Dr Hyla Cass is one of the country's
foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative
medicine. A former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
at UCLA School of Medicine, she has incorporated nutrition
and natural health techniques into her practice for more
than 20 years.
Dr. Cass' years of experience have yielded three guiding
principles:
Treat
the whole person - mind, body, spirit, and environment.
Look first for the deepest root problems beneath any symptoms.
Apply
a continuum of treatments, always beginning with the safest,
most natural, and most benign.
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Media - Media and speaking resources
Practice
Dr. Cass has a private practice in Pacific Palisades, CA (near Santa Monica,
in the Los Angeles area). She uses an integrated approach in her evaluation
and treatment of individuals with a wide variety of problems. >> Consultation
Appearances
Dr. Cass appears regularly as an expert in the field, on radio, TV (including The View and MSNBC),
and in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The
Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time Magazine, and People
Magazine.
Dr Cass also maintains a busy schedule of speaking
engagements at health-related events around the country,
with topics ranging from complementary medicine and psychiatry,
anti-aging, women's health (including natural hormone therapy),
weight management, to stress reduction, and natural treatments
for addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression.
Articles -Click here for articles written by Dr. Cass
Curriculum
Vitae
Identifying Information: Born in Toronto, Canada
Occupation: Psychiatrist; integrative medical practitioner;
author; consultant
Education: Pre-Medical and Medical Education: University
of Toronto, School of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Internship: Los Angeles County-U.S.C. Medical Center
Residency Training: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los
Angeles, California, child and family psychiatry
Board Certification: Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry
and Neurology
Attending Staff Physician: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
(1980-92)
Professional Memberships:
- Orthomolecular Health and Medicine Society (OHM)
- National Association of Medical Communicators
Board Member:
- Nourish America, providing vitamins to underprivileged children and other
at-risk populations.
- Board Advisor –American College for Advancement in
Medicine (ACAM)
Academic Appointments and Professional Positions:
- Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, U.C.L.A. School
of Medicine (1979- 2005)
- Psychiatric Consultant to the Independent Safety Committee,
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Pacific Gas and Electric
(1990–2002)
- Advisory Board: Health Sciences Institute, Baltimore, MD
- Advisory Board: Taste for Life, Peterborough, Maine
- Associate editor: Total Health Magazine, St. George Utah
Author:
- Supplement Your Prescription (Basic Health, Nov 2007)
- 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health for Women (McGraw-Hill, 2005)
- Natural Highs (Penguin Putnam Avery, 2002)
- User’s Guides to Herbs (Basic Health Publications,
2004), Ginkgo (2003), and Vitamin C (2003)
- Kava: Nature’s Answer to Stress Anxiety and Insomnia
(Prima, 1999)
- St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster (Penguin Putnam Avery,
1998)
Licensure: States of California, Delaware
About
Dr. Cass
Hyla Cass M.D graduated from the University of Toronto School
of Medicine, interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center,
and completed a psychiatric residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA
School of Medicine. She was an Assistant Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine until 2005, and is in private
clinical practice in Pacific Palisades, CA.
Dr. Cass is author of several popular books, including:
She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Health
Sciences Institute, Taste for Life Magazine, and Total
Health Magazine,
and an advisory board member of California Citizens for Health.
She consults to the supplement industry regarding formulations,
and has developed several under her own label.
Incorporating nutritional principles and natural health techniques
in her practice for more than 20 years, she is one of the nation's
foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine.
She regularly appears on radio, television, including The View,
The CBS Evening News and MSNBC, where she successfully debated
a “Quackbuster” challenger.
She is quoted as an expert in the field in publications such as
the Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time
Magazine, and People Magazine. Her speaking topics
to both lay and professional medical audiences include complementary
medicine and psychiatry,
anti-aging, women's health (including bio-identical hormone therapy),
stress reduction, and natural treatments for addictions, anxiety
disorders, and depression.
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