IHPC Board of Directors
Federal Policy Task Force
Leonard A. Wisneski
Leonard A. Wisneski, MD, FACP is Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University where he is a founding member of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Curriculum Planning Committee. He was Vice Chairman of the NIH Consensus Panel on Acupuncture and is Chairman of the NIH Advisory Board on Frontier Sciences at the University of Connecticut. He holds fellowship positions in The American College of Physicians, The American College of Nutrition, and The American Institute of Stress. He served on the board of the American Holistic Medical Association and was President of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. He has published over 30 scientific articles and a textbook, "The Scientific Basis of Integrative Medicine". He has been in the clinical practice of endocrinology and integrative medicine for over 25 years.
Combining his knowledge with an intense passion for innovation in health care delivery and the quest to develop pathways toward the attainment of optimal vitality, Dr. Wisneski is a leader in the field of health and healing. In 1999, Dr. Wisneski co-founded and served as the Medical Director of LifePath Health Center, an integrative, multi-practitioner center devoted to fostering individuals in the achievement of health and life goals. He continues to see patients at Wisneski Medical Associates in Bethesda, Maryland. His practice embodies the true meaning of integral medicine—the optimal synthesis of conventional and alternative medicine (integrative) practiced with a whole person (holistic) approach and delivered with reverence and humanism.
Dr. Wisneski graduated from Thomas Jefferson Medical College and performed his postgraduate training in the field of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology in the George Washington University healthcare system, where he served as Chief Medical Resident in Internal Medicine. From 1977 until 1997, Dr. Wisneski was the Corporate Medical Director of Marriott International, Inc., and Director of Medical Education at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, an affiliate of George Washington University Medical School and Children's National Medical Center where he devoted his efforts to the clinical practice of internal medicine and endocrinology.