Dr. P. Michael Stone M.D., M.S.

I have been interested in medicine and health since high school. I enjoy being involved in the full spectrum of healthcare, from preconception, through childbirth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and through the aging years. I recognize that each of our metabolisms is unique. The effect of the mind on our body, our immune system, inflammation, our gastrointestinal tract, what we eat, our endocrine system, all are integral in how we each respond to illness and our ability to encourage health. Through the Healthy Living, Healthy Aging: Comprehensive Family Medicine Clinic- we integrate nutrition, traditional medicine, and other healthcare modalities in the treatment of illness and the maximization of health.

During high school , while being a candy striper, I decided to pursue medicine because I loved the stories, and history that people told during the visits in the hospital. Medicine was the window into recent history that you couldn’t find written down. I loved the science of medicine.

During College, I worked in research labs gaining appreciation for physiologic nutrition research and some of the intricacies of nutrition on the development of birth defects, colon cancer, and glanced at low and high vitamin intakes on the development of disease. I worked as a lecturer in nutrition, with the women, infants, and children (WIC), and labored as a roofer, logger, and mill worker. I finished my work at Washington State University, graduating cum laude with honors, with a Bachelors of Science in Human Nutrition and was chosen for Alpha Omega Alpha and Omicron Nu.

In graduate school I investigated the role of different monosaccharides (simple sugars) on the production of triglycerides and cholesterol. I finished with a Masters of Science in Nutrition from Washington State University.

During medical school at University of Washington, the opportunities were varied. Being involved in getting more nutrition education in medical school at the local and national level through the undergraduate curriculum committee, and with American Medical Students Association on the national level helped continue the emphasis on incorporating nutrition in the treatment of disease. As a family medicine research assistant, I completed a study on "Nutrition Knowledge of Residents at University of Washington." When spending a summer working on a Medical School Honors Project on the Thai Burma Border, I successfully determined the Nutritional Status of Karen School Children. This was presented in Abstract form to the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine.

Internship and Residency in family medicine at Ventura County Medical Center allowed specialty training which gave extensive experience in obstetrics, pediatrics, internal medicine, emergency and intensive care medicine, orthopedics, psychiatry. I was able to produce a primer for residents on nutrition assessment of the patient.

I completed various research projects and abstracts during my residency and fellowship. I prepared twenty different hour long lectures and presented to doctors in training during fellowship- ranging from the treatment of congestive heart failure, to the use of nutrition intervention in the treatment of the intensive care patient.

After completing my fellowship, two other physicians and I ran a Family Practice Clinic in Santa Paula. We were a full-family practice clinic during which we had 45 baby deliveries a month. We worked there two years and offered the full range of care.

Our family, Dr. Leslie Stone, our four children, and I, moved to a rural "hamlet" of 2500 people in north Idaho as part of a medical school loan repayment program. We became very involved in the community being involved in growing and tranforming a struggling inpatient hospital to a vibrant outpatient/inpatient facility, Benewah Community Hospital and St. Maries Family Medicine. In seven years Leslie and I provided care in over 40000 patients visits, preformed or assisted in hundreds of surgeries, and helped provide care to people from infertility, gestation, to healthy childhood years, adulthood and aging. I was involved in coaching baseball teams, the Chairman of the School Board, the Assistant or Chief of Staff at Benewah Community Hospital for four years. Teaching intermittantly at the Washington State University Graduate School and with the Nutrition Screening Initiative in Spokane and Eastern Washington has kept me active in academics. Professional presentations to physicians on Nutrition Assessment, Drug/Drug and Drug/Nutrient interactions, and serving as an instructor to University of Washington Medical Students in the rural communities continued to emphasize my commitment to education.

Our move to Ashland has been exciting. In working with David Jones, we look forward to further evolving the clinic to Comprehensive Family Medicine. We are integrating assessment of people's biochemical individuality to further fine tune their health and treatment needs. Nutrition and allergy, cognition, dementia, and the role of nutrition in childhood will be a focus. We will be able to provide the expertise in many different cancer screening techniques and procedural interventions.

I am working with Leslie Peterson Stone, M.D., and David Jones, M.D. in providing quality care for the wide range of people's needs focusing on improving their health as they proceed through life to more full and active living.

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