina Tropical/Gorgas Memorial Institute, Lima, Peru 2005

Board Certification/Affiliations

  • Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine 2000-present
  • Diplomate, American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine 2012
  • University of Miami/Institute for Functional Medicine Pilot Course Participant (2011-2015)
  • Member, Academy of Integrative Holistic Medicine
  • Member, American Academy of Environmental Medicine
  • Member, Institute for Functional Medicine

Faculty Appointments

  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Community Faculty, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, May 2019-present
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, August 2011-July 2015
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, October 2006-June 2011
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, May 2004-February 2005
  • Instructor in Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, July 2001-April 2004
  • Peer Reviewed Publications

An updated list of the scientific papers I have coauthored can be found here.

I have found Dr G to be very thorough, respectful, caring, and a good listener; she takes as much time as is needed for each appointment; I am particularly grateful for her willingness to advocate for me, by writing a letter to an additional specialist, stressing the urgency of my condition, and thereby facilitating my acceptance in that particular practice. I am grateful for her familiarity with resources and openness to working as a team. I highly recommend her.

R.S., patient since 6/2023

Four years ago, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and treated with a powerful corticosteroid for a year. The drug put me in remission, but its side effects left me very ill. After being passed from doctors to specialists for two years with no concrete answers, I met Dr. Goldberg. She found a vitamin deficiency that had been overlooked and a significant bacterial infection that had not been detected. She prescribed an antibiotic to treat the infection and, when that cleared up, put me on a regime of probiotics and natural supplements to promote healing. I made more progress in six months with Dr. Goldberg than in the previous two years with a raft of doctors and specialists. I highly recommend her.

J.C., patient since 8/2023

Dr. Goldberg has been so incredibly helpful in my healing journey! She listens to my concerns and gets to the root cause of my health issues instead of just giving me a prescription to treat a symptom. I’ve seen my fair share of doctors in the past and I’m so thankful for her broad depth of knowledge and expertise in combining both western medicine with personalized functional medicine treatment options! She has helped me so much I’ve sent multiple friends to her! I’m so thankful I found her!

K.K., patient since 4/2021

After trying a few different physicians in Santa Fe I’ve finally found the right one for me. Being a retired dentist I’m very “picky” about who I choose as a provider. For me, Dr. Goldberg is a perfect fit. She has a knowledge base that extends beyond her medical school training, she has “un-rushed” appointments (mine have been an hour or more), she listens very well, she’s very bright and she’s a very nice person. Highly Recommended!

Rusty Kirkland, DDS, patient since 9/2022

I am completely pleased with the care Dr. Goldberg has given me. She listens well and appreciates my wishes while at the same time being very knowledgeable and willing to suggest alternatives that I may not have thought of. I feel we are a great team in working toward my best possible health.

L.K, patient since 9/2022.

I have been seeing Doctor Goldberg for one year now. During this time, she has been able to not only diagnose the health issues I have been experiencing for years, but to also help me to understand and actually heal. I now feel healthy again. I had seen many doctors to try to get the help and answers I needed, but most of them did not have the knowledge, compassion and time that Dr. Goldberg has given me. Dr. Goldberg is thorough in her care, listens, and helped me to heal from mold mycotoxins and other health issues. Dr Goldberg is not only an extremely knowledgeable physician, but is kind, caring, humble, personable, responds to all emails, and is a great listener and educator. I highly recommend Dr, Goldberg for anyone who wants answers and healing for their health concerns.

T.S., patient since 12/2022

Dr. Goldberg has been the most skilled, caring and knowledgeable physician I have ever had. Several years ago, I decided that working with an experienced physician who is able to find and treat the causes of health problems made a lot more sense than merely medicating symptoms. This decision has been life changing. Working with Dr.
Goldberg has been a unique experience, one that empowers me to feel optimistic about my health and life in general. I know our bodies can heal given the right information, commitment and beliefs.

I’m so grateful I have someone to work with who is a true and trusted healthcare partner.

M.H., patient since 3/2022

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Lauren Sauvageot – Office Manager

Lauren is originally from Minnesota and Wisconsin and has lived in Santa Fe for 16 years. She studied Business and Design at Bemidji State University in Northern Minnesota. She has a diverse background working in sales, service, events and with nonprofits.

Lauren is married with 3 grown children and 2 grandchildren who make her smile everyday. Helping others is her passion. She enjoys volunteer work, the outdoors, reading and visiting family & friends around the country.

For assistance with administrative issues, general questions or appointment scheduling, please contact Lauren directly at: office@drsharongoldberg.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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