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Ayurveda
Medical Group
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Meet
Our Team
Ayurveda Medical Group was the brainchild of Amita, a final year Ayurveda
medical student at Maharishi University of Management in Iowa. She was inspired and impressed by
her Professor, Dr.Hemant Gupta, in making available this knowledge of Life to
ordinary people everywhere. Dr. Shirish Nathwani, a medical practitioner in St. John's, Newfoundland,
was inspired by Ayurveda from his undergraduate days (1959-1965) in Scotland.
Having practiced various disciplines of Modern Medicine in U.K., Africa and North
America, he felt an urgent and logical need to incorporate his
practice of modern medicine into an Ayurvedic framework. Ayurveda Medical
Group was created in November 2001, with Dr. Gupta and his daughter, Amita Nathwani, as directors, advisors and
consultants, with the primary goal of educating, and serving people,
everywhere, and making available the highest possible quality of care at
nominal cost to the patient.
Dr. Shirish Nathwani, M.D.
Founder, Adviser
Dr. Shirish H. Nathwani, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh since 1972, received his medical degree at the
University of Glasgow
in Scotland
in 1965. His first exposure to Ayurvedic Medicine was as a medical student,
when he first read an English translation of the surgical treatise of
Sushrutaji, known today as the father of Plastic Surgery, who lived in the
6th Century B.C. in India.
After practicing in Kenya
and Scotland prior to
1972, Dr. Nathwani made his home in Newfoundland,
where he has enjoyed an increasingly wholistic approach to the management of
his patients, at a group practice "Mount
Pearl Medical
Center" Mount Pearl, Newfoundland,
Canada. He
has been a long standing student of Ayurveda and continues to remain so,
while sharing his medical expertise, with his teacher Dr. Hemant Gupta.
 Dr. Hemant
Gupta,
B.A.M.S., MD (ayurveda)
Director, Consulting Physician, Teacher
Dr. Hemant Gupta, who received his MD (ayurveda) from the National
Institute of Ayurveda (N.I.A), India, has more than 20 years of teaching,
clinical and research experience at leading ayurveda institutions of
India and other countries. He was visiting professor and developed and
conducted courses for physicians, medical professionals and the public in
North America, Europa, Japan, Australia and other south east
Asian countries. Director for ayurveda programmes at `The Raj', Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A. and M.A.H.C.
in Lancaster, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(premiere ayurveda and panchakarma centers). Associate
professor and deputy director for undergraduate and Ph.D. programmes at the College of Maharishi Vedic
Medicine at M.U.M.,
Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A.
where he developed the undergraduate curriculum and taught undergraduate and
Ph.D. programmes. Dr. Gupta was on the advisory board of the Center for
Natural Medicine and Prevention which is funded by the N.I.H to do research
on complementary medicine. Currently Dr. Gupta is director and consulting
physician of the Ayurveda Medical Group, and oversees the teaching of courses
on ayurveda and the Ayurveda
Wellness Center.
Dr. Gupta also develops and teaches courses through Memorial University of
Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland,
Canada and the Ayurvedic Academy of Canada, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
Amita Nathwani
Director, Consultant
Amita Nathwani is of Indian origin
and has been brought up in both India
and Canada.
Having such an upbringing has given her the gift of being true to the purity
of Ayurvedic knowledge while still maintaining awareness of the ways of the
western world. With the support of her
two teachers, Dr. Hemant Gupta and Dr. Shirish Nathwani, Amita practices
Ayurvedic Medicine in Durango,
Colorado.
Experience
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Undergraduate Studies, Memorial
University of Newfoundland.
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Study of Medical Sanskrit, School
of Sanskrit Studies, Bangalore, India.
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Bachelors in Ayurveda, College of Maharishi
Vedic Medicine.
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Graduate Studies, College of Maharishi
Vedic Medicine.
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Work study, Maharishi
Ayurveda Center
in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Patient Educator, Raj
Ayurvedic Health
Center, Fairfield, Iowa.
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Training as Panchakarma technician, Raj Ayurvedic
Health Center,
Fairfield, Iowa.
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Internship, Head of the women's Panchakarma
department, and liaison between physician and outpatients, Heavenly Mountain
Clinic, Boone North Carolina.
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Ayurvedic consultant and caretaker, Boone, North
Carolina.
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Amita is Founder and President of Four Corners Holistic Health Association, Inc.
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Amita is currently practicing Ayurvedic Medicine at
Namaste Health Center in Durango, Colorado.
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