Dr. Chideya, a Baltimore native, earned her medical degree from the University of California San Francisco in 2000. While there, she did a one-month elective on Integrative (then Alternative) Medicine at Harvard, and has never lost her interest in the field. She completed residency in Family Medicine and went on to practice in community and private clinics in California, Georgia and Maryland. In 2024 she completed a 2-year fellowship at the Andrew Weil/University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, where she received training in numerous integrative therapies.
She also has a Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins, which she used for several years while working at the CDC and later at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the NIH.
Dr. Chideya is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Board-eligible in Integrative Medicine
Her current interests include:
Undoing the effects of toxins and toxic exposures, reproductive and pre-conception health (for women and men), reversing mild cognitive impairment and early dementia; botanicals and herbs, and women’s health