Susan Blum, MD, MPH, an assistant clinical professor in the department of preventive medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been treating, healing, and preventing chronic diseases for nearly two decades. A preventive medicine and chronic disease specialist, Blum is founder and director of Blum Center for Health in Rye Brook, New York, where she leads a multi-specialty team of physicians, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, and health coaches, all providing leading-edge Functional and Integrative Medicine services.

In her first best-selling book, The Immune System Recovery Plan, Blum offers her four-step program, which has helped thousands of patients recover from autoimmune and immune-related conditions without medication. Blum’s second book, Healing Arthritis, offers a ground-breaking approach to helping arthritis sufferers reverse and heal this condition.

Susan Blum is Board Certified in preventive medicine and certified in both Functional Medicine and Integrative and Holistic Medicine. She is a member of the Medical Advisory Board for The Dr. Oz Show, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and is senior teaching faculty with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. and teaches throughout the world in their training programs. She is also on the Board of Directors for the True Health Initiative, and on the Scientific Advisory Board for Genomind, a Medical Biotech Company.