Dr. Sheila George, M.D., C.A.

Dr. Sheila George is a family medicine practitioner.  Her practice consists of metabolic and complementary medicine with a focus on treating chronic degenerative diseases and cancer. Treatment strategies include nutritional and dietary therapy, supplements, Chinese herbs, and acupuncture.

Dr. George attended Howard University School of Medicine. She completed a three-year Family Practice Residency and a one-year fellowship in Urban Family practice at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. During her time at Montefiore, she also completed a three-year acupuncture program in New York at the First World Acupuncture Association and a two-year program in Chinese Herbal Pharmacology with Ted Kaptchuk, OMD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

For the next five years Dr. George worked at the Institute of Urban Family Health at the Sidney Hillman Health Center. Her focus during that time was on woman’s health and people who were HIV+. She practiced both conventional and Chinese medicine at the Hillman Center and in the evenings studied Classical Chinese Medicine (multiple styles and traditions of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine) with Jeffrey Yuen, an internationally recognized master of Classical Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. Dr. George was then asked to set up an acupuncture program at the Swedish Institute, Inc. based on his teachings.

Dr. George co-developed the School of Acupuncture at the Swedish Institute and became its first academic dean. After the school achieved New York State approval and National accreditation she left and began her private practice. During this time she became an associate of Jeffrey Yuen and one of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s first acupuncturist at their Integrative Medicine Center.

She has also trained in metabolic typing with Dr.Harold Kristal and metabolic medicine with Pamela McDougle.  Dr. George is a former member of the New York State Board of Acupuncture and a faculty member in the PhD program in Classical Chinese medicine at American University of Complementary Medicine in California.