IHPC Board of Directors, Secretary/Treasurer
Federal Policy Committee
Leonard A. Wisneski, MD, FACP
Leonard A. Wisneski 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 teaches a course at Georgetown University entitled "The Western Approach to Eastern Medicine". Dr. Wisneski is currently the Dean and President of the University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine. He, along with a prestigious Board of Governors, has created a medical school devoted to integrated medicine, medical education research, and innovation. A school with a similar philosophy located in London is in development.
Dr. Wisneski's past accomplishments include serving as Vice Chairman of the NIH Consensus Panel on Acupuncture and 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 with a second edition in press.
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 regional president and medical director of American WholeHealth, an integrated, multi-practitioner center devoted to fostering individuals in the achievement of health and life goals. His medical practice in endocrinology and integrative medicine, spanning three decades, embodies the true meaning of integral medicine—an optimal synthesis of conventional and alternative medicine practiced with a whole person approach delivered with reverence and humanism. He also served in the role of Medical Director and Chief Medical Editor of Integrative Medicine Communications, a publishing company which produced textbooks and newsletters devoted to this new field of medicine.
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.