Arti Chandra

Dr. Arti Chandra is a family practice physician who earned her Certification in Functional Medicine as a member of the first class of practitioners to receive this designation from The Institute for Functional Medicine. She is also Board Certified in Integrative Medicine and holds a master’s degree in Public Health. She recently completed Duke University’s Leadership Program in Integrative Healthcare. Dr. Chandra’s passion for Functional and Integrative Medicine is driven by her long-standing commitment to reduce the burden of disease and suffering and to improve health and vitality at a population health level by identifying root causes of symptoms and disease and restoring health through healing foods and supportive lifestyle measures. For the last 15 years, Dr. Chandra had a busy consultative functional/integrative medicine practice at a major medical center in Seattle. She is proud to now join Vida as a part-time functional medicine clinician and medical director. Her other professional time is focused on public health consulting work.

Dr. Chandra provides care at every stage of the life cycle to patients who are from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. As an advocate for Functional Medicine and cross-disciplinary collaboration, Dr. Chandra receives patient referrals from both primary care and specialty providers throughout the Pacific Northwest. She serves as a mentor to allopathic and naturopathic students and residents and serves as a small group facilitator at IFM’s foundational course, AFMCP and as an Educator for them. Dr. Chandra is active in community-based efforts to improve health. She has served on the Board of Toxic-Free Futures to help reduce toxin burden and risk. She serves on the Leadership Council of the Personalized and Lifestyle Medicine Institute and is on the Clinical Advisory Team for Big Bold Health, Inc and is an Advisor for Mechanism Wellness. Based on her passion for using Food as Medicine principles as a core component of her clinical care and her teaching, she partners with dieticians, chefs, community educators, and farmers, to help advance wellness for patients and communities. She has a particular passion for teaching about the gut microbiome and its interdependence on the soil microbiome and fostering the health of both for personal and planetary healing and also serves as an Advisor for Kiss the Ground.