Linda D’Eramo, D.O.
Dr. D’Eramo received her degree in Osteopathic Medicine in 2006 from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. In 2011, not satisfied with conventional medical care and unable to spend enough time with her patients, Dr. D'Eramo began her journey into Functional Medicine and in April 2014. She opened her own Functional and Integrative Family Medicine Clinic where the best of both conventional and functional/natural medicine come together. At D'Eramo Family Medicine it's all about the patient. The initial appointment is spent gathering a detailed patient history which includes medical, spiritual, emotional, and environmental aspects that affect the patient. Appropriate testing is done to assess fundamental clinical imbalances and unearth the root cause of the disease process.
With a passion for helping others, Shawn Kissick founded Free Spirit Acupuncture and Wellness clinic in the town of Beaver, PA in 2007. The clinic treats over 1,000 patients annually while serving Beaver County and surrounding areas including Pittsburgh.
Shawn is the Valedictorian of a three-year Master Level Acupuncture Program at the accredited American Institute of Alternative Medicine in Columbus, Ohio. In the fall of 2007, he spent six (6) weeks in Beijing, China studying and practicing in two separate hospitals. Shawn also received a Doctorate in Qi Gong on March 18, 2012 after completing a 2000-hour training.
He is nationally board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) and licensed by the State of Pennsylvania.
Susan Moore Rodgers, MS, RDN, LDN, IFNCP
Susan Moore Rodgers received her Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition from Texas Woman’s University. She has been a registered and licensed dietitian/diabetes educator for over twenty years counseling patients at several places including the Nutrition Clinic at Heritage Valley Health System in Beaver, PA, the Regional Diabetes Education Center in Hudson, FL, and at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Aurora, CO.
She completed the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA) training program and received her IFNA credential, scoring in the top 1% of her peers. She became interested in integrative and functional nutrition when she discovered that conventional nutrition approaches did not always work for her patients. Functional nutrition uses an individualized approach focusing on the root cause of illness. She uses a whole-foods and food-as-medicine approach to help patients improve the root cause of their ailments. She specializes in general nutrition/wellness, diabetes, heart disease, weight management, digestive disorders, food sensitivities/allergies, and pain conditions.
Other interests include cycling, gardening, knitting and music. She holds a Master and Bachelor of Music in clarinet performance from Rice University in Houston, TX.
Dr. Elizabeth Smolick-Reece
Since being a chiropractor and educating my family about its importance, my mom always says “I wish I had known then what I know now.” As an infant and child, I had seizures, colic and ear infections persistently. Additionally, I had aspirated fluid during the birthing process and my parents nearly lost me. But that life force inside of me prevailed! Unfortunately, it was not until I was 15 years old that I saw a chiropractor. I had an injury during cheerleading that my mom finally took me. First, we had tried the osteopathic pediatrician, who mobilized my spine, but the pain was still there. Someone had then suggested for me to go to the chiropractor. We went, it helped me tremendously and I decided that is what I want to do the rest of my life! I knew I had always wanted to help people, grew up in a household that did everything naturally and also wanted to work with children. A Chiropractic Education That Includes a Focus on Nutrition Not only did I have an interest in chiropractic, but also nutrition. I went on to Pennsylvania State University to earn my Bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Sciences. A week after graduating from Penn State, I made the journey to Life University College of Chiropractic in Marietta, Georgia. My life has not been the same since. I learned about how the power that made the body heals the body, that the body heals from the inside-out, not the outside-in, and how even infants can receive chiropractic care! Becoming A Pediatric Chiropractor I always knew I wanted to work with children as well as adults, and that is when I decided to take a 200-hour certification program in pediatrics through the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association. It is through this that I became certified by the Academy of Chiropractic Family Practice and the Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics (CACCP) and Webster’s Technique, which is a specific chiropractic analysis and diversified adjustment. The goal is to improve neurobiomechanical function in the sacral and pelvic regions. It is during this program and working in clinic through school that I started focusing on children with developmental delays, but doing so also ignited my passion to work with all infants, children, and pregnant women. Part of this grows from the fact that my infancy and childhood was plagued with these ear infections, seizures and colic. If my mom had taken me to the chiropractor as an infant or child – just imagine how much healthier I could have been! I realized how important it is to start chiropractic care while in the womb, after birth, and as a child because keeping a child’s nervous system healthy from the ground up is essential to having a child functioning at his or her optimum for life! Chiropractic Is A Lifestyle – Practice What You Preach Thoughts, traumas and toxins can impact us on a daily basis. That is why I try my best to practice what I preach to my patients. I don’t take a decongestant if I am under the weather, I get adjusted and boost my immune system naturally. I don’t get vaccinated. I eat well, sleep well, exercise, and get adjusted regularly. This keeps my nervous system functioning at its optimum, which in turn keeps every other system in my body functioning at 100%!
