Education
Brown University
B.S. Neuroscience and African Studies
2001Brown University Medical School
2007
Podcasts
47:14807: What It’s Like to Be a Black Functional Medical Doctor With Dr. Eboni Cornish, Amen Clinics [Main T4C Episode]
Dr. Eboni Cornish works at Amen Clinics, where she specializes in infectious diseases and functional medicine and the treatment of Lyme Disease, environmental toxicity, among other chronic conditions. She completed her family medicine residency at Georgetown University. In 2003, Dr. Cornish conducted translational research at the National Human Genome Research..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“When I first transitioned into functional medicine, I would go to some conferences and I wouldn’t be the only African-American female in the room. However, I think it’s important to know you have to blaze trails.”
Best Career Advice
“Be open-minded, that’s the one thing that I learn because in family practice, you do a little bit of everything in your training, you do pediatrics, you do surgery, you will be a GYN, internal medicine, do psychiatry. And you know, you see all of these different fields, but I never thought to, like I said, look outside the box and be open-minded and just have comments and stay to myself a lot easier and meet all of these things.”
Career Challenge
“I’ve always wanted to be the top or whatever. I’m the top of a person, I’m the top. So, you know, so since kindergarten, my mom says, and I’ll never forget my first medical board between first and second year of med school did not go as planned. And I thought my life was over. I pick myself up, dust myself off, and the next time, 95th percentile, because it just shows you, you had to persevere to get anywhere in life.”
Skills
Functional Medicine, Neuroscience, Medical Research, Investigation, Healing
Professional Interests
Genetics, Lyme Disease, Environmental Toxicity, Methylation Disorders, Morgellons Disease
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