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 is the Chief Medical Officer for Advanced Health Academy (AHA). AHA is a revolutionary technology laboratory diagnostics interpretation platform that uses the latest in global medical research and incorporates the sex, ethnicity, and race of patients to surface lab abnormalities. AHA helps detect diseases at very early stages and provides insights to the health of the body’s organs, as non-pharmaceutical insights customized to patients.

The U.S. healthcare system is focused on sick care, not healthcare. Diseases are typically diagnosed after a person feels sick, in the late stages when reversal is less likely. Dr. Bhandari and the executive team at AHA use precision medicine to help healthcare providers initiate treatments early and improve patients’ lifespan and quality of life.

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Bhandari is the chief medical advisor for the biotechnology company Uqora. She helped its founders design natural supplements to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs), reduce antibiotic use, and advance dynamic learning for consumers to better understand the root cause of UTIs. 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 health transformation through nutrition. Since 2009, Cambiati has had a 100% success rate in helping over 6,000 people love their connection with food and improve their body composition. Cambiati offers a wide variety of programs that teach people how to embrace healthy, sustainable lifestyle changes that boost energy and support healing. They work with corporations throughout the Bay Area to offer their employees whole-food nutrition consultation, body composition analysis, genetic testing, and much more. Their mobile app lets clients easily track their progress, build community, and make wellness fun. Cambiati helps customers feel less stressed and more vibrant and reduces absenteeism at work and home by 28%.

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.