Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center
4801 Yellowwood Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21209
Phone: 410.367.6263
Fax: 410.367.1961
Certifications:
-2004: Diploma in Nutritional Therapy, Stonebridge College, England
- 2001: Diplomat, British Institute of Homeopathy
- 1991: Diplomat, Board of Anthroposophically-extended Medicine in North America
Medical License:
- 1979 to present: Swiss Medical License
- 1982 to present: Maryland State License, D30648
Employment History:
- 1984 to present: Private practice at the Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center
- 1980: Medical assistant at the Health Department of the City of Bern, Switzerland
Professional Memberships:
- 1982 to present: National Center for Homeopathy
- 1982 to present: International Federation of Anthroposophical Medical Associations
- 1982 to present: Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania
- 1982 to present: Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society
- 1982 to present: Southern Homeopathic Medical Association
- 1982 to present: Physicians' Association for Anthroposophically- extended Medicine
- 1986 - 1998: American Institute of Homeopathy
- 1998 to present: Artemisia (Association for the Anthroposophical Renewal of Healing)
- 2003 to present: Maryland State MedicalSociety
Honors and Awards:
- 1999: University of Maryland, Complementary Medicine Program for exemplary instruction
Administrative Services:
- Local: 1984 to present: Medical Director of the Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center
- 1982 to present: medical consultant to the Baltimore Waldorf School
- 1986-1998: Advisory Consultant to the Baltimore School of Massage
- 1988 to present: Board member, Maryland Association of Innovative Health Practitioners
- 1990-1992: Member of the Acupuncture Advisory Council of the State of Maryland
- 1992-1996: Member of the Advisory Board of the "Health Awareness Center of Baltimore"
- 2001 to present: founding steering board member of Healthy Options Network (HON)
- 2001 to present: Medical consultant to the Susquehanna Waldorf School
National/International:
- 1988 to present: Member of the Medical Review Committee and Council of Pharmacy of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia convention of the United States
- 1990 to present: Board member: American College of Anthroposophically- extended Medicine
- 1992-1998: President, Physicians' Association for Anthroposophically- extended Medicine
- 1994 to present: Member of the Advisory Board of "Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine"
- 1994 to present: Board member, of FONMUNA (Federation of Natural Medicine Users in North America)
- 1994 to present: Peer Review consultant to the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
- 1998 to present: Board member of OBERON (Association to preserve superior seed stock)
- 1999 to present: Editorial Board Member of "Integrative Medicine Communications"
- 2002-2003: Board member Cancer-free America |
Curriculum Vitae
I was born and raised in Switzerland, where I also attended medical school. Still in medical school I started a thesis in genetics (assessing the probability of potential carriers of hemophilia in female relatives of hemophiliacs using biochemical and genetic information). Working on this highly scientific project, I realized the limitations of allopathic medicine: Allopathic medicine based on chemistry, physics, and statistics can only reflect changes within a group of people; it does not take the individual's needs into consideration, which is essential in the practice of medicine.
In 1978 I did part of my internship at the Lukas Klinik in Arlesheim, Switzerland. The clinic specializes in cancer using Anthroposophically extended medicine (homeopathy, eurhythmy [dance therapy], rhythmic massage, art and color therapy).
In 1979 I received my medical degree and in 1980 my Ph.D. from the University of Berne, Switzerland.
For a short time I worked for the health department of the city of Bern assessing the health and environment of the workers at the city's incinerator.
Between 1980/81 my wife and I traveled in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia where we worked in a Cambodian refugee camp. I worked as a surgeon for a German medical team.
In the fall of 1981 we came to the United States. After I took the national boards in San Francisco and did an internship in surgery in a University of Massachusetts affiliated hospital in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, I became fully licensed to practice medicine in Maryland.
In the fall of 1982 we returned to Switzerland, where I spent another six months taking an intensive course in Anthroposophically extended medicine and substituting for an Anthroposophical doctor in his busy general practice.
I took professional courses in homeopathy from the National Center for Homeopathy and under master homeopaths George Vithoulkas and Jacque Imbrecht.
In the spring of 1984 I opened a general practice at the Ruscombe Community Wellness Center in Baltimore. I live in Mt. Washington with my wife Bonny Eisenbise and our children Sophie, Sarah, and Elias.
Education:
- 1978-1980: University of Bern, Medical School, Switzerland; Department of Genetics: Doctorate
- 1975-1978: University of Bern, Medical School, Switzerland: Medical Degree
- 1972-1975: University of Bern, Switzerland: Premed. Education
Post Graduate Education and Training:
- 1991-1992: Fellowship at the Lukas Clinic in Arlesheim, Switzerland. Emphasis on Anthroposophic medical approach to cancer
- 1982-1983: Homeopathic Seminars at the National Center for Homeopathy and under master homeopaths George Vithoulkas and Jacque Imbrecht
- 1981-1982: Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA: First year residency in general surgery
- 1978-1979: Internship at the Lukas Clinic in Arlesheim, Switzerland. Emphasis on general Anthroposophical medicine
Teaching Services:
- 1982 to present: Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center: Seminars, workshops, conferences
- 1984 to present: Physicians' Association for Anthroposophically-extended Medicine (PAAM): Teaching Anthroposophically-extended medicine on a regular basis in form of seminars, workshops, conferences
- 1996 to present: University of Maryland, Complementary Medicine Program, Coordinator: Maggie Covington, M.D.
- 1998 to present: Teaching Anthroposophically-extended medicine on a regular basis in form of seminars, workshops, conferences sponsored by Artemisia (Association for the Anthroposophical Renewal of Healing)
- 1999 to present: Howard University, College of Medicine, Washington, DC, Coordinator: M.S. Rao, Sc.D.
Publications:
- Schweiz. Rundschau für Med. (PRAXIS) 69, Nr 38, 1349-1360 (1980): Peter Hinderberger et al.: Heterozygotenerfassung bei der Hämophilie A
- Townsend Letter for Doctors; November 1990,#88, pp 799-800: Anthroposophical Medicine
- Homeopathic Links, Vol.5, Winter 1992, p. 30: Focus on the Common Goal
- Baltimore Sun; 12/16/92: Letter to the Editor
- Townsend Letter to Doctors; May 1993, p 475: Guest Editorial
- Journal of Anthroposophic Medicine, Vol. 11, Nr. 4, Winter 1994, pp18-22: A Comparison of Anthroposophic and Homeopathic Approaches to Illness
- Antha Newsletter 1998-II, pp 3-5: Anthroposophically extended Medicine
- Townsend Letter for Doctors; October 1992, pp 872: Editorial
- Dr. med. Otto Wolff: Grundlagen einer geisteswissenschaftlich erweiterten Biochemie, Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgard, Germany, 1998: editorial assistant to the author
Proffered Communications (partial, last five years):
- Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Conference October 2-4,1998: "Rudolf Steiner's Views on True Nutrition"
- Integrative Medicine Conference on Cancer November 21,1999 "Anthroposophic Approach to Cancer"
- University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy: The 17th Annual Lamy Conference May 11,2000: "Homeopathy"
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