Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson is the Director of the Fellowship at the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and an Professor of Clinical Medicine in Family and Community Medicine in the College of Medicine.  She is board-certified in Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine. She earned a Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health and an MD with honors from Dalhousie School of Medicine. She is a 2004 alumnus of the University of Arizona Fellowship in Integrative Medicine has been on faculty since 2005.  Dr. Chiasson currently serves as the president of the American Board of Physician Specialties Chair and is a previous chair of the American Board of Integrative Medicine.   She has worked in Integrative Medicine, Family Practice, Addiction Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative care.   

Dr. Chiasson began exploring energy healing prior to medical school; she has extensive experience exploring energy medicine and alternative healing practices, including time spent with Mayan shamanic healers and psychic surgeons in the Yucatan peninsula.  She studied with Dr. Brugh Joy and Maria Elena Cairo.  She is the author of Energy Healing – the Essentials of Self Care  (Sounds True 2013) and co-author of Self-Healing with Energy Medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil (Sounds True 2010) and Barefoot Wisdom with Sharon Whiteley (Schiffer, 2018).  She is an a nationally acclaimed speaker on Integrative Medicine, Integrative Pain Management, End of life care, Dietary Supplements, and Energy Healing Techniques from a multi-cultural perspective.