Victoria Maizes, MD

Founding Executive Director, Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Professor, Medicine (Clinical Scholar Track)
Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Clinical Scholar Track)
Inaugural Andrew Weil Endowed Chair in Integrative Medicine
Professor, Public Health

Dr. Maizes is an internationally recognized leader in integrative medicine, and stewarded the growth of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine from a small program educating four residential fellows per year to a designated Center of Excellence that trains more than 500 residents and fellows annually.

Dr. Maizes has pioneered multiple innovative educational programs including the Integrative Family Medicine Program and Integrative Medicine in Residency, two national models for educating primary care physicians. As founding co-chair of the education committee of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, the mission of which is to promote integrative medicine, she has led a team of educators in developing objectives for medical students in integrative medicine.

Dr. Maizes speaks worldwide to audiences on integrative medical education, women’s health, healthy aging, nutrition and cancer. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on integrative medicine and is the co-editor of the Oxford University textbook Women’s Integrative Health (2nd Edition); Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child, which was published in 2013.

Degrees

  • MD: University of California San Francisco, 1986
  • BS: Barnard College
Residency
University of Missouri Columbia, Family Practice, 1989
Fellowship
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Integrative Medicine
Board Certifications
American Board of Family Practice
Honors and Awards
Best Doctors in America, 2006-2018
Leadership Award in Integrative Medicine, Integrative Healthcare Symposium Annual Conference, New York City, 2017
World’s Top 25 Intelligent Optimists, ODE Magazine, 2009