Scientific and Medical Advisory
Dr. Bhandari leverages her 20+ years of clinical medical expertise to advise innovative organizations in healthcare services, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and policy development. She has served as Chief Medical Officer, Physician Advisor, and Board Member for organizations ranging from startup to $1B+ companies.
Dr. Bhandari also advises a wide range of healthcare providers, ranging from medical doctors (MDs), doctors of osteopathy (DOs), naturopaths (NDs), nutritionists, Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic practitioners, primary care physician’s assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) on integrative functional medicine … so they can better serve patients and improve clinical efficiency and outcomes.
Dr. Bhandari’s Current Advisory Work
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Bhandari serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Advanced Health Academy (AHA).
AHA is a revolutionary technology platform that interprets people’s blood tests using the latest in global medical research and integrative, functional medicine. AHA is vastly improving patient health outcomes by detecting disease at very early stages, when it starts showing as organ dysfunction, and addressing it immediately.
In our society, disease is typically diagnosed after you’re sick. When you feel sick, you go to the doctor or an urgent care center. If it’s critical, you go to the hospital. Most doctors are focused on sick care, not health care. Doctors diagnose diseases that have already progressed to late stages when it’s difficult to reverse them. AHA is changing the landscape of healthcare from being reactive to proactive by focusing on the prevention of major health issues from ever happening. The wealthy already do this by leveraging concierge medical services and diagnostic tests that are cost prohibitive and inaccessible to most people. By interpreting blood tests and providing clear recommendations, AHA is democratizing access to preventative and predictive health information.
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Bhandari is the functional medicine scientific advisor for the biotechnology company Uqora. She helped its founders design natural supplements aimed at helping and preventing urinary tract infections (UTIs) and reducing the need for antibiotics. She has also played an instrumental role in creating educational material for consumers to better understand the root cause of UTIs and prevention.
Over 300,000 people and counting, mostly women aged 21-70 years, who have had repeated UTIs are reporting no recurrent infections since starting Uqora products. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies the Uqora’s ingredients as safe with minimal side effects.
medical director
Dr. Bhandari is the medical director of Cambiati Wellness, whose core mission is to support transformation of health through nutrition. Since 2009 Cambiati has taught over 6,000 people how to love what’s on their plate and still lose weight. They have a 100% success rate for clients’ improving their body composition by helping them embrace healthy, sustainable and easy lifestyle changes that boost energy and support healing from within.
Cambiati offers in-person, online, and mobile classes making wellness available to anyone, anywhere. They also provide a wide variety of programs to corporations throughout the Bay Area to suit employees’ needs from a whole food nutrition consulting, body composition analysis, genetic testing and much more. Their mobile app allows corporate clients to easily track their progress, connect with peers, and make wellness fun and accessible. By helping people feel less stressed and tired, Cambiati is helping reduce absenteeism by 28%. This is a win-win for everyone.
Dr. Bhandari has served as the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) since 2015. AIHM is leading a global community of integrative healthcare professionals by providing a platform which builds bridges between professions, offers credible evidence-based educational pathways for licensed healthcare providers, advocate for systems change and builds leadership capacity for the next generation of caregivers.
Dr. Bhandari serves as a mentor and medical advisor to many members of AIHM’s community of holistic healthcare practitioners trained in allopathic medicine, naturopathic medicine, functional medicine, traditional Chinese Medicine, manual osteopathy, body work, acupuncture, Ayurveda, and energy healing. As a clinician in primary care family medicine and integrative functional health for more than twenty years, she understand it is easy to feel overwhelmed and isolated. Many health professionals are burning out. We need to support each other if we are ever going to transform the fractionalized disease-care model that is in a state of crisis around the world into a holistic, sustainable, person-centered model.
AIHM and Dr. Bhandari strongly believe we must change how we think and act if we are going to drive unprecedented changes that assure health care for all, by providing collaborative, team-based, patient-centered care that truly focuses on creating health and well-being.
Medical Consultant
Dr. Bhandari served as Medical Consultant for Crossover Health to develop a holistic healthcare model focused on providing exceptional medical services to meets the needs of clients at leading technology corporations in the Bay Area.
Medical Director
Dr. Bhandari served as Medical Director of Skyline College’s student health services center from 2014 to 2018. She provided guidance to health care providers on how to deliver quality medical care in a cost-effective and efficient manner without needing to depend exclusively on pharmaceutical drugs, invasive procedures, and referrals to medical specialists as the primary treatment. Dr. Bhandari’s work has helped hundreds of students and staff experience optimal health benefits.