~~ Alternative/Integrative medical approaches for preventing and reversing chronic disease and promoting optimal health and wellness will be discussed.
 The first speaker in this series will be David Berger, MD, who is a Board Certified Pediatrician and member of Kol Ami. Dr. David graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1994 and did his Pediatric Residency at USF, where he. started integrating wholistic therapies into his medical practice at Tampa General. He has been in practice since 1997 and in 2005 opened his Wholistic Pediatric and Family care practice. In 2010 Dr. Berger was appointed Assistant Professor at USF College of Nursing. Since 1999, Dr. David has been an advanced practitioner in biomedical therapies, advocating the Autism Research institute's philosophy.  His focus is on identifying and treating all the factors that influence health: physical, mental, environmental and biochemical. His mission is to find the cause of health problems, rather than to simply manage them.