Meet The Wave Integrative Family
|
Dianne Defusco, MDDr. Dianne J. Defusco, MD, joined Wave after a successful career of over thirty years in Internal Medicine. Her deep and wide knowledge of current practices and trends in conventional medicine led her to believe that her patients could achieve better outcomes and find better overall wellness with a fundamentally different approach to medical care. In the recent past, she found that approach in Functional Medicine, and found her way onto the wave Integrative team. She focuses on finding and healing the “root cause” of inflammation. This can include autoimmune syndromes, Fibromyalgia, Hypothyroidism, Type II Diabetes, Tick-Borne Illnesses, as well as Chronic Fatigue. She brings years of experience helping patients at hospitals and clinics in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. She lives with her family in Bethany.
|
Cortney Katz, CFMP, PA-C
Photocredit: Kristina Foreman
Cortney Katz, CFMP, PA-C
Cortney Katz, PA-C, is a certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (CFMP), with focus on integrative treatment of pain (low back pain, Fibromyalgia, arthritis), and has specialty training in Environmental Illness such as mold. Katz is trained in FDA-approved Low Level ("Cold") Laser therarpy for Low Back Pain and Plantar Fasciitis, and the benefits of Pulsed Electromagnetic Field therapy for wound healing, chronic pain, sleep and digestion. She began her career in Urgent Care and as an ICU Hospitalist, but transitioned to working on preventative, "getting to the root cause" medicine when she saw that patients stayed sick, with just symptoms being managed by conventional care.
|
Parimal Patel, PA-C
Parimal Patel, PA-C has been using Functional Medicine to treat Arthritis, Fibromyalgia-like pain, and chronic headaches for 15 years. He is trained in FDA-approved Low Level ("Cold") Laser therarpy for Low Back Pain and Plantar Fasciitis, and the benefits of Pulsed Electromagnetic Field therapy for wound healing, chronic pain, sleep and digestion. He is a medical professional member of the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS.org). |
Parimal Patel, PA-C
Photocredit: Kristina Foreman, Milford CT
|
Krista Hewlett Keegan
Photocredit: Kristina Foreman
|
Krista Hewlett KeeganKrista is a Neuroscientist turned Integrative Health Coach after her recovery from years of a progressive, neurologic, autoimmune condition. She left medical school due to her illness, but discovered the merits of integrative health. Her publications focus on neuroplasticity and heart-brain health, but her interest as a health coach is supporting clients with complex, multi-system inflammatory diseases understand their body's needs and plasticity processes. She works as a team member or with clients directly.
|
Ashante Youins is Wave's Medical Assistant, and she is our primary ambassador, often being the main point of contact for our patients. A native of New Haven, she joined our team in summer 2019 after beginning her career several years earlier as an intake/triage professional at an Urgent Care center in Hamden. She came to Wave because she was looking for a practice with a different and better way of delivering medical care than the conventional model. What she likes about Wave is helping people and seeing their health improve. She lives in Hamden with her partner, and her favorite hobby is finding new adventures with their baby daughter.
|
Vincent Giandurco is Wave's Community Relations Manager, responsible for helping all of our patients and their families to understand Wave's services and philosophy, and keeping us all up to date on news about Wave, our team, and our industry. Vincent comes to us as a successful executive in marketing, public relations, and advertising, working with all kinds of businesses from large corporations to small non-profits to international NGOs. He lives with his wife and family in Fairfield, and his hobbies include reading, writing, and music.
|
|
What to Expect
Visit Wave Integrative Medical Center in Milford, CT or request a specialized telephone/ video consultation abroad. We will review your medical files before your appointment. After your initial, detailed history and discussion of your health goals, we will make recommendation for any further investigations necessary. Then, receive a custom approach to recovery of your health through nutrition, advanced clinical treatment guidelines, gastrointestinal focus, and precision medicine support for the nervous system. We apply the Functional Medicine approach to restoring order to body systems and health.
Wave Integrative's practitioners have helped thousands of patients with their symptoms of hypothyroidism, leaky gut, detoxification support, chronic fatigue, migraines, poor sleep, neuropathy, brain fog and co-infections. Call today for a personalized approach to recovering your optimal health!
Visit Wave Integrative Medical Center in Milford, CT or request a specialized telephone/ video consultation abroad. We will review your medical files before your appointment. After your initial, detailed history and discussion of your health goals, we will make recommendation for any further investigations necessary. Then, receive a custom approach to recovery of your health through nutrition, advanced clinical treatment guidelines, gastrointestinal focus, and precision medicine support for the nervous system. We apply the Functional Medicine approach to restoring order to body systems and health.
Wave Integrative's practitioners have helped thousands of patients with their symptoms of hypothyroidism, leaky gut, detoxification support, chronic fatigue, migraines, poor sleep, neuropathy, brain fog and co-infections. Call today for a personalized approach to recovering your optimal health!
Request an Appointment - Online Form
Patient Testimonials
"If you have symptoms that no one can figure out, Pari will get to the bottom of it!" |
"Love Pari and Krista. |
"Thanks to this very intelligent man and his health coach, I have my life back after ten years of being told I have arthritis. I won’t go into detail, but I was at the point of almost retiring early due to the horrible symptoms and fatigue. They focused on healing my gut first and waking up my adrenals and immune system. After just a few short months, I’m feeling so much better and it’s amazing because I had forgotten how much energy I used to have! I highly recommend Wave where they will spend time with you, listen to you, and work tirelessly to make you better." |
|
Milford CT Location is just off I-95 & CT-15 |
Madison Location is near exit 61 off I-95 |
"You know, regarding people who are going to the "experts" - I saw a very well regarded rheumatologist ... and a top-rated cardiologist; they have their ideas about what you have and they're the experts - "experts" - but I don't think in that structure they are interested in empowering you in your own health. But in my case, and I think a lot of people that end up in integrative treatment, prescription medicine is one piece of the puzzle. Antibiotics do a number on you - they make you feel worse. You have to learn how to take care of your systems, and I did not know how to before I came to Wave. I've had a very well-regarded cardiologist tell me "Yeah, you've got a lot of anxiety; that's what it is," [but these symptoms went away at Wave]. If you're sick - really sick- give integrative medicine a shot. What do you have to lose? That's where I was. I thought, 'might as well give it a shot', and it had totally changed my life." -Kim C, NY