Dr. Patrica StandTal Clarke, is Eastern Band Cherokee (Wolf Clan), the daughter of Howard D. Clarke who survived forced boarding school to become a veteran officer and pilot in the United States Air Force. Dr. Clarke received her bachelors from UC Berkeley, her medical degree from the University of Minnesota (known for Primary Care), her Family Medicine fellowship at Dartmouth, and her DMin from Claremont School of Theology. She studied with Sophie Freud Lowenstein, the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, in psychoanalysis. She is currently a fellow at the Andrew Weil’s Center of Integrative Medicine (University of Arizona – Tucson).
She has served over 4 decades as an ordained protestant Priest, 23 years as Medical Director of RedRoad Medicine (Native American clinical and research institute), 22 years in private practice, 20 years as a consulting diplomat with the United Nations, on faculty at two medical schools, and as principal investigator in HIV/ diabetes/ Native medicine research.
She is a Fellow with the American Academy of Family Physicians, a founding diplomat of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (1996) and the American Board of Integrative Medicine (2014), a 2004 National Institutes of Health honoree: "Changing the Face of Medicine," and a Didanawisgi (Eastern Band Cherokee Native Healer) practicing integrative medicine of 1000 generations.
