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dr cardona's background

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Dr Cardona’s career spans professorships and senior teaching and research posts at some of Europe’s most distinguished Western medical schools including Institut Pasteur; Salpêtrière Hospital; Institut Biomedical des Cordeliers, Institut Français de Chiropractie, Paris; University of Perugia Medical School, Italy; King's College London and St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, UK. His integrative medical work includes senior teaching at institutions such as Bastyr university, Seattle; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and Five Branches University, Santa Cruz, USA.

 

After graduating in Medical Sciences he completed his Masters in Clinical Biochemistry, studying the role of different types of vegetarian diets. His PhD was on the Mechanism of Uptake of Neurotransmitters and his Doctor of Science (Docteur d’Etat) was in Physiology of Nutrition on cholesterol levels distribution and management.

 

His Masters in Ayurvedic Medicine (with internships at AVP Hospital, Coimbatore and Udupi, India where he holds a Visiting Professorship) includes a dissertation correlating Obesity under the light of Ayurveda and integrating it with Current Medicine.

 

Dr Cardona is an Ayurvedic Doctor (NAMA Professional Member Level), and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine (UK).

teaching and research

Dr Cardona has been a consultant to various pharmaceutical companies conducting research and R&D work in hospital laboratories in close association with centres of research excellence and university medical faculties around the world.

 

He lectures basic medical sciences in an integrative way at post-doctoral, post-graduate and undergraduate level as well as for academic medical practitioners and layman groups.

 

Dr Cardona is a regular guest speaker at conferences and has delivered seminars to a broad mix of medical and other professionals.

 

A list of academic and professional positions plus presentations and peer-reviewed articles can be found in his CV (link above).

 

current practice

Over more than two decades, Dr Cardona has shifted his emphasis from research within modern medicine to trying to understand through conventional scientific means how the system of Ayurvedic medicine can be integrated today (as has worked consistently for thousands of years).

 

He has utilised his skills, insights and scientific rigour gained in many years of modern medical research to bring understanding, validity and cohesion to the oldest continuously practiced medical system. 

 

Dr Cardona uses the integrative Ayurvedic approach by taking into account our individuality and unique physical, emotional and psychological constitution and condition. Imbalances in the body are evaluated through this distinctive system of fundamental alignment. Consultations normally take 90 minutes to allow a thorough assessment and clear understanding of the patient's condition. 

© dr luis eduardo cardona-sanclemente 2018

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