Functional medicine—which asks how and why illness occurs and restores health by addressing the root causes of disease—has become a new and intriguing player on the health care landscape. Because it addresses the multiple, underlying causes of disease—relying on a detailed understanding of a patient’s genetic, biochemical and lifestyle factors as part of personalized treatment plan—functional medicine has become a new career path for many practitioners and adopted by hospitals like the world renowned Mayo and Cleveland Clinics.  

Functional Medicine seeks to get to the heart of chronic illnesses, a major driver in health care costs in the United States.
 
If you are considering functional medicine as a career, or desire to transition your practice of medicine, in whole or part, to this new way of treating patients, I can help. My experience in traditional medicine has been the ideal foundation from which to see how functional medicine can become part of a new way for you to practice.
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“Tom Ellis’ guidance and extensive experience as a practice management consultant has been an integral part of the success of my several practices over the span of 20+ years. In this current climate of rapidly changing healthcare delivery models, Tom's deep listening, skillful questions, and willingness to deliver out-of the box thinking have helped us to co-create a groundbreaking healthcare collaborative experiencing explosive growth. At the forefront of structuring, implementing and delivering a new business model is Tom’s ability to provide high level, individualized care to our team, reflected in our ability to provide high level whole systems individualized care to our patients. Tom’s heart and passion for wellbeing of the clients, patients and the business shines through!”  -M.C., MD, IFMC 
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For the past three years I have been involved in the establishment of one of the largest functional medicine clinics in Dallas, one of the most successful and unique private practices of its kind in the U.S.  
 
From its earliest stages, I have served as this clinic’s strategic planner, primary business consultant, and have been involved in almost every aspect of the development of the business.
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“Working with Tom these past three years has been an amazing experience. His knowledge and enthusiasm in creating our Functional Medicine practice has been pivotal in our success. Functional Medicine is a brand new concept, one with no precedents or models to follow. Tom jumped in with keen innovative ideas and steps to make our practice happen. We could not have done this without him.”
-H.I., ND ​
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In less than two years we’ve grown from two physicians to a group of five, with three nurse practitioners and two nutritionists, as well as other wholistic providers. The practice’s vision has changed and expanded to offer a diverse range of inter-disciplinary healthcare services to a large, growing number of patients.
Contact me about how the business of functional medicine can fit into your vision for patient care 
214-228-5443
tellis@ellisandassoc.com