GLADYS TAYLOR MCGAREY, MD, MD(H) FOUNDER, PIONEERING PHYSICIAN Dr. Gladys McGarey is internationally recognized as the Mother of Holistic Medicine. In practice as a family doctor from 1946 to 2004, she relentlessly advocated and advanced the emergence of holistic patient care. Often ,in the early years, she experienced staunch opposition from a male-dominated medical establishment. In 1970, she co-founded the A.R.E. Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, where she and her former husband pioneered the integration of allopathic and holistic medical practices, laying groundwork for the cultural shift of recent years. Among Dr. McGarey’s innovations for natural birthing was the Baby Buggy Program founded in 1978, featuring a fully-equipped paramedical and emergency transport vehicle for home deliveries. Her ability to foster effective holistic self-management of debilitating chronic conditions has attracted patients from afar, including notable celebrities. Since 1979, she has offered intensive holistic healing programs such as the Phoenix Experience, a residential retreat currently held semi-annually in Carefree, Arizona. WRITER-SPEAKER-FOUNDER Dr. Gladys, as she is best known, has written and lectured extensively. She authored two holistic classics:" The Physician Within You: Medicine for the Millennium (Health Communications, Inc., 1997)", and " Born to Live (Gabriel Press, 1980)", and co-authored "There Will Your Heart Be Also", a book about home and marriage. She continues to write numerous articles for health publications, both as a columnist and feature writer. Of note is a health survey she wrote for National Geographic Research and Exploration. Her public speaking career bridges four decades during which she has shared the podium with Andrew Weil, Depoch Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and other notables who became her associates in the American Holistic Medical Association, which Dr. McGarey co-founded in 1977. The Gladys Taylor McGarey Medical Foundation, over which she currently presides, has promoted holistic health education and research since 1989. In addition to the aforementioned A.R.E. Clinic in Phoenix, she co-founded The Scottsdale Holistic Medical Group where she practiced with her daughter, Helene Wechsler, M.D,. from 1989 to 2004. In 2004, Dr. Wechsler opened a new practice, Scottsdale Private Physicians, at 10900 N. Scottsdale Road, where Dr. Gladys sees patients one day a week. She helps patients through difficult times with "life coaching", dream interpretation and her own form of "Living Medicine". Appointments with her may be scheduled by calling 480-483-2374. AFGHANISTAN PROJECT 2005 In early February of 2005, at 84 years of age, Dr. Gladys joined her brother, Carl Taylor, M.D. (age 88), former head of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University, for two months of medical work in Afghanistan––the first of a projected series of trips. Working with female Afghani physician Shakria Hassan, they traveled to Kabul, Kandahar, Jaghom, and Bamian, the most remote villages of Afghanistan in Bamian Province, providing care for women and children throughout the region. Dr. Gladys defined her mission as, “First listening carefully to the Afghani people regarding their healing traditions, then offering education, training and treatment that supports and augments indigenous practices.” The Afghanistan trip is the second such project brother and sister have undertaken. In 1990, they were in Tibet for three weeks as part of an international medical research team conducting a survey of general health conditions and practices to be utilized by the Chinese and Tibetan departments of health. Dr. McGarey and her brother have a natural interest in third world medical concerns, having been raised in India by medical missionaries in the 1920s and 30s. A new biography, Born to Heal: The Life Story of holistic pioneer Gladys Taylor McGarey, M.D. by Annalea McGarey, reveals a young girl confidently living in a world infected by leprosy and other frightful diseases. Now in her wisdom years, she returned to the near East. The Afghanistan project was co-sponsored by The Gladys Taylor McGarey Medical Foundation and Future Generations, one of the few foundations cleared by the US Government to provide educational programs in Afghanistan. Project update: Afghani Women Emerging  |  The Children's Homes & Roni  (You Can Help!) SELECTED PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND AWARDS Dr. McGarey is past president of The American Holistic Medical Association and the Arizona Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners; and a Founding Diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine. She is on the Advisory Board of Arizona State University East. Among her many awards are the Humanities Award for Outstanding Service to Mankind, from the National Committee for the Advancement of Parapsychology and Medicine (1990); a 1998 YWCA Tribute to Women award in the healer category; and the David Stackhause Award for pioneering excellence in homeopathy (1994). In May of 2003 she was honored by the American Holistic Medical Association as a Pioneer of Holistic Medicine. PAPERS & ARTICLES: ...Choose an Article... 100 Years Of Women In Medicine Aiding Digestion A Healing Place All About Dreams An Article by Dr. Gladys An Article by John McGarey Back Aches Foot Pain Beyond The Norm Birth And Death Church Conference to Focus on Health Issues of Women Dr. Gladys in Tibet Doctors to be Honored Exercise Food for Thought Healing Ceremonies Healing Comes from Within Healing Profession, Heal Thyself! In A Family Way Just About Woman Meditation Memory Loss Menopause Menopause - Time for Change Networking for Quality & Community Painful Menstruation Physician Give Aid in Tibet Profile - Gladys T. McGarey, M.D. The Eyes Have It The Healing Power of Dreams The Point The Ten Commandments of Wholeness The Urinary Tract University Women