Our Team

Director, Osher

Melinda R. Ring, MD, FACP, ABOIM

Director, Osher Center for Integrative Health; Tina Trott Professor of Integrative Health; Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine), Medical Social Sciences (Intervention Science)

Director, Research

David Victorson, PhD

Professor of Medical Social Sciences; Director of the Flourishing in Society and Health Research Lab in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University; Director of Integrative Oncology at the Cancer Survivorship Institute at the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Co-Associate Director, Education

Anna Balabanova Shannahan, MD, ABOIM, FAWM

Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine; Family Medicine

Co-Associate Director, Education

Lori Walsh, MD, FAAP, ABOIM

Medical Director, Center for Health & Integrative Medicine, Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital; Medical Director, Pediatric Integrative Medicine, Advocate Children’s Hospital; Clinical Assistant of Professor, Division of Community Based Pediatrics, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

Planetary Health Specialist

Ann Vertovec, MD

Emeritis Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

Community Outreach Specialist

Shakira Sanchez-Collins, MD, MDiv

Internal Medicine

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Osher Clinic 
312-926-3627

Director, Osher Center For Integrative Health Clinic

Mary Ella Blair Wood, DO

Family Medicine

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Osher Clinic 
312-926-3627

Senior Practice Manager, Osher Clinic

Kalinda Marshall, MPH, BSN, RN

Director, Program Development

Isra Hassan

Associate Director, Marketing; Senior Program Coordinator

Vanessa Hughes