Bid now to enjoy a conversation via Zoom with Dr. David Clarke, one of the world's leading authorities on pain and illness caused by stress or trauma rather than by injury or disease.
Every year, millions of people see a healthcare professional for symptoms that diagnostic tests can't explain. In most of these patients, the cause of the illness is stress, particularly stress that isn't fully recognized. The symptoms are quite real and may occur anywhere in the body. This condition, called Stress Illness (or PPD which stands for Psychophysiologic Disorders) can be mild or severe and causes symptoms that may last for years.
Now there is a new approach to this common problem.
Since 1983, Dr. David Clarke has successfully cared for over 7000 patients with Stress Illness.
ABOUT DR. DAVID CLARKE:
David D. Clarke, MD is President of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association. He is also Assistant Director at the Center for Ethics and Clinical Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology Emeritus both at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is Associate Faculty at Arizona State University, Associate Faculty at the Cummings Graduate Institute, Clinical Advisor to the Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners Association (U.K.) and Clinical Lecturer with Pacific University in Oregon.
He has received numerous awards for patient care including the Distinguished Physician Award from Kaiser Permanente and an award from Pacific University for Outstanding Commitment to Physician Assistant Education. In surveys of physicians by Portland Monthly magazine in the metropolitan area, Dr. Clarke was twice named one of the “Top Doctors” in his specialty. He is a member of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association for whom he co-Chairs the Special Interest Group on Medically Unexplained Symptoms.
Dr. Clarke is a graduate of Williams College (Phi Beta Kappa) and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he received the Mosby Award for Clinical Excellence. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Gastroenterology at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane, Australia and at Oxford University in England. He was the Ethics Director for his medical group from 2005-2008.
Dr. Clarke has lectured extensively on Psychophysiologic Disorders to internal medicine, family practice and gynecology physicians, mental health professionals, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other groups including chaplains, pharmacists, chronic pain specialists and the public across North America and Europe. His twenty television appearances include WABC (NY), WGN (Chicago), WJLA (D.C.), KRON (SF) and WFAA (Dallas). He has completed over 100 radio broadcasts including KKZZ, KRLA & KPFK Los Angeles, WLTW & WOR New York, WBZ Boston and KYW Philadelphia. He has appeared on syndicated broadcasts hosted by Rosie O'Donnell, by Montel Williams and by Michael Roizen(author of You: The Owner's Manual).