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Michael
W. Loes M.D. M.D. (H) completed medical school at the University
of Minnesota, followed by a fellowship in clinical pharmacology. His residency
training was in Internal Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Dr. Loes is certified by boards or qualifying exams in Internal Medicine,
Pain Medicine, Pain Management, Alcohol and Chemical Dependency, Acupuncture,
Clinical Hypnosis. Homeopathy and Disability Medicine. He is on the Board
of Directors for the National Pain Foundation, and Arizona Teen Challenge.
. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, and currently
the Director of the Arizona Pain Institute in Phoenix. He is a consultant
for SW Pain Management and Southwestern Center for Pain. Co-authoring with
David Steinman, he wrote Arthritis: The Doctor's Cure, Healing Sports Injuries
Naturally, The Aspirin Alternative and Inulin: The Antibiotic Companion.
All of these books have their roots in traditional medicine, but their heart
in functional integrative medicine Dr. Loes is a popular national speaker
usually addressing audiences on strategies to Prevent & Heal Pain. He has
been involved in pain research for nearly 20 years and has authored multiple
professional articles. Writing and speaking have always been a primary thrust
of Dr. Loes's endeavors, having started at age 18 being the senior editor
for his high school newpaper in St..Cloud, MN. He then went to University
of California, Berkeley and where he graduated with honors in linguistics,
writing his honors thesis on language acquisition in autistic children.
Today, he lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife Lauren and 5 daughters.
His oldest, Jaspar, wants to be a writer and is studying English and music
at Bethel College in St. Paul, MN. His other children (Kaelyn, Gina, Andrea
& Janelle) haven't declared their interests beyond childhood as of yet but
they all have that glint in their eye forecasting bold things to come. Dr.
Loes still sees private patients, but devotes more than half of his professional
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