Iris Bell, MD, PhD has been a researcher and teacher in areas related to holistic, complementary and alternative/integrative medicine for over 30 years. She was chosen as one of the Best Doctors in the Pacific region of the US in 1996 and in the US in 1998. She has published over 150 professional papers and dozens of book chapters. Her current area of research is on the nanoparticle nature of homeopathic medicines and the interaction of alternative therapies and treatments with the person as a complex adaptive system.
Currently Professor Emeritus of Family & Community Medicine, Dr. Bell has served on the faculties at Harvard Medical School, University of California San Francisco, and the University of Arizona. She graduated magna cum laude in biology from Harvard University and then received her PhD in Neuro- and Biobehavioral Sciences and MD from Stanford University. Her psychiatry internship and residency were at the University of California–San Francisco, and she is Board certified in Psychiatry with Added Qualification in Geriatric Psychiatry. She is licensed to practice conventional medicine in Arizona and California.
You can also find some of Dr. Bell’s professional paper publication listings at:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Bell+IR
She was also nationally certified in biofeedback, a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and is a licensed physician in homeopathy and integrated medicine in Arizona.
Dr. Bell’s award-winning book is Getting Whole, Getting Well: Healing Holistically from Chronic Illness. She has published scores of professional papers and book chapters on her clinical research in addition to a monograph on environmental illness. On a lighter note, she wrote the funny, touching, inspirational and award-winning books, Chew on Things – It Helps You Think: Words of Wisdom from a Worried Canine, and The Chew on Things Workbook for Fellow Worriers, to celebrate her beloved soft-coated wheaten terrier Casey’s life and help people with anxiety disorders find ways to cope with humor and a touch of courage.
Her passion is to teach people who find themselves with a chronic illness and are at the start of their own difficult journey home to themselves and to better health — a learning experience for us all. She is especially focused on helping people with Type 2 diabetes find a better path for themselves. She herself has been a Type 1 diabetic for over 25 years.
She does research, teaches, writes, coaches, and lives in Tucson, Arizona with her three rescue dogs.
Please note that Dr. Bell does not accept or see any individual patients for treatment at this time.
She offers self-directed self-care educational online courses and programs at Natural Wellness Land.
She also offers a limited number of openings for integrative self-care coaching, by application.