WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO MEDICINE - DAVID BLYWEISS MD

Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 6:50 a.m.

•Having started his career as a clinical pharmacist, Dr. Blyweiss became an early adherent and practitioner of integrative and functional medicine and was one of the first physicians to become certified by the Institute of Functional Medicine. He was one of the early U.S. researchers doing work on chlorhexidine (phisohex, Hibiclens) while earning his first post graduate degree at Temple University School of Pharmacy in 1976. And graduated medical school in 1982 •Dr. Blyweiss can speak to a wide range of medical topics of interest. •He has traveled the world, most recently to Gabon, Croatia and Belize working closely with teams of specialists to identify new plant life and natural products for possible human benefit. •He has directed University of Miami’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine clinical nutrition conferences since 2012 and began as medical director for Natural Immunogenics here in March just as Covid-19 was settling into the national consciousness.